The Ten Point Plan
- WE WANT FREEDOM. WE WANT POWER TO DETERMINE THE DESTINY OF OUR BLACK AND OPPRESSED COMMUNITIES. We
believe that Black and oppressed people will not be free until we are
able to determine our destinies in our own communities ourselves, by
fully controlling all the institutions which exist in our communities.
- WE WANT FULL EMPLOYMENT FOR OUR PEOPLE. We
believe that the federal government is responsible and obligated to
give every person employment or a guaranteed income. We believe that if
the American businessmen will not give full employment, then the
technology and means of production should be taken from the businessmen
and placed in the community so that the people of the community can
organize and employ all of its people and give a high standard of
living.
- WE WANT AN END TO THE ROBBERY BY THE CAPITALISTS OF OUR BLACK AND OPPRESSED COMMUNITIES. We
believe that this racist government has robbed us and now we are
demanding the overdue debt of forty acres and two mules. Forty acres and
two mules were promised 100 years ago as restitution for slave labor
and mass murder of Black people. We will accept the payment in currency
which will be distributed to our many communities. The American racist
has taken part in the slaughter of our fifty million Black people.
Therefore, we feel this is a modest demand that we make.
- WE WANT DECENT HOUSING, FIT FOR THE SHELTER OF HUMAN BEINGS. We
believe that if the landlords will not give decent housing to our Black
and oppressed communities, then housing and the land should be made
into cooperatives so that the people in our communities, with government
aid, can build and make decent housing for the people.
- WE
WANT DECENT EDUCATION FOR OUR PEOPLE THAT EXPOSES THE TRUE NATURE OF
THIS DECADENT AMERICAN SOCIETY. WE WANT EDUCATION THAT TEACHES US OUR
TRUE HISTORY AND OUR ROLE IN THE PRESENT-DAY SOCIETY. We
believe in an educational system that will give to our people a
knowledge of the self. If you do not have knowledge of yourself and your
position in the society and in the world, then you will have little
chance to know anything else.
- WE WANT COMPLETELY FREE HEALTH CARE FOR All BLACK AND OPPRESSED PEOPLE. We
believe that the government must provide, free of charge, for the
people, health facilities which will not only treat our illnesses, most
of which have come about as a result of our oppression, but which will
also develop preventive medical programs to guarantee our future
survival. We believe that mass health education and research programs
must be developed to give all Black and oppressed people access to
advanced scientific and medical information, so we may provide our
selves with proper medical attention and care.
- WE
WANT AN IMMEDIATE END TO POLICE BRUTALITY AND MURDER OF BLACK PEOPLE,
OTHER PEOPLE OF COLOR, All OPPRESSED PEOPLE INSIDE THE UNITED STATES. We
believe that the racist and fascist government of the United States
uses its domestic enforcement agencies to carry out its program of
oppression against black people, other people of color and poor people
inside the united States. We believe it is our right, therefore, to
defend ourselves against such armed forces and that all Black and
oppressed people should be armed for self defense of our homes and
communities against these fascist police forces.
- WE WANT AN IMMEDIATE END TO ALL WARS OF AGGRESSION. We
believe that the various conflicts which exist around the world stem
directly from the aggressive desire of the United States ruling circle
and government to force its domination upon the oppressed people of the
world. We believe that if the United States government or its lackeys do
not cease these aggressive wars it is the right of the people to defend
themselves by any means necessary against their aggressors.
- WE
WANT FREEDOM FOR ALL BLACK AND OPPRESSED PEOPLE NOW HELD IN U. S.
FEDERAL, STATE, COUNTY, CITY AND MILITARY PRISONS AND JAILS. WE WANT
TRIALS BY A JURY OF PEERS FOR All PERSONS CHARGED WITH SO-CALLED CRIMES
UNDER THE LAWS OF THIS COUNTRY. We believe that the many
Black and poor oppressed people now held in United States prisons and
jails have not received fair and impartial trials under a racist and
fascist judicial system and should be free from incarceration. We
believe in the ultimate elimination of all wretched, inhuman penal
institutions, because the masses of men and women imprisoned inside the
United States or by the United States military are the victims of
oppressive conditions which are the real cause of their imprisonment. We
believe that when persons are brought to trial they must be guaranteed,
by the United States, juries of their peers, attorneys of their choice
and freedom from imprisonment while awaiting trial.
- WE WANT LAND, BREAD, HOUSING, EDUCATION, CLOTHING, JUSTICE, PEACE AND PEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CONTROL OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY. When,
in the course of human events, it becomes 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 the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, 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 to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such 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 shown that mankind are most disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and usurpation, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
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