WEBVTT 1 00:00:16.440 --> 00:00:22.280 Those guys were incredible when they started moving people out, you know, their homes. 2 00:00:24.880 --> 00:00:30.360 They moved them into some other place and they were saying like where they move into. 3 00:00:30.840 --> 00:00:33.620 They probably moved them out of Chicago or in some other community. 4 00:00:35.840 --> 00:00:36.380 I'm from Missouri. 5 00:00:43.420 --> 00:00:49.820 This is poor people's power. That's what this little hand-painted button is all about, that we've been passing around to people. 6 00:00:50.280 --> 00:00:55.100 People that want to take over and have a government for their self, that they'll be treated right. 7 00:00:55.540 --> 00:01:01.500 That's what it's all about. I want to introduce a man to come over tonight from another part of town, 8 00:01:01.900 --> 00:01:08.700 but he's fighting for some of the same causes we're fighting for and start to meet and all. 9 00:01:08.920 --> 00:01:13.300 So I'm going to introduce you to Bob Lee here and let him rep a little while. Bob. 10 00:01:14.380 --> 00:01:17.060 I'm a black panther. I'm a sexual leader of a black panther. 11 00:01:17.060 --> 00:01:21.040 This is Pazza. He's a security man. This is Sister Ruby. 12 00:01:22.020 --> 00:01:27.660 We met with Junebug and his brothers last Wednesday night, last week, 13 00:01:28.100 --> 00:01:31.440 at the Church of Three Crosses where we both had a chance to route, get together. 14 00:01:32.820 --> 00:01:37.480 Panthers are here, are here. Panthers are here. 15 00:01:37.480 --> 00:01:37.920 What's an uptown? 16 00:01:39.300 --> 00:01:40.060 An uptown. 17 00:01:40.480 --> 00:01:40.880 Okay. 18 00:01:41.500 --> 00:01:47.960 For anyone who lives in an uptown, a brown, green, yellow, purple, or pink. 19 00:01:48.720 --> 00:01:52.560 But I'm saying panthers are here and you have to tell us what we can do and what we can do together. 20 00:01:53.280 --> 00:01:58.680 We come here with our hearts open. You can't supervise us. Where we can be of help to you. 21 00:01:59.520 --> 00:02:05.800 One thing we're going to have to do is put our heads together and figure out where we can help uptown, help the people in uptown. 22 00:02:05.880 --> 00:02:06.200 Right. 23 00:02:07.480 --> 00:02:14.480 The thing is that I want everybody who's got any questions at all to speak them up and say them now. 24 00:02:18.760 --> 00:02:20.200 Who here is concerned people? 25 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:26.720 Who's here that want to see this thing move? 26 00:02:27.160 --> 00:02:27.700 Yeah, man. 27 00:02:29.160 --> 00:02:33.500 Right on. The first thing we talk about now is how we're going to organize. You know, where are we going to organize? 28 00:02:33.500 --> 00:02:40.060 We all must right now, man, figure out like what we want. You know, what do we want? What do you want? What do you want, man? 29 00:02:40.640 --> 00:02:43.360 What do you want? In your community. What do you want here? 30 00:02:47.800 --> 00:02:48.560 Look here, man. 31 00:02:48.720 --> 00:02:54.280 Don't lay back on the cuts, man. You know, like, we're not moving, man. 32 00:02:54.800 --> 00:02:58.580 Are you afraid of the panthers? You want to take the berets off, man? Or what? 33 00:03:01.000 --> 00:03:04.520 You propose that you do a lot of marching and things like that? 34 00:03:04.520 --> 00:03:05.780 No, sir. No, sir. 35 00:03:06.060 --> 00:03:09.840 It seems like marching seems to do more harm than do good. 36 00:03:09.860 --> 00:03:18.180 No, sir. No marching. No, sir. The thing that we're about to do is this is your community. This is your community. Let's move. 37 00:03:18.360 --> 00:03:18.940 Come on. 38 00:03:19.620 --> 00:03:23.440 You know, and we can't move without you. We can't move. We can't move without you. 39 00:03:24.380 --> 00:03:30.620 Like on the west side, this outside, you have a basic unity to start with. 40 00:03:31.100 --> 00:03:32.180 You got to pull the skin off. 41 00:03:32.480 --> 00:03:32.760 Right. 42 00:03:32.980 --> 00:03:38.760 Okay. But damn, see, the thing we got to deal with is concept of poverty, man. We got to get rich to color things, see? 43 00:03:39.560 --> 00:03:50.620 I mean, concept of the same thing as welfare up here, people on welfare up here, the people that receive ADC, you know, that's police brutality up here, that's rats and roaches. 44 00:03:51.280 --> 00:03:54.460 There's poverty up here. That's the first thing that we can unite on. 45 00:03:54.760 --> 00:03:56.540 That's the common thing we have, man. 46 00:03:56.620 --> 00:04:02.080 We can unite on poverty and unite on the concept of poverty. You know, everything becomes colorless, man. 47 00:04:02.440 --> 00:04:02.940 Right on. 48 00:04:03.300 --> 00:04:07.580 The building's not fit for dogs to live in, but humans having to pay $140 a month for a thing. 49 00:04:08.160 --> 00:04:13.080 They sold the building, you know, to New Yorkship. What we need is understanding among the people. 50 00:04:13.080 --> 00:04:13.700 Right on. 51 00:04:13.960 --> 00:04:16.020 Collision between the people who stick together. 52 00:04:16.020 --> 00:04:16.480 Right on. 53 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:20.080 And take them owners and put them over here in the lake somewhere. 54 00:04:20.080 --> 00:04:20.800 Right on. 55 00:04:21.400 --> 00:04:21.980 Right on. 56 00:04:27.100 --> 00:04:32.400 This man, this man right here, you know, the things he said, these are things we can start working on. 57 00:04:32.560 --> 00:04:34.180 We can start working on those very things. 58 00:04:34.480 --> 00:04:36.260 Getting rid of the urban progress center. 59 00:04:37.240 --> 00:04:38.700 Get the castles and get themselves together. 60 00:04:39.040 --> 00:04:41.820 Getting rid of these little junkie employment agencies, the castles. 61 00:04:41.980 --> 00:04:44.200 I mean, these are things we can start working from, man. 62 00:04:44.860 --> 00:04:46.320 These are things you can start working from. 63 00:04:46.540 --> 00:04:48.740 Let's just stand up and tell them some of the hell you've been going through. 64 00:04:48.740 --> 00:04:50.040 I did something. 65 00:04:50.760 --> 00:04:52.880 Show them what my granddaughter's doing. She wants to be free. 66 00:04:53.240 --> 00:04:55.000 Tell them what they're doing to Eddie out there. 67 00:04:55.100 --> 00:04:58.140 When we come out and how they talk to your mother and how they jumped on them. 68 00:04:58.700 --> 00:04:59.900 Come on, don't be bashful. 69 00:05:00.860 --> 00:05:02.660 I talk too much. You all gotta talk. 70 00:05:03.440 --> 00:05:04.400 Now's the time to talk. 71 00:05:05.360 --> 00:05:07.740 You don't want your kid to be raised up the jag you're coming through now. 72 00:05:11.640 --> 00:05:12.560 You don't want to be. 73 00:05:13.280 --> 00:05:14.120 I can't tell. 74 00:05:15.700 --> 00:05:16.700 People gotta do something. 75 00:05:16.700 --> 00:05:18.280 You can't have only one or two leaders. 76 00:05:18.520 --> 00:05:19.340 Please, stand up. 77 00:05:19.720 --> 00:05:21.800 Can you do it? 78 00:05:30.040 --> 00:05:34.000 My sister-in-law, she came up and said that the cops were out there for instance. 79 00:05:34.860 --> 00:05:39.460 My brother and we went out there and there was one of them cops were sick at night. 80 00:05:39.640 --> 00:05:42.540 And my mother's behind just stikening. 81 00:05:42.600 --> 00:05:45.620 I went up and I asked him what he was doing. 82 00:05:45.620 --> 00:05:48.900 He said it's none of your business. He told me to get out of there. 83 00:05:49.340 --> 00:05:51.780 He asked me who I was and I said I was his sister. 84 00:05:52.020 --> 00:05:53.680 He told me to get the hell out of there. 85 00:05:54.980 --> 00:05:56.900 She's cousin of the cops at Lake Pansy. 86 00:06:00.840 --> 00:06:04.340 Call up the police when nothing's going on and the police are going to come and make it happen. 87 00:06:04.620 --> 00:06:07.340 They're trying to put your words in your mouth to make you put yourself in jail. 88 00:06:07.480 --> 00:06:11.340 But I want you people to stick together and I'll stick with Black Panther and they'll stick with me and I know they will. 89 00:06:11.460 --> 00:06:13.400 We're going to do it our own way and that's all there is to it. 90 00:06:13.400 --> 00:06:15.360 Right on, right on. Your own way. 91 00:06:15.540 --> 00:06:19.240 I saw a Black Panthers movie last week. The points are real good, man. 92 00:06:19.360 --> 00:06:20.980 You got to pick up the gun, that's all. 93 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:26.480 Oh, I'm tired of it. I'm tired of them coming down the street and kicking my damn head in for nothing I ain't done. 94 00:06:27.020 --> 00:06:29.900 By the Hudson gave his life, man. The cat was 18 years old. 95 00:06:32.680 --> 00:06:37.740 He gave his life. And from that day on, Panthers moved up. Moved up. 96 00:06:37.740 --> 00:06:40.060 Both the Black communities are concerned from that day on. 97 00:06:40.500 --> 00:06:46.000 Panthers moved up because Black communities knew, knew and felt what Huey was saying. 98 00:06:46.100 --> 00:06:51.700 But Huey went out and did for the people what the people wanted to do for the last 15, 20 years. 99 00:06:51.860 --> 00:06:55.800 He did to the pig what Roger would like to do. 100 00:06:56.200 --> 00:07:00.920 Nobody's saying that, we're not saying go out and off the pig, go out and start shooting the pigs. 101 00:07:02.100 --> 00:07:03.760 You know, but this is the way Huey did it. 102 00:07:03.760 --> 00:07:07.560 If it comes to that, I'm sure that one of these brothers are capable of doing it. 103 00:07:07.560 --> 00:07:10.580 We're going to stop this shit one way or the other if we have to fight with guns. 104 00:07:11.220 --> 00:07:13.720 Before you can do that, you got to be some discipline. 105 00:07:14.200 --> 00:07:16.280 I'm going to ask him what you want to do. 106 00:07:16.760 --> 00:07:21.260 Okay, the first thing is discipline, man, before you can even control the pig, before you off you, you off you, man. 107 00:07:21.700 --> 00:07:26.120 From here, you start out going into the community so the community know, man, what you're doing. 108 00:07:26.440 --> 00:07:33.260 Because see, if the pig off you, if you off you, Roger, and you just, you be going to funeral, man, you be in the casket, 109 00:07:33.260 --> 00:07:34.620 and the people in the community don't even know you're dead. 110 00:07:35.600 --> 00:07:36.960 You got to have a community back. 111 00:07:37.600 --> 00:07:39.960 The pigs, the police are protecting the landlords. 112 00:07:41.200 --> 00:07:47.240 If Roger run out with a Montauk cocktail to throw in one of these rat-infested buildings, they kill him. 113 00:07:48.240 --> 00:07:49.100 They kill him. 114 00:07:51.000 --> 00:07:51.900 They kill him. 115 00:07:52.160 --> 00:07:55.840 Somebody answer why, why did, why did a man come down on us like that? Why? 116 00:07:56.100 --> 00:07:59.920 What you're saying is the first thing about protecting people is about protecting property. 117 00:07:59.920 --> 00:08:03.460 Right, right. You been to jail, poor baby? You been to jail? 118 00:08:03.580 --> 00:08:06.020 Right on. So I can tell you nothing about the pig. 119 00:08:06.680 --> 00:08:07.680 I've been there myself, man. 120 00:08:08.320 --> 00:08:15.680 Once you realize, man, that your house is full of rats and roaches, you know, same way a black dude's house is, you know, 121 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:22.340 once you realize that your brother's been brutalized by the cops the same way the west side and south side is, you know, 122 00:08:22.440 --> 00:08:27.640 once you realize, man, that you're getting inadequate, man, education in these high schools, the junior high schools over here, 123 00:08:27.640 --> 00:08:34.960 the same way the south side and the west side, you know, once you realize that you are paying taxes, taxes for the cops to whoop your ass. 124 00:08:36.260 --> 00:08:40.340 You're paying them. You're paying them, man, for the whoop your ass. 125 00:08:41.480 --> 00:08:47.340 You're paying them to come in to beat your children. You're paying them to run you off the corners. 126 00:08:50.040 --> 00:08:53.340 And you're paying them to kill you and deal with them. 127 00:08:53.760 --> 00:08:56.500 The same thing is happening on the south side and the west side. 128 00:08:56.500 --> 00:09:03.920 And if you can realize that concept of poverty, the concept of poverty, a revolution can begin. 129 00:09:04.720 --> 00:09:12.940 Now, Wednesday, model cities is meeting, and they're going to put through some kind of program, and, you know, we're all going to get run out of here eventually. 130 00:09:13.920 --> 00:09:18.860 Now, I put a proposal together that people would want to be together, people listening to this stuff and digging it, 131 00:09:19.060 --> 00:09:21.120 and people that's got it in their hearts that want to be together. 132 00:09:21.420 --> 00:09:23.740 Be up here Wednesday. We go down and we stop that meeting. 133 00:09:24.280 --> 00:09:29.620 All through the city there's $38 million supposed to be split up to bring poor people out of poverty. 134 00:09:30.180 --> 00:09:33.960 What the hell have they bought? What have they done? How the damn thing? 135 00:09:34.120 --> 00:09:39.740 These goddamn people that own businesses here in uptown are sitting down and we can't sit on those consoles. 136 00:09:40.260 --> 00:09:42.120 We can't tell where the money ought to go. 137 00:09:42.640 --> 00:09:47.240 Damn it, we ought to go down there and stop them and piss on the money and do the neighborhood right. 138 00:09:47.480 --> 00:09:49.920 If we can't do it, they ought to do it. 139 00:09:50.020 --> 00:09:53.140 Wednesday will be for confronting the model cities. 140 00:09:53.140 --> 00:09:59.540 And you better be together because the pigs are in here right now and they know what we're going to do. 141 00:09:59.940 --> 00:10:03.380 When you do it, do it right, but don't do it at all. 142 00:10:03.680 --> 00:10:04.700 We've done something with the children. 143 00:10:05.300 --> 00:10:07.680 Yeah, but now we're going to get on the floor if we get over that. 144 00:10:08.380 --> 00:10:09.640 Bob, Bob. 145 00:10:11.780 --> 00:10:14.560 I'll see you Monday night. I'll see you Monday night. 146 00:10:14.940 --> 00:10:20.480 It takes time, and if you expect uptown to change overnight, you've got a guest coming. 147 00:10:20.480 --> 00:10:22.340 It's time to change the council. 148 00:10:22.560 --> 00:10:24.140 Change them for the rich. 149 00:10:30.440 --> 00:10:35.740 The motion now says that we will present the program that they have accepted. 150 00:10:36.140 --> 00:10:37.340 We'll have our day. 151 00:10:38.260 --> 00:10:40.280 You're not using it for the poor. 152 00:10:40.600 --> 00:10:44.320 The people in the audience will be heard when there's not a council member speaking. 153 00:10:44.680 --> 00:10:45.980 I reserve my time. 154 00:10:45.980 --> 00:10:51.400 You know, for a long time we've been coming here and we've been quite little children. 155 00:10:52.060 --> 00:10:55.260 Community people, they ask for citizen participation. 156 00:10:55.540 --> 00:11:00.120 I want to show you where citizen participation goes and how it's voted up on. 157 00:11:00.660 --> 00:11:05.140 Except those parents are presented tonight, they're voted on, and not only voted on, 158 00:11:05.160 --> 00:11:07.740 we was going to just ask to vote it up or down, but passed. 159 00:11:07.980 --> 00:11:14.340 I'll guarantee you that this council will not be met with no more, and this council will not meet again, 160 00:11:14.340 --> 00:11:19.920 and there's 200 more citizens that's meeting at threshold of Marni to see that it's ended. 161 00:11:21.580 --> 00:11:30.640 Your remarks, number one, number one, your remarks are very much out of order. 162 00:11:31.680 --> 00:11:38.480 It has to do with citizen participation within the council tonight, which is not being considered tonight. 163 00:11:40.440 --> 00:11:46.520 Stand up! Stand up! 164 00:11:46.540 --> 00:11:47.900 Stand up! Stand up! 165 00:11:48.140 --> 00:11:52.300 This vote, this vote, this vote for now! 166 00:11:53.020 --> 00:11:55.220 Vote for the people! Vote for the people! 167 00:11:55.780 --> 00:12:04.200 If there are any final discussions concerning this motion, all members of your entourage are broken. 168 00:12:04.960 --> 00:12:07.440 Please raise your hands. 169 00:12:07.440 --> 00:12:12.860 If you wish to vote at this time, raise your hands. 170 00:12:12.860 --> 00:12:16.240 We wish to vote at this time. We used to be a poor man. 171 00:12:16.520 --> 00:12:17.600 Come on, vote now. 172 00:12:19.060 --> 00:12:20.160 Let's hear it now. 173 00:12:20.620 --> 00:12:21.740 Let's hear it now. 174 00:12:22.920 --> 00:12:24.640 Let's hear it now. 175 00:12:25.480 --> 00:12:27.100 What have you got to get for vote? 176 00:12:27.220 --> 00:12:28.060 We used to be one. 177 00:12:28.760 --> 00:12:30.420 Now we're setting fire to you. 178 00:12:34.180 --> 00:12:35.700 It doesn't need it. 179 00:12:35.880 --> 00:12:36.500 What you calling? 180 00:12:36.520 --> 00:12:37.700 It does not care. 181 00:12:37.800 --> 00:12:39.960 This is not everybody's council anymore. 182 00:12:41.760 --> 00:12:45.820 It doesn't care because this figure, the vote means it doesn't cast. 183 00:12:46.020 --> 00:12:47.400 It's voted by the message. 184 00:12:47.800 --> 00:12:49.460 But that means it's not needed. 185 00:12:51.760 --> 00:12:54.960 It's not needed to cast, but it's not needed to have it failed. 186 00:12:55.360 --> 00:13:00.520 If it doesn't vote, it fails, and therefore, it's not necessary to pass it forward. 187 00:13:00.940 --> 00:13:03.140 As a matter of procedure, you're incorrect. 188 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:05.400 Let's go in the room and talk about it. 189 00:13:06.280 --> 00:13:08.200 This is Mr. A. Kevin Pumph. 190 00:13:10.160 --> 00:13:12.480 It's worse than any other town ever was. 191 00:13:13.040 --> 00:13:15.240 It's worse. Let me tell you, it's worse, Nathan. 192 00:13:15.620 --> 00:13:18.200 We've reported to God, God, both of us have been upheld. 193 00:13:18.440 --> 00:13:22.380 All those in favor of adjournment, please raise your hands. 194 00:13:24.360 --> 00:13:27.700 Thank you. This motion, this meeting stands adjourned. 195 00:13:27.840 --> 00:13:34.880 It's our meeting that directors said we could meet all the people in sympathy with the people here. 196 00:13:35.260 --> 00:13:35.740 Please set out. 197 00:13:35.740 --> 00:13:38.720 If you wish to attend this meeting, please send in. 198 00:13:41.980 --> 00:13:46.180 Will somebody close the back doors? I feel a draft coming in. 199 00:13:46.600 --> 00:13:49.000 Before the cop comes in, there's a cop coming in here. 200 00:13:49.020 --> 00:13:53.300 Don't say nothing. Let Bob set it up with him, and then we're going to ask him to go back out again. 201 00:13:53.340 --> 00:13:54.960 This is a community relations sergeant. 202 00:13:55.300 --> 00:13:59.300 I want them to talk and get it over with real quick to set up a meeting. 203 00:13:59.540 --> 00:13:59.980 How are you? 204 00:13:59.980 --> 00:14:00.900 He's coming in. Take it easy. 205 00:14:02.180 --> 00:14:03.040 How are you? 206 00:14:03.160 --> 00:14:03.940 My name is Bob East. 207 00:14:04.020 --> 00:14:04.760 Sergeant Kramer. 208 00:14:04.760 --> 00:14:07.200 I'm working with the Committee on Police Brutality. 209 00:14:16.120 --> 00:14:20.780 We the United People would like to arrange a meeting with the police department. 210 00:14:20.840 --> 00:14:21.920 We already discussed that. 211 00:14:22.020 --> 00:14:28.720 We want to really meet and discuss the things that happen in the community that you know are real and that people here can vouch for that has been happening. 212 00:14:29.280 --> 00:14:33.120 We're trying to build some rapport with the police district here. 213 00:14:33.120 --> 00:14:33.520 Right. 214 00:14:33.520 --> 00:14:39.220 Build some rapport with the people, if not with the officers on the street, at least with the officials inside the department. 215 00:14:39.600 --> 00:14:47.620 Whereas maybe they can pass some sort of rules or policies to stop this wanton harassment, sir. 216 00:14:48.080 --> 00:14:54.140 So like I think that I'll ask Mr. Geary here to announce our next meeting. 217 00:14:54.980 --> 00:14:56.180 Whatever night that would be, sir. 218 00:14:57.080 --> 00:14:57.920 And you can have one. 219 00:14:58.160 --> 00:14:59.720 Well, we found out when we're going to have this meeting. 220 00:14:59.860 --> 00:15:00.580 Monday night? 221 00:15:00.720 --> 00:15:01.160 Right here. 222 00:15:01.240 --> 00:15:01.640 Right on. 223 00:15:01.640 --> 00:15:05.800 We're going to show them how to have a real council meeting here. 224 00:15:06.420 --> 00:15:09.440 The first hour is with the pigs. 225 00:15:11.620 --> 00:15:14.680 The next hour is with the people. 226 00:15:15.760 --> 00:15:18.380 And the streets belong to the people, not the pigs. 227 00:15:18.640 --> 00:15:19.060 Remember that. 228 00:15:20.240 --> 00:15:21.060 I know different. 229 00:15:22.640 --> 00:15:28.320 And I know your reasons of why that you've been hollering and the things that you've been saying. 230 00:15:30.560 --> 00:15:35.380 And I talked to Sergeant Kramer the other day and I talked to Commander Conley. 231 00:15:36.680 --> 00:15:40.360 And they both told me they wasn't aware of what was happening on Wilson Avenue. 232 00:15:42.280 --> 00:15:45.800 And so here tonight, we're here to make them aware of it. 233 00:15:47.340 --> 00:15:50.320 We want to have a good community, a good neighborhood. 234 00:15:52.200 --> 00:15:56.520 And furthermore, we intend to have a good neighborhood and a good community. 235 00:15:57.740 --> 00:16:05.180 Now, I want to turn the meeting over at this time to the chairman of the Police Brutality Committee, is what we call it. 236 00:16:06.360 --> 00:16:15.260 I would like to be able to drop the part, Brutality, and let it become just the Police Committee. 237 00:16:15.880 --> 00:16:18.120 And hopefully something can be worked out here tonight. 238 00:16:18.560 --> 00:16:20.920 I give you the chairman of that committee, Mr. Bob Lee. 239 00:16:21.080 --> 00:16:25.040 Personally, one thing happened to me Monday night as I walked in the street for that was the past. 240 00:16:25.040 --> 00:16:27.520 So I think June boy right now can release something. 241 00:16:27.700 --> 00:16:30.040 Okay, would all the young patrons get up and stand in front? 242 00:16:44.060 --> 00:16:49.980 This is about half of the group of guys that I'm working with in uptown. 243 00:16:49.980 --> 00:16:57.040 And we like to say that we're not a gang, and we've got a four-point thing going. 244 00:16:57.720 --> 00:17:00.620 One thing we're for is better housing for people in the neighborhood. 245 00:17:01.520 --> 00:17:03.300 Another is to stop police harassment. 246 00:17:04.280 --> 00:17:08.360 Another is trying to end urban renewal from kicking people out of the neighborhood. 247 00:17:09.120 --> 00:17:16.940 And the fourth thing is to have better relations between people in the neighborhood who doesn't know each other. 248 00:17:16.940 --> 00:17:21.320 We're out there to help the community, and it's the best way we know how. 249 00:17:21.980 --> 00:17:29.940 And it's that if our guys get arrested, we're going to try any way possible to stop them. 250 00:17:30.960 --> 00:17:32.340 Roxy, I hear your comments. 251 00:17:32.600 --> 00:17:36.940 Well, first of all, I just wanted to congratulate you on taking the title of Young Patriots. 252 00:17:39.280 --> 00:17:44.420 To me, that has a connotation of meaning patriotic. 253 00:17:45.320 --> 00:17:48.980 And I like those words. They're kind of unique these days. 254 00:17:50.020 --> 00:17:53.580 Now, there's nobody in this room that knows anything about being poor any more than I do, 255 00:17:53.940 --> 00:17:56.300 or anything more about your plight than I do. 256 00:17:57.680 --> 00:18:00.340 I ask you to keep your questions constructive. 257 00:18:00.920 --> 00:18:03.280 I ask you to keep the meeting orderly. 258 00:18:03.380 --> 00:18:07.160 And I assure you that something will come out of it. 259 00:18:07.160 --> 00:18:14.440 A week ago today, six young men, along with myself, were walking down Broadway Street. 260 00:18:14.600 --> 00:18:17.660 We just left a meeting at Junebug's house. 261 00:18:18.120 --> 00:18:23.860 We were detained for two hours, I would say, six or seven fellows walking down the street. 262 00:18:23.940 --> 00:18:30.860 So I'd like you to maybe define, like, is six guys on the street considered gang, or at this time of night? 263 00:18:34.120 --> 00:18:45.420 First of all, I will concede that police officers generally are a little prejudicial in regard to any citizen 264 00:18:45.420 --> 00:18:51.820 who perhaps doesn't dress or look like the way they should think, they think people should look. 265 00:18:53.740 --> 00:19:00.340 Now, I certainly appreciate your plight being a Negro, but it would be silly for me 266 00:19:00.340 --> 00:19:08.280 to stand here tonight and make excuses for my men or try to make you feel a little better by saying my men were wrong. 267 00:19:08.440 --> 00:19:12.280 It would be wrong both ways. We have to know some of the background. 268 00:19:12.920 --> 00:19:16.580 There may have been a robbery there an hour before, 15 minutes before. 269 00:19:17.120 --> 00:19:20.180 There may have been a crime wave before. There may have been burglaries. 270 00:19:20.220 --> 00:19:23.960 There may have been jack-rolling, so many things. 271 00:19:24.340 --> 00:19:29.240 We're trying to better things. We're trying to bring out into police officer. 272 00:19:29.240 --> 00:19:34.380 We're trying to teach him that everybody isn't like him. 273 00:19:35.520 --> 00:19:41.760 Sometimes things happen that I don't know about, but I will make it my business to know about them, if you will bring it to my attention. 274 00:19:42.220 --> 00:19:44.560 The question about the Red Squad. 275 00:19:45.540 --> 00:19:51.800 Every meeting that's been held in Threshold's Hall has been observed by the Red Squad and photographed because I've watched it. 276 00:19:52.700 --> 00:19:54.660 I want to know what the purpose of this is. 277 00:19:54.660 --> 00:19:59.400 The Red Squad. They take your pictures just as these people are taking my picture here. 278 00:19:59.740 --> 00:20:01.120 No, it's not quite that. 279 00:20:02.200 --> 00:20:05.960 Well, apparently it was. You saw it and other people have seen it. 280 00:20:06.600 --> 00:20:16.340 There are those units within the police department or any law enforcement unit that have as their function the investigating 281 00:20:16.340 --> 00:20:28.420 and looking into organizations that perhaps are a little on the suspect's side or have revealed themselves in such a way as to be a little bit questionable. 282 00:20:29.020 --> 00:20:30.080 Who do you find, Bob? 283 00:20:31.720 --> 00:20:32.740 Perhaps we do. 284 00:20:33.140 --> 00:20:36.240 Is this the one, Bob? Is this the one the police officers took off of you? 285 00:20:36.920 --> 00:20:42.600 Now, this was a Nixon Agnew button that we didn't have money to buy a button, so we painted over it. 286 00:20:42.600 --> 00:20:48.400 The Oriental people, the Spanish people, the white people, the black people, and the red people. 287 00:20:48.900 --> 00:20:51.240 Policemen have taken these buttons off somebody in this room. 288 00:20:51.720 --> 00:20:51.740 Yeah. 289 00:20:52.860 --> 00:20:53.100 Who? 290 00:20:53.560 --> 00:20:54.080 This one, please. 291 00:20:54.420 --> 00:20:55.240 This young man? 292 00:20:55.820 --> 00:21:02.700 Well, I can't see where that's right. That's completely wrong as far as I can see. Somebody that can come up and take a button off you for no reason whatsoever. 293 00:21:03.480 --> 00:21:05.640 Well, what's the purpose of something like this be? 294 00:21:05.740 --> 00:21:06.060 Well. 295 00:21:06.060 --> 00:21:07.000 Can I say something? 296 00:21:08.340 --> 00:21:13.100 I'm only 16 years old and they filled me up against the wall and slapped me a couple times even in the cop station. 297 00:21:14.000 --> 00:21:14.580 For what, son? 298 00:21:14.820 --> 00:21:18.340 For what? I don't know. They come into my friend's house, they drag me to the police station. 299 00:21:18.660 --> 00:21:24.420 Two detectives take me out the hall and try to make me say things that I ain't and slap me because I won't say that I ain't something. 300 00:21:25.460 --> 00:21:30.500 And then you expect me to come and tell y'all you're going to have a squad car watching me 24 hours a day 301 00:21:30.500 --> 00:21:36.560 because when they say I say something to y'all about them knocking the hell out of me, then they say they're going to kill me. 302 00:21:36.720 --> 00:21:40.660 Can you have a squad car watching me 24 hours a day to make sure that they don't hire me? 303 00:21:41.800 --> 00:21:46.620 I've had them in the police station. In the police station, take me in the back room and bang my damn head against the wall. 304 00:21:46.800 --> 00:21:49.260 Say, let me see how tall you are and then crack my head like that. 305 00:21:49.560 --> 00:21:50.440 What did you do, son? 306 00:21:50.760 --> 00:21:56.020 Nothing. Nothing. Nothing at all. Just being in a friend's house and they come in and take me to the station. 307 00:21:57.040 --> 00:21:59.680 It don't mean no matter what you do, an officer is not supposed to hit. 308 00:21:59.680 --> 00:22:03.160 They say they're going to kill me if I tell anything. They say they're going to kill me. 309 00:22:03.260 --> 00:22:07.220 They even tell me in the police station, if I catch you outside, I'm going to kill you, boy. 310 00:22:08.020 --> 00:22:09.500 And I can't walk down the street. 311 00:22:09.520 --> 00:22:10.880 For what reason did they bring you in? 312 00:22:11.740 --> 00:22:14.440 There's no reason. I'm sitting in a friend's house. 313 00:22:15.160 --> 00:22:19.040 Well, I just want the complete story. What was done, if it was done, was wrong. 314 00:22:19.480 --> 00:22:22.000 Nothing was done, but I want the complete story from you. 315 00:22:22.000 --> 00:22:22.740 Yes, sir. I'll tell you. 316 00:22:22.740 --> 00:22:28.440 Not just what happened, not just what we did wrong. I want to know what you did wrong that precipitated this. That's all. 317 00:22:28.440 --> 00:22:29.200 All right. 318 00:22:29.460 --> 00:22:30.520 It doesn't matter what he did wrong. 319 00:22:31.120 --> 00:22:32.000 I'll tell you what I did. 320 00:22:32.000 --> 00:22:32.620 It's a complete story. 321 00:22:33.120 --> 00:22:34.080 He's not telling the complete story. 322 00:22:34.100 --> 00:22:35.480 I'll tell the complete story. 323 00:22:35.480 --> 00:22:39.700 It's wrong and I concede it's wrong. But why doesn't he tell the complete story? 324 00:22:39.700 --> 00:22:40.740 Let me talk, will you? 325 00:22:40.980 --> 00:22:41.940 The complete story. 326 00:22:42.000 --> 00:22:48.820 I was in a homosexual's house, watching his TV set, waiting for his cousin to come back. His cousin's 17 years old. 327 00:22:49.120 --> 00:22:54.920 That was to be a friend of mine. He's a homosexual. They come in and they try to make me say that I'm a faggot, you know. 328 00:22:56.560 --> 00:23:02.920 All right, if you'll stay after, I will register your complaint and you'll find out that it'll be investigated and you'll be treated properly. 329 00:23:04.760 --> 00:23:13.440 If anyone here is harassed by any police officer, we will be sure to take his badge number down, his car number, and we will see this man. 330 00:23:13.800 --> 00:23:24.000 We will see this man. And then I like to know, if we come to you with a badge number, a car number, and you find this officer to have really harassed one of the people here, 331 00:23:24.000 --> 00:23:26.820 what would happen to him? Now let's wait and see. 332 00:23:27.120 --> 00:23:29.920 We'll send you complaints that we get from the neighborhood weekly. 333 00:23:30.280 --> 00:23:36.980 Any harassment of young patriots through our political organization, you are taking on personal responsibility to see that doesn't happen. 334 00:23:37.520 --> 00:23:40.700 I have to. I have to. This is my responsibility. 335 00:23:41.340 --> 00:23:50.020 In the past, the poor neighborhoods have been exploited by persons or person or persons who have been less than American. 336 00:23:50.020 --> 00:23:56.660 There are so many of these anti or anti-American, pink, even red organizations. 337 00:23:56.680 --> 00:24:10.900 You know, I really resent the statement that you said that there might be some red or this kind of thing because I personally think that I'm as better or at least as good as an American as you are. 338 00:24:11.200 --> 00:24:18.100 And I think that if there is anyone here in this audience who is not an American, I think you should point this out. 339 00:24:18.100 --> 00:24:37.200 I think the purpose of this meeting was to in fact accentuate that positive part that here we are, American, red, black, yellow, white, with one goal in mind to build a society. 340 00:24:37.920 --> 00:24:45.500 And this is why I regret you bringing up that fact that we that there might be some red paint here. 341 00:24:50.340 --> 00:25:01.400 I said the potential in a poor neighborhood is disproportionate than any other neighborhood for people being exploited by these types of people. 342 00:25:01.580 --> 00:25:07.680 How could I possibly say anybody in this room has any other feature than complete pure-blooded American? 343 00:25:07.900 --> 00:25:10.620 How could I say it? I don't know a person in this room. 344 00:25:11.460 --> 00:25:19.920 I'm a member of the Young Patriots and I'm not going to run out a long line of particular harassments that have been thrown up against people. 345 00:25:20.080 --> 00:25:25.900 But just use one to clear up a point you made, which is probably the strongest point we've been talking about tonight. 346 00:25:26.440 --> 00:25:39.380 And that is I've been in the house of southern white people and I've heard policemen, pardon me ladies, say throw them up against the wall and say you fucking hillbillies, what you got on you, and this kind of thing. 347 00:25:39.380 --> 00:25:46.120 And all I want to say is when you talk about tolerance, we're not tolerating this, we're angry. 348 00:25:47.820 --> 00:25:55.020 A hundred years ago, this flag which I wear on my cap represents the Confederate States of America. 349 00:25:55.460 --> 00:26:01.500 We was beat down and we beat down people for a hundred years and we know what it's like to beat down people. 350 00:26:01.960 --> 00:26:05.760 We beat down people hard. We are getting ourselves together. 351 00:26:05.760 --> 00:26:08.900 We're angry about it because we're all beaten down today. 352 00:26:09.440 --> 00:26:14.120 We're going to be out on the streets and we'll be helping you if you want our help. 353 00:26:14.440 --> 00:26:17.520 And it's not a matter of we communists, we this or that or the other. 354 00:26:17.880 --> 00:26:23.700 We're just folks who are trying to get things straight in our community. 355 00:26:23.700 --> 00:26:24.600 Is that clear? 356 00:26:34.360 --> 00:26:36.540 Does anybody here believe what they had to say? 357 00:26:36.700 --> 00:26:38.840 They asked me what I think of the police officers now. 358 00:26:39.160 --> 00:26:42.660 I think they were just feeding us a bunch of shit tonight to keep many things getting started. 359 00:26:42.960 --> 00:26:47.100 You tried your best man. You're about the community and you're not going to let them stop you. 360 00:26:48.480 --> 00:26:55.120 We can't let this happen because they're going to let us just go down like we was a long time ago. 361 00:26:55.500 --> 00:26:58.040 Where they can start this shit up again but we have to go through it again. 362 00:26:58.180 --> 00:27:00.140 We keep on going through it, through it, through it. 363 00:27:00.340 --> 00:27:01.500 We ain't never going to get nothing done. 364 00:27:02.220 --> 00:27:04.180 There's one thing we got to do. We got to get out. 365 00:27:04.400 --> 00:27:08.380 We got to reach a lot of people man because if we don't, we're going to get picked off easy. 366 00:27:09.200 --> 00:27:10.640 We're going to get picked off quick. 367 00:27:11.600 --> 00:27:17.280 And we got to get people to back us up and show them that they're backing us up so they get off our backs. 368 00:27:17.280 --> 00:27:20.180 That's right. They don't want us to build ourselves up like the Panthers did. 369 00:27:20.960 --> 00:27:26.140 Because they're afraid that if people are going to keep building themselves up, that we're all going to get together and we're going to get done with what we want done. 370 00:27:26.460 --> 00:27:29.280 These 200 buttons here were Panthers were going to start wearing them now. See. 371 00:27:30.040 --> 00:27:33.720 They're going to try to prevent this every way they can by acting like our friends. 372 00:27:34.380 --> 00:27:37.020 That pig almost had me convinced tonight man. 373 00:27:37.860 --> 00:27:39.720 He did. I started even believing this shit. 374 00:27:39.720 --> 00:27:42.780 See that's his job. That was his job. 375 00:27:43.040 --> 00:27:47.360 One of the most important things that we worry about him now, because that was one stage we went through tonight. 376 00:27:47.820 --> 00:27:50.160 Talk with him. Now the whole thing now is community. 377 00:27:50.380 --> 00:27:55.960 Get in touch with everybody in this community. Put pamphlets in the stores. Even hand one to a police officer on the corner. 378 00:27:56.680 --> 00:27:57.660 Anything to get them in. 379 00:27:57.860 --> 00:28:00.740 But what if it don't happen? What are we going to do? We're going to fight them or what? 380 00:28:01.480 --> 00:28:05.760 We're jerking the community in man. The community is going to fight. We're going to be part of the community. 381 00:28:06.400 --> 00:28:08.400 How are we going to fight them? Guns? 382 00:28:08.400 --> 00:28:09.880 Don't get hung up on that now. 383 00:28:10.080 --> 00:28:12.400 They ain't going to stop tracking our heads man. 384 00:28:12.720 --> 00:28:14.220 It's a thousand people up here Jack. 385 00:28:14.480 --> 00:28:15.920 We'll get that shit on later man. 386 00:28:15.980 --> 00:28:18.120 Later? Later I'm going to be dead. 387 00:28:18.800 --> 00:28:24.100 You laying in your grave and other people still be fighting. You ain't got shit man. 388 00:28:24.780 --> 00:28:28.900 I might land in my grave but I feel good to know that I fought for my fucking land. 389 00:28:29.200 --> 00:28:33.080 It ain't going to be you know why? Because I'm going to say motherfucker I'm going to fight for that shit. 390 00:28:33.540 --> 00:28:37.960 And pretty soon motherfucker if they ain't going to give it to me, if they ain't going to give it to me we going to fight the motherfucker. 391 00:28:37.960 --> 00:28:41.940 I'm going to walk down the motherfucking street and them fucking cats messing with me. I'll just go BAM motherfucker. 392 00:28:42.160 --> 00:28:42.580 This is live. 393 00:28:42.600 --> 00:28:43.380 That shit is live. 394 00:28:43.900 --> 00:28:47.540 If I got 15,000 guys behind me motherfucker it's going to be a different scene. 395 00:28:47.720 --> 00:28:51.560 You can think the best things you want are when you die saying I'm a hard motherfucker but I'm dead. 396 00:28:51.880 --> 00:28:53.020 I'm a hard motherfucker. 397 00:28:53.820 --> 00:28:55.380 That's it man. That's it motherfucker man. 398 00:28:55.880 --> 00:28:59.480 I met this cat from now man when I got out of high school. He had joined up man. 399 00:28:59.520 --> 00:29:02.880 Went to now for four years man. He'd come back he said man I don't care how big you are. 400 00:29:03.040 --> 00:29:06.000 Big hard ass motherfucker. He said you watch some cats go over there man. 401 00:29:06.000 --> 00:29:08.740 He said I'm a hard motherfucker. He said them old cats are dead man. 402 00:29:08.820 --> 00:29:12.500 Them cats are dead man. Some little cat go BAM you a dead motherfucker man. 403 00:29:12.720 --> 00:29:16.400 You could be the hardest cat in the world man. Some cats are shooting you a dead motherfucker right there. 404 00:29:16.660 --> 00:29:19.540 At night you ain't crying. You ain't begging to get the fuck out of your place. 405 00:29:19.540 --> 00:29:22.860 Hey if I know I'm dying I know I got the satisfaction at least I fought. 406 00:29:22.940 --> 00:29:26.960 Ain't no satisfaction in dying man. Fuck it man. Ain't no satisfaction in dying. 407 00:29:27.360 --> 00:29:31.860 Ain't no satisfaction in dying a hero man. You're fucking dead and that's it. 408 00:29:32.680 --> 00:29:34.540 You can die a hero you're still a fucking. 409 00:29:34.540 --> 00:29:38.820 Fuck it man you're dead and there's no difference man. You're fucking hunting shit. 410 00:29:38.820 --> 00:29:41.180 We gotta plan it so we win not so we die man. 411 00:29:41.360 --> 00:29:43.660 Fuck them. I don't dig dying man. 412 00:29:44.540 --> 00:29:50.420 Fuck yes I'm gonna die sometime and that's why I say there ain't no sense of working all my fucking life for bullshit cause I know I'm gonna die. 413 00:29:50.700 --> 00:29:54.480 Ain't no sense of putting up with the horse shit they put on you all the time cause I know I'm gonna die. 414 00:29:54.680 --> 00:29:59.640 That's what it's about man. Ain't no sense of waiting so I'm gonna be 95 years old driving my XKE. 415 00:29:59.900 --> 00:30:02.120 Fuck them man I want it now cause it's mine. 416 00:30:14.240 --> 00:30:15.640 Thanks for watching.