Black Panther Party Platform
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Point #1: We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our black community.
We believe that Black people will not be free until we are able to determine our destiny.
Point #2: We want full employment for our people.
Mav is a character in THUG that cares about the well-being of his community and believes jobs are needed among his community.
Getting the cops arrested was right as they commited the crime but that doesn’t make up for the millions of people that are racist and prejudice and kill the black community.
We believe that the federal government is responsible and obligated to give every man employment or a guaranteed income. We believe that if the white American businessmen will not give full employment, then the means of production should be taken from the businessmen and placed in the community so that the people of the community can organize and employ all of its people and give a high standard of living.
Point #3: We want an end to the robbery by the white man of our Black Community.
We believe that this racist government has robbed us, and now we are demanding the overdue debt of forty acres and two mules. Forty acres and two mules were promised 100 years ago as restitution for slave labor and mass murder of Black people. We will accept the payment in currency which will be distributed to our many communities. The Germans are now aiding the Jews in Israel for the genocide of the Jewish people. The Germans murdered six million Jews. The American racist has taken part in the slaughter of over fifty million Black people; therefore, we feel that this is a modest demand that we make.
Point #4: We want decent housing, fit for the shelter of human beings.
This point relates to THUG because the majority of the black community in the setting of THUG are forced to live in garden heights because they are denied opportunities for better accommodations.
This ties into The Hate U Give because the issues that the Black Panthers are trying to address is still being shown in the book. We see the contrast between Garden Heights and the neighborhood where Uncle Carlos and Chris live, and how racially divided the two neighborhoods are.
This correlates to THUG because the setting (housing) of the book plays a big role in showing the reader how some people in the black community live. For example they have to deal with poor living conditions, violence, drugs, etc.. due to the fact that they aren’t given opportunities.
We believe that if the white landlords will not give decent housing to our Black community, then the housing and the land should be made into cooperatives so that our community, with government aid, can build and make decent housing for its people.
If the black community does not receive good housing, then they should be given land and government aid so they can build decent houses for its people. I think why they believe this is necessary is because they deserve to have a place to live and have shelter
I don’t know enough about this topic to have commentary.
Point #5: We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present-day society.
In the book, Starr puts a picture and story of Emmit Till on her Tumblr, which Haley is repulsed by, and unfollows Starr because of it. She feels uncomfortable seeing the horrible things that had been done to African Americans, but that sort of thing needs to be taught in schools because it’s the only way we can address the systems that allowed it.
This connects to THUG because the schools that are both presented in the book don’t teach anything about how black people throughout history have impacted America. Also schools in Garden Heights barely have resources to teach there students or prepare them for there future.
We believe in an educational system that will give to our people a knowledge of self. If a man does not have knowledge of himself and his position in society and the world, then he has little chance to relate to anything else.
they want proper education for their community, so they learn about the their history.they want history that teaches them their history too.
Point #6: We want all Black men to be exempt from military service.
They don’t want Black men to be apart of the military due to the fact that they are constantly being oppressed by a racist government. They find it odd that people that don’t even protect them want them to serve and kill others that haven’t hurt or opposed a threat to the black community.
We believe that Black people should not be forced to fight in the military service to defend a racist government that does not protect us. We will not fight and kill other people of color in the world who, like Black people, are being victimized by the white racist government of America. We will protect ourselves from the force and violence of the racist police and the racist military, by whatever means necessary.
Starr’s mother goes through sort of a similar struggle, when her brother, Carlos, talks about his fellow police officers. She doesn’t understand how Carlos can stand up for Officer 115, who shot Khalil largely because he was black. It’s a similar struggle because Uncle Carlos is risking his life for the same people that might not value his life as much as they would a white man.
black people should not be forced into the military by a racist government that does not protect them. they will not kill other people of color in the world who like black people are also being victimized by their white racist government.
Point #7: We want an immediate end to POLICE BRUTALITY and MURDER of Black people.
This connects to THUG quite directly. A significant event in the book is based exactly off of police brutality and a black person having a weapon. I also believe that people who have licensed arms should not be penalized for carrying or using them.
We believe we can end police brutality in our Black community by organizing Black self-defense groups that are dedicated to defending our Black community from racist police oppression and brutality. The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States gives a right to bear arms. We therefore believe that all Black people should arm themselves for self- defense.
Black people should be allowed to defend themselves and use weapons if necessary.
In other words, what this is trying to say is that police brutality should be stopped because it’s taking lives of many innocent African Americans. It’s also trying to say that they can carry guns around because on the second amendment of the constitution, it is stated that everyone has the right to bear arms. And therefore, all black people have the right to carry around guns for self defense.
The phrase #7 stood out to me because police brutality hasn’t stopped and we are still fighting so things can change. I have seen how police abuse of their power against other, how they kill people saying that “they were suspect” only because of their appearance or for any other minimum reason.
This reminds me of how the police treated the Black people in the movie Selma, this movie is about the events that happened in Selma obviously, but it also shows how MLK was fighting the White supremacy.
This connects to me because I always have big ideas that has a low chance of succeeding. For example I always wanted to stop all the factories from emitting C02, it probably won’t happen since it would take a lot of money and, resources. Going back to the paragraph it would take a lot of money to make all Black people own guns who can’t afford them.
Point #8: We want freedom for all Black men held in Federal, State, County And City Prisons And Jails.
Black people should be freed from all prison and jail systems and be given a fair and just trial
We believe that all Black people should be released from the many jails and prisons because they have not received a fair and impartial trial.
Yes this is really important. Mass incarceration is a growing problem in the U.S. Something that contributes to this problem is incorrect representation and unfair trails. Khalil was not being represented as a victim but rather a drug dealer.
this kind of connects to how Mav was in prison for three years doing someone else’s time. However he did that to get out of the gang he was in.
In other words, this is basically saying that every black person should be released from jail because their trial was unfair.
This makes me think that a lot of people were arrested by an unfair reason, because all they wanted to do was to be free, existing and not causing any harm to anyone, but for white people or racist people this was a sin made from Black people. White thought that Black people didn’t deserved to live, so they want to put every single African American in jail.
Yes, this is important to release all the Black people who were accused of something and going to jail for that. However, what about the people who actually committed a crime, In the text it says that all the Black people should be released from Jails. What about the people who have actually done a crime, there will always be criminals from every race, so saying that “All Black people should be released from the many jails” is both a good and somewhat of a bad thing.
Point #9: We want all black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by a jury of their peer group or people from their black communities, as defined by the Constitution of the United States.
We believe that the courts should follow the United States Constitution so that Black people will receive fair trials. The Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution gives a man a right to be tried by his peer group. A peer is a person from a similar economic, social, religious, geographical, environmental, historical and racial background. To do this the court will be forced to select a jury from the Black community from which the Black defendant came. We have been, and are being, tried by all-white juries that have no understanding of the "average reasoning man" of the Black community.
They believed that black peoples right to a fair trial was violated so they want people from their communities to judge them fairly.
If this happened in THUG, then I think that the cop would be arrested and charged with murder, as he should.
I think this means that black people should judge black people and not white ones judging black people,because at that time, racism was really noticeable therefore if a black person committed a minor crime and that person was judged for a white one that crime would be penalized as a big crime being a small one.
Point #10: We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace. And as our major political objective, A United Nations-supervised plebiscite to be held throughout the black colony in which only black colonial subjects will be allowed to participate, the the purpose of determining the will of black people as to their national destiny.
this connects to the hate you give because in THUG, the black community wants justice for Khalil and all the other African American people killed by police
This connects to THUG because in the book, they want justice for Khalil and once they do, there will be peace.
They want to be able to choose their own will. The government should protect black people the same way they do everyone else. The call back to the Constitution shows how the treatment of black people in America is Unconstitutional. This connects to THUG as Starr and her community want the police officer who killed Khalil to be held accountable.
This is connected to THUG in “The Hate You Give” because the protesters were protesting in order to bring justice for Khalil and want the same treatment that a white man would get if he was shot and killed like Khalil
Point #10: We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace.
This reminds me how normal people are demanding normal things that for them are not normal because over history they were mistreated and abused. They also are used to think that they don’t deserve or are not ready to get these basic things, and now they are fighting and protesting for bread, housing, education, clothing and things that every normal person should have.
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them, a decent respect of the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
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Huey P. Newton & Bobby Seale
October 1966
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