Bobby Seale. “We believe that Black people should not be forced to fight in the military servi

Bobby Seale. “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." …“If I say I want peace, then you say, "You should put down your gun.” But hasn’t it occurred to you by now after 400 years of being brutalized and murdered and lynched and maimed by guns and force on the part of racists and the racist power structure in this country; it’s damn near time we picked up the gun to try to begin to get some peace, to defend ourselves and our community from racist attacks by the pigs, to defend ourselves against racist attacks by… Minuteman or Ku Klux Klansman or what have you?Hasn’t it occurred to you that it’s damn near time we organize ourselves in some fashion to have some ability to begin to make racists and the racist power structure act in a desired manner as we define the functional definition of what power is? The ability to define the situation and we have been defining it, now we must organize our black communities to also make the power structure of racism act in a desired manner.And what is that desired manner? Politics, what is politics? What is politics? You think politics start with a seat in the assembly, no it doesn’t. It’s related to it but it doesn’t start there. Politics starts with a hungry stomach. Politics starts with a pig crushing us across our skull and murdering our people. Politics starts with the fact that we get a rotten education and we get brainwashed and fooled in a trick notion and trick knowledge and everything else that goes on in terms of the exploitation that goes down.Politics starts with the fact that you want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings, now this is where politics starts…” -- source link

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