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My Father Was A Master Carpenter And Builder. Architectural Design, Engineering Design, Mechanical Design, Three-dimensional Views, That Was My Shtick, My Forte.

I Have Quite A Few Good Friends In Philadelphia Who Were Police Officers.

A People Who Have Suffered So Much For So Long At Hands Of A Racist Society Must Draw The Line Somewhere.... 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.

When We Use The Term Pig, For Example, We Are Referring To The People Who Systematically Violate The Peoples' Constitutional Rights - Whether They Be Monopoly Capitalists Or Police. The Term Is Now Being Adopted By Radicals, Hippies, And Minority Peoples. Even The Workers, When The Pigs Supported Strike-breakers Like They Did As Union Oil Where 100 Local Police Came In A Cracked Strikers' Heads, Began To Call Them By Their True Name.

Electoral Politics Was Always An Objective Of The Black Panther Party, So Barack Obama Is A Part Of What We Dreamed And Struggled And Died For.