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 white man 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 was promised 100 years ago as
restitution for slave labor and mass murder of black people. We will accept the
payment as 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 twenty million black people; therefore, we feel
that this is a modest demand that we make.
4. We want decent housing, fit for 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 a 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 bands 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 unalienable 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 to 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
supper, 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 invariable 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.