‘ : , XN } oF a We }
...‘I point these things out, brothers and
sisters, so that you and I will know the
tmportance in 1965 of being in complete
unity with each other and not letting the
man maneuver us into fighting one another.
There’s a situation where I have been man-
euvered right now, between me and the Black
Muslim Movement, something that I really
regret, because I don’t think that anything
is more destructive than two groups of
Black people fighting each other. But some-
thing that can’t be avoided because it goes
deep down beneath the surface and these
things will come up in the very near future.
“I might say this before I sit down, if
you recall, before I left the Black Muslim
Movement, I stated clearly that it wasn’t
my intention to even continue to be aware
that they even existed. But that I was going
to spend my time working in the non-Muslim
community. But they were fearful that if
they didn’t do something, that perhaps many
of those who were in the mosque would
leave it and follow a different direction.
So they had to start doing a take-off on
me, plus they had to try and silence me
because of what they knew that I know.
And I should think that they should know
me well enough to know that they cer-
tainly can’t frighten me. But when it does
come to light--but there are some things
involving the Black Muslim Movement
which when they come to light, you will

   

  

where those of us in the Black Muslim Move-
ment were concerned, all of us believed
L00% in the divinity of Elijah Muhammed.
We believed in him, we actually believed
that God had taught him, right here in
Detroit, by the way, that God had taught
him and all of that. And I always thought
that he
shocked that he himself didn’t believe at,
and when that shock reached me then I
began to look everywhere else and try to ¥
get a_ better understanding of the things
that confront all of us so that we can get
together here some kind of way to off-
S¢i....

wee L say again that I’m not a racist. I
don’t believe in any form of segregation
or anything like that. I’m for the brother-

want it, As long as we practice brotherhood

to practice brotherhood with us, we practice

love somebody who doesn’t love us. Thank
you.’?

(Speech taken from the album, ‘‘The Last
Message’’.)

 

  
   

be shocked.
“The thing that you have to understand,

  
        
      
     
     
       
       
  

believed in himself, and I was

   
       
     
     
   
   
   
   
    
    
   
       
  

hood of everybody, but I don’t believe in
enforcing brotherhood among people who don’t

  
     
        

among ourselves and _ then others who want

 
 
      
 

tt with them also, we’re for that. But I don’t.
think that we should run around trying to

  
   
       
     
    
 

Malcolm X

 
   
   

 
 

  

 

   

*“THE HEIRS OF MALCOLM X HAVE
PICKED UP THE! GUN AND ARE MOVING
FOR THEIR TOTAL FREEDOM’’

HUEY P, NEWTON
MINISTER OF DEFENSE
BLACK PANTHER PARTY

 

 

 

 

THE BLACK MAN
CAN’T AFFORD TO
TAKE A CHANCE, HE
CAN’f AFFORD TO
PUT THINGS OFF, HE] |HIM.
MUST STOP |THE
WHOLE SHOW NOW

STRAIGHT, BECAUSE
IF HE DOES NOT DO
IT NOW, IF HE FAILS
TO GRASP SECURELY

 

 

THE REINS OF THIS
HISTORIC OPPORTU-
ITY, THERE MAY BE
O TOMORROW FOR

ELDRIDGE CLEAVER
AND GETHIS BUSINESS} [Min, of Information,

This is the day of racial activity, when each and
every group of this great human family must exercise
its own initiative and influence in its own protection,
therefore, Negroes should be more determined today
than they ever have been, because the mighty forces
of the world are operating against non-organized
groups of peoples, who are not ambitious enough to

 

Black Panther Party | protect their own interests.

Marcus Garvey

 

 

Soft - nosed shells banned by international law

WASHINGTON, °D.c. — hasa copper-jacketed base and
Hundreds of American police. a soft, hollowed ‘nose. The
departments and some federal impact of: the bullet causes an
agencies have quietly explosive effect in the victim’s
approved the stocking and use body, ripping large holes in the:
of dum-dum bullets, a survey flesh.
of law enforcement agencies The use of the dum-dum has
shows. These high-velocity 38- been classified as a war crime.
caliber hollow-point bullets by a’ number of international
have been outlawed for use in conventions, including the
international warfare for more Hague Declaration of 1907
than half a century. signed by the United. States.

LEE JURRAS, president of Police point out, however, that
the Super-Vel Cartridge international agreements do
Corporation of Shelbyville, not apply inside the United
Ind., a firm which States. There are no domestic
manufactures the bullets, laws gover ning police -aim-
estimated in an interview that munition.
49° per cent of all Jaw Lt Joseph Mackie of the
enforcement agencies in the King County sheriff’s
country are stocking dum-| department responded to the
dums. Jurras added that since survey by including his official
1967)" thers: Treasury report ona range test of hollow-
Department, Secret Service, point bullets. —

Bureau of Narcotics, andthe “There i ”
White House Police, have been the report sail one Sa
purchasing hollow -pointamm-are not illegal. When we
munition. ; consider we are carrying a
This is a touchy subject,” shotgun capable of tearing off
explained Super-Vel’s Leea limb or disembowelling a
Jurras, who developed the Person with one shot, it seems
special bullet. “A lot of rather ridiculous’ to have
minority groups might object. qualms. about the fact that
We like to keep the discussion there is a hole in the end of
within law enforcement pistol bullet.”’ '
: In responding to the survey,
Police in Miami, Kansas police officers report that the
City, Tucson, St. Louis anddum-dum is performing as
Nashville, and sheriff’sintended in the field... Capt.

departments in Los AngelesRussell T. Hiatt -of Anderson, f wound inflicted by the old
County (Seattle), among many Ind., where hollow points have type bullet.

others, have acknowledgebeen used since 1963, ‘tells of
using dum-dum bullets.

The bullet takes its name: !.:2e others in nearby flesh. ..Entrance wounds from
from the old British Dum-Dumi ~ipmunities in which ‘the the new bullets are frequently
Arsenal in Calcutta, India. It:<su!: waé fatai te the criminal large and ragged, causing deep

gaping holes in the flesh. As

almost instantly, and in, all the new bullet passes through
Cases just one shot was fired.’’ the body it not only perforates
Hiatt writes of one occasion organs but it also tears them.
where he himself shot a fleeing “Recovery time is definitely
criminal with a Super-Vellengthened with the
hollow point, hitting him in the MUShrooming type. The
groin. ‘The shot penetrated COMplication rate is also
the main artery in the groin increased, and. on occasion we ©
and exited. The subject have had to perform skin
continued running for about 8fafts to close up -the entry
two minutes and fell over Site,” the doctor said.
dead. He bled to death.’’

THE JAIL ward at the
County General Hospital in Los
Angeles has one of the
country’s heaviest traffics in
dum-dum victims. Although
the Los Angeles Police

Department range-tested the

igh-velocity hollow point ‘and

ecided against adpoting it, the
bullet has been used by the Los
Angeles Sheriff's Department
and by police in Long Beach,
Pasadena, Santa Monica,
Beverly Hills and Culver City
among others.

Dr. Margaret M. McCarron,
assistant medical director of
Los Angeles County General

Police to use dum-dum_ bullets in the ghetto

 

and head of the jail ward said Pe rsp ec t iwe O n

that, ‘In my experience, the
type of wounds caused by these

bullets i ini I
sec ate’: Black history

radical change from ‘one type We have lost something, today would be able to speak

brothers, wandering in strange and write as this unschooled ex-
lands. We have lost our ideals. slave did!

“THE HIGH velocity hollow We have come to a generation So, the schools and colleges

thoxe cases in Anderson and point bullet Shatters the which seeks advance without of that day had little or nothing
' :dec!s-—cliscovery without stars. to do with the creation of that
{ft carat be done. Certain great basic Afro-American Culture.
fandinarks and guiding facts May we not. then pause today,

 

 

Rogers’ trip

to Africa

By Ogun Kakanfo

MONROVIA, Liberia — Just
before he returned from his
trip to Africa, Secy. of State
Willlam Rogers presumed to
announce to the world that the
people and governments of
Africa can and should be
isolated from the Cold War.

THIS SHOULD be a matter
of choice for the Africar
people — the peasants and
laborers who make up 98 per
cent of the population. But
Rogers is a Big Banker, an
Almighty White man type who
is used to getting his way.

His trip was designed to
warn African states not to
socialize their economies as
the Soviet Union, Cuba, North
Viet Nam, China North Korea
and other countries have. Even
though these countries are now
gaining economically and
militarily on Western nations
which controlled them totally
only ten to fifty years ago,
Rogers is telling Africans that
the road to follow is the South
American road, a road that
allows the U.S. to own the
businesses and resources along
the roadside.

The major U.S. puppets,
Haile Selassie, Joseph Mobutu
of the Congo and William
Tubman of Liberia all asked
the U.S. for more military aid
so that they can continue to
oppress their brothers and
sisters, who now realize that
the resources, properly
handled, of theirs and other
African states can bring health

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(Free Press of Africa)

rust stand eternally before on this Forty-Fifth aniversary
‘WE. Burghardt Du Bois, of National Afro - American

1930 i History Week, and ask
i oe ourselves in dire seriousness,

By Andrew G. Paschal How in their day did these
Afro - American Culture. — Black men and women, these
its history, literature, music slaves and ex- slaves, with

dictatorships which uniformlyand arts — is a product of that scant* opportunity. and no

and security to modern Africa. starve and kill the Black Great Experience. The African schooling, could write history
ROGERS SAID he was most peoples of the Americas. But Slave Trade and Chatteland literature — create a
impressed by Kenneth Kaunda there is little political or Slavery in the new world. And culture, without the aid of
of Zambia. Naive Pan- economic independence there. this our Culture, the product of schools and colleges; while we
Africanists think of Kaunda’s Unity with independence — our Great Experience, was today, with school and college
Zambian government as.independence to align and created. in - ae Saupe a ne ee
ee s ‘ ‘ohytrade with whomever theby unschooled slave an comparatively i
ee. why RoweraPeople see asa friend — this is freedmen — mind you, I did opportunity, Me a
aac oe mpreesed pyWhat Rogers and the African not say uneducated — for unable to read, ae u ae
Kaunda than any other African {/unkies do not want. There is Phillis. Wheatley, Benjamin become aware of the culture

official. 2

Of course both Kaunda an re
Rogers were active supporters
of ‘‘Biafra’”’ and could weep on
each other’s shoulders about
the loss of their hopes to split
Nigeria.

The rising influence of the
Soviet Union also distresses
the pair, possibly because of
the Soviet’s no-nonsense
approach to. developing a
country — an approach which
has upset privileged tribal
traditionalists and super- -
christians but, which has
brought’ brasgs-tacks
improvements’ in Nigeria,
Congo (Brazzaville), the
Sudan, Cuba and the other
countries already mentioned.

The U.S. fears African
independence more than it
fears African unity. Rogers
indicated that he knew the
difference between these two
conditions for he said he was
all for African unity. After all,
there is a good measure of
Latin American unity in the
Organization of American
States and in the common
policies of the Latin American

 

no Big Dollar in it for them. Banneker, Paul Cuffe, William which these unschooled,

Wells Brown, David Walker, disadvantaged Black people of
Henry Highland Garnet, the Past have created?
Frederick Douglass, George WHY IS this so? ;
Washington Williams and _ The secret of knowledge is
countless others, thoughthat the Library, not the
unschooled, were never -school, is the depository of
theless, educated — liberally knowledge. Our foreparents
educated. understood this secret; we,
For instance, George today, have misunderstood it.
Washington Williams, who These parents of that day
wrote the first history of Afro - knew that their sons and
America, was not college qaughters were handicapped,
trained and perhaps never and that a handicapped runner,
attended a school: yet for ten had to run harder and faster to
vears. he read over 12,000win. But today’s parents
volumes in the libraries to admonish their sons and their
write his memorable history of gaughters to do as the white
Afro - Americain two great students do. to prove their
volumes. “‘equality.”’ and to show their
When Fredrick Douglassappreciation to be
escaped from slavery at age ‘integrated’? and how welt
21, he did not then know how to «‘intergration’’ work.
read and write: although he, CAN WE imagine, can we
never attended a school a day i sudlize. A De Bo a a
in his life; oe today we ™MA@Y Woodson, accepting a position
select any of our PhDs and not vith a large corporation
a single one will equal, much imply to be the “First’’ to
less surpass Douglass. in thayqid such a position, or for the
ability to write and speak _targe salary such a position
not one of our ‘‘scholars” Of ald pay?