DEAR U ED: Jud
How ,h
your life. Write le to your lawyer, your family, th h . and
th ward n to document your fl r, t nd attemp on your
life. Th authoriti are required to do all they can to protect the
li and ety of all inmates and priso . You may to be
kep in protective custody.
Always remem 11', all of the 'ty in t world could not
ve P ident Kennedy or Dr. Martin Luth King. You may
need moon to watch your beck.
I would hate to your offer to help t system ofj ice t
in your getting tabbed in the Be trong and p the faith.
DEAR JUOOE GAINES: I enjoyed . iting your oourtroom
during Lawyers Paren Day.
I think you are a very good Judge bees you did not nd
everybody to jail. You tried to work with them.
I think your peech at lunch was fantastic. You said all th
greet things like, stay in school and obey your parents.
I will stop by your courtroom to pick up my little gavel. Than
You.
- C.F., 8 years old
DEAR C.F. - 8 YEARS OLD: I am happy that you njoyed
your tour of the oourthouse and my speech about stayinginschoo�
out of trouble and off of drugs,
No. 1: do not send everybody to jail. I do send the people that I
think deserve to go, if they did something to hurt somebody e .
Be sure to continue to obey your parents and to stay out of
trouble.
I love to speak to school children and inspire them to stay out
of trouble, because -I would rather give you some time in the
classroom now, 80 I won't have to give you some jail time in my
courtroom later."
Please write to me and let me know howyou are doing in school.
I'm proud of you.
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Thanks to an old party com­
rade, I have had an opportunity
to finally read David Hilliard's
This Sick of Glory: TIu! Autob�
ography of David Hilliard and
the Srory of the Black Panther
Party (Little, Brown POOl., N. Y.,
1993).
It is an interesting and tragic
telling of Hilliard 's life, his hard­
scrabble Alabaman origins, his
heady elevation to Chief-of-Staff
of the Black Panther Party, and
his plunge into drugged defeat
and dejection.
By Mumia Abu-Jamal
As this is a review of sorts, I tween N.Y. and Oakland, isn't
hereby announce my own biases, reflected here.
as I was a former Panther, 80 I Each chapter reflected deep.
offer no pretence of "objectivity. • regionalisms, from California
I knew many of the people dis- (L.A. & Oakland) which had a
cus ed in the book on both wealth of country, South rn
coasts, tbose living and dead, 88 guys and gals (Huey, David aDd .
I worked, lived in or visited - Geronimo were country boya,
eral chapters aCl"088 th countey from the Deep South), to N.Y.,
as a Panther assigned to the here branches had Hiapanic
� Ministey ofInformation. members, a faat r, more
I remember many beautiful and uptempo, urban p ce CD vid
onderful brothers and' , even remarks on his dismay 0
!!ho ga their all, their very N.Y.· tyle-), to Chicago,
lives, in defense of the Party, but wicked mix of them both
Hilliard aptly note how
J Jackson -borrowed- from
the oratory and flair of 8M!l881'
nated Dlinois Deputy Chairman
Fred Hampton, a masterful
revolutionary organizer mur­
dered by the government when
they peeped his potential.
While Hilliard glorift
priao ho became Pant
h lar ly igno �-P'an1�Jl8ll"8
who becam priao ,well.
political, prisone and POW
ho've been down for deea
Hilliard is most ill DB
hen he tells of his counters
. th former BPP Defa Minis-
ter, Huey P. ewton, an enigma
is largely i- wo� by fl h.
Hilliard doesn't show how he, or the
rest of the Peralta Street crew,
couldn't have pulled Huey upfrom
the pit into which he'dfallen, why
none of our academia couldn't have
utilized his brilliance at say, Howard
U., or Tu kegee or orne other
historically Black college.
It tells D vid's story, blem­
is and all, all too well. What
it does not tell is the tory of the
Black Panther Party. In truth,
there never one party, but
over 40 of them, branch and
chapters with their own Cb8l'8C'
ters and local idiosyncrasi ,
cattered across the united
States, ·th on branch in Al­
gi ,North Africa, all united
into a hole oven by a revolu­
tionary id .
BR LLIA T, ERCU-
, confident, in ecure,
bl , cursed, loved, loe.thed­
all ere face of Dr. Huey P.
Newton. A self-pro homie
of Huey, Hilliard d n't 0
ho he, or the of the Peralta
St t crew, couldn't have pulled
Huey up from t pit into hich
h 'd fall n, by none of our ca­
demia couldn't ha utilized his
brilliance at ay, Ho rd U., or
September 26 - October 2
SEPTEMBER 26, 1962 -
Sonny Li ton knocked out Floyd
Patterson to become world heavy­
weight boxing champion. 1866-
Fisk Univer ity opened in
Nashville.
Where was Elijah McCay born?
SEPTEMBER 27, 1950 -Joe
Louis lost his heavyweight title to
. Ezzard Charles in a 15-round de­
cision. 1980 - Marvip Hagler
won his first middleweight title
fight over Alan Minter. 1926 -
The voy Ballroom, the larg-
t dance hall in Harlem, opened.
1964 - Rev. Martin Luther
King, Jr., won Nobel Peace Prize.
1912 - W.C. dy published
Memphis Blues.
Who is the first Black former
athlete to become a regular C.B.S.
sportscaster?
SEPTEMBER 28, .1932 -
Loui Arm tron made his first
European tour. 1883 - Timothy
Thom Fortune established
Black newspaper, New York Age.
1895 - National Baptist Conven­
tion was organized.
Who was the first Black truck
and field participant at a white
college?
SE 1EMBER 29, 1988 -
Fl n Gri it -Joyn r t a
world record (21.34) winning th
200-m t r da h at th Soul
Olympics: S' ter-in-Iaw Jackie
Joyn r-K took th gold in
th longjump, tting an Olympic
record (24' 3.33"). 1952 - Harry
T. oore, Florida coordinator for
the'NAACP, was warded th
Spingarn M 1 posthumously for
his figh for I ck political partici­
pation. 1876 - W h-
ington r joined faculty at
Tuske Insti ute. 1910 -The
U an . .&.J'.A ...... -
1644 - Fi
marria of Blacks in Am rica,
th ny d uci d' gol
What poem by Langston
. HugMsdealswiththeraidofHar-
pere Fen-y?
SEPTEMBER 30, 1962 - Un­
der the protection of federal mar­
shals, Jam Meredith enrolled
as the first Black student at Uni­
versity of Mississippi. 1988 -­
Kenny Mo day became the first
Black wrestler to win Olympic
gold, capturing the 163-1b. title in
Seoul. 1909 - Mathew He n'
accompanied Admiral Robert E .
Peary to North Pole.
What Black oocalis: popular­
ized the hit "My Cherie Arnow-'?
OCTOBER 1, 1975-Wllliam
T. Coleman became the Secre­
tary of Transportation, the seoond
African-American Cabinet officer
in U.S. History. 1945 - Jackie
Robinson was signed by Dodge
and assigned to Montreal. 1940-
Dr. Charl Drew was named
supervisor of the Plasma For
Great Britain project. 1988 -
B lack actor Graham Brown
opened as Horatio in the Guthrie
Th ter's production ofHaml in
Minneapolis, Minn
Who was the first Black to book
a room at Selma' Hotel Albert, .
formerly an all-white hotel?
OCTOBER 2, 1971 - The Su-
, preme Court overturned the draft
evasion conviction of Muham­
mad Alt. 1833 - Oberlin Col­
lege, which admitted whites and
Blacks, opened. 1958 - Guin
gained independence from
Fran .
Where did Dr. Louis T. Wright
receive Jus medical training?
swe
26th - Canada.
21th-IrvC
h - Williams Tecumseh
Sh rman Jackson.
29th - October 16.
Oth - Stevie Wonder.
1 - Martin Luther king, Jr.
2nd-Harvard Unive ity.
of them, the boo
lent.
ONE to read Glory
only, could one conclude th dr
heroic sacrifi we beca
ignored, in vain?
It tells th story of ational
Headquarter in Ber eley,
Calif., or the early Oakland
chapter, quite ell, but by 1970
the Party a national organi­
zation, hich, pt for bri f
referen to th confli be-
. From
Death
Row
Tusks or aome other histori-
cally Black colle How can
man ofHuey'a cali be allowed
to di in ch ignominy, uch
lIqU8lor, such degradation?
One 100 in vain for a politi-
cal/radical or rewlutiODaly •
pecti that urviv in his
book, and in i , he pro­
motes the 10 tepI to sobriety
from Alcoholics Anonymou.
rat than the sodally dynamic
10-point BPP program, which
still cri out for imp menta-
tion, aIm 80 la r. P
p fl to drink or drup to
eecaDe t torturo oonditions
which daily p1agu and deval
Black in this world.
The rycoDditi t t
riM to t Party m t '60s, bru­
tal • oourta. inerrect;he
education, jobl , and the
. Still plagu our poopl to
this day.
A w, Black, largely po r­
I politicians pose no solutio ,
aDd gooloftheBPP,
which called for "B ck Revolu-
'onuy'PolitiCBIPo r." We still
farto .
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