Merritt College: Home of the Black Panthers 

History repeating itself who is here in June 2020 we the people need to get it together.

Revolution is a process, it is not an event! The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense is a part of that process! Let us learn from their successes and failures! The Struggle Continues!!!

Born in 64. Lived in Watts. These Hero's did help feed me. If I walked past a drug store they would give me treats..... Also, I'm white.

All Power to the People. ✊ 2020 R.I.P. Huey 😥😥😥

I love when Bobby tells the story about when the were observing the police and Huey broke down the law to the pig I could listen to it over and over again

I Went There 1984-85, Great Institution, Took Dr. Arrington's Black History Class, Learn A Hell of A Lot From That Woman. Thank God For People Like Her.

It's so important to know your history

I got my LVN degree there. The program was great. Now Im a RN but I couldnt have done it without a grounding and understanding which I got from the teachers at this school. This really is a gem of history wrapped up in 57 minutes... Thank you for sharing

Thank GOD for the internet. I ponder where I would be if I had known about these people and had this information when I was younger.

the black panther party was founded at merrit junior college in west oakland, california on October 15, 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.

Excellent documentary, thank you

"WE CREATED SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING !" They created something out of a legacy handed down to them by those who came before they did for the love of life and for the freedom of a people.

Thank You, I was there and I attended Merritt College, I survived, thank the protesters ✊⚖️

Thank you so much for presenting this. Knowledge is the key, especially SELF KNOWLEDGE.. DAMN, looking at the script of today where things are, we are at the doorway of yesterday. Let's be wiser because we've been there before. Today there are many doors we can enter and exit. Choose wisely because we are in our KNOWING OF REMEMBRANCE. Maya Angelou said, "When you know better, you do better". WE GOT THIS

I'm so proud to be from Oakland.

Huey p newton is exactly the kind of man who is needed.....not a reverend or a rapper or an athlete posing as a revolutionary....someone willing to do things that most men don't have the courage to do. Someone not afraid to play with ideas and ideals in a way that

WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING THIS NOW ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿

This is so informative ..... and entertaining at the same time. Outstanding documentary! Thank you for putting this together

And today 2020 they are still afraid of the biggest darkest black man, first to be taken down 💯so hurtful

Huey got his doctorate degree. Do you realize the work and intelligence that is necessary for that?

Thanks for this enlightening information I didn't know about this Merritt college thing now I know how we as afro Americans has mold and shaped the world through our rich leadership and culture thawada for mr aoik for his support to the black panther party all praises to yahawah and much respect to yahawahshi stay safe my brothers and sisters.😁☺🤨

Thanks so much for this history

Thank you for this information, I did not know the origin of the Black Panthers, but I knew of their social programs in the community, especially there breakfast program which Rapper chuck d discussed in which he benefitted from as a child.

Historical, important, significant insights and information; educational pertinent black accomplishments noted.

This is pretty awesome I went to sfsu which founded the third world liberation front and now that I go to merrit to know this... makes me so proud to attend these schools

THANK YOU FOR THIS DOCUMENTARY! So many good memories! Late 60's early 70's I was a white guy living below Broadway in Oakland, neighborhood about 80% black. I wasn't a political activist but was politically aware (pretty easy to do during that area with political activists and so-called "underground press" being generous with information that contradicted the mainstream narrative). I knew what the Black Panthers were, and it was a breath of fresh air. I knew what the Oakland cops and the Sheriff Madigan's thugs were, too. You didn't have to be black to grasp the fact they were the enemy of the very people who were paying their wages. After all, oppressors want to make sure that you understand that's exactly what they are. No secret. I used to walk right past the front door of Panther HQ on the way to the Shattuck bus stop. Only thing I was worried about, is what if the Pigs decided that was the moment they were going to blow Panther HQ to kingdom come in a hailstorm of bullets, and I was the guy on the sidewalk. The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, a well-regulated militia being necessary for the security of a free State. That idea didn't fall out of the sky, it was how things were done in an age where the modern concept of a municipal police force was almost nonexistent. If there was a problem that required civil armed intervention, the sheriff deputized citizens to take care of it. The Second Amendment said nothing about the specifics of the custom of the sheriff deputizing citizens because the Constitution came hot on the heels of the Revolutionary War and the Declaration of Independence. The sheriff is an agent of the Crown. And the new American nation was mostly rural with government nearly absent in many areas. So people did things for themselves. That's how I viewed the Black Panthers, and still do. And it was so much more than just a well-regulated militia. It was deeply involved in actually DOING good in the community, and they didn't ask what color your skin was to be a beneficiary of what they were doing. I often wonder where on earth did vision and leadership like that come from. To say "Merrritt College" doesn't really answer the question. I know of nothing like it either before or since. There were several things that contributed to the possibility of it happening. First, the Vietnam War opened people's eyes to the fact that the USA government wasn't really about promoting democracy and making the world a better place. It was killing for profit and lying about everything. .........Then there was the ongoing Civil Rights movement which opened many peoples' eyes to the injustice of segregation. There was a synergy between the anti-Vietnam War movement and the Civil Rights movement, a recognition that there's ruling class and they're amoral sociopaths who oppress because, well, that's what they do. And in the Bay Area, San Francisco being an international port was a long-standing ethnic melting pot where no matter who you were, you knew personally people of other races. By that time, some black folks who'd been in the Army had gone to college on the GI Bill and there were black folks in professional including administrative positions. And don't underestimate the power of music. Rock & Roll didn't fall out of the sky. It began as "race music" that white kids heard on the radio, and liked it. And what's its very foundation? the Blues. A musical form invented by black folks in the USA probably in Texas logging camps after the Civil War. It did not come from Africa. And it's so catchy that once you've heard it about 3 times, from then on out you know it. And yet there's so much possibility built into that series of chord changes, that the variety is infinite, it's a door into a different world of music. ........In the arts, nothing substitutes for talent, and in the postwar period popular music was a mix of black and white. The place and the time were right for something like the Black Panthers to happen, if something like that could happen. And somehow it did. ADDENDUM more on how the ruling class oppresses because "that's what they do", and skin color is often a just smokescreen for how they do it. The South was ruled by white politicians who enforced segregation and thumped Bibles. So whites voted for them. What they never understood, was that it was the oldest trick in the con man's arsenal-- misdirection. The South was and still is impoverished because white politicians were and still are ripping off the very people who voted them into office. The Bible Belt is a specific piece of geography in the USA. That same piece of geography is the poverty belt, the prison belt, the "education is bad" belt, the maternal death rate higher than any developed nation belt, the "cops are city hall's thugs" ["law and order, and the badge is law"]" belt, the list goes on and on. It's all cut from the same cloth. After the end of legal segregation, the whole thing morphed into "the Christian Right". One of the first things I discovered in life as a little kid, was that the adult world is governed by delusion. So I paid attention and asked difficult questions. It took me most of a lifetime to understand how and why the world is governed by delusion. However I knew from the time I first discovered it what the main ingredient was: adults will pay to be lied to. So of course there are people who make a living by telling people the lies they want to hear. The people get lied to, and they're happy they got their money's worth. That's how rule by delusion is done in plain view and people still don't understand what's being done to them and how.

Barbra Lee, thank you for your service. Times are changing, who would have ever thought we would ever be 5% of the total population. The history of how we got here in the Bay Area. Thank you for telling this story, even during our declining years. Our time in the Bay Area is very short now. The last family Panic I remember when Everyone was still alive was in “Moss wood Park”, I think the “Tower of Power” was giving a free concert. Many drive by the Original site of Merritt College and don’t know what the building was or what it meant. If you ask someone where Merritt College is they immediately point up in the Oakland Hills, no one now’s why it was relocated. Barbra Lee, it was a shame to watch the base that supported you for years just walk away. They said good bye with their votes. The 21st will erase this time in history by pretending it never existed. I was born at Herrick Hospital, I am Berkeley. There are just a handful of people left from my generation that still live here in 10yrs we will be lost to History. It’s a sad fact, and very painful to think about. I am glad that I was raised in this environment. It’s not a gun, that protects me from the Police. It’s my mind my mentality is my strongest weapon. One thing I miss, is the relationship the Black Community had with the Japanese community. Those early Japanese people that where here before us . They endured every heart ship, and now their legacy is almost over. Tracy Hamada, was a classmate of mine in the 5th. He is one of the handful of people left here in Berkeley. I will always be his friend.

Amazing to hear so many interviews from a Panther FBI informant, given that these interviews took place before he was outed to the public as an informant.

An absolutely EXCELLENT documentary! Some of the best interviews I've seen with so many of the most interesting, noble and inspiring people I've heard in quite some time. These people - as individuals and as an organization - are the exact embodiment of what any and every group/movement should and can, aspire to be and achieve! (Excellent sound track, too, by the way!)

Goodtowatch.Thanks.

I was born in 1961 and I remember the free breakfast program and how much pride it brought to community I lived in in Jersey City NJ. The Panther Party needs revival. All Power To The People!

Good to meet the leaders i have never seen or heard of before

Amazing documentary about an incredible, detrmined, brilliant group of people. Support all black businesses!

Love this history! Y’all just got another subscriber!

Chris Dorner, Gavin long, Micah Xavier Johnson, Huey P Newton & Malcom X should embody us all as Melinated Warriors!!! Edit on Juneteenth 6/19/20: There’s others I would add but please research these name and you’ll see why I have them here!

Learn from OUR ANCESTORS WHO PAVED THE WAY FOR US, AND OUR CHILDREN'S!!!!.

2020 still stand for what’s right.

Thank You Family ✊ B1💎

I had to tell a service technician, who serviced my home the other, the love of the Panthers for people. I had to tell him that The Black Panthers started the free breakfast program that is now in the school.

Still watching in 2020

Amazing documentary with an equally amazing sound track!! ✊🏽🖤

Much Gratitude

They did that!!!!! Superb! Thank you for this documentary!! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽💯✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽👊🏽

Thank you for this video. It's sad all our history, even up to yesterday, was looted,copied,and falsely claimed by Uncle Sam

We need the black panthers back

"No fist is big to cover the sky." (African proverb) Respect ..."teach how not what." BPP was (and is) bigger than its time.

53:01 Mr. Aoki is a Confirmed Fbi Informant.

Nothing has change June 4th 2020

Crazy to see Aoki being interviewed here. I just finished reading through his 200+ page dossier where he was outed as an FBI informant the entire time (1961-1977)

A Highly Educated black man is the Greatest treat to the white Establishment . EDUCATION IS POWER.

The true power of the Black Panther Party was the fearlessness and courage of these great youth warriors and their selfless love for their people. That made them unable to just stand by and allow this genocidal oppression continue against our people, and not make an attempt to stop it. Their power was not in the gun. It was not in their militancy. It was not by creating fear. It was in their fearless love for their people, and their fearless determination in fighting to free

To every thing there is a season!

what they fought against still happening today right ? so they weren't wrong. God bless the panthers for ever

Barbara Lee is the only congressperson I actually respect in Washington.

Bring your charges fam. 400yrs + Anything they say and do can and will be used against them. 🔥

Thanks ❤❤❤❤❤🕉✝☮

We need them 2day and I would be the 1st to join them quickly.

As usual, Brother Sabir on it! In these days The worthy dont get support whatsoever. How long must our people be told before they wake up?!

I have to visit Oakland one of these days 💯

Great home for the black Panther Party !!!

Panthers Taking The """L""" ( HELL ) Out Of Bakkk . Fear Of The Panthers' Bakkk Strength Is A Positive Emotion

And to think what we going through today. BPP was the truth!! 🙌

KEY: STANDING ON THE LAW NOT IN VIOLATION OF THE LAW

2021 Yeah still standing up what’s right for us.

I want to be a Black Panther.

Gratitude for sharing.

Thanks for this History

We must UNITE!

June 18, 2020, the Same issues of injustice are in need of redress. WTF! 😣

Power and Progress to the people!

The BLACK PANTHER PARTY FOR SELF DEFENSE was started in LOWNDES COUNTY , mississippi

Man...they knew how to insult back in the day. That poem was on point

Power

How do you join the Black Panther Movement

SHALOM

How do I get a copy of this documentary?

A wonderful program. We have to demand our rights with everything just short of insurrection. The BP did that. They got into good trouble.

Richard Aoki was outted as an FBI informant for cointelpro

👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾🖤 this is STILL the plan. We must continue to come together an March, vote, an change our community

THANKS YOU GOODNESS 🌟 AMAZING ❤️🖤💚🤎 FAMILY DAPHNE COTTON ALWAYS 💜...

32:49 is this still in affect? I remember just recently some folks didn't want to be quarantined.

DO NOT LET OUR ANCESTORS HARD WORK GOES IN VAIN.

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BPP. FOREVER !

"But this is a New Era of time now"

richard aoiki was an fbi informant for 15 years against black panthers

Very interesting

Aoki is an Informant...we are 2 take his word as Truth?

I love black panther always and forever ✊✊✊

There is a song playing in the background saying but with these hands. Does anyone know where I can find that song?

Wish the panther continues uptill this day in defence and protection of black lives matters

What's the name of the song with the chorus "they won't be no more"?

What's the song at 30:58

41:10 anyone know name of that song?

How can I gain access to the music on here? Please let me know. Thanks.

Great doc! Wow. Can someone link me to where I can get the music? Thanks!

26:35 that pretty much qualifies if there was ever any time to be a hero it would be now

What's the song at the 41 minute mark?

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Black liberation I’m with that