"I believe in the Black Panther Party; we failed because we took God out. I beg you not to do the same thing. If you take God out, you’re not going anywhere except to jail. You’re going to be killed, or you’re going to stay angry."
The following is a list of our 'fallen champions' who lost their lives in the service of our People/Nation during this month.
May we honor them, in 'the cause of Truth and Justice', by paying the highest tribute we can give by bringing the struggle for which they sacrificed their lives to a satisfactory conclusion.
And may we do so as an act or adoration, devotion, Love, obedience, reverence, service, submission, surrender to, and worship of, our Creator... and as an exercise of Love for; and service to, the People.
Bobby James Hutton. Affectionately known as Lil’ Bobby Hutton, born April 25, 1950. He was the #rst person to join the Black Panther Party. He joined when he was sixteen when the Party was founded in 1966. He served as finance coordinator. He was one of the Panthers arrested on May 2, 1967, at the Sacramento legislature protest where Bobby Seale read the Party’s position on self-defense for oppressed people. Bobby was murdered two days after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., by dozens of Oakland police. He was unarmed, but with utmost courage, sacrificed his life so others might live. assassinated April 6, 1968.
Sam Napier. Circulation manager, BPP. Lived and breathed the Black Panther newspaper. He would constantly intone, “Circulate to educate to liberate.” Sam was another casualty of the internal split of the BPP. Fanon talked of the contradictions in Wretched of the Earth when he referred to colonial war and mental disorders. Oftentimes we lose sight of who our real enemies are and give vent to our emotional responses. In the deaths of Robert Webb and Sam Napier, the people’s liberation struggle lost two of its staunchest supporters. Psychologically, COINTELPRO scored a bull’s eye. Sam died April 17, 1971.
The Real Martin Luther King
The fourth of this month will mark the day Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated. Those responsible for his murder were obviously driven by political and racial motivations.
At various periods of his life, he found himself behind bars; locked-up for standing-up for what he perceived to be consistent with the principles of truth, love, justice and peace.
With this month's commentary, we give honor and recognition to him for the struggle he waged on behalf of all oppressed people. A struggle where he had the vision to transform from a 'civil-rights' arena to one of 'human-rights'. In the last year of his life, Dr. King had begun to express views that had certainly left the u.s. establishment unsettled as he stepped beyond the pale of civil rights and began calling for an end to the excesses and injustices the u.s. the government was perpetrating all over the globe. It was at this stage of his mission that he started demanding an end to American capitalism, imperialism and racism.
During a staff meeting held in 5-1967 on St. Helena Island off the coast of South Carolina, he gave an address “To Chart Our Course for the Future” where he brought to the attention of his colleagues that it was time to transition from a reform movement to a revolutionary movement… “It is necessary for us to realize that we have moved from the era of civil rights to the era of human rights. For the last 12 years we have been in a reform movement… [but] after Selma and the voting rights bill, we moved into a new era. Which must be an era of revolution. We must see the great distinction between a reform movement and a revolutionary movement. We are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society.”
In doing so, he picked-up the call that had been made by his predecessor in martyrdom, El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz/Malcom X; who had made clear intentions to levy charges against the u.s. government for committing human-rights violations against American Born people of Afrikan descent. Unable to bribe or intimidate him; and unsure of what direction the good doctor was heading; those at the helm of the u.s. government did what they concluded to be in their best interest. So, he was felled by an assassin’s bullet.
Over the years, many have raised the question as to what would El-Hajj Malik or Dr. King be doing if they were alive today? Truth of the matter, both were ‘Champions of the oppressed’. They were men committed and devoted to what they understood to be ‘The Cause of Truth’. They were uncompromising and non-capitulating in their convictions and missions. Hence, by virtue of their characters, they would never have conceded defeat and become part and parcel of the vicious, wicked system they sacrificed their lives to bring to an end! To have done so would have amounted to the ultimate betrayal to GOD, their people and themselves: a traitorous, treacherous act that their integrity and character would never have allowed either of them to commit!
It is a ‘crying-shame’ that the overwhelming majority - 95+% - of those who think and posture themselves as innovative, intelligent activists, trend-setters, spokespersons and ‘wanna-be’ leaders can’t envision El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz or Dr. Martin Luther King in a profile that doesn’t conform to the paradigm of anglo-american-european cultural, ideological, political and social behavioral domination. They always comment on either or both of them fitting-in with the current dominant social-order in a manner reflecting acquiescence, capitulation, conformity and surrender. They always see them as lawyers, judges, elected public officials [politicians] or world religious leaders. Such speculations are ludicrous, to say the least and only serve as a means of concealing their own inadequacies and docile acquiescence in the face of the continued state of injustice, oppression and tyranny under which we suffer.
They never - not one of them ever - envisions El-Hajj Malik or Dr. King as being leaders of their own people; at the helm of an independent nation with its own set of thriving economic, governmental, industrial, political and social systems. For whatever reason, they just can’t get out of a plantation, house-negro, integrationist ‘mind-set’. That is one of the major impediments in our inability to get ourselves out of the present situation of subjugation under the control, dominance, governorship and rule of the miscreants under whose authority we are subsisting.
When will it end? Only when we decide it’s time to stand-up and fight like men!
Monthly Political Prisoner/P.O.W. RosterPOLITICAL PRISONER WHOSE BIRTHDAY IS THIS MONTHMUMIA ABU-JAMAL AM-8335SCI Mahanoy
301 Morea Rd.
Frackville, PA 17932April 24, 1954
Peace thru Revolutionary Love & Revolutionary Action!If you are able, take time to send him a greeting.
Free All Political Prisoners!
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From: AbdudDharr Abdullah
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