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202 Notes to Chapter 2
45. Black Panther 10 Point Program:
1. We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of
our Black Community.
2. We want the full employment for our people.
3. We want an end to robbery by the capitalists of our Black
Community.
4. We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings.
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.
6. We want all Black men to be exempt from military service.
7. We want an immediate end to police brutality and murder of
Black people.
8. We want freedom for all Black men held in federal, state, county
and city prisons and jails.
9. We want all Black people when brought to trial to be tried in a
court by a jury of their peer group or people from their Black communities,
as defined by the Constitution of the United States.
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, for the purpose of determining
the will of Black people as to their national destiny.
(Accessible on various web sites [e.g., www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/
panthers10pt.html].)
46. It is also relevant to note the ways in which the garb of the hosts
and commentators was modified to express the changing times, from the
traditional suits worn in the premiere to the Afrocentric garb donned a
year later.
47. Smith and Carlos were remembered for their silent protest at the
1968 Olympics, with their black power salute and bowed heads. For more
details on the meaning of their protest, see Amy Bass, “Race and Nation in
Olympic Proportions,” 8–24.
48. Other Black Journal episodes included segments on the liberation
issue in African nations, the Poor People’s campaign, the education system,
African American athletes, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the
murder of Fred Hampton, unionization struggles, and labor disputes.
49. In his article “Documenting Social Issues: Black Journal 1968–1970,”
Tommie Lee Lott notes that the Black Nationalist slant of Black Journal at
times had negative ramifications. For instance, in its coverage of labor issues,
the program often ignored Black-Latino coalitions that were formed
to combat mutual problems.