The Democratic Party Should Embrace the 1966 Black Panther Party’s 10 Point Program

When in the course of human events, it become 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 separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, and that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable 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 new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its power in such a 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 shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accused. 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, and their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards of their future security.

I’d have a few issues concerning letting everyone Black out of jail – logically a significant percentage rightfully belong there, however I couldn’t honestly dispute the contention most of the damned likely didn’t get a “fair and impartial” by their peers. How could you, in a nation where the vast majority of white people – both male and female wholeheartedly believe Black people were better-off being slaves, due to our lack of character, intelligence and back-bone . . . Now you tell me how we could ever be judged, evaluated, or weighed, measured and pounded in an “fair and impartial” manner?

Sorry, but if you’re a doctor, banker, school principal or police officer and you support Lord Trump . . . you can’t evaluated and dissect black people, or any other Americans of color and not have your primitive prejudices and stone-age bias play a role.

There’s not much you can argue with, is it?

So why can’t the Democratic Party adopt, embrace endorse and champion the Panther’s 10 points?

Now granted I know this is a quasi-delusional and far-fetched “wet” dream on my part, nonetheless isn’t it amazing how relevant their observations and desires remain half a century later? After so many good, decent White liberal presidents and their initiatives to change America. And here we are “post” Obama, and white folks have lost their cotton pickin’ minds, gone loco, their hair was on fire for 8 years of Obama.

Recall, the sky was falling because black folks were living in their White House.

If we can’t get the “good and decent” white folks in this country to accept and champion these ten points, then we, as unwanted and unloved black Americans, individually and collectively, we should seriously consider an “Exit Strategy” before it’s too late. The rejection of these “common sense” wants and beliefs underscores white America’s inherent inability to expand the “high n’ mighty” concept of “;life, liberty n’ the pursuit of happiness” to encompass and apply-to all Americans, even non-white people. Trump’s stormtroopers are content and determined to “take back their country” and “make it white again.”

Panama, Costa Rica, Canad�, Argentina, Chile, the Caribbean Isles, Bolivia . . . I’m sorry, despite being born into the blue-vein, redbone house-negro fraternity . . I think like a “field nigger:” “Run . . . yeah let’s go,” forget “where,” anywhere is better than the downward direction this nation is being steered towards – a racial/civil war, and apparently a war with North Korea, Iran . . if not half the globe. Honestly it really looks like Trump and the forces which back him are officially “abandoning” America. This land was, to the American aristocrats and today’s Investor class never nothing more than the Hudson Bay Company expanded from sea to shining sea – just a huge multifaceted plantation/factory.

Sorry, I know the sharp n’ blunt interpretation of our peculiar predicament is more complicated than a segment of a Empire or Power . . . but it’s worthy of our undivided attention.

Once more, all our conversations about the “state of” education, the healthcare system, the penal system are understandable and predictable, yet at this critical moment in Black American history our preoccupation with secondary issues at this moment in time is the equivalent of “rearranging” the deck chairs on the RMS Titanic, or cleaning the windows on NASA’s ill-fated Space Shuttle Challenger . . . .

We’ve got bigger problems on our hands than did Cookie kill Pukie, and it demands a blueprint with goals and objectives. I contend such a plan already exist – the Black Panther’s 1966 Ten Point Program.

Power to the people, all power to the people!!!