THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY
TEN POINT PLATFORM & PROGRAM




WHAT WE WANT
WHAT WE BELIEVE




1. WE WANT freedom. 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.


2. 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
if the white American businessmen will not give full employment, then
the means of production should be taken from the businessmen and placed
in the community so that the people of the community can organize and
employ all of its people and give a high standard of living.


3. WE WANT an end to the robbery by the CAPITALIST of our Black Community.

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. The Germans are now aiding the Jews in Israel for the
genocide of the Jewish people. The Germans murdered six million Jews. The
American racist has taken part in the slaughter of over fifty million black
people; therefore, we feel that this is a modest demand that we make.


4. WE WANT decent housing, fit for the shelter of human beings.

WE BELIEVE that if the white landlords will not give decent housing to our black
community, then the housing and the land should be made into cooperatives so that
our community, with government aid, can build and make decent housing for its people.


5. WE WANT education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent
American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role
in the present-day society.

WE BELIEVE in an educational system that will give to our people knowledge of self.
If a man does not have knowledge of himself and his position in society and the world,
then he has little chance to relate to anything else.


6. WE WANT all black men to be exempt from military service.

WE BELIEVE that Black people should not be forced to fight in the military service to
defend a racist government that does not protect us. We will not fight and kill other
people of color in the world who, like black people, are being victimized by the white
racist government of America. We will protect ourselves from the force and violence of
the racist police and the racist military, by whatever means necessary.


7. WE WANT an immediate end to POLICE BRUTALITY and MURDER of black people.

WE BELIEVE we can end police brutality in our black community by organizing black
self-defense groups that are dedicated to defending our black community from racist
police oppression and brutality. The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the
United States gives a right to bear arms. We therefore believe that all black people
should arm themselves for self- defense.


8. WE WANT freedom for all black men held in federal, state, county and city prisons
and jails.

WE BELIEVE that all black people should be released from the many jails and prisons
because they have not received a fair and impartial trial.


9. WE WANT all black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by a jury of
their peer group or people from their black communities, as defined by the Constitution
of the United States.

WE BELIEVE that the courts should follow the United States Constitution so that black
people will receive fair trials. The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution gives a
man a right to be tried by his peer group. A peer is a person from a similar economic,
social, religious, geographical, environmental, historical and racial background. To
do this the court will be forced to select a jury from the black community from which
the black defendant came. We have been, and are being tried by all-white juries that
have no understanding of the "average reasoning man" of the black community.


10. WE WANT land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace. And as our
major political objective, a United Nations supervised plebiscite to be held throughout
the black colony in which only black colonial subjects will be allowed to participate,
for the purpose of determining the will of black people as to their national destiny.

WHEN, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve
the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the
powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and
nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that
they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

WE HOLD these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. **That, to secure these rights, governments are
instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that,
whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of
the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its
foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall
seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. ** Prudence, indeed, will dictate
that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes;
and, accordingly, all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer,
while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which
they are accustomed. **But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing
invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism,
it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new
guards for their future security.



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