“How would they know how I felt? They want to do exactly what the previous enemy did. They always said they knew what we thought…They carved up our country into homelands because the ‘knew’ that we wanted to live on our own as tribes in South Africa. They thought for us.”
We honor the memory of his struggle on our behalf by remembering those still incarcerated or in exile for moving with courage and determination to toward our collective freedom.
Elmer G. “Geronimo” Pratt, a former Los Angeles Black Panther Party leader who spent 27 years in prison for a murder he says he did not commit and whose case became a symbol of racial injustice during the turbulent 1960s, has died. He was 63.
Elmer ‘Geronimo’ Pratt, a former Black Panther leader, dies in Tanzania – latimes.com.
“I want to say categorically and very clearly that these policies of war … are not what the people of the United States stand for and it’s not what African-Americans stand for,” she told state TV.
“Under the economic policies of the Obama administration, those who have the least are losing the most. And those who have the most are getting even more,” she said. “The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.”
