it was a different era, but as you points out the black panther party had all kind of programs. act, a free breakfast program that is run by the department of agriculture. that idea emanated with the black panthser party because the assumption was that children could learn if they were hungry. very simple, but nobody else had done it. >> the question a lot of people ask is if the panthers are so engaged and so committed and had such great ideas, why are they still in motion today? >> there is a new black panther party. >> a very different organization. >> exactly. exactly. >> but if you looked at the ten-point program that the black panther party developed, you see that schools and healthcare and into the occupation of the police in black communities and all of the other things are still very much on our agenda. the demands have never been fulfilled. they're still there. we still need food. we still need clothing. we still need an end to the occupation and something done about the enormous numbers of people especially black people in prison today. >> i'm glad you said that. when

black panthers. the black panthers were a group that began in oakland, california, and they really called themselves the black panther party for self defense. created in response to perceived police violence and intimidation, and one of the things that's wonderful is that this poster became an iconic poster that was in the rooms of you know, myriads of high school and college students during the 1960s and early '70s. this is huie p. newton, the leader of the black panther party. what is powerful is that this poster talks a lot about what black -- where black america was in 1968-69. on the one hand there's a homage to africa. you have african zebra rug and african materials, the kind of chair that symbolizes the king chair. but you also have the sword, i mean the rifle and the pike as a way to say that violence will be met with violence. so, for the black panther party their notion was that they will do what needs to be done in order to force america to change. and so i think being able to have this which really has the sort of wonderful quotation that really does speak about the black panther party's commitment to their co

we evolved to a point by the end of 1969 and jumping into, 69, what we have, 49 chapters of black panther partyand other chapters around the country. 68 different offices in operation. nothing but an extension framework of the black panther party. we created a conference. that was important because what we were talking about is getting some elected offices, city council and you got racist aspect of law in that city council charter, if we got seats in the, we can wipe those laws off the books. or as the race and mentality is nothing but get laws off the books, that was key. so nowadays, all these years has passed, we did a lot of things, all of us. you know, programs, party members, come out here, lieutenant was working on the campaign. i dove right into helping out them out and he did that. he wound up running the philadelphia partner. phantasm. bobby rush was telling me about all kinds of brothers and sisters all across the country in politics and in government, in the framework. i used to dream of having multi, multi-thousands more so than we have now of black folks, people of color folks, of

oakland has a long history of progressive movements that are very militant as you mentioned the black panther party and over the last several years we have seen several other protests protest movements calling for radical change calling for the end of the war we saw a heavy police crackdown during the iraq war process back in two thousand and three but many of these very left wing very radical leaning activists they say that they are just responding to the heavy handed tactics that the police of oakland have responded with over the past several years i mean the police department there has a very long history of corruption and in fact in a few weeks could could come under federal stewardship because of all the corruption and civil rights abuses which have been documented over several years so in many instances this very radical and very progressive movement in the bay area is a response to what they believe is a long history of oppression of the most impoverished communities there in that city the really good point the right to promote and i want to mention to our viewers something really interestin

49 chapters and branches of black panther party, twentysomething chapters and branches around the coachat 60 different offices and operations. it was nothing but an extension framework of the black panther party because we create, we did conference with it et cetera and so on. that was important because what we were talking about is getting some elected offices, and city council and you got racist aspects of law in the city council charter. if we got seats in their we could wipe those laws on the book. or the races, mentality is another thing. but get the laws off the book, that was key. so nowadays all these years has passed, we did a lot of things, all of us. you know, programs, party members, this is where i come out here, working on their goods campaign. i dove right in to help him out. and wound up running the philadelphia, that's in gaza. bobby rush was done in all kinds of brothers and sisters all across the country in politics, and government, in the frameworks. i used to dream of having multi, multi-thousands more so than we even have now of black folks, people of color folks,

. >> eric: this is a guy who was mayor when the black panther, the new black panther party at the pollinghreatening people. >> bob: think he invited them in? >> eric: no. he defended it. we got in a huge argument about it. he said i didn't know, i had nothing to do with it. he was told about it. we had rick leventhal almost beat up. >> bob: the language in the press conference is language you don't normally hear out of mayors. >> dana: it was aimed at parents. he had a conservative sentence. he said we cannot completely legislate or by policy make people responsible for their children. that is why you get gallup poll numbers, maybe they are not as conservative as others but that is saying government can't do everything for you. >> kimberly: excellent work. >> greg: if you look at oakland and detroit and philadelphia, you think what is the greatest transformation in any city i have seen? new york city in '70s to '90s in undergiuliani is amazing. this is a different city. if you look at "taxi driver" they're science fiction films. the era doesn't exist. isn't it time for these cities to loo

a few weeks left before the inauguration we filed a voter intimidation case against the new black panther party rights act of 1965. but when the new obama political appointees came to power at the justice department everything change. there was a very different attitude towards the new black panthers and we saw during the bush did ministration. here is the best part. the new black panther party never even answered the complaint that the bush justice department filed against them. it was a slam dunk case. nevertheless, the obama political appointees ordered the case against them to be dismissed. most of you already know this. what you might not know is that the civil rights commission initiated an investigation into the obama dismissal of the black panther case and they subpoenaed me and chris coats who actually is here today somewhere, who was a voting section chief, about the dismissal to explain why the case was dismissed. but this justice department ordered us to ignore the subpoenas. the subpoenas were issued pursuant to a law that makes it a crime to interfere with a civil rights commissio

he was part of the free speech movement and he worked very closely with the black panther party, so all of this comes together for the specialness of berkeley to me, but today is an especially great time to be in berkeley because it's a time when young people are standing up. they are resisting things that they used to go along with and they are questioning why things are the way that they are and what could be done about it. this is very very important sisters and brothers and i'm very glad to be out here in berkeley. you while look real good from up here and i understand that there are some other rooms where there are some other people who look pretty good bet but i can see them right now. you all in the house do. so all of this comes together around the importance of being at berkeley. look, i saw the video of folks out there in sprawl plaza standing up to the police, standing up to the administration and got a real sense of inspiration for this sentiment that people have had to not go along with business as usual, to not knuckle under to the powers that be, to stand up against inequ

because i don't, you know, and i think it had something to do with the black panther party. >> i don't know, man, because i told everybody at that time, i said, man, i'm a catholic. i ain't no black panther because i believed in the theory any man's an island within himself. i said that then, and i say it today. now relative to the glove, why did we use the glove? the glove was there because tommy said he had the gloves, but the main concept why i told tommy to bring those gloves was for the first time in the history of the olympic games, that's the first time they put it in technicolor worldwide. it was going around the world for the first time as well. we wanted them to have no misunderstanding as to who we were representing first, was black people and then america. simple as that. it wasn't about the black panthers, wasn't about, you know, people say, oh, john carlos left his gloves home. i didn't have no damn gloves, tommy had the gloves. [laughter] relative to what you said in regards to lee, lee is absolutely right. we had a vote on this hypothetical train -- >> right, right. >>

black panther five years now and this happened during the bush administration. there was no charge of voter intimidation, none. >> bill: sit back in your seat for a moment. just think of the tea partyg in front of a thing with a jack or a club and yelling. >> why was there no charge of voter intimidation. >> bill: you would be on here -- >> why was there no charge of voter intimidation? >> let me answer your question. >> the holder justice department is the most political sized justice department in history. >> it happened during the bush administration. they didn't press it. >> bill: colmes, they had complaints filed. >> this is out of control. that's not accurate. >> bill: they had complaints filed. >> they didn't pursue it. >> no, no. the holder justice department dropped the case. >> they didn't pursue it. >> bill: alan colmes, everybody, there he is and monica crowley and you think i'm not paid enough? come on now. >> you need a few bucks? >> bill: when we come right back, more racial stuff out of the "new york times." calling romney the whitest white guy. bernie goldberg, another white guy, moments away. r science teacher helped us build it. ♪ now i'm a geologist at chevron,