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Toure Show

Elaine Brown–I Am The Black Panther Party

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Society & Culture, Arts, Performing Arts

4.8880 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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0:00.0

And the The Black Panther Party is one of the most important organizations in modern American history and the subject of a hot new film called Judas and the Black Messiah

0:26.8

and the subject of this week's Toray show because I interviewed the former chairwoman of the Black Panther Party,

0:35.8

the legendary Elaine Brown.

0:39.4

What do you think about Elvat, and the Panthers place

0:42.0

in unwittingly changing gun laws because California

0:46.1

was like black people revolutionaries with guns like this we cannot have this and

0:52.3

change the law.

0:53.0

And the thing was there was only one, yeah, there was only one law that was that you could

0:57.5

carry a shotgun.

0:58.3

It wasn't like you could strap down with an oozy.

1:00.9

Not that, I don't think, I don't know if the Uzi was well known at that time, but you know certainly automatic weapons, M1s, M15s maybe.

1:10.0

So, but you had a situation where they attempted to have a gun control law to say that you could not

1:16.8

carry a shotgun openly in California.

1:22.3

So as we had the shotguns, you know, all the pictures of Huey and with the shock

1:26.3

with that pumped shotgun, the Huey didn't play with that bad boy either.

1:29.2

So it wasn't like this was a joke.

1:32.2

And so suddenly they said, well, even though it was fine up until then,

1:36.2

as soon as black men got a hold of a gun,

1:38.7

that's what gun control meant.

1:40.6

So today, when they talk about rights to guns, they don't mean us. You know, these law. I don't know that we unwittingly did that because we had to do something. And so that doesn't mean we put down our guns,

1:54.3

however.

1:54.7

We just couldn't carry a shotgun openly.

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