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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.
00:01:50This is a village.
00:02:01The elephants take and grab out with their tusks and pull out the pipe and break them, huh?
00:02:08Oh, that's kind of scary.
00:02:16I'm hoping and praying that this will perhaps alleviate some of our water problems.
00:02:21Doesn't look very promising right now, but fingers crossed.
00:02:36When I brought Charlotte out here, she was 19 years old.
00:02:39She'd never been away from home.
00:02:42And I was 30 then.
00:02:45I cannot imagine that I would have been able to succeed without her.
00:02:50I do not have the ability to deal with details. I can't.
00:02:56Charlotte coordinates everything.
00:02:58Pete? Pete?
00:03:01Sorry to be so rush, rush, but I got another meeting this afternoon.
00:03:05I need to know how we can do today.
00:03:07Because, you know, I got to go to Rotary.
00:03:09And then I got this...
00:03:11I know this is a running day.
00:03:13They got me going.
00:03:15I'm just trying to work out how we can do transit.
00:03:17I can be a little impatient at times and have developed into a grumpy old man.
00:03:23Are you leaving now?
00:03:24And, uh, Charlotte is, uh, angelic by nature.
00:03:32I'm setting a new record for cholesterol.
00:03:34I'm going to be the first person to have a cholesterol level of 589 and survive.
00:03:40Oh, really?
00:03:40I'm telling you.
00:03:42Come here.
00:03:44Are you...
00:03:46Yeah.
00:03:46Two names, let's see.
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00:03:48Hidasa.
00:03:50Hidasa.
00:03:52Hurry up.
00:03:53Come on.
00:03:54You go.
00:03:57Good morning.
00:03:59Good morning.
00:03:59How y'all doing?
00:04:00How are you?
00:04:02Our differing personalities have combined to create 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
00:04:28but 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
00:04:43think of the black panther party mostly due to the media they think of young men with guns and
00:04:49berets and leather jackets and that's true but we were much more than that
00:04:56the really good things about the black panther party was the manner in which it served the community
00:05:02how old is he how old is he he is if you look at what we're doing right now you
00:05:10would find it
00:05:10difficult to distinguish the community work we were doing back in the day and the community work we're
00:05:16doing now do you know we're dealing with 90 students a day how are you i'm fine if we have
00:05:23someone who
00:05:24has ability to teach english we teach english you have been involving yourself if we find volunteers
00:05:30who have computer skills they teach computers to our young people human hiv is a human virus what
00:05:44we're trying to do here is create a microcosm of what we feel the world should be people of all
00:05:50races
00:05:50all 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 the 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
00:06:37of our black community of our black community of our black community right on our breakfast
00:06:43school children program our counseling programs our clothing programs all evolved from that original
00:06:52foundation before the black panther party i did many things that by anyone's standards would be considered
00:07:01wrong the black panther party turned my life dramatically around i bet a lot of the can you imagine
00:07:11how a lot of the elders in the village would would view that who is this i said oh that's
00:07:16mama charlie
00:07:16they say who yeah what's she doing with a gun yeah is she going hunting or what
00:07:24do you remember when we first came to dorsaline to tanzania and i remember when we walked out of that
00:07:30airport and how warm it was and it was those those coconut trees you know i said pete i love
00:07:38this this
00:07:39is like coming home and it really was you had this puzzled expression on your face i don't know what
00:07:46that
00:07:47do you know when i got off the plane here and this is the truth charlie now all kidding aside
00:07:52now
00:07:53i didn't have a good feeling i just didn't sister and we've talked about this a lot and i generally
00:07:59make light of it but it was able to me it was just like i had gotten too far away
00:08:04from everything
00:08:05that i knew and it amazes me how you didn't feel that way huh i guess you were just as
00:08:10happy as a
00:08:11dead pig in the sunshine huh for me i was saying oh boy i saw the tin roofs with the
00:08:19rusted iron
00:08:20and i said uh-oh i said we are in for some for a different kind of life
00:08:37i don't know how much how much is it uh
00:09:14that's been most of my life shopping and buying supplies we feed 20 to 30 people daily we've got
00:09:21our programs we have student groups coming through we've got all these people visiting
00:09:26we've got people on honeymoon people just passing through we are in constant motion
00:09:42i have a peaceful kind of floating in the clouds nature that's just me and it balances out
00:09:49uh the way pete is because he's more hyper and he sweats things more than i do but he's very
00:09:59different from the way i remember him back in the day i've watched him grow to be very tolerant of
00:10:07all kind of people's opinions where i think years ago if you wasn't down with the program you know
00:10:16you couldn't normally say anything to him you know what i mean
00:10:25we don't see any racial problems in birmingham oh really no i mean we just got and i live there
00:10:29and we love it we both live fairly anglo lives and in alabama we don't i don't have that much
00:10:37interaction with with inner city blacks or anything but i don't feel threatened walking down the street
00:10:41and there's no chip on my shoulder and as far as i can tell no chip on any of their
00:10:45shoulders well
00:10:45that was going to be my next question how i was going to ask you how did you think blacks
00:10:49felt there
00:10:50you're talking about where birmingham but now i'm growing and not not of course years but i wanted to
00:10:55ask you how do they feel how would you see i don't agree with their assessment i still notice that
00:10:59throughout uh the african-american community i still think there are a lot of young people who still
00:11:04sense some resentment and get choked by the anger and resentment and can't break out of that and and
00:11:11almost uh wallow at times in the anger and resentment and instead of taking that energy moving forward
00:11:18it it it it serves as a as a hindrance to their to their moving forward there may be some
00:11:24truth in
00:11:24that but can you imagine how difficult it is to forge your head i don't know when you no you
00:11:29don't
00:11:30sir and when you when you have never had an opportunity educationally when you but you don't
00:11:35know what it's like to be a white male in in the south either it ain't all bread and roses
00:11:39i mean it's
00:11:39uh whites whites weren't slaves for centuries but we don't live on the big rock candy mountain and the
00:11:44money doesn't grow on trees and it's not even easy for a white person either miss it's hard pete
00:11:51it's not easy it's not easy for whites no it's not i agree with you right it's not but you
00:11:56certainly
00:11:56in any kind of intellectual honesty you can't compare that no with what blacks with you you're
00:12:01too intelligent a man i definitely agree to look at people that people that were treated like cows and
00:12:07chickens were denied was against the law to know how to read for centuries now what's the solution
00:12:14this is the first thing in all of these problems that we've talked about i can give you the solution
00:12:19the first thing is to admit and that's hard that's the hardest thing that's the hardest part and
00:12:25particularly for whites not a white man never will be but i can imagine this is the most difficult
00:12:31thing whites will ever have to do is to admit categorically that we have had serious problems
00:12:37we can't sugarcoat them we can't cast blame on the victim we have to say hey we screwed up this
00:12:45was
00:12:45wrong what can we do to make it right sister sister sister if you could have heard some of the
00:12:55stuff
00:12:56that came out of their mouth part of the problem no damn it he said the problem and i'm paraphrasing
00:13:03was that young blacks have resentment in their heart well what in the hell do you expect so many people
00:13:14have lack of knowledge about the 60s and 70s and the whole and the civil rights era and all that
00:13:21you
00:13:21know yeah it's like they've been living in complete isolation and have no idea or even about the rest of
00:13:27the world yeah that's that's what blows my mind too we'll find people that will come in our presence
00:13:32now and they'll talk about social issues and racial issues and things like this but these are things they
00:13:38don't think about when they're not and they think they have to do this in our presence that's the killer
00:13:45this is the killer this is the killer they think in their mind that they are being as progressive
00:13:52and they're saying look look it's really your fault he said it's your fault are you playing you're a big
00:13:58part of the problem but he means well yeah i don't like that do you i know that's a big
00:14:04part of what we
00:14:05talk about and what we try to do but i don't like it do you you mean with those issues
00:14:10no i'm talking
00:14:11about the whole cross-cultural thing when it when it when it brings that uncomfortable feeling you know i'd
00:14:18really i'm not going to do this but i'd really just say hey take that out of here you know
00:14:24has
00:14:24there been any cooling off between you and the police in kansas city none whatsoever there can
00:14:29never be any cooling off between the black panther party and the racist pigs regardless of what level
00:14:34of pigs we're talking about until all oppression has been ended until we've seen them all sent to
00:14:39their graves when i look at that footage uh i'm a little impressed with myself that i had the
00:14:46fortitude to say this and to say it on national tv exploited i have no qualms about what we were
00:14:54struggling for in the black panther party i think they were right that's ludicrous but when i see myself
00:14:59adopting a totally unreasonable stance it almost says to me i could have dealt with that better
00:15:07and eldridge cleaver made the statement that he would like to go into the senate to shoot his way
00:15:12into the senate and take mccullens head while eldridge is doing that i would like very much to shoot my
00:15:17way into the house of representatives and get this racist lying icard's head the interviewer when i said
00:15:23that i wanted to take congressman icard's head who headed the investigation against me he said
00:15:31now when you say you want to take his head you don't mean that literally and i said i mean
00:15:38it
00:15:38literally i'd like to do that and perhaps i did perhaps at that time i was thinking that going into
00:15:46the
00:15:47house of representative and taking the head of icard would somehow further the revolution well if that's
00:15:55how i thought then it's not a reflection of how i feel now what i need to do is just
00:16:03really practice
00:16:03the pronunciation to me patta see i'm getting struggling already try to use okay to me patta
00:16:13motherfucker first tell me the meaning what does it mean the meaning is understanding understanding
00:16:21like between you and i yeah say we quarreled on certain matters yes and then we said okay
00:16:27be let's forget about okay differences yes so that understanding is called more
00:16:40more okay i understand why you try to avoid using that way yes i am because there's a phrase in
00:16:50in in
00:16:51english that sounds very similar and it means certainly does not mean understanding you know
00:16:59when peter came to tanzania he was young provocative very rough i remember you cannot
00:17:11talk to talk to peter three words without exchanging horrible words one day in town he had this panga
00:17:25a big knife and i don't know what happened but he chased a man with his knife so a lot
00:17:33of people came out
00:17:34and everybody was saying and everybody was saying wow wow what is this what is this then we saw it
00:17:40was peter
00:17:42in tanzania we don't do that if you hate somebody you there is a way of uh giving the message
00:17:50that
00:17:50when i don't like you but not chasing him in front of people with a panga with a knife it
00:17:59doesn'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
00:18:38i love the tanzanian people i think they are gentle considerate
00:18:43loving people and things are so much more mellow here so much more polite but it's hard for me
00:18:50who you need do me oftentimes 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
00:19:01i am required to visit regularly to bring gifts when i do so and i must express the highest form
00:19:12of
00:19:12respect i have to struggle with it don't do it this way don't say it that way be polite this
00:19:20is a daily
00:19:20struggle for me
00:19:27yesterday i received an email about my lawyer is done so much dramatic will take place uh with our
00:19:35efforts to have my conviction thrown out and my legal situation i really believe that
00:19:40you know what was that woman that was the attorney general under clinton janet reno that's it this case
00:19:51even reached her desk and uh she was in a sense sympathetic she said yes i couldn't agree more
00:19:59that uh that his conviction was probably politically motivated she said but it's going to have to be
00:20:05resolved in the courts or either a presidential pardon anyway we'll see what happens i'm confident
00:20:11however that eventually i will prevail somebody else give me a question okay there's a tattoo oh lord i
00:20:20knew someone would see that you're the first one yeah these were put on me when i was in the
00:20:24navy this
00:20:25faded said pete this one says mom i've never in my life called my mother mom never in my entire
00:20:33life
00:20:34now the creme de la creme you ready are we are we prepared for this is this one which is
00:20:41a what
00:20:42could what could i have been thinking a turtle man i've got stuff on me that i said lord please
00:20:49let
00:20:49no one see it before i die you know and you want to know one i got in hong kong
00:20:54let me show you you
00:20:55want to see this is not going to be salacious or anything i don't get upset or worried this is
00:21:00a black
00:21:01panther that i had put on in hong kong in 1958 long before a black panther party was ever thought
00:21:08about isn't that isn't that a little odd coincidence isn't that something yeah we work with a lot of
00:21:14organizations universities and study abroad programs tourists come out here and they give us donations
00:21:21for staying here with us so this is how we survive financially we operate and we function on a wing
00:21:28and a prayer
00:21:38we're talking about water situation sister is bad this could get disastrous you know let let me tell
00:21:46you everybody may i make make a suggestion please forgive the indelicate subject at the dinner table
00:21:51yeah but when you pee don't flush the toilet do not flush the toilet when you pee and when you
00:21:58take
00:21:58showers please be brief
00:22:09one of our major difficulties in living here in this village is our lack of water
00:22:14and the fact that our water supply is so uncertain when there's no rain everybody's battling trying
00:22:25to get a little bit more water well this can't be this is a holy mess there's a trickle of
00:22:35water coming
00:22:35in from the park the water is the absolute last of our reserves we have nothing else
00:22:48we have a real bad stomachache i started getting fever and now i'm coughing a lot i think it's bronchitis
00:22:55i've had it before and now i'm throwing up i can't eat anything
00:23:01been on a temperature between 100 and 101 for three days yes it's not real bad but i do have
00:23:10the first time maybe it was malaria again yeah there's scant malaria so you will need some antibiotics
00:23:44so it's a terrible win so you got bronchitis you got malaria that's right
00:24:10you got to worry about things like malaria parasites there's other parasites that you
00:24:16got to always be aware of there's all kind of problems that would be different in the states
00:24:21and non-existent in states but then when i look around and see all these trees and all this beauty
00:24:27and the birds singing and know i can go around the compound and go into the classroom and see all
00:24:33those
00:24:34students you know working and thriving any kind of inconvenience that we experience is nothing
00:24:42compared to compared to that because i know we wouldn't be able to live a life like this in the
00:24:46states no way charlotte 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 but we get malaria far too much we actually are getting malaria three and
00:25:01four times a year it's the most horrendous disease i think malaria kills more people in suburbs saharan
00:25:14africa than anything else including aids the 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 aching and chills and sweating and fever it's horrible
00:25:34this is just taking
00:25:38that's so nice we got a show like this we can enjoy
00:25:41as albert einstein said the world is a dangerous place to live in not because people do evil but
00:25:49because people sit by and let them
00:25:54congratulations you qualified for the state i know this was why i'm watching
00:26:00he's upset about something yeah you can see it right there they're all tight face
00:26:09oh now that's that's smart is that a teacher yeah i think she flipped out or something look at her
00:26:20whoa everything okay we're gonna have another student teacher
00:26:27affair developing there see i see through all that squish he's he's he's running that squish we're getting
00:26:35closer to it you see white middle class kids in case you hadn't noticed i'm leaving not everything is
00:26:40black and white mr jackson standardized tests i'm speaking now sir oh testing board is comprised of
00:26:48a broad spectrum it's funny how 53 percent of white kids answered that same question correctly when only
00:26:5322 percent of black kids did how do you know this i know it because i read about it well
00:26:57run it then
00:26:59education ceases to be learning with the three r's are read remember and regurgitate
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