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00:00:04Living here in Tanzania, you have to have a gun.
00:00:08We have witnesses, there have been reports of lions roaming around.
00:00:13But anyone who is not a Tanzanian requesting to possess a firearm
00:00:18must first get permission from their embassy.
00:00:21Now this is a crazy scenario.
00:00:23Pete O'Neil, former Black Panther in exile, has to go to the United States Embassy
00:00:30to request a license for a 12-gauge shotgun.
00:00:34And it was a 12-gauge shotgun in 1970 that led to my spending 32 years in Africa.
00:00:58As a member of the Black Panther Party, I was arrested on the very bogus charge
00:01:03of transporting a gun across state lines.
00:01:06I had had some very serious run-ins with the police in Kansas City and with the FBI as well.
00:01:12The policeman had seriously indicated that I would die if I went to prison.
00:01:17So my wife Charlotte and I left the United States and chose to go into exile.
00:01:26After having spent two years in Algeria, we came here to Arusha, Tanzania.
00:01:33And we've been here ever since.
00:01:39This pipe goes to our village.
00:01:41This pipe has been moving.
00:01:43This pipe has grown.
00:01:44This is the same for our village.
00:01:46This is the same for our village.
00:01:49So here's where the elephants have been stepping.
00:01:51The other one is getting going to our village right now.
00:01:56This is our village.
00:01:57This is our village, we have gathered together.
00:01:59This is our village, and this is our village.
00:02:00So these are how the elephants take and grab out with their tusks and pull out the pipe.
00:02:16I'm hoping and praying that this will perhaps alleviate some of our water
00:02:20problems doesn't look very promising right now but fingers crossed
00:02:36when I brought Charlotte out here she was 19 years old she'd never been away from home and I was
00:02:4230 then
00:02:45I cannot imagine that I would have been able to succeed without her I do not have the ability
00:02:52to deal with details I can't Charlotte coordinates everything hey sorry to be so rush rush but I got
00:03:03another meeting this afternoon I need to know how we can do today because you know I got to go
00:03:08to
00:03:08rotary and then I got this I know this is a running down I can be a little impatient at
00:03:19times and have
00:03:20developed into a grumpy old man are you leaving now and Charlotte is angelic by nature
00:03:32I'm setting a new record for cholesterol I'm gonna be the first person to have cholesterol level of 589 and
00:03:52survive come on you go she don't know mimic why yeah our differing personalities have combined to
00:04:06create a whole that has been extraordinarily productive
00:04:15we'd like to welcome you all to the United African American Community Center myself Charlotte O'Neill
00:04:22my husband Pete O'Neill founded the United African American Community Center in 91
00:04:29but we have been doing community work for years and years in Kansas City as members of the Black
00:04:35Panther Party where we fed more than 750 children every day and had free medical clinics people think
00:04:43of the Black Panther Party mostly due to the media they think of young men with guns and braids and
00:04:49leather
00:04:50jackets and that's true but we were much more than that the really good things about the Black Panther
00:04:59Party was the manner in which it served the community how old is he how old is he if you
00:05:08look
00:05:08at what we're doing right now you would find it difficult to distinguish the community work we were
00:05:13doing back in the day and the community work we're doing now do you know we're dealing with 90 students
00:05:20a day that how are you I'm fine if we have someone who has ability to teach English we teach
00:05:27English if we
00:05:30find volunteers who have computer skills they teach computers to our young action human HIV is a human
00:05:43virus what we're trying to do here is create a microcosm of what we feel the world should be
00:05:48people of all races all cultures all traditions come together and live and work for common goals
00:06:08in 1968 I started to read about the Black Panther Party I went to Oakland California I talked with the
00:06:16people who were running the party there and we established the Kansas City chapter of the Black
00:06:22Panther Party Black Panther Party is officially in Kansas City the Black Panther Party came into
00:06:30existence to try to control these mad dog policemen who were brutalizing people in the black community
00:06:40right on our breakfast school children program our counseling programs our clothing programs all evolved
00:06:51from that original foundation before the Black Panther Party I did many things that by anyone's standards
00:07:00would be considered wrong the Black Panther Party turned my life dramatically around I bet a lot of
00:07:10the can you imagine how a lot of the elders in the village would would view that who is this
00:07:15I said
00:07:15well that's Mama Charlotte they say who yeah what's she doing with a gun do you remember when we first
00:07:25came to
00:07:26Dorsalong to Tanzania and I remember when we walked out of that airport and how warm it was and it
00:07:33was those those
00:07:34coconut trees you know I said Pete I love this this is like coming home and it really was you
00:07:42had this puzzled
00:07:43expression on your face I don't know what that meant do you know when I got off the plane here
00:07:49and this is the truth
00:07:50surely now all kidding aside now I didn't have a good feeling I just didn't sister and we've talked about
00:07:57this a lot and I generally make light of it but it was able to me it was just like
00:08:02I had gotten too far
00:08:03away from everything that I knew and it amazes me how you didn't feel that way I guess you were
00:08:10just as
00:08:10happy as a dead pig in the sunshine huh me I was saying oh boy I saw the tin roofs
00:08:18with the rusted iron
00:08:20and I said oh oh I said we are in for some for a different kind of life
00:08:28oh I'm sorry I said oh my god I'm sorry I didn't know my god so you didn't know my
00:08:42god I have a
00:08:42here in a moment to mourning I'm doing no good yeah I didn't know my god you know my god
00:08:44I am the only one who took the two together when you volunteer like you didn't want to go to
00:08:51go to
00:09:13I'll spend most of my life shopping and buying supplies.
00:09:18We feed 20 to 30 people daily.
00:09:21We've got our programs, we have student groups coming through, we've got all these people
00:09:26visiting.
00:09:26We've got people on honeymoon, people just passing through.
00:09:31We are in constant motion.
00:09:43I have a peaceful kind of floating in the clouds.
00:09:46That's nature.
00:09:48That's just me and it balances out the way Pete is because he's more hyper and he sweats
00:09:54things more than I do.
00:09:57But he's very different from the way I remember him back in the day.
00:10:03I've watched him grow to be very tolerant of all kinds of people's opinions.
00:10:09Where I think years ago, if you wasn't down with the program, you know, you couldn't
00:10:16hardly say anything to him.
00:10:18You know what I mean?
00:10:25We don't see any racial problems in Birmingham.
00:10:27Oh really?
00:10:27No.
00:10:28Scott and I live there and we love it.
00:10:30We both live fairly Anglo lives in Alabama.
00:10:35I don't have that much interaction with inner city blacks or anything but I don't feel threatened
00:10:41walking down the street and there's no chip on my shoulder and as far as I can tell no
00:10:44chip on any of their shoulders.
00:10:45Well that was going to be my next question, how I was going to ask you, how did you think
00:10:49blacks felt there?
00:10:50You're talking about where?
00:10:51Birmingham?
00:10:52But now in Birmingham, not 14 years ago.
00:10:54No, of course not.
00:10:54But I wanted to ask you, how do they feel?
00:10:56How would you feel?
00:10:56See, I don't agree with what Claire says but I still notice that throughout the African
00:11:01American community, I still think there are a lot of young people who still sense some
00:11:05resentment and get choked by the anger and resentment and can't break out of that and almost
00:11:12wallow at times in the anger and the resentment and instead of taking that energy and moving
00:11:17forward, it serves as a hindrance to their moving forward.
00:11:23There may be some truth in that but can you imagine how difficult it is to forge your head
00:11:28I don't know how.
00:11:29No you don't sir.
00:11:30And when you have never had an opportunity educationally, when you...
00:11:34But you don't know what it's like to be a white male in the South either.
00:11:37It ain't all bread and roses.
00:11:39I mean it's...
00:11:39But whites weren't slaves for centuries.
00:11:42But we don't live on the big rock candy mountain and the money doesn't grow on trees and it's
00:11:46not even easy for a white person either.
00:11:50It's hard, Pete.
00:11:51It's not easy for whites.
00:11:53No, it's not.
00:11:53I agree with you.
00:11:54Right, right.
00:11:55It's not.
00:11:55But you certainly, in any kind of intellectual honesty, you can't compare that with white
00:12:00blacks.
00:12:01You were too intelligent a man...
00:12:03No, no, no.
00:12:03I definitely agree with that.
00:12:04If you look at people...
00:12:04I will definitely agree with that.
00:12:05People that were treated like cows and chickens were denied bread was against the law to
00:12:10know how to read for centuries.
00:12:12Now what's the solution?
00:12:14The first thing in all of these problems that we talked about, I can give you the solution.
00:12:19Okay.
00:12:19The first thing is to admit.
00:12:22And that's hard.
00:12:23That's the hardest thing.
00:12:24That's the hardest part.
00:12:25Sure.
00:12:25And particularly for whites.
00:12:27Not a white man never will be.
00:12:28But I can imagine this is the most difficult thing whites will ever have to do.
00:12:32Is to admit categorically that we have had serious problems.
00:12:38We can't sugarcoat them.
00:12:40We can't cast blame on the victim.
00:12:43We have to say, hey, we screwed up.
00:12:45This was wrong.
00:12:46What can we do to make it right?
00:12:51Sister, sister, sister.
00:12:53Hmm.
00:12:54If you could have heard some of the stuff that came out of their mouth.
00:12:57Right.
00:12:58Part of the problem, no damn it, he said the problem, and I'm paraphrasing, was that young
00:13:06blacks have resentment in their heart.
00:13:10Well, what in the hell do you expect to have?
00:13:13So many people have a lack of knowledge about the 60s and the 70s and the whole, and the
00:13:19civil rights era and all of that, you know?
00:13:21Yeah.
00:13:21It's like they've been living in complete isolation.
00:13:24Isolation and have no idea.
00:13:25Or even about the rest of the world.
00:13:28That's, that's what blows my mind too.
00:13:30We'll find people that'll come in our presence now, and they'll talk about social issues and
00:13:35racial issues and things like this, but these are things they don't think about when
00:13:40they're not, they think they have to do this in our presence.
00:13:43And they mean well.
00:13:44No, but that's the killer.
00:13:45Sure.
00:13:45This is the killer.
00:13:46This is the killer.
00:13:47Yeah.
00:13:47They think in their mind that they are being as progressive, and they're saying, look,
00:13:54look, it's really your fault.
00:13:56He said it's your fault, or you're playing, you're a big part of the problem.
00:14:00But he means well.
00:14:01Yeah.
00:14:01I don't like that, do you?
00:14:03I know that's a big part of what we talk about and what we try to do, but I don't
00:14:07like
00:14:07it, do you?
00:14:09Truthfully.
00:14:09You mean dealing with those issues?
00:14:10No.
00:14:11I'm talking about the whole cross-cultural thing.
00:14:13When it brings that uncomfortable feeling, you know, I'd really, I'm not going to do
00:14:20this, but I'd really just say, hey, take that shit out of here, you know.
00:14:24Has there been any cooling off between you and the police in Kansas City?
00:14:27None whatsoever.
00:14:29There can never be any cooling off between the Black Panther Party and the racist pigs,
00:14:33regardless of what level of pigs we're talking about, until all oppression has been ended,
00:14:37until we've seen them all sent to their graves.
00:14:40When I look at that footage, I'm a little impressed with myself that I had the fortitude to say
00:14:47this and to say it on national TV.
00:14:51I have no qualms about what we were struggling for in the Black Panther Party.
00:14:55I think they were right.
00:14:57That's ludicrous.
00:14:58But when I see myself adopting a totally unreasonable stance, it almost says to me, I could have
00:15:05dealt with that better.
00:15:07And Eldridge Cleaver made the statement that he would like to go into the Senate, to shoot
00:15:12his way into the Senate and take McCollum's head.
00:15:14While Eldridge is doing that, I would like very much to shoot my way into the House of Representatives
00:15:18and get this racist, lying Icard's head.
00:15:21The interviewer, when I said that I wanted to take Congressman Icard's head, who headed the
00:15:27investigation against me, he said,
00:15:31Now when you say you want to take his head, you don't mean that literally.
00:15:37And I said,
00:15:38I mean it literally. I'd like to do that.
00:15:40And perhaps I did.
00:15:42Perhaps at that time I was thinking that going into the House of Representatives
00:15:48and taking the head of Icard would somehow further the revolution.
00:15:53Well, if that's how I thought then, it's not a reflection of how I feel now.
00:16:01What I need to do is just really practice the pronunciation.
00:16:05To me pata.
00:16:07See, I'm getting struggling already.
00:16:09Try to use it.
00:16:10Okay.
00:16:12To me pata, motherfucker.
00:16:17First, tell me the meaning. What does it mean?
00:16:19The meaning is understanding.
00:16:21Understanding, like between you and I.
00:16:23Yeah.
00:16:23Say we quarreled on certain matters.
00:16:26Yes.
00:16:26And then we said, okay, let's forget about our differences.
00:16:30Okay.
00:16:31So that understanding is called muwafaka.
00:16:35Good Lord in heaven.
00:16:40Muwafaka.
00:16:41Muwafaka.
00:16:42Okay.
00:16:44I understand why you try to avoid using that word.
00:16:48Yes, I am.
00:16:49Because there's a phrase in English that sounds very similar.
00:16:54And it means, certainly does not mean understanding.
00:16:57You know?
00:16:58Yes.
00:16:59When Peter came to Tanzania, he was young, provocative, very rough.
00:17:06I remember, you cannot talk to Peter three words without exchanging horrible words.
00:17:21One day in town, he had this panga, a big knife.
00:17:26And I don't know what happened, but he chased a man with his knife.
00:17:32So a lot of people came out, and everybody was saying, wow, wow, what is this, what is this?
00:17:37Then we saw it was Peter.
00:17:42In Tanzania, we don't do that.
00:17:45If you hate somebody, there is a way of giving the message that, I don't like you.
00:17:51But not chasing him in front of people, with a panga, with a knife, it doesn't happen.
00:18:04When Peter came here, he had some problems in his mind.
00:18:10I think he has some frustrations from America.
00:18:37I love the Tanzanian people.
00:18:40I think they are gentle, considerate, loving people.
00:18:44And things are so much more mellow here, so much more polite.
00:18:49But it's hard for me.
00:18:52Oftentimes, the elders will stop me and want to talk about some issue.
00:18:56I'm still with that little bit of Americanism in me, want to rush and do what I have to do.
00:19:03I am required to visit regularly, to bring gifts when I do so, and I must express the highest form
00:19:12of respect.
00:19:14I have to struggle with it.
00:19:16Don't do it this way.
00:19:17Don't say it that way.
00:19:18Be polite.
00:19:19Be polite.
00:19:19This is a daily struggle for me.
00:19:27Yesterday, I received an email about, my lawyer has done so much traumatic will take place,
00:19:34with our efforts to have my conviction thrown out and my legal situation.
00:19:39I really believe that.
00:19:45Now, what was that woman that was the Attorney General under Clinton?
00:19:49Janet Reno, that's it.
00:19:51This case even reached her desk.
00:19:54And she was, in a sense, sympathetic.
00:19:57She said, yes, I couldn't agree more that his conviction was probably politically motivated.
00:20:03She said, but it's going to have to be resolved in the courts or either a presidential pardon.
00:20:09Anyway, we'll see what happens.
00:20:10I'm confident, however, that eventually I will prevail.
00:20:15Somebody else give me a question.
00:20:17Okay.
00:20:17There's a tattoo over there.
00:20:19Oh, Lord, I knew someone would see that.
00:20:21You're the first one.
00:20:22Yeah, these were put on me when I was in the Navy.
00:20:25This faded, said Pete.
00:20:28This one says, Mom, I've never in my life called my mother Mom.
00:20:32Never in my entire life.
00:20:34Now, the creme de la creme.
00:20:36You ready?
00:20:37Yeah.
00:20:37Are we prepared for this?
00:20:39Is this one, which is a, what could I have been thinking?
00:20:44A turtle?
00:20:46Man, I've got stuff on me that I said, Lord, please, let no one see it before I die.
00:20:51You know, and you want to know one I got in Hong Kong?
00:20:54Let me show you.
00:20:55You want to see it?
00:20:55Yes, sir.
00:20:56This is not going to be salacious or anything.
00:20:58Don't get upset or worried.
00:21:00This is a Black Panther that I had put on in Hong Kong in 1958, long before a Black Panther
00:21:08party was ever thought about.
00:21:09Isn't that a little odd coincidence?
00:21:11Isn't that something?
00:21:12Yeah.
00:21:13We work with a lot of organizations, universities, and study abroad programs.
00:21:19Tourists come out here and they give us donations for staying here with us.
00:21:23So this is how we survive financially.
00:21:25We operate and we function on a wing and a prayer.
00:21:39See, we're talking about water situations, sister, it's bad.
00:21:42This could get disastrous, you know?
00:21:45Let me tell you everybody, may I make a suggestion?
00:21:48Please forgive the indelicate subject at the dinner table.
00:21:51Yeah.
00:21:52But when you pee, don't flush the toilet.
00:21:54Do not flush the toilet when you pee.
00:21:57And when you take showers, please be brief.
00:22:09One of our major difficulties in living here in this village is our lack of water and the
00:22:15fact that our water supply is so uncertain.
00:22:21When there's no rain, everybody's battling trying to get a little bit more water.
00:22:27Oh, this can't be.
00:22:29This is a holy mess.
00:22:33There's a trickle of water coming in from the park.
00:22:36The water is the absolute last of our reserves.
00:22:40We have nothing else.
00:22:48I had a real bad stomachache.
00:22:50I started getting fever.
00:22:52And now I'm coughing a lot.
00:22:54I think it's bronchitis.
00:22:55I've had it before.
00:22:56And now I'm throwing up.
00:22:57I can't eat anything.
00:23:01I've been wearing a temperature between 100 and 101 for three days.
00:23:06Do you have headache?
00:23:07Yes.
00:23:08It's not real bad.
00:23:09But I do have headache.
00:23:11At first I thought maybe it was malaria.
00:23:13Then I'll sit here.
00:23:23Yeah.
00:23:26There's scant malaria.
00:23:27So you would need some antibiotics also.
00:23:30And there's malaria.
00:23:44So it's a terrible win.
00:23:46So you got bronchitis?
00:23:48You got malaria?
00:23:49That's right.
00:23:51How did you know that was afraid of typhoid?
00:23:54Yeah.
00:23:55I'm not hearing that.
00:23:57I bet your head was hurting though.
00:23:58Yeah.
00:23:58Mm-hmm.
00:24:00Yeah.
00:24:04Oh, Neil.
00:24:06Yeah, come on.
00:24:08Yeah, here we go.
00:24:10You got to worry about things like malaria parasites.
00:24:14There's other parasites that you got to always be aware of.
00:24:18There's all kinds of problems that would be different in the states and non-existent
00:24:22in the states.
00:24:23But then when I look around and see all these trees and all this beauty and the birds singing,
00:24:29I know I can go around the compound and go into the classroom and see all those students,
00:24:35you know, working and thriving.
00:24:38Any kind of inconvenience that we experience is nothing compared to that.
00:24:43Because I know we wouldn't be able to live a life like this in the states.
00:24:47No way.
00:24:49Charlotte is probably one of the most positive human beings that I've ever met in my life
00:24:54and she can deal with anything.
00:24:56But we get malaria far too much.
00:24:59We actually are getting malaria three and four times a year.
00:25:08It's the most horrendous disease.
00:25:11I think malaria kills more people in the suburbs, Saharan Africa, than anything else, including AIDS.
00:25:18The parasites hide in the liver and at times of stress, they come out.
00:25:23Okay, you can completely rid them out of your body.
00:25:26Aching and chills and sweating and fever.
00:25:31It's horrible.
00:25:34This is just taking...
00:25:38That's so nice we got a show like this we can enjoy.
00:25:41Did it.
00:25:42As Albert Einstein said, the world is a dangerous place to live in.
00:25:46Not because people do evil, but because people sit by and let them.
00:25:52Good point, brother.
00:25:55Congratulations.
00:25:56You qualified for the state tournament.
00:25:57I know this one.
00:25:58Watch it.
00:25:59Please, please.
00:26:00He's upset about something.
00:26:03Yeah, you can see it right there.
00:26:05Look at that all tight face.
00:26:09Oh, now that's smart.
00:26:12Is that a teacher?
00:26:13Yeah, I think she flipped out or something.
00:26:16Look at her.
00:26:19Whoa.
00:26:20Everything okay?
00:26:21Okay.
00:26:22We're going to have another student teacher affair developing there.
00:26:29See, I see through all that squish.
00:26:33He's running that squish for getting closer to it, you see.
00:26:36White middle class kids.
00:26:38In case you hadn't noticed, I'm leaving.
00:26:39Not everything is black and white, Mr. Jackson.
00:26:42Standardized tests.
00:26:43I'm speaking now, sir.
00:26:45Uh-oh.
00:26:46The testing board is comprised of a broad spectrum.
00:26:49It's funny how 53% of white kids answered that same question correctly when only 22% of black kids
00:26:54did.
00:26:54How do you know this?
00:26:55I know it because I read about it.
00:26:57Well, run it then.
00:26:59Education ceases to be learning with the three R's are read, remember, and regurgitate.
00:27:04Uh-oh.
00:27:06Oh, that was a good one, wasn't it?
00:27:15Oh, that was a great fall to me.
00:27:19Only two of us will help our children.
00:27:19Yeah, the next few leaders.
00:27:19Go back and watch the game for a first time.
00:27:19Okay, if you guys are in a minute.
00:27:24We'll have a great time.
00:27:24The next few days we've got a nice week.
00:27:25All right, we've been here.
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