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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 CAPITALIST 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 in
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 fifty million black
people; therefore, we feel that this is a modest demand that we make.
4. WE WANT decent housing, fit for
the 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 bonds 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 inalienable 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 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 suffer, 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 invariably 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. ” — from the U.S. Declaration
of Independence
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