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1:00

The eighteen year old that was shot and killed by a Ferguson,

1:03

Missouri police officer was named Michael

1:05

Brown.

1:06

And once my friend felt that shot, he

1:08

turned around and he put his hands in the earth.

1:10

It really was a gentle giant

1:12

tonight, there is a lot of looting going

1:15

on.

1:16

Look Look.

1:19

But the problem was that the mantra was

1:21

a complete lie, that.

1:22

The facts do not support the filing

1:24

of criminal charges against officer Darren

1:27

Wilson.

1:27

The movement moved from hands Up, Don't

1:30

Shoot to Black Lives Matter.

1:32

The Black Lives Matter movement is everywhere.

1:35

Where did it come from? And perhaps more

1:37

importantly, what does it want.

1:42

I'm Patrick Crelci and I'm Adriana

1:44

Cortes, and.

1:45

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1:48

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1:50

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1:52

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2:00

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2:02

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2:04

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2:24

this is part two of Hands Up, our series

2:26

of episodes delving into the origin of Black

2:29

Lives Matter to figure out where it came from

2:31

and what it wants. You don't need to

2:33

have heard the last episode to understand this

2:35

one, but in case you missed it. In

2:37

part one, we looked into how black Lives Matter

2:39

first came into national prominence by

2:41

telling the story of the death of Michael Brown,

2:43

an eighteen year old black man that was

2:46

shot and killed by a white Ferguson, Missouri

2:48

police officer. When word of his death

2:50

first hit the news, the story that the

2:52

mainstream media concocted was that Michael

2:55

Brown was a promising, unarmed general

2:57

giant that was gunned down for no reason

2:59

by a race sis white cop while surrendering

3:01

with his hands up. It was an unprovoked

3:04

execution, and locals and leftists

3:06

took the story and ran with it. Hands

3:08

up, don't shoot immediately became their

3:11

mantra, and Fergusonians used

3:13

it to attack the police, loot stores,

3:15

burned down local businesses, and more, but

3:17

there were major problems with the narrative. A

3:20

few days after riots swept through Ferguson,

3:22

the police released video of Michael Brown

3:25

allegedly committing a strong arm robbery

3:27

just minutes before his fatal encounter

3:29

with Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson.

3:32

An autopsy also showed that Michael Brown

3:34

was not shot from behind, as several witnesses

3:37

claimed, he was only shot from

3:39

the front when the Saint Louis prosecutor

3:41

released the findings of their investigation. The public

3:44

learned that the evidence supported Officer Wilson's

3:46

account of the deadly incident. It was

3:48

actually Michael Brown that was the aggressor

3:50

who tried to take the officer's gun while he was seated

3:53

in his vehicle. The forensic evidence

3:55

also suggested that the eighteen year old six

3:57

foot five nearly three hundred

3:59

pound man was likely charging Officer

4:01

Wilson when he was shot, not holding up

4:04

his hands saying don't shoot, as the mainstream

4:06

media portrayed. The evidence and

4:08

most credible eyewitnesses led to the indisputable

4:11

conclusion that Officer Wilson was justified

4:13

in shooting Michael Brown. When

4:15

the grand jury decided not to indict the

4:17

ferguson officer, Michael's stepfather

4:20

called on the people to burn it down, and

4:22

they complied. The riots, looting

4:24

and burning were worse than the initial

4:26

mayhem. When the smoke settled, Michael

4:29

brown supporters were holding out hope that the Obama

4:31

Justice Department would charge the officer with a federal

4:33

crime, but they too came back

4:35

with the same conclusion. Officer Wilson

4:38

was justified in shooting Michael Brown. It

4:40

was at this point that a few of the biggest

4:42

proponents of the hands Up, Don't Shoot hoaks had

4:45

to admit that it was a lie. But instead

4:47

of concluding that there was no crisis of police

4:49

killing unarmed black men, they wouldn't

4:52

let it go. They shifted their mantra

4:54

from hands up, Don't Shoot to Black Lives

4:56

Matter, and when they did, a new

4:58

movement was born or was it.

5:07

Cultural movements take years, really

5:09

decades to form. Successful

5:11

ones are almost always repackaged movements

5:13

of the past, with message tweaks and cultural

5:16

shifts that make it palatable for the time.

5:18

Black Lives Matter is no exception. A

5:21

hint to where Black Lives Matter comes from

5:23

can be found not only in its racially

5:25

based Marxist ideology, but also

5:28

its iconography. The BLM logo

5:30

is a raised blackfist and is an exact

5:32

cut and paste copy of a previous

5:35

African American crusade the Black

5:37

Power movement. Understanding

5:39

this explosive nineteen sixties phenomenon

5:42

will help uncover a key reason as to why

5:44

Black Lives Matter is spread so quickly across

5:46

America and what the movement has

5:48

in mind.

5:54

Stokely Carmichael immigrated to the United

5:56

States in nineteen fifty two when he was a boy,

5:59

and by the midnight teen sixties he captured

6:01

a building rage among young African

6:03

Americans with the phrase he popularized

6:05

called black Power. The

6:08

mantrat incorporated many of the earlier

6:10

black nationalist ideas of Marcus

6:12

Garvey and quickly shifted from a

6:14

rallying call to an explosive new

6:16

movement that alarmed the older leaders

6:19

in the civil rights movement, including Martin

6:21

Luther King Junior himself. But

6:23

what's perhaps most surprising about his shift

6:25

to anti white activism was it Stokely's

6:28

childhood doesn't show any signs of the

6:30

racism that he'd later decry in the

6:32

most inflammatory of ways.

6:34

The major enemy is not your

6:36

brother, flesh of your FLEs and

6:38

blood of your blood. The major enemy

6:41

is the honkey and his institutions of RIGHTSSM.

6:43

That's the major enemy. That is

6:45

the major enemy.

6:50

In his prime, Stokely Carmichael

6:53

was an extremely charismatic, tall,

6:55

slender, good looking Trinidad born

6:57

black man who until his dying day

7:00

blamed just about everything bad in his life

7:02

on white people, even his prostate

7:04

cancer, of which he died from at the age of fifty

7:06

seven. The vehemently anti white

7:09

civil rights leader claimed his prostate

7:11

cancer was quote given to me by forces

7:13

of American imperialism and others

7:16

who conspired with them end quote.

7:18

To Stokely, American imperialism

7:20

was synonymous with white people, and

7:23

they were the cornerstone of the evil

7:25

in the world. Stokely

7:29

Carmichael was born in nineteen forty one

7:32

in Port of Spain, Trinidad, a Caribbean

7:34

island, and lived with his grandmother and aunts

7:36

until he moved to the United States to be with his

7:38

parents when he was eleven. He

7:40

grew up in the Bronx, in a part of town with very

7:43

few blacks, yet according to his mom,

7:45

he faced no racism. Here's Stokely's

7:48

mother reminiscing on her son's childhood

7:50

in an interview with the Caribbean TV.

7:52

Show Talk a little bit about when

7:54

Stokely was growing up what it was

7:57

like to be living in the Bronx as a

7:59

black family.

8:01

Well, I'll tell you one thing, we

8:04

had no problem at all, uh huh. And

8:06

he hang out with only Italian boys. There was

8:09

an Italian neighborhood h and everything

8:11

was fine. Nobody bothered us.

8:15

So it is not correct

8:17

to see that the experiences

8:20

growing up in the Bronx neighborhood was what

8:23

fired that kind of black nationalism.

8:24

And definitely no.

8:26

Stokely was also not raised by his family

8:29

to think of himself as oppressed as

8:31

appearing.

8:32

Did you did you talk to Stokely

8:35

about things like blackness

8:38

and and and stuff like that? Was it

8:40

part of your household to discuse the race

8:42

religions in the country.

8:44

Never.

8:46

We thought we were just as good as anyone else.

8:48

Yes, And I brought up my children the same way.

8:51

You go out, you look everybody in the face, they

8:53

say good morning, You say good morning, they don't say good morning.

8:56

You go your way.

8:57

You never look back to say good morning. No,

9:01

we were just as good as anybody else. A night cheer.

9:03

One was thought that, uh huh.

9:05

He was a smart young man who tested well

9:07

enough to get into Bronx Science, a

9:09

predominantly Jewish public high school

9:11

considered one of the best in the area. He

9:14

was offered admittance at several prestigious

9:16

mixed race schools, including Harvard,

9:18

but in nineteen sixty Stokey chose Howard

9:21

University, a historically black University

9:23

in the Washington.

9:24

D c.

9:25

Area.

9:25

It was there where he'd slowly become radicalized.

9:29

He entered college as a pre med major,

9:31

but by the end of his freshman year he shifted

9:33

to philosophy and

9:37

began getting involved with an organization called

9:40

the Student Non Violent Coordinating Committee

9:43

or popularly known as SNICK, and began

9:45

joining the Freedom Rides, where he rode

9:48

with whites on buses to challenge

9:50

the segregated interstate travel laws of

9:52

the South. A violent attacks often

9:54

accompanied these rides, and once they reached

9:56

their destination, the passengers

9:58

were arrested and jailed. At

10:05

the end of one early trip to Mississippi,

10:07

Stokely was arrested and forced to serve

10:09

a forty nine day sentence in a Mississippi

10:12

prison. He continued his studies

10:14

at Howard University, but would travel down to

10:16

Mississippi every summer to be involved

10:18

with the Freedom Rights and sit ins, which

10:20

was a tactic used to protest segregated

10:23

lunch counters in the South. It

10:25

was during these efforts that he met Martin

10:27

Luther King Junior. In nineteen sixty three,

10:30

and a year later he graduated from Howard

10:32

and moved down to Mississippi to be involved

10:35

in the civil rights movement full time.

10:38

Throughout his efforts, Stokely was becoming

10:40

dissatisfied with Martin Luther King Junior's

10:42

non violent form of protest and began

10:45

to imagine a more aggressive stance.

10:47

But it wasn't until the summer of nineteen sixty

10:49

six that he expressed this new belief

10:52

in an explosive way. On

10:55

June fifth, nineteen sixty six, activist

10:58

James Meredith decided to do it. Was solo

11:00

marched from Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson,

11:02

Mississippi, a distance of over two

11:05

hundred miles, to protest the slow pace

11:07

of change after the passage of the Civil Rights

11:09

Act. James

11:11

had already successfully desegregated

11:13

the University of Mississippi four years earlier.

11:16

Supporters began joining him on his walk,

11:19

but on day two, a white man stepped

11:21

out from a wooded area and shot James

11:23

with a sixteen gage shotgun loaded with

11:25

bird shot.

11:29

This is the William Bold Hospital where

11:32

James Meredith lies wounded. It

11:34

was here that negro's civil rights leaders from

11:36

around the country made their pilgrimage

11:39

to the bedside of the young Negro who was shot

11:41

down on the highways of Mississippi.

11:43

He wasn't severely injured, but he

11:45

couldn't immediately finish the journey, So

11:47

civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Junior

11:50

decided to continue the march in Meredith's name.

11:52

Yes, this march that we

11:56

are continuing started by

11:58

James Meredith, I

12:00

am convinced will have as

12:02

greater impact, or probably

12:05

a greater impact, than the

12:07

march from Selma to Montgomery.

12:09

Stokely Carmichael joined as well with

12:11

the plan to radically shift the civil rights

12:14

movement.

12:14

The demonstration is not to be an end on to itself.

12:17

When you reach Jackson, what will be your purpose

12:20

there?

12:20

When we'll talk about that after em.

12:22

On June sixteenth, nineteen sixty six,

12:25

Stokely put his plan into action. Just

12:28

released from jail after being arrested for the

12:30

twenty seventh time, he stepped

12:32

onto a makeshift stage in Greenwood,

12:35

Mississippi, to address the gathered

12:37

marchers.

12:38

We stop being a shame

12:40

of being black. We've

12:42

gotten thought being a shame of being

12:45

black.

12:45

He decided it was time to introduce a new

12:47

slogan, one that was designed to radically

12:50

change the course of the civil rights movement.

12:53

Black black

12:56

power, We want black

12:59

power. Segments of his speech hit

13:01

American TV screens, revealing

13:03

a Black American sentiment that was

13:05

bubbling up all across the country, and

13:08

it was all part of Stokely's plan. He

13:10

was later quoted saying to civil rights

13:12

icon Martin Luther King Junior, quote

13:15

Martin, I deliberately decided to

13:17

raise this issue on the march in order to give

13:19

it a national forum and force

13:21

you to take a stand for black power end quote.

13:24

MLK Junior reportedly responded quote

13:27

I have been used before. One

13:29

more time won't hurt. But

13:31

the Reverend was alarmed by the new posturing

13:34

and later took to the microphone to give a full

13:36

throated rejection of the new approach.

13:39

Undisturbed about a strange

13:42

theory that is circulating, saying

13:44

to me that I want to imitate the worst

13:47

in the white man in the worst in our presence,

13:51

who has a picture of killing

13:53

and lynching people and.

13:54

Full on them in rip.

13:57

It's all our pussles and lot

13:59

of people telling me to stoop

14:01

down to that level.

14:02

Oh no.

14:09

Reason, the A or not who it is

14:11

that I'm not gonna allow anybody

14:14

to pull me so low as

14:16

to use the man method, and

14:19

that's perpetuated evil throughout

14:21

our civilization.

14:22

I'm suiting tired of violence.

14:25

I'm tired of the.

14:26

War in Vietnam. I'm

14:29

tired of war and conflict

14:31

in the world. I'm tired of

14:34

shooting. I'm tired of hate,

14:36

I'm tired of selfishness.

14:38

I'm tired of evil.

14:40

I'm not gonna use violence

14:42

no matter who says.

14:56

But the cat was now out of the bag, even

14:59

the sivil writes. Icon's rejection

15:01

of the concept couldn't calm the impatient

15:04

black youth that we're looking for an immediate

15:06

change in their neighborhoods. With

15:08

that simple two word slogan, black

15:11

power, Stokely Carmichael triggered

15:13

black youth all across America to imagine

15:15

a different way forward, a more in your

15:18

face, aggressive approach to getting what they wanted.

15:20

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15:23

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15:25

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16:48

Most of the blacks and Hispanics in nineteen sixties

16:50

Oakland arrived during World War Two.

16:53

When we're in defense related industries like

16:55

shipyards and factories were abundant when

16:58

the war ended. Like in many major American cities,

17:00

the companies that thrived during the conflict

17:03

either closed or moved to the suburbs,

17:05

making jobs harder to find in the area. Technological

17:11

advances and the growth of agribusiness in

17:13

the nineteen fifties displaced even more

17:15

workers, and the black and Hispanic

17:17

people of Oakland at the time not cultures

17:19

of entrepreneurship were faced with fewer

17:21

and fewer prospects. As a

17:23

result, unemployment rose, poverty

17:25

skyrocketed, and crime and violence

17:27

followed. And this was all happening in the shadow

17:30

of some of the most affluent neighborhoods in northern

17:32

California. So

17:37

to contain the problem, Oakland's police

17:40

force adopted a harsh form of policing.

17:42

In a nineteen seventy four interview, a former officer

17:45

from that era described the style of

17:47

law enforcement during the nineteen fifties and early

17:49

nineteen sixties.

17:51

In our recruit schools we had culcated

17:53

for many years, in my opinion, in our

17:55

policemen what I would characterize as

17:57

a gung hold law enforcement orientation.

18:00

We taught them laws of arrest, search

18:02

and seizure, and patrol procedure

18:04

practices which could only result

18:07

and an officer oriented in a very

18:10

narrow law enforcement way.

18:13

A police officer that joined the force in nineteen

18:15

sixty five agreed, I.

18:17

Think we were a lot more aggressive that I

18:19

don't much care for the words for harassment.

18:22

I'd say there was a time when we were ahead

18:24

knocking department.

18:25

Yeah.

18:25

So, as we went about in this police department

18:28

as an operational style in the fifties

18:31

and in some part of the sixties,

18:34

of stopping people on various

18:36

pretexts, and this is a mandate as

18:38

it worked from the police department

18:40

itself, we incurred very,

18:43

very bad relationships with our community.

18:45

What the officer was describing was what we

18:47

call today profiling by

18:49

nineteen sixty six. Whether the strained

18:51

relationship was the fault of the police department

18:54

or the people of Oakland is likely much

18:56

too complicated to place the blame on any

18:58

one side. But the indispute fact

19:00

was that the most vocal segment of Oakland viewed

19:02

the police as a brutal force, and two

19:05

neighborhood men inspired by Malcolm

19:07

X and the New Black Power movement, looked

19:09

to change that dynamic. Huey

19:18

P. Newton, a twenty four year old, handsome

19:21

black man with a cult leader gift and criminality

19:23

in his veins. Was not only inspired

19:25

by these ideas, he was also drawn to

19:27

the oppression based communist movements

19:30

of Cheguavera and mal Setong and

19:32

began to read about these revolutions to see what he could

19:34

apply to his efforts. The community

19:36

college student was searching for a way to combat

19:39

what he saw as the brutality of the Oakland

19:41

police force and the oppression they imposed

19:43

on him. That's when

19:45

he got an idea, maybe he could arm

19:48

himself legally. He

19:50

began reading about the legality of carrying

19:52

a loaded firearm in the public and he found

19:54

some statutes.

19:55

California Pinal Colt Section twelve O twenty

19:57

through twelve twenty seven and also commitment

20:00

of a Constitution guarantees the

20:02

citizen right to bear arms on

20:05

public property.

20:06

As long as someone didn't have a felony, they

20:08

could open carry a loaded firearm

20:11

in the Oakland area.

20:13

So Hughey teamed up with his community college

20:16

friend Bobby Seal, both with

20:18

a street game passed to start the Black

20:20

Panther Party, what they framed as a

20:22

self defense organization against police

20:24

brutality. Hue explained

20:27

the reason why they chose a black panther as

20:29

their symbol.

20:29

We use the black Panther

20:32

as our simple because the nature of

20:34

a panther as it doesn't strike

20:36

anyone.

20:37

But when needs as.

20:38

Sail a bond, that deal back up

20:40

first. But if the aggressor continues,

20:43

then he'll strike out.

20:44

The two decided to recruit local street

20:46

brothers as they called them, to join

20:48

them in carrying firearms while shadowing

20:51

Oakland police that were patrolling the city.

20:53

In effect, they wanted to police the

20:55

police.

20:57

Huey Newton and Bobby Seal launched

20:59

the Black Panther Party for Self Defense

21:01

on October sixteenth, nineteen sixty

21:03

six, and it was a pivotal time in the

21:05

Black power movement.

21:06

Now we are engaged in a psychological

21:09

struggle in this country.

21:10

By the time the Black Panther Party was taking

21:12

shape, Stokely Carmichael was quickly

21:15

becoming the godfather of this new militant

21:17

civil rights movement, and he was invited

21:19

to speak in Oakland's backyard UC

21:21

Berkeley.

21:22

And that is whether or not black people will

21:24

have the right to use the words they want to use

21:26

with our white people giving their.

21:28

Sanction to it, and that

21:30

we maintain whether they like.

21:32

It or not we gonna use the word black

21:34

power and let them address themselves to

21:36

that, but that we

21:38

are not going to wait for white people

21:40

to sanction black power.

21:42

We're tired waiting.

21:43

Every time black people move in this country,

21:45

they're forced to defend their position before

21:48

they move.

21:49

The black power movement was honing its

21:51

argument, and it was one that was targeting

21:53

white people generally and the police

21:55

specifically as their primary enemy.

21:57

They viewed law enforcement as an occupying

22:00

force that was the source of their misery.

22:02

Our own personal position

22:04

politically is that we don't think

22:07

the Democratic Party represents the needs

22:09

of black people.

22:10

We know it don't.

22:13

Well.

22:13

The political parties in this country

22:16

do not meet the needs of people on

22:18

a day to day basis. The

22:20

question is, how can you build political

22:23

institutions that will begin to meet the needs

22:25

of Oakland, California. And the needs

22:27

of Oakland, California is not one

22:30

thousand policemen with submachine guns.

22:32

They don't need that.

22:34

They need that least of all.

22:36

Hughey Newton, and Bobby Seal were eager to

22:38

meet with Stokely to get a seal of approval

22:40

for their newly founded organization. When

22:43

they finally met in early nineteen sixty seven,

22:45

the founder of the Black Power movement, was

22:47

impressed by Hughey and gave the Panthers

22:49

his blessing. At the time,

22:52

Stokely Carmichael was the Black

22:54

Power movement. He was not only a

22:56

sought after speaker on college campuses,

22:59

his anti Immamerican rhetoric gained him

23:01

international appeal, and in nineteen

23:03

sixty seven he began touring the world, including

23:06

in Castro's Cuba and in Europe. The

23:08

Black Power movement he was shepherding was

23:11

looking to take a sharp departure from the non

23:13

violent approach of Martin Luther King Junior,

23:15

and he wasn't shy in talking about it.

23:17

I guess we could start with nineteen fifty

23:20

six for our generation. This

23:22

was the beginning of the rise of doctor Martin

23:25

Luther King. Doctor

23:27

King's policy was that nonviolence

23:30

would achieve the gains

23:33

for black people in the United States.

23:35

His major assumption

23:38

was that if you are nonviolent,

23:41

if you suffer, your opponent

23:44

will see your suffering and will

23:47

be moved to change his heart.

23:50

That's very good.

23:52

He only made one fallacious

23:55

assumption. In order

23:57

for non violence to work, your opponent

23:59

must have a conscience.

24:01

The United States has none.

24:07

Throughout his appearances, Stokely's

24:09

positions were becoming more and more aggressive,

24:12

and he began subtly threatening violence

24:14

if his demands weren't met.

24:15

A few words about Martin Luther

24:18

King's non violence movement.

24:20

I think doctor King is a great man,

24:22

full of compassion. He is

24:24

full of mercy, and he's very

24:27

patient. He is a man who could

24:29

accept the uncivilized

24:33

behavior of white Americans, their

24:36

unceasing taunts, and still

24:39

having his heart forgiveness. Unfortunately,

24:42

I am from a younger generation. I

24:44

am not as patient as doctor King. No,

24:46

I am not a merciful as Doctor King.

24:49

Some of Stokely's speeches on college campuses

24:51

led to riots by his black audience, behavior

24:54

he welcomed.

24:56

I have been telling you that the kids and not

24:59

feel proud of the Number one You

25:01

ought to recognize it is not a riot, it.

25:03

Is their rebelgium.

25:08

And number two you ought to be.

25:10

Proud of your black brothers and sisters.

25:12

Of fifth, you call the.

25:13

Humpy cops, touch one of them, and they

25:15

told them you got to suck all of them.

25:23

Stokely's rhetoric about the police was heating

25:25

up, but it was the black Panthers that would

25:27

take these inflammatory words into action.

25:30

The police of Oakland were becoming uneasy

25:33

with the Black Panthers. Huey Newton and

25:35

his band of militant Street Brothers were

25:37

shadowing the Oakland police throughout their patrols.

25:40

If the officers made a traffic stop, the Panthers

25:42

would get out of their cars with loaded firearms

25:45

in clear view, remain at a safe

25:47

distance from the officers so they wouldn't be

25:49

arrested for obstruction, and stood there observing

25:51

the officers. The goal was to

25:54

intimidate the cops, and they'd often

25:56

slowly sweep the muzzle of their loaded rifles

25:58

in emotion that could either be into erbitted as

26:00

just shifting their firearms or pointing

26:02

it at the officers. Oakland

26:05

law enforcement became very uneasy

26:07

with this practice, but the problem was

26:09

that the Panthers weren't breaking any laws.

26:11

It was legal in Oakland to carry a loaded

26:13

firearm in public, so in an attempt

26:16

to stop the Black Panthers, Oakland police

26:18

appealed to local lawmakers for some type

26:20

of legislative relief, and someone

26:23

bit. On April fifth, nineteen sixty

26:25

seven, Oakland Assemblyman Don Mulford

26:27

a Republican, sponsored a California

26:29

state bill that would prohibit the carrying of

26:32

loaded firearms in public. He

26:34

found both Democrats and Republicans to co

26:36

sponsor the bill. When the Black Panthers

26:38

got word that it was making its way through the legislature,

26:41

they concocted a protest that would catapult

26:43

them into the national spotlight. Thirty

26:46

Black Panthers, almost all armed, traveled

26:48

to Sacramento on May second, nineteen sixty

26:51

seven, to protest the gun control legislation

26:53

called the Molford Act, and on their arrival

26:55

to the Capitol, the media immediately

26:57

swarmed them. The co founder of the Anthers,

27:00

Bobby Seal, took the opportunity

27:02

to read a statement, The.

27:03

Black Panther part of the self Defense calls upon

27:06

the American people in general, and the

27:08

Black people in particular, to take full

27:11

note of the racist California legislature

27:13

which is now considering legislation

27:16

aim at keeping the Black people disarmed

27:18

and powerless at the very same time

27:20

that racist police agencies throughout

27:22

the country are intensifying the terror,

27:25

brutality, murder, and repression

27:27

of Black people.

27:28

The Black Panthers then took the bold move

27:30

of attempting to enter the Capitol building

27:33

with their firearms. A police

27:35

officer manning the entrance later recalled

27:37

his interaction with the gun toting vigilantes.

27:40

I was called down from the upper floors of

27:42

the Capitol and went

27:44

to the west entrance of the Capitol,

27:47

and I saw a group of approximately

27:50

four male Negroes, all

27:53

carrying weapons of one short or another, with

27:55

a smaller group behind them. I

27:59

stopped them as they came up the front

28:01

steps of the Capitol,

28:04

and I was handed a pamphlet by

28:07

one of the members of the group, and after

28:11

reading their pamphlet,

28:13

I explained to them that they did have a right

28:16

to bear arms, that as long as they

28:18

behaved themselves, the state police.

28:20

Would protect them.

28:21

And then they entered

28:23

the building.

28:26

So far, so good, but they didn't

28:28

know where to go. Reporters shadowing

28:30

them pointed some of the panthers to the designated

28:33

spectator area.

28:35

I have these flight panthers up here, but

28:37

times understand that far.

28:41

But in the confusion of the moment, some of the

28:43

panthers went the wrong way, and instead

28:45

of going into the spectator area where they

28:47

were allowed, they entered with loaded

28:49

weapons onto the chamber floor. While

28:52

it was in session. An attendant at

28:54

the entrance of the chamber explained what happened.

28:56

I was standing by the gate. Ooh,

29:01

the fellows had come through. If they have a card,

29:03

we let them in. Otherwise we don't.

29:06

But this bunch came just rushing

29:08

through, no stopping

29:10

the tall They knocked me away from their get altogether.

29:13

Knock you down, yes, sir. And what

29:15

happened then, well, they

29:17

went on into the chamber.

29:18

And that's when trouble started. Officers

29:21

on the floor were asked to clear them from the room

29:23

we could pretend.

29:25

Asked me to clear the floor in the rear, and

29:27

I went to the rear with all the

29:29

cameramen were there from the news

29:32

media and told the people to

29:34

leave. They had no right to be in there, and

29:36

they indicated their constitutional

29:38

right was being violated, and

29:41

under our rules

29:43

and regulation to the Assembly, the only

29:45

permitted in the downstairs part of the assembly

29:48

with a guest passed from a member, which

29:50

they did not have.

29:51

I understand they were removed from the chamber.

29:54

Did you do this alone or how many men helped

29:56

you?

29:56

Well, there was a couple of my men and one

29:58

of the state policemen.

30:00

Wait a minute, now, wait a minute, Wait a minute,

30:02

Am I under rest?

30:04

Am?

30:04

I under arrest?

30:07

Am?

30:07

I am? I?

30:08

Take your hands off me.

30:10

If I'm not under arrest, I'm

30:12

telling you to take.

30:13

Your hands off me.

30:17

I'm killing you.

30:19

If

30:21

I'm under ret dolt. Come if I'm not, put

30:24

your hands on me.

30:26

Is this the way the racist government works? Don't let

30:28

a man exercises its constitutional

30:31

rights.

30:31

Although it was legal to enter the building

30:33

and the spectator area with a loaded firearm,

30:36

no one without a guest pass was allowed to enter

30:38

the chamber. As an assemblyman later.

30:40

Explained, as you know, they are

30:42

now being booked under a section

30:44

nine oh five to one of the Government

30:47

Code. The district attorney

30:49

here in Sacramento states that

30:51

they violated the law by entering

30:53

the chambers while the Assembly

30:56

was in sussion.

30:57

The panthers that entered the chamber floor were eventually

31:00

arrested. The founder

31:02

of the vigilante group, Hughey Newton, complained

31:04

to the gathered press.

31:06

The people in this court and the people

31:08

in the legislature have not been

31:10

acting like human beings. They put dropped

31:13

up charges of conspiracy and

31:15

felonies on everyone who went in to exercise

31:17

a constitutional right, and said they

31:19

had no right to bear arms in a public

31:22

place, and the legislature.

31:25

I talked to Morford last night and he said,

31:27

the legislature has made certain rules

31:29

that are superior to the United States

31:31

Constitution and also superior

31:34

to the statutory

31:36

law of California. And that is that they made

31:38

a rule that no one could

31:41

walk on their property with the weapon. I'm

31:43

saying this is a bold contradiction.

31:46

In the end, their protests backfired.

31:48

Both houses were controlled by the Democrats,

31:51

but the bill had bipartisan backing

31:53

as well as some surprising supporters.

31:56

The NRA backed the Mulford Act, and

31:58

perhaps more surprisingly, the gun

32:00

control bill had the full endorsement

32:02

of a conservative icon.

32:04

Well, I think it's a ridiculous way to try

32:06

and solve the problems that have

32:08

to be solved among people of goodwill. And there's

32:10

certainly nothing that can be done in the line of goodwill

32:13

when Americans have guns, with

32:16

even the implied idea that those guns

32:18

might be directed against other Americans.

32:20

But I would think that some of the bills that have been suggested,

32:23

such as not carrying a loaded weapon

32:27

on a city street or in

32:29

town, this might certainly be a good

32:31

when there is absolutely no reason why out

32:33

on the street today civilians

32:36

should be a loaded weapon.

32:38

The bill passed on July twenty sixth, nineteen

32:41

sixty seven, and was signed into law

32:43

days later by Ronald Reagan. Today,

32:46

California gun control can be traced

32:48

back to this moment, and boy did it have

32:50

very strange bedfellows.

32:54

The Black Panthers may have lost the battle to open

32:56

carry in California, but they struck a gold

32:58

mine in national publicity. The

33:00

media loved the story

33:02

Reaverly armed.

33:03

Whether the repons are loaded or not, nobody.

33:05

Seems to know.

33:07

The State Assembly was in the midst of the heated debate

33:09

when the young negroes armed.

33:10

With loaded rifles, shotguns, and pistols,

33:13

marched into the capitol.

33:14

These people feel that the black people have

33:16

been enslaved throughout most of their lives,

33:18

that the white society is responsible

33:20

for this. And then they go on to say a Black Panther

33:23

Party for Self Defense believes that the time

33:25

has come for black people to arm themselves

33:27

against this terror before it is too

33:29

late, and the pending Mulford

33:32

Act brings the hour of doom one step

33:34

arror.

33:34

The media called their protest the invasion

33:37

of the Capitol, and the stunt landed the

33:39

Black Panthers on every newspaper and

33:41

TV channel in the nation. It

33:43

was the national coming out party for the

33:45

black leather jacket wearing militants. The

33:47

black youth wanted to be down with the new urban

33:49

vigilantes. Their

33:53

office was inundated with calls from every

33:56

major city wanting to open a chapter.

33:58

Other metropolitans. Areas were facing some of

34:01

the same issues as Oakland, with industries

34:03

moving giving rise to joblessness, poverty,

34:05

crime, and the heavy policing that followed these

34:07

conditions. The Black power movement found

34:10

a foil for their problems the police,

34:13

and they adopted a derogatory nickname

34:15

for them. They called them pigs,

34:18

and they developed inflammatory chants

34:20

about their enemy

34:22

community

34:26

community. No

34:28

more pigs in our community. Off

34:31

the pigs. In essence,

34:33

the Black Panthers wanted to defund the

34:35

police or kill them. The

34:37

ambiguity in their chant was intentional.

34:40

It was a veiled threat get

34:42

out of our hood or else, and

34:44

as time passed their threats would grow

34:46

even bolder. The

34:52

media loved the narrative and visual of

34:54

leather clad black vigilantes with big

34:57

afros and militant rhetoric, taking

34:59

on a American law enforcement. They

35:02

romanticized members of the Black Power movement

35:04

on magazine covers, and their style

35:06

and Marxist rhetorics sold newspapers overnight.

35:09

The Black Panthers, the most controversial

35:12

within the Black Power movement, became

35:14

a phenomenon and the organization grew

35:16

fast, too fast. The

35:19

incendiary rhetoric of the Black Power Movement

35:21

was a membership windfall for the Panthers.

35:24

Inflammatory statements drove media coverage

35:26

and grew the ranks, but it was a double edged

35:29

sword, with new members adding daily

35:31

and chapters quickly opening up all across

35:33

the nation. There was no betting process,

35:35

and of course, with their militant posturing,

35:37

the group attracted an element that mirrored

35:39

the troubled days of their founders. Criminals

35:42

and hoodlumps peppered the organization like

35:44

gasoline doused on dry firewood. The

35:48

group just needed a match to start a raging

35:50

blaze, and just six months

35:52

after their Stunton Sacramento, the temperature

35:55

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back. So the Black Power movement

36:23

was growing like an uncontrollable wildfire,

36:25

and the temperature was about to get even hotter.

36:30

On October twenty eighth, nineteen sixty seven,

36:32

less than six months after the Daring protest

36:35

at the state Capitol, Hughey Newton

36:37

was pulled over by police. A confrontation

36:39

ensued, and the cop that pulled him over,

36:42

Officer John Frey, was shot and

36:44

killed.

36:45

Newton was in the news again, this time

36:47

for an early morning shootout with an Oakland

36:49

policeman who'd stopped Newton and a friend

36:51

on a traffic check. The policeman died,

36:54

Newton was wounded and charged with murder.

36:56

With most of the Black Panther leadership now

36:58

behind bars, group had to turn

37:00

to the only spokesman they had left, Eldridge

37:03

Kleaver, to issue a statement, but

37:05

Eldridge was also one of the organization's

37:08

most militant personalities, and

37:10

his statement raised the rhetoric to an

37:12

entirely new level.

37:14

The Black Panther Party demands that hue

37:16

P. Newton be set free,

37:18

and we wish to make it very clear that

37:21

if he has not set free, the

37:23

little hope of avoiding open armed

37:25

war in the streets of California,

37:27

I'm sweeping across this nation.

37:29

If the Black Panthers ever had a legitimate

37:32

argument for existence, its response

37:34

to Hughey Newton's arrest put an end

37:36

to their legitimacy. Threatening

37:38

open warfare on the streets of America

37:40

was a bridge too far, but they were just

37:42

getting started.

37:45

If you are to give praise

37:47

to a man who symbolizes

37:50

much of what has been happening over the player of

37:52

seven eight years, and the mere

37:54

facts that he is in prison to day signifies

37:58

that the Black liberations rose

38:01

to a new tide of existence. In nineteen

38:03

sixty seven.

38:05

The Black Panther started a Free Huey campaign

38:07

to rally the troops behind their spiritual leader,

38:10

and on his birthday they held a rally

38:12

inviting some of the leaders of the Black Power movement

38:14

to speak, including the founder of the

38:16

movement, Stokey Carmichael and his collie

38:19

h Rap Brown, and the two upped

38:21

the ante.

38:23

The only politics in this country that's

38:25

relevant to black people today is a politics

38:27

of revolution.

38:28

H Trap Brown spoke first.

38:30

The only thing that's gonna free.

38:32

You is gun powder, black

38:35

powder?

38:38

How many white folks you killed today?

38:44

And ending how

38:46

wingy end in the Swahili saying, it

38:48

says losima to sindha b

38:50

la shaka b la shaka, which means

38:53

we shall conker without a doubt.

38:55

Black power.

38:57

A trap Brown would later be convicted of killing

38:59

a black He began serving

39:01

a life sentence. In two thousand and two, the

39:04

godfather of the Black power movement, Stokely

39:06

Carmichael, took to the microphone. He

39:09

was given the honorary title of Prime

39:11

Minister of the Black Panthers.

39:13

The birth of this nation was conceived

39:15

in the genocide of the Red Men, genocide

39:19

of the Red Men, of

39:21

the Red Man. In

39:24

order for this country to come

39:26

about, the Honky had to completely.

39:29

Exterminate the Red Man.

39:30

And he did it, and

39:33

he did it.

39:34

He did it.

39:38

If you do not think he's capable

39:40

of committing genocide against

39:42

us, check out what he's doing to our

39:44

brothers in Vietnam. Check

39:46

out what he's doing in Vietnam.

39:50

Our slogan will become first

39:53

our people then and only

39:55

then me and you as

39:58

individuals.

39:59

Our people first, Our people

40:01

first.

40:05

Many of our people's mind have been

40:07

whitewashed. If a Negro

40:10

comes up to you and you turn your back on him,

40:12

he's got to run to the Honky. We're gonna

40:14

take time and patience with

40:16

our people because they're hours,

40:19

they're ours, all of.

40:21

The Uncle Tom's.

40:22

We're gonna sit down and we're gonna

40:24

talk. And when they slap, we're gonna

40:26

bow.

40:26

And when they slap, we're gonna bow.

40:28

And we're gonna try to.

40:29

Bring them home.

40:30

And if they don't come home, we're gonna off them.

40:32

That's all.

40:33

We have to recognize who

40:35

our major enemy is. The

40:38

major enemy is not your brother,

40:40

flesh of your fleck and blood of your

40:42

blood. The major enemy is the Honky

40:45

and.

40:45

His institutions of racism.

40:47

That's the major enemy.

40:48

That is the major enemy.

40:51

A lot of people in the Bourgeoise.

40:53

He tell me they don't like Rap.

40:54

Brown when he says I'm gonna burn the country down.

40:57

But every time Rap Brown says.

40:59

I'm gonna burn the country, she doubt they get a poverty

41:01

program.

41:06

The stage was set for a war between

41:08

the Black Power movement and the police,

41:11

and that war was triggered. On April

41:13

fourth, nineteen sixty eight, good

41:16

evening.

41:16

Doctor Martin Luther King, the apostle

41:19

of non violence in the civil rights movement,

41:21

has been shot to death in Memphis, Tennessee.

41:24

Police have issued an all points bulletin

41:26

for a well dressed young white man seen running

41:28

from the scene. Officers also reportedly

41:31

chased and fired on a radio equipped car

41:33

containing two white men. Doctor

41:36

King was standing on the balcony of a second

41:38

floor hotel room tonight when, according

41:41

to a companion, a shot was fired

41:43

from across the street. In the friend's words,

41:46

the bullet exploded in his face. Police,

41:48

who have been keeping a close watch over the Nobel

41:51

Peace Prize winner because of memphis turbulent

41:53

racial situation, were on the scene

41:55

almost immediately. They rushed the thirty

41:57

nine year old Negro leader to a hospital,

42:00

where he died of a bullet wound in the neck.

42:02

In a nationwide television address, President

42:04

Johnson expressed the nation's shock.

42:07

America is shocked and saddened

42:10

by the brutal slang tonight of

42:12

doctor Martin Luther King. I

42:16

ask every citizen to

42:18

reject the blind violence

42:21

that has struck doctor King, who

42:25

lived by non violence.

42:29

Doctor King had returned to Memphis only

42:31

yesterday determined approve that he could

42:33

lead a peaceful mass march and

42:35

support of striking sanitation workers,

42:37

most of whom are Negroes. Doctor King

42:40

had this to say last night about

42:42

the situation in Memphis.

42:45

Well, I don't know what will happen now.

42:48

We've got some difficulties ahead, but

42:52

it really doesn't matter with me now because

42:55

I've been to the mountain talk with.

43:04

Like anybody, I would like to live.

43:08

A long life.

43:09

Longevity has

43:11

its place, but

43:13

I'm not concerned about that now.

43:17

I just want to do God's will.

43:21

And He's allowed me to go up to the

43:23

mountain, and I've

43:25

looked.

43:26

Over and

43:28

I've seen the

43:30

promised Land. I

43:33

may not get there with you,

43:35

but I want you to know the night that

43:38

we as a people will get

43:41

to the Promised Land.

43:48

So I'm happy to night.

43:49

I'm not worried about anything.

43:52

I'm not fearing any man. My

43:54

eyes have seen the glory.

43:57

Of the coming of the low.

44:03

Washington, Chicago, Detroit,

44:05

Boston, New York, These are just a few of

44:07

the cities in which the Negro anguish

44:10

over Doctor King's murder, presumably by

44:12

a white man, expressed herself in violent

44:14

destruction.

44:15

The following day, Stokely Carmichael

44:17

issued a warning to white America and a

44:19

call to arms to the Black Power movement.

44:22

The Light America killed Doctor King last

44:24

night.

44:24

She opened the eyes for ever black man in

44:26

this country. A lot

44:28

America got rid of Marcus Goddy. She

44:32

did it, and she said he was an extremist, he

44:34

was crazy.

44:35

When they got rid of brother Malcolm X, they

44:37

said he was preaching hate. He deserved

44:40

what he got. But when they

44:42

got rid of brother Martin

44:44

Luther King, they had absolutely

44:46

no reason to do so. He was the one

44:48

man in our race who

44:51

was trying.

44:51

To teach our people to have love,

44:53

compassion, and mercy for what white

44:56

people had done.

44:57

A Light America killed Doctor King last night.

45:01

She declared war on us. There

45:04

will be no crying, there will be no funerals.

45:07

The rebellions that have been occurring around the

45:09

cities of this country is.

45:10

Just light stuff to what is about

45:12

to happen. We have to retaliate

45:14

for the death of our leaders. The

45:17

execution of those deaths will not

45:19

be in the courtrooms. They're going

45:21

to be in the streets of the United States

45:23

of America. The Latin America

45:26

killed doctor King last night. She

45:28

made a whole lot easier

45:30

for a whole lot of Black people. Today, They're

45:32

no longer needs to be intellectual

45:35

discussions.

45:36

Black people know that they have to get guns.

45:39

White America will live to cry that

45:41

she killed doctor.

45:42

King last night, but

45:53

Stokely Carmichael was spreading lies to

45:55

inflame Black Americans. White America

45:57

did not get rid of Black nationalists

46:00

Arcus Garvey. He was in fact rejected

46:02

by Black Americans. White America

46:04

did not kill Malcolm X. He was

46:06

killed by black members of the Nation of Islam.

46:09

And White America did not kill Martin

46:11

Luther King Junior, a single deranged

46:14

white man did. Black

46:16

Panther Eldridge Cleaver, one of the most

46:18

militant of the older members, decided

46:20

that the Panthers needed to respond to the death

46:22

of Martin Luther King Junior, where the organization

46:24

would lose its credibility within the Black power

46:27

movement, So he decided to ambush

46:29

and kill Oakland police officers.

46:32

Eldridge tried to persuade some of the elder

46:34

Panther members, but they refused, seeing

46:36

it as a suicide mission, but some

46:38

younger members, including seventeen year

46:40

old Bobby Hutton, were game. Two

46:45

days after King's killing, a car load

46:47

of Panthers discarded their self defense

46:49

moniker and went out looking to murder

46:51

some pigs. A shootout erupted

46:53

between the Black Panthers and Oakland Police.

46:56

The anglice stated that they were flying upon

46:58

during a routine investigations with suspicious

47:00

person, and after a short

47:03

Hutton and Alunchkleva in the basement

47:05

of a nearby house.

47:07

The gunfire exchange started a fire in

47:09

the house, forcing the Panthers to either

47:11

evacuate the building or be burned alive.

47:14

So they made the decision to come out, and what

47:16

happened next would create the model for future

47:18

conflict between the black community and

47:20

the police. After exiting the

47:22

house, Bobby Hutton was shot by police

47:25

and killed. Eldridge and the rest

47:27

exited as well and were taken into custody.

47:30

The Black Panthers immediately claimed

47:32

that Bobby Hutton was executed while giving

47:34

up. The Oakland Police chief at the time

47:37

stated their claims were ridiculous and

47:39

looked to correct the record.

47:41

We find that as the police brought Robert Hutton

47:43

to the front of the house, he broke and ran. We

47:46

find he did not heed commands to

47:48

halt, and that a single volley of

47:50

shots from several officers hit Robert Hutton,

47:53

causing his death. We

47:55

find that the police conduct and the death of

47:58

Robert Hutton was lawful. The

48:01

Black Panther Party poses a real

48:03

threat to the peace and tranquility

48:06

of the city of Oakland. Calling

48:08

the police murders, calling them fascist

48:11

pigs, and demanding the police

48:13

do not protect and

48:16

police the minority community is

48:18

ridiculous. On its face. It

48:20

is both ridiculous and it is irrational.

48:23

The Black Panther Party has no practical,

48:26

implementable programs to my

48:28

knowledge, and it's about time

48:31

that all reasonable persons in the city

48:33

of Oakland, both black and white, recognize

48:36

the Black Panther Party for what it is and

48:38

let them know that the people

48:40

in this city are not going to tolerate their

48:43

unlawful activities and their irrationality.

48:46

This must be done if we are going

48:48

to have peace in this city.

48:50

But the Black Power movement continued with the narrative

48:52

that Bobby Hutton, a young black man

48:54

with all the promise in the world, was gunned

48:56

down like an animal by racist white cops.

48:59

Will surrender hearing with his hands up.

49:01

Bobby Hutton came out with his hands in the

49:03

air. First member walked

49:06

out of the house was gunned down.

49:09

At least that's what they were saying. Publicly.

49:12

Audio of a phone call was released years

49:14

later of Black Panther founder Huey

49:16

Newton blaming Eldridge for the death of

49:18

Bobby Hutton.

49:19

I'm got a car, you run

49:21

off and you hutting kill.

49:24

God, your coward.

49:29

Nevertheless, publicly, the Panthers kept

49:31

to their story.

49:32

On April sixth, members

49:34

of the black family at the party were ambussed

49:36

by the Open Pig and

49:39

when Little Biby was killed, he came

49:41

out the house with his arms

49:43

up. Piece sold the runs in the car

49:46

and they shot him down. Little

49:48

Bobby is only one example. He

49:51

represents all the other black

49:53

men and women who have been murdered

49:56

and killed throughout history for the

49:58

last.

49:59

Poor Bobby

50:09

Hutton was the original hands up, don't

50:11

shoot. A powerful meme

50:13

was born, one that would be used by

50:15

Black Lives Matter almost fifty years

50:18

later. Just like the BLM

50:20

movement did with Michael Brown. The Black Power

50:22

Movement positioned Bobby Hutton as a

50:24

victim of racist cops, shot like an

50:26

animal while surrendering with his hands up,

50:29

and also, like Michael Brown, the Black

50:31

Power Movement martyred Bobby Hutton.

50:33

Services for Bobby Hutton, who was shot and

50:35

killed last Saturday night by Oakland

50:37

police, were held here at the Euphrasian

50:39

Church of God in Christ this morning.

50:42

Shot down like a common animal, he

50:44

died a warrior for black liberation.

50:47

Their messaging was so effective that actor

50:49

Marlon Brando felt compelled to speak

50:51

at a rally for Bobby Hutton immediately

50:54

following the funeral.

50:55

We just came from

50:58

Bobby Hutton's funeral, and

51:02

I'm not gonna stand up here and make a speech because

51:05

white people. You've been listening to white people for

51:08

four hundred years. They said

51:10

they were gonna do something. They haven't done a thing.

51:12

As far as I'm concerned, in re enfranchising

51:15

the black man, it's

51:17

up to the individual to do something. The

51:20

first, the government to

51:22

give the black man a decent

51:25

place to live, a

51:27

decent place to bring his children up in.

51:31

That could have been my son lying there.

51:35

And I'm gonna do as much as I can. I'm

51:38

gonna start right now, right

51:40

to inform white people of

51:43

what they don't know. The

51:46

reverend said, the

51:48

white man can't

51:50

cool it because he's never dug it.

51:55

Right.

51:55

And I'm here to try to dig it cause

51:58

I myself, as a white man who got a long way

52:00

to go and a lot to learn, I

52:03

haven't been in your place. I

52:06

haven't suffered the way you've suffered. I'm

52:09

just beginning to learn the nature of that experience,

52:12

and somehow that has to be translated

52:14

to the white community.

52:16

Now.

52:17

Times running out for everybody.

52:20

Bobby Hutton became an important part of militant

52:23

black American history, a history

52:25

that every black activist today knows.

52:28

His death created the first prototype for

52:30

how to use the killing of a black man at the

52:32

hands of a police officer. Hutton,

52:35

someone that tried to murder random cops,

52:37

was deified by the Black Power movement. A

52:40

monument to him still stands today on public

52:42

property. At the right moment,

52:44

with a shift in American culture, this

52:46

model would be used to great effect. By

52:51

the time of Bobby Hutton's death, the Black

52:53

Power movement was already on the radar

52:55

of FBI Director j Edgar Hoover, who

52:57

saw them as the number one threat within a Maria.

53:00

In nineteen sixty nine, the FBI began

53:03

covertly and systematically targeting its

53:05

power hubs through an initiative that they dubbed

53:07

the counter Intelligence Program or

53:10

co intel pro for short. They

53:12

drove a wedge between Black Power Movement founder

53:14

Stokely Carmichael and the leadership of the

53:16

Black Panthers by seeding distrust

53:18

through anonymous letters. Before

53:21

they were done, the Black Panthers suggested

53:23

Stokely was a CIA agent. As

53:25

a result, Stokely fled America and

53:27

planted roots in the West African country of Guinea.

53:30

The FBI also worked with local law enforcement

53:33

to infiltrate Black Panther branch offices,

53:35

and one by one began jailing or

53:37

killing its leaders.

53:39

A New York grand jury has indicted

53:41

twenty one alleged Black Panthers on

53:43

charges of plotting separate bombings

53:45

in the city tomorrow.

53:46

In Chicago, when Black Panthers ambush

53:49

and killed two cops, the FBI worked

53:51

with local law enforcement to take down

53:53

the leader of the Chicago branch.

53:55

Good afternoon, The twenty year old chairman of the

53:57

Illinois Black Panther Party, Fred Hampton,

54:00

were shot and killed in a pre dawn shootout

54:03

with State's Attorney's police in his West

54:05

Side apartment. Another party member,

54:07

twenty two year old Mark Clark of Peoria,

54:09

also died in the shootout.

54:11

And in Los Angeles, the FBI worked

54:13

with the America's first SWAT unit to

54:15

crush its La branch. A raid

54:17

on its headquarters led to a four hour

54:20

shootout.

54:24

Now the sounds of early morning of this

54:26

particular morning and a black section of Los

54:29

Angeles a shootout at the headquarters

54:31

of the Black Panther Party. Hundreds

54:33

of police moved into the areas, sealing it off,

54:35

ordering the school closed for the day, advising

54:37

businessmen not to open at all. It

54:40

began when officers armed with warrants went to the

54:42

headquarters before dawn to search for weapons.

54:44

They were met with gunfire. Three policemen

54:46

were cut down. All are now listed in

54:49

satisfactory condition. Despite

54:51

repeated bullhorn orders to surrender, the

54:53

eight men and three women inside held out for

54:55

more than four hours, then one

54:57

by one they did surrender, three wounded,

55:00

two men and a woman. The police

55:02

say they've had a series of incidents involving

55:04

the Panthers recently the latest few nights

55:07

ago, when an officer was ordered out of the

55:09

Panther headquarters at gunpoint, and

55:11

so last night, after notifying

55:13

the FBI and Governor Ronald Reagan, the

55:15

officers went out with search warrants looking

55:17

for a machine gun believe to be owned by one of

55:19

the Panthers.

55:31

By nineteen seventy, the Black Panthers

55:33

were largely neutralized, and

55:37

over the next few years they gradually disbanded.

55:40

The Black Power movement really only lasted

55:43

for about four years, but its monumental

55:45

impact was undeniable.

56:00

The guns and put the Pigs on the run,

56:02

some by African American children. At the time,

56:05

the Black Power Movement successfully planted

56:07

a seed within the minds of America's black

56:09

youth. The sources of their misery was

56:11

the white man and the police, and

56:14

one laped officer learned the

56:16

success of that indoctrination firsthand.

56:19

I was a sergeant patrolling

56:21

in the project and there was a

56:24

cutest little girl. So

56:26

I stopped to say hello, and I said,

56:28

hi, honey, how are you doing today? And she looked

56:30

at me said fuck you pig, And

56:33

I thought we have lost it. And we

56:36

have flat lost it.

56:38

This idea has survived through the generations.

56:41

So why did it take Black Lives Matter roughly

56:43

forty years to rise from the ashes

56:45

of the Black Power movement. We'll answer

56:48

that question in the next episode of Red

56:50

Pilled America.

56:51

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