HIS271Y1 Lecture Notes - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, American Indian Movement, Stokely Carmichael
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The black panther party (its ten point program follows at end of outline) We want power to determine the destiny of our black community. We believe that black people will not be free until we are able to determine our destiny. Black panther ten-point platform: we want full employment for our people. We believe that the federal government is responsible and obligated to give every man employment or a guaranteed income. We believe that this racist government has robbed us, and now we are demanding the overdue debt of forty acres and two mules. Forty acres and two mules were promised 100 years ago as restitution for slave labor and mass murder of black people. We will accept the payment in currency which will be distributed to our many communities. Jews in israel for the genocide of the jewish people.
