0:02 time to Pi
0:05 up if you're wondering just how divisive
0:07 the Black Panthers were and still are as
0:09 an organization look no further than
0:12 Super Bowl 50 Beyonce's background
0:14 dancers merely dressed up as members of
0:16 the revolutionary group and have managed
0:18 to capture the nation's outrage and
0:21 admiration so is the Black Panther Party
0:23 to be praised or shunned I think the
0:25 biggest misperception about the Panthers
0:27 is they you know were kind of these
0:30 anti-white gun toting you know mostly
0:34 ale you know violent bitant black people
0:35 you know these were young people I mean
0:38 they were mostly you know under 20 um
0:39 and they were really trying to make a
0:41 change the Black Panthers were founded
0:44 in Oakland California in 1966 and upon
0:47 their founding had a relatively simple
0:50 goal stop police brutality one of their
0:51 practices in order to stop police
0:54 violence was police patrols members
0:56 citing open carry gun laws carried
0:59 loaded guns while following police cars
1:02 around black neighborhoods no one would
1:06 do anything until a policeman ejected
1:10 around in the chamber then we would all
1:13 eject rounds in the chamber and all up
1:15 and down the street you could hear this
1:18 clack CL the goals eventually expanded
1:21 into the group's 10-point program which
1:22 along with ending police brutality
1:24 called for more employment opportunities
1:26 an end to housing discrimination and
1:29 more minority representation in jury
1:32 trials this Defiance in the face of laww
1:34 enforcement continued to escalate and it
1:36 eventually grew deadly leaving
1:39 casualties and blame on both sides
1:41 former black panther Eldridge Cleaver
1:44 admitted to ambushing police officers in
1:46 1968 which resulted in the first of
1:48 eight shootouts with law enforcement
1:51 nationally in just two years I am not
1:53 standing for violence uh but I do stand
1:56 for self-defense even Panther's
1:58 co-founder huie P Newton was convicted
2:00 of voluntary manslaughter charges in the
2:02 death of Oakland Police Officer John
2:04 Frey though Newton's conviction was
2:06 eventually thrown out on the other hand
2:08 Panthers members did suffer at the hands
2:11 of police Fred Hampton and Mark Clark
2:13 were both killed during a raid by the
2:15 FBI in the Chicago Police Department it
2:16 was determined in a federal
2:19 investigation that only one shot was
2:21 fired by the Panthers while the other 80
2:24 to 90 shots were fired by police the
2:26 city of Chicago Cook County and the
2:28 federal government eventually paid a
2:31 1.85 million dooll settlement to the
2:33 mothers of Clark and Hampton in relation
2:35 to the raid but The Shining achievement
2:37 of the Panthers had nothing to do with
2:39 its tumultuous back and forth with the
2:41 police children that didn't have a good
2:42 breakfast in the morning were less
2:44 attentive at school and less inclined to
2:47 do well and we just simply took that
2:50 information and a program was developed
2:52 serving breakfast to Children during its
2:54 peak the Black Panther party's free
2:55 breakfast for children program served
2:58 full breakfast eggs bacon grits toast
3:02 and milk to 20 ,000 kids in 19 cities
3:04 every school day one could even argue
3:06 the program was the inspiration for the
3:09 usda's current School breakfast program
3:11 it serves more than 13 million kids
3:13 every school day the breakfast program
3:15 was one of more than 60 different
3:17 community outreach programs aimed at
3:20 improving the black community so who
3:22 were the Black Panthers well for those
3:24 community members the Panthers Legacy is
3:26 mostly a positive one but to the
3:28 families of law enforcement this same
3:31 organization was essentially a terror
3:34 group so like most organizations pushing
3:37 for change they were complicated for
