show how islamic community issues my name his name sharif we have brother julius today and we're going to be talking about some of the symbolism of the black panther and where it came from and also about a lot about the black panther party this is part two of a program and i just want to do a quick review and then me and brother jewis will get down and some of the things the symbol of the black panther as relating to african american african american community of world war two the seven hundred sixty first tank battalion was an african american tank unit their mo or i should say their patch on their shoulder was the black panther their motto was come out fighting the most famous member of the seven hundred sixty first was first luton it jackie robinson during the training of the seven hundred sixty furch first white bus driver to jackie robinson to get to the back of the bus mr robinson refused they wanted to court martial to cut to the chase on the story mr robinson was acquitted of all charges some of the awards that the seven hundred sixty furth tank battalion what was the presidential unit citation medal of honor one purple hearts two hundred ninety six with with eight clusters so star eleven bronze star sixty nine the countries that they fought in wars france belgium the netherlands luxembourg germany and austria another organization that used the symbol of the black panther was the deacons of defense this was in one thousand nine hundred sixty four a group of african american men in jonesboro louisiana formed this organization and it was to protect black folks from the ku klux klan they believed in self defense and they also provided protection for african americans over registering to vote so they believe in using their second amendment right to defend themselves then the next group that used the word another group also used use a deformable political party and their political symbol was the black panther and they helped pressure people down in the south to vote and that's where along with the deacons of defense where the black panther party developed their symbol of the black panther and we know that just like the republicans have an elephant the democrats had to have a donkey and the political power political symbol for this group was the black panther and of course the movies coming out and used the movie comes from a comic book called the black panther and that was a simple and it's interesting that the comic book used that name of black panther party is holding their fiftieth anniversary april twenty sixth of the twenty eight twenty eighteen at linked in who's performing arts center and at washington hall this is a thursday friday saturday april twenty sixth twenty eight there's going to be films there's going to be hip hop concert presentations dinner special speakers all of that just want to bring that up to the people and even after that event is over there are going to be things that the anniversary committee wants to do to help you think in the community things of that so with that being said by the julius i think you had some things you wanted to you know thing i asked i just want to say lieutenant jackie robinson in that being a hall of fame baseball player or yeah definitely definitely so definitely so and it's interesting on a side note that  there people you know take a knee and people are insulted but taken in the it's really a form of respect you know for that and it's just amazing now you know with his old which is new is desk so hopefully they can see this picture and what it is a lot of people when they see this picture and i know i got it really very good that's better they see this picture and they think that sunglasses and i was trying to be incognito that day because i don't want my mother to know i missed school that day so that's the reason i was so incognito now the other story that is really fascinating on this well there's two stories one on the way out there two in libya from seattle there was one guy and i believe this guy might have been a member dixon here in the middle of the bodyguard that particular morning when we were leaving he used every excuse in the book not to come out there with this if you ever saw the movie blues brothers where john belushi is down there in this and not the sewer kind of like where the sewer was and carrie fisher came down there and carrie was mad at him so he used every every excuse he could you know the cat you know if i had a flat tire ran out of gas had to go to the hospital so this guy who was going out there with supposed to go out there with this he had every excuse in the world i'm not going so found out that this particular individual was an f b i informant and he didn't want to go out there with this that particular day that's one story another story is that a couple days before the day that we were supposed to go out there they had they had i know it was the national guard or whoever out there on top of the buildings in the olympia washington they had fifty caliber weapons they were going to train down on us they all set but we didn't come that day and there was a reason why we didn't come that day and i won't reveal that reason but it's a good thing we didn't come that day we didn't come out there to have a firefight with anybody and we were just there like normal americans red blooded americans expressing our right to the second amendment but i was always say whenever african americans do express their second amendment right there's a problem you know they just want to see you know on facebook they show two guys they s white guy walking down the street with a k forty seven on the side it was an open carry state police went by no problem black guy had it they stopped and frisk wanted to arrest him arrest him and everything else so you know you c see see where you know that white privilege action happening so anyway we didn't go that day we went a few days later and everything was ok but they were ready to shoot us for no reason for us you know upholding our second amendment rights so you know there's just that double standard you know they you know it's ok for certain people to do certain things but when we do it this and we don't get treated fairly so that's kind of it we were there too inside was airing dixon and he was talking to the legislator about you know open carry and i bought our right to keep you know to bear arms and we were outside there so that's kind of like some of the story of that sort of follow up in college it's a lot of political science and i didn't really learn what is the amendments you talked about it the second and then the second amendment which is the second amendment this is that you have the right to bear arms and it goes into real detail and  the one part of the detail is that you could form a militia but it had to be a well regulated militia and it had to be you could go get your weapon at a certain place and get some so much ammo and so when people use a second to mimic it they never good really go into that part of it detail part of it and so that that's where you know you have a right to bear arms and there were certain certain you know how do i want to say certain rules to be able to be able to do that and so that's where that comes from but people always talk about the second name they never talk about it well regimen it and the requirements for it they just go well we have the right to bear arms but you know if you know what i think i believe you do what you want to people to be responsible you know when they do do bear arms and be you know competent so this is you know it's it's kind of wax on wax off it's good and it's and it's so forth and so on so i guess the next question i was talking to you about the best of the party yes in so like when i was growing was mentioned in that party and from what i learned is like the crips and the bloods came after the black panthers so what are your thoughts on that ok he was a gang member down there in los angeles and he became a panther and what he was doing he was organizing the two gangs there because they were you know they were fighting each other so he was organizing them to become panthers and he would he had gone a long way with him and you know getting very close to have these guys to come together and be not gangs but be politically aware you know community conscious and all th stuff so he was really working towards them and then what happened was there was a thing at u c l a about the black knight here's two courses but basically that there was an ethnic studies something to that effect yeah so there was a friction between the black panther party and the us when you say it's stands for united and this was january seventeenth one nine hundred sixty nine they were assassinated there on campus by some members so there was a conflict there between the panthers and  so what happened when they got killed when they got killed well this stop the gangs from coming together you know this was really stop them from coming together because they were going to come together so they just went off into their gang thing another thing that happened and this is things that j edgar hoover did is to divide the panthers among themselves and other things this goes into a question that i think you're going to ask later on but what happened one of the things that happened story that's not totally that the strain that came through the community that one day this train came through the community and it was left open and it was full of guns full the dope gang members got ahold of that's where a lot of these guns came from at first they got i don't hold of these guns and this dope now why is it that this train going through the black hum all of the sudden have all these guns and this door and the doors were left open so the game members got all this dope on this guy and they just set off the stuff that set off the drugs in the community  because the f b i did not do j edgar hoover didn't want to black messiah to rise you know so this just hurt the community and then you saw where drugs were put all out in the black community and this happened before you know w to stuff like that but with this crack that's how it came in so this is this is what happened one of the well this is part of what happened in that whole scenario i'm going to say nineteen eighty two or eighty four but i could be wrong i'll tell you what did it the koran tell project by j edgar hoover and how they would get you if they got let's say the police had something on you you know whatever it is well hey you know we'll let that go just tell us what to do if you know what they're meeting where they're talking about and then they have the with we talked about the last year with the free breakfast program there was a group of young blacks african americans feeding children and cities across the united states because they found out you know children were going to school hungry you know if you're hungry man it's locations oh mamma drano presbyterian church in the century and a few other places so we were we were feeding the true and then like that you know that you know you think it had been the guns that they don't like those having the guns but they don't like us being people and they would sabotage try to sabotage the free breakfast program they would follow members of the back of the party when they were going to the different locations defeat people there in some instances they would come to where we had the food and  destroy it you know i mean just all kind of things to hurt hurt things so that was did i would just say i mean just like i talked about the last oh they're talking about well you know you always did restart the black panther party well you were willing to go through all the stuff bill had to go through you know with the police the f b i with going to prison you know the you know charge that you know you didn't do stuff or are you willing to die you know and all these other things so as i said before take the best with the black panther party had to offer and use it like i said last program you know these two guys called years ago call then it was renamed carolyn downs which is still operating that's at the desk of brown clinic in seattle on yes the street that's still operating one of the things that i think is that what i learned from when i went to the anniversary in oakland was that the people who are in the party still have that spirit have passed their spirit you know even though the party doesn't exist anymore they're still doing things out in the community they're still working with  you they're still trying to direct you've ok here's what we did a b c did here what was wrong it was right take the best and go with that work with people who are right my network of people got some sense every member whatever going to do is for the long haul you know a lot of us we don't think we're going to live past maybe twenty five or that or that that long you know we really didn't we figured either we're going to go to jail or prison or be killed or whatever so we weren't thinking in the long term but i would suggest because we've always us what work can we do you know fine with it you know you have to offer it could be excellence of yourself helping your family family members going to be helping  younger person helping the elderly person find them find people that you can work with to do something for the community to help the cause and if there's something the black panther party did you can use go ahead and use it but whatever you use be intelligent wrote a book called my people are rising by aaron dixon talks about you know his development you know where he grew up and talks about the neighborhood in madrone and see how we are where we where he grew up and where we all grew up and he talks about would meet him become a panther and so forth and homer dixon is going to have a book out that should be a very good book i'll be glad when that comes out because elmer dixon has a lot of stories he's a great storyteller seattle b p p fifty dot com and check that even after this event is over to see if you know the committee for the fifty and over still want to do things to help you with or party was a police patrol and when we do we'd have so many paths in a car and we would file the police and then when they stop somebody we would be at a legal go distance you know as a law said and observing and make sure you know the person wasn't brutalized because of just too much police brutality and so that was the first thing that started was the police patrol and we would just patrol the police and law books and when and shotguns and and that was one of the thing when i think that one reason why i became a pastor and i said this before is i just don't like bullies i don't like somebody black lling somebody called caijing or caucasian when someone is african american or whatever i just don't like bullies and i don't like you know and i don't even countries who are bullies i don't care for bullies so that was one of the main reasons why the police people live in the community know the community where if a young person knows a police officer in mind that you know something illegal you know and the officer can tell you hey man don't just don't didn't cover and as we said back in the day all power to