THE BLACK PANTHER - MIRROR OF THE PEOPLE
(Adapted from The Black Panther Paper, by Landon Williams, 1970)
The Black Panther Black Community News Service, is not just
a newspaper in the traditional sense of the word, it's more
than that. The Black Panther Black Community News Service
is a living contemporary history of our people's struggle
for liberation at the grassroots level. It's something to
be studied and grasped, and saved for future generations to
read, learn, and understand.
The Black Panther Black Community News Service tells the
story of our people's struggle in the streets. Its story
unfolds far from the perfumed parlors of the petty
bourgeoisie. It tells the true story of what happens in
the concrete inner-city jungles of Babylon when brothers
and sisters off the block, workers, and members of the
petty bourgeoisie decide to cast aside their petty personal
goals and aspirations, and begins to work unselfishly
together with a common goal in mind.
The Black Panther documents step by step the actions taken
by, and programs instituted by the Black Panther Party in
its unstoppable drive to serve the people; and documents
before the whole world the repression and murders committed
by Amerikkka's corrupt monopoly capital in its dastardly
attempts to stop this move to institute people's power.
The Black Panther teaches the people the strategic means
for resisting the power structure.
The Black Panther Black Community News Service tells how
the correct examples of the Party, led by Huey P. Newton,
spread like wildfire throughout fascist Amerikkka. The
Black Panther documents for all humanity to see how the
wretched slaves of Amerikkka moved fearlessly to establish
ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE. The weekly issues of The Black
Panther also show how people who will be free refuse to be
either cowed or intimidated by death, imprisonment, or
exile, and continue to develop and expand. It is a lesson
in the objective truth, that the spirit of the people is
indeed greater than the man's technology. The best that
humanity possesses will never yield to any oppressor.
Issue by issue, the people's revolutionary struggle for
national salvation unfolds in the pages of The Black
Panther Community News Service, free from the distortion,
bias, and lies of the oppressor controlled mass media. The
People's paper tells how starting out with nothing, the
People's Party, The Black Panther Party, moved with the
people to implement Free Breakfast Programs to feed our
hungry children, Free Health Clinics to care for the sick,
Free Clothing Programs to clothe our needy, Liberation
Schools to educate our youth and Community Centers to keep
the community informed. With each meal served, with each
child clothed, and with each bandage applied, we were
attacked wilder and wilder - Fred Hampton and Mark Clark
murdered in their sleep by Chicago's thin blue line on
December 4, 1969 and the L.A. office attacked by 400 crazed
pigs on December 8, 12969 (VOL. IV, NO. 2).
The Black Panther Black Community News Service is not only
a history of the people's growth, but also the pigs
fanatical repression as they near total destruction. The
Black Panther documents and indicts Amerikkka for the
fascist police state that it is, attempting to crush all
dissent by force.
The Black Panther Community News Service is a living
breathing history that continues each and every day. It is
not an ordinary newspaper. It is the flesh and blood, the
sweat, and tears of our people. The Black Panther Black
Community News Service is truly a mirror of the spirit of
the people.
(Adapted from The Black Panther Paper, by Landon Williams, 1970)
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