Bobby Seale Speaking at University of California, Berkeley Rally (1968)

Speaking from the Black Panthers, the chairman and second in command to Uey Newton, Bobby Seale. The seven indicted, uh, any warrant, any draft administrators, are downtown and 12th and Fallon and the same jail with our Minister of Defense, Uey P. Newton. Now we are going to appeal the same grant because of the same grand jury that indicted Huey was in a matter of 22 minutes without even covering the evidence, the so-called evidence is supposed to be placed against Huey, the ICE mad dog grand jury that we were referring to with appealing to you to support the fact that we don't need ICE dog mad dog jurors, we're appealing to you to support

the fact that we don't need racist policemen who shot Huey and we don't need racist policemen who brutalized the heads of you. We're in fact putting this position that we've taken against the racist policemen who brutalized that's in our black and our communities and bringing it to the level where it is. That when Huey P. Newton said there are only three kinds of power, a level where a group of people control the economic situation or a level of power where a group of people have an ownership of land, that the third level of power commonly referred to as military power and we referred to as self-defense power with the gun is coming to reality. We're saying that black people who protested police brutality and many of you thought we were jiving, we thought we didn't

know what we were talking about because many black people on the community probably couldn't answer your questions articulately that you are experiencing the same thing that when you go down in front of the antigraphed and when you go over and you demonstrate against Dean Russ that those peak cops will come down and brutalize your heads just like they're brutalized the heads of black people in the black communities. We're saying now that you can draw a direct relationship that's for real and that's not abstract anymore that you don't have to abstract what police brutality is like when a club is there to crush your skull that you don't have to abstract what both police brutality is like when there's a vicious service revolver there to tear your flesh that you can see in fact that the real power of the power of structure and maintaining its racist regime is manifested in its occupying troops is manifested in its police department with guns and force that in fact black people the black

time for part of a self-defense are educating black people to the position continually that we were used arms to defend ourselves that in fact brother Huey P. Newton who's now being confined downtown changed in the same jail with the same any demonstrators any draft demonstrators then in fact this draw something very significant that we're gonna have to try and work together on now some people are probably wondering how in the hell is it that what they will call the most militant group in the country can come along and tell white people that you and I are gonna go down to the courthouse today at two o'clock at 12th and fallin in Oak at Oak 12th and fallin in Oakland and we're going to march around the courthouse and demonstrate the fact that we want Huey

P. Newton set free and that you want the any draft demonstrators also set free the mass the masses of people who stand against the power structure of