We jumped into the protest of Vietnam before the Black Panther Party ever started, before the Black Panther Party was even thought of. In fact, it was late 1965 and 1966 that the anti-Vietnam War, anti-draft to the Vietnam War protest started at University of California, Berkeley.
"Robert George "Bobby" Seale" is an American political activist. He is known for co-founding the Black Panther Party with Huey Newton.
More Bobby Seale on Wikipedia.We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.
A people who have suffered so much for so long at hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere. . . . the black communities of America must rise up as one man to halt the progression of a trend that leads inevitably to their total destruction.
We don't hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!
We were young political revolutionaries. [Then-California Gov.] Reagan said we hated white folk. That's not true.
Seize the Time.
They came down on us because we had a grass-roots, real people's revolution, complete with the programs, complete with the unity, complete with the working coalitions, where we crossed racial lines.
Our position was: "If you don't attack us, there won't be any violence; if you bring violence to us, we will defend ourselves.
We were not talking about the average white person: we was talking about the corporate money rich and the racist jive politicians and the lackeys, as we used to call them, for the government who perpetuate all this exploitation and racism.
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