They Huey P. Newton Reader

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I had almost pulled her all the way into our camp, just before Eldridge
made that statement?
I had done so well in fact that C.P. tried to cut our contacts,
attacked my sanity tn little whispers and looks tn conversmg wIth
her, and cut off my paid subscription to their two newspapers.
Strange, that they would be afraid of the F.B.I., and not afraid of
the Cat. Perhaps they've reached an understanding. Some of them
anyway.
Is __ C.P.? Man, what's happening with her. She has no control
at all of her mouth. Or ego.
Arrange for a good contact or write and seal messages with a
thumbprint. I have ideas I'd like to leave with you all.
Thanks Brother for helping us. Beautiful, hard, disciplined brothers
in here, I'd like to deliver them to you someday.
George
In the last three years of his life Comrade Jackson felt sustained and
supported by the Black Panther Party. He had struggled alone for so
long to raise the consciousness of Black inmates, and his example
encouraged thousands who were weaker and less intrepid than he. But
the price he paid in alienation and reprisals was fearsome. Within the
Party he was no longer alone; he became part of a burgeoning and
invincible revolutionary liberation movement. In his second book, Blood
in My Eye, he expressed this faith: "The Black Panther Party is the
largest and most powerful political force existing outside establishment
politics. It draws this power from the people. It is the people's natural,
political vanguard."
George asked the Party to publish his first book, Soledad Brother,
but in the difficult negotiations between go-betweens and without
direct contact, the arrangements fell through. To make sure this mistake
would never happen again, he left his estate and all his writings
to the Party. More important, he bequeathed us his spirit and his love.
George's funeral was held in Oakland on August 28, 1971-exactly
one week after his murder-at St. Augustine's Episcopal Church, pastored
by Father Earl Neil. A crowd of about 7,000 friends gathered
to pay their last respects to our fallen comrade, and the Black Panther
Party had a large contingent of comrades on hand to handle the crowd
and protect the Jackson family. I arrived at the church shortly before
the funeral cortege. The second-Roor sanctuary was empty, but from