History: The Storming of State Capital: Black Panthers To Governor Ronald Reagan

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"We don't hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!"

You know what's funny. California was an open carry state until Ronald Reagan had a bill drawn up to revoke gun rights. The Panthers descended on the California state capital of Sacramento to protest this law. They came armed and gave up their weapons once they entered the capital. The second amendment right of self defense to protect themselves from excessive police violence. They followed the police around in their communities to make sure they're not abusing their power. Thank Ronald Reagan for introducing gun control in California lol!

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The formation of the Black Panther for protection against hate, violence and oppression because of skin color. They also were the originators of the school breakfast program.

Dr. Martin Luther King Famous Quote:

"If we can spend $35 billion dollars a year to fight an ill-considered war in Vietnam. Our nation can spend billions of dollars on Gods' Children to stand on their own two feet!"

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Black Panther Leader Press Speech Sacramento: Executive Mandate No. 1

https://www.marxists.org/archive/newton/1967/05/02.htm

The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense calls upon the American people in general and the Black people in particular to take careful note of the racist California Legislature, which is now considering legislation aimed at keeping the Black people disarmed and powerless at the very same time that racist police agencies throughout the country are intensifying the terror, brutality, murder and repression of Black people.

At the same time that the American government is waging a racist war of genocide in Vietnam, the concentration camps in which Japanese Americans were interned during World War II are being renovated and expanded. Since America has historically reserved the most barbaric treatment for nonwhite people, we are forced to conclude that these concentration camps are being prepared for Black people, who are determined to gain their freedom by any means necessary. The enslavement of Black people from the very beginning of this country, the genocide practiced on the American Indians and the confining of the survivors on reservations, the savage lynching of thousands of Black men and women, the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and now the cowardly massacre in Vietnam, all testify to the fact that towards people of color the racist power structure of America has but one policy: repression, genocide, terror and the big stick.

Black people have begged, prayed, petitioned, demonstrated and everything else to get the racist power structure of America to right the wrongs which have historically been perpetrated against Black people. All of these efforts have been answered by more repression, deceit, and hypocrisy. As the aggression of the racist American government escalates in Vietnam, the police agencies of America escalates the repression of Black people throughout the ghettos of America. Vicious police dogs, cattle prods and increased patrols have become familiar sights in Black communities. City Hall turns a deaf ear to the pleas of Black people for relief from this increasing terror.

The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense believes that the time has come for Black people to arm themselves against this terror before it is too late. The pending Mulford Act brings the hour of doom one step nearer. A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society, must draw the line somewhere. We believe that the Black communities of America must rise up as one man to halt the progression of a trend that leads inevitably to their total destruction.