for point #8 in the 10 point program. It reads:

#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.

I respect much of what the Panthers were trying to accomplish, and I realize that they were trying to offset the unfairness and lack of representation that Black people received in the legal system. But letting EVERY brother in prison go free would have been a TERRIBLE mistake, because truth be told, a lot of those brothers DESERVED to be locked up.

-Sold drugs in the community? Stay in jail!
-Shot and killed a brother over a dice game? Stay in jail!
-Pimping our women? Stay in jail!
-Child-molester? Put your behind UNDER the jail!

#8 was a poorly thought-out, knee-jerk reaction to the problem of legal injustice for Black people. It would have been horribly detrimental if parasites like this were unleashed back on our communities in 1966.

What do you cats think?

PEACE