who've also looked at the black panthers, and i don't know whether you have read his book, but hugh pearsonuthor and journalist, he wrote a book on the black panthers, in which he said this, "the truth is," he says, "huey newton organised hit squads, while his elite cadre "of enforcers shook down local businesses for contributions, "extorted money from pimps and drug dealers. "these guys ran protection rackets." is that true? i truly do not know if it's true or not. what i do know is that's not what we were doing. the bigger "we" of the party members. i was working at a school that the party started for two and a half to 12—year—olds. not to cover for anything, but because i love children and i wanted them to have a quality of education that they deserve. and we worked closely with the public schools to do this. it was a model elementary. i fed breakfast to children. i helped out at the clinics. i supported all of the party's programmes as best i could. and i'm speaking for myself here because i can't speak for the hundreds and hundreds of people. nor can i speakfor huey newton or anyone el