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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.
00:01:49So here is where the elephants have been stepping.
00:02:00So these are how the elephants take and grab out with their tusks and pull out the pipe and break
00:02:06them.
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.
00:02:41And 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 rushed, rushed, but I got another meeting this afternoon.
00:03:04I 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 Charlotte is 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.
00:03:40I'm telling you.
00:03:55I'm telling you.
00:03:57Good morning.
00:03:59Good morning.
00:03:59How y'all doing?
00:04:00Good morning.
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.
00:04:20Myself, Charlotte O'Neal.
00:04:22My husband, Pete O'Neal, founded the United African American Community Center in 91.
00:04:2891.
00:04:29But we have been doing community work for years and years in Kansas City as members of the Black Panther
00:04:36Party,
00:04:36where we fed more than 750 children every day and had free medical clinics.
00:04:42When people think of the Black Panther Party, mostly due to the media,
00:04:46they think of young men with guns and berets and leather jackets, and that's true.
00:04:52But 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?
00:05:06He is 11.
00:05:07If you look at what we're doing right now, you would find it difficult to distinguish the community work we
00:05:13were doing back in the day
00:05:14and the community work we're doing now.
00:05:17Do you know we're dealing with 90 students a day?
00:05:21How are you, Asha? I'm fine, all right?
00:05:23If we have someone who has ability to teach English, we teach English.
00:05:29If we find volunteers who have computer skills, they teach computers to our young people.
00:05:40Human. HIV is a human virus.
00:05:44What 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.
00:06:09In 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 Panther Party.
00:06:22The Black Panther Party is officially in Kansas City.
00:06:28The Black Panther Party came into existence to try to control these mad dog policemen who were brutalizing people in
00:06:36the black community.
00:06:37The city of our black community. Of our black community.
00:06:40Of our black community. Right on.
00:06:42Our breakfast for school children program, our counseling programs, our clothing programs, all evolved from that original foundation.
00:06:53Before the Black Panther Party, I did many things that by anyone's standards would be considered wrong.
00:07:02The Black Panther Party turned my life dramatically around.
00:07:07Oh.
00:07:07Mm hmm.
00:07:08Sister Charlotte.
00:07:09Uh huh.
00:07:09I bet a lot of the, can you imagine.
00:07:11How lot of the elders in the village would view that, who is this?
00:07:15I said, oh that's Momma Charlotte.
00:07:17Mm hmm.
00:07:17They say, who?
00:07:18Yeah.
00:07:18What's she doing with a gun?
00:07:20Yeah.
00:07:20Is she going how and what?
00:07:22Hmm hmm.
00:07:23Now.
00:07:23Do you remember when we first came to Dorsalong, to Tanzania?
00:07:28And I remember when we walked out of that airport and how warm it was,
00:07:32and it was those coconut trees, you know.
00:07:36I said, Pete, I love this. This is like coming home.
00:07:41And it really was. You had this puzzled expression on your face.
00:07:45I don't know what that meant.
00:07:47Do you know when I got off the plane here, and this is the truth, Shirley.
00:07:50Now, all kidding aside, now, I didn't have a good feeling.
00:07:55I just didn't, sister.
00:07:57And we've talked about this a lot, and I generally make light of it.
00:08:00But to me, it was just like I had gotten too far away from everything that I knew.
00:08:06And it amazes me how you didn't feel that way.
00:08:09I guess you were just as happy as a dead pig in the sunshine, huh?
00:08:12For me, I was saying, oh, boy.
00:08:16I saw the tin roofs with the rusted iron, and I said, uh-oh.
00:08:22I said, we are in for a different kind of life.
00:08:35What were you doing?
00:08:38Good a man, tell us.
00:08:38coeur thinking.
00:08:38How did oneid's appreciate you?
00:08:39What did a minute say, this is everyone?
00:08:39Nothing
00:08:39Wait a minute, wait a minute.
00:08:40How much is it?
00:08:41You can понимate.
00:08:43Ones are safeNotes?
00:08:45Where are you going from?
00:08:50What ?"
00:08:51Where are you going?
00:08:52You're traveling.
00:08:53They're in English.
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.
00:09:22We have student groups coming through.
00:09:24We've got all these people visiting.
00:09:26We've got people on honeymoon, people just passing through.
00:09:31We are in constant motion.
00:09:42I have a peaceful kind of floating in the clouds nature.
00:09:48That's just me and it balances out the way Pete is
00:09:51because he's more hyper and he sweats things more than I do.
00:09:57But he's very different from the way I remember him back in the day.
00:10:02I'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 hardly say anything to
00:10:18him.
00:10:18You know what I mean?
00:10:25We don't see any racial problems in Birmingham.
00:10:27Oh really?
00:10:28No.
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.
00:10:39But I don't feel threatened walking down the street.
00:10:42And there's no chip on my shoulder.
00:10:43And as far as I can tell, no chip on any of their shoulders.
00:10:45Well that was going to be my next question.
00:10:47I was going to ask you, how did you think blacks felt there?
00:10:50You're talking about where? Birmingham?
00:10:52But now Birmingham.
00:10:53Not 40 years ago.
00:10:54Of course not.
00:10:54But I wanted to ask you, how do they feel?
00:10:56I don't agree with what Claire says, but I still notice that throughout the African American community,
00:11:02I still think there are a lot of young people who still sense some resentment and get choked by the
00:11:07anger and resentment
00:11:08and can't break out of that and almost wallow at times in the anger and resentment.
00:11:15And instead of taking that energy and moving forward, 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. I 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.
00:11:46And it's not 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. I agree with you.
00:11:55It's not. But you certainly, in any kind of intellectual honesty, you can't compare that with white blacks.
00:12:01You were too intelligent a man...
00:12:03No, no, no. I definitely agree with that.
00:12:04...to look at people...
00:12:04I will definitely agree with that.
00:12:05...that people that were treated like cows and chickens were denied bread was against the law to know how to
00:12:11read for centuries.
00:12:13Now, what's the solution?
00:12:14The first thing in all of these problems that we talked about, I can give you the solution.
00:12:19The first thing is to admit. And that's hard. That's the hardest thing. That's the hardest part.
00:12:25Sure.
00:12:25And particularly 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.
00:12:32It's to admit categorically that we have had serious problems. We can't sugarcoat them. We can't cast blame on the
00:12:42victim. We have to say, hey, we screwed up. This was wrong. What can we do to make it right?
00:12:51Sister, sister, sister. If you could have heard some of the stuff that came out of their mouth.
00:12:57Right.
00:12:58Part of the problem, or no, damn it, he said the problem, and I'm paraphrasing, was that young blacks have
00:13:07resentment 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 civil
00:13:19rights 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 racial issues and things
00:13:37like this, but these are things they don't think about when they're not, they think they have to do this
00:13:42in our presence.
00:13:43And they mean well.
00:13:44No, but that's the killer. This is the killer. This is the killer.
00:13:46Yeah.
00:13:47They think in their mind that they are being as progressive, and they're saying, look, look, 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, but he means well.
00:14:01Yeah.
00:14:01I don't like that, do you?
00:14:03Mm-hmm.
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 it, 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 when it, when it, when it brings that uncomfortable feeling, you know?
00:14:18I'd really, I'm not going to do this, but I'd really just say, hey, take that shit out of here,
00:14:23you know?
00:14:24Has there been any cooling off between you and the police in Kansas City?
00:14:28None whatsoever.
00:14:29There can never 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 their graves.
00:14:40When I look at that footage, I'm a little impressed with myself that I had the fortitude to say this
00:14:47and 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 dealt with
00:15:06that better.
00:15:07And Eldridge Cleaver made the statement that he would like to go into the Senate, to shoot his way into
00:15:12the 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 and
00:15:18get this racist, lying Eichard's head.
00:15:21The interviewer, when I said that I wanted to take Congressman Eichard's head, who headed the investigation against me, he
00:15:29said,
00:15:31Now when you say you want to take his head, you don't mean that literally.
00:15:37And I said, I mean it literally.
00:15:39I'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 and taking the head of Eichard
00:15:50would 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, see 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.
00:16:21Like 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.
00:16:30Yes.
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 and it means, certainly does not mean understanding, you know.
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, and I don't know what happened, but he chased
00:17:29a 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?
00:17:38Then 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.
00:17:52But 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 dramatic will take place with our efforts to
00:19:35have 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, you
00:20:51know.
00:20:52You 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.
00:21:56And 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.
00:23:44It's a terrible win.
00:23:46So you got bronchitis.
00:23:48You got malaria.
00:23:49That's right.
00:23:51You know that was afraid of typhoid.
00:23:54Hmm?
00:23:55I'm not hearing that.
00:23:56I don't know.
00:23:57But your head was hurting though.
00:23:58Yeah.
00:23:58I don't know.
00:23:59Yeah.
00:24:00I don't know.
00:24:05Yeah, 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 that are non-existent in 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, you know,
00:24:35working 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. No way.
00:24:49Charlotte is probably one of the most positive human beings that I've ever met in my life, and she can
00:24:54deal 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.
00:25:17The 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.
00:25:27Aching and chills and sweating and fever.
00:25:32It's horrible.
00:25:34This is just taking...
00:25:39That's so nice we got a show like this, we can enjoy 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.
00:25:51Sorry.
00:25:52Good point, bro.
00:25:53Mm-hmm.
00:25:55Congratulations, you qualified for the state tournament.
00:25:57I know this one, watch it.
00:25:59Please, please, please.
00:26:00He's upset about something.
00:26:03Yeah, you can see it right there.
00:26:04Look at that, all tight-faced.
00:26:09Oh, now that's smart.
00:26:12Is that a teacher?
00:26:13Yeah, I think she's flipped out or something.
00:26:16Look at her.
00:26:19Whoa.
00:26:20Everything okay?
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 are...
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
00:26:53when only 22% of black kids did.
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 when the three R's are read, remember, and regurgitate.
00:27:04Uh-oh.
00:27:06Oh, that was a good one, wasn't it?
00:27:28No.
00:27:28Customers.
00:27:44You had some Netflix spices.
00:27:45Uh-oh.
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