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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's 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.
00:02:40She'd never been away from home.
00:02:41And I was 30 days.
00:02:44I cannot imagine that I would have been able to succeed without her.
00:02:50I do not have the ability to deal with details.
00:02:54I can't.
00:02:55Charlotte coordinates everything.
00:02:58Pete?
00:03:00Pete?
00:03:00Pete?
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.
00:03:14Uh-huh.
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 gonna be the first person to have a cholesterol level of 589 and survive.
00:03:39How are you doing?
00:03:40Oh, I'm selling it.
00:03:42I'm selling it.
00:03:44Five...
00:03:45Is that better than the list here?
00:03:46Yeah.
00:03:46Two names.
00:03:47Okay.
00:03:48Tidasa!
00:03:51Tidasa!
00:03:51Tidasa!
00:03:52Hurry up!
00:03:53Come on.
00:03:54He called.
00:03:54He didn't know mimic while you are.
00:03:55Good morning!
00:03:59How y'all doing?
00:04:00Hi.
00:04:02Our differing personalities have combined to create a hole that has been extraordinarily productive.
00:04:14productive we'd like to welcome you all to the united african-american community center
00:04:20myself charlotte o'neill my husband pete o'neill founded the united african-american community
00:04:27center in 91 but we have been doing community work for years and years in kansas city as members of
00:04:35the black panther party where we fed more than 750 children every day and had free medical clinics
00:04:42people think of the black panther party mostly due to the media they think of young men with guns and
00:04:49braids 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 who
00:05:31have computer skills they teach computers to our young people human hiv is a human virus what we're
00:05:44trying to do here is create a microcosm of what we feel the world should be people of all races
00:05:50all
00:05:50cultures 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
00:07:00considered wrong the black panther party turned my life dramatically around i bet a lot of the can you
00:07:10imagine how a lot of the elders in the village would would view that who is this i said well
00:07:15that's mama
00:07:16charlie they 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
00:10:50there you're talking about where birmingham but now i'm growing and not not of course 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 right it's not but
00:11:55you
00:11:56certainly in any kind of intellectual honesty you can't compare that no with what blacks with you
00:12:01you're too intelligent a man i definitely agree to look at people that people that were treated like
00:12:06cows and chickens i don't do that was against the law to know how to read for centuries now what's
00:12:13the
00:12:13solution this is the first thing in all of these problems that we've talked about i can give you the
00:12:18solution the first thing is to admit and that's hard that's the hardest thing that's the hardest part
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 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 uh young blacks have resentment in their heart well what in the hell do you expect so many
00:13:14people have lack of knowledge about the 60s and 70s and the whole and the civil rights era and all
00:13:20of
00:13:20that you know yeah it's like they've been living in complete isolation and have no idea or even about
00:13:26the rest of the world that's that's what blows my mind too we'll find people that'll come in our
00:13:32presence now and they'll talk about social issues and racial issues and things like this but these are
00:13:38things they don't think about when they're not and they think they have to do this in our presence
00:13:44that's the killer this is the killer this is the killer they think in their mind that they are being
00:13:51as
00:13:51progressive and they're saying look look it's really your fault he said it's your fault or are
00:13:57you playing you're a big part of the problem but he means well yeah i don't like that do you
00:14:03i know
00:14:03that's a big part of what we talk about and what we try to do but i don't like it
00:14:08do you
00:14:10no i'm talking about the whole cross-cultural thing when it when it when it brings that
00:14:16uncomfortable feeling you know i'd really i'm not going to do this but i'd really just say hey
00:14:21take that out of here you know has there been any cooling off between you and the police in kansas
00:14:27city none whatsoever there can never be any cooling off between the black panther party and the racist
00:14:32pigs regardless of what level of pigs we're talking about until all oppression has been ended until
00:14:38we've seen them all sent to their graves when i look at that footage uh i'm a little impressed with
00:14:44myself that i had the fortitude to say this and to say it on national tv exploited
00:14:50i have no qualms about what we were struggling for in the black panther party i think they were
00:14:56right that's ludicrous but when i see myself adopting a totally unreasonable stance it almost
00:15:04says to me i could have dealt with that better and eldridge cleaver made the statement that he would
00:15:09like to go into the senate to shoot his way into the senate and take mccullen's head while eldridge
00:15:15is doing that i would like very much to shoot my way into the house of representatives and get this
00:15:19racist lying icard's head the interviewer when i said that i wanted to take congressman icard's head
00:15:26who headed the investigation against me he said now when you say you want to take his head
00:15:33you don't mean that literally and i said i mean it literally i'd like to do that and perhaps i
00:15:41did
00:15:42perhaps at that time i was thinking that going into the uh house of representative and taking the head
00:15:49of icard would somehow further the revolution well if that's how i thought then it's not a reflection of
00:15:57how i feel now what i need to do is just really practice the pronunciation to me pata see i'm
00:16:07getting
00:16:08struggling already try to use okay to me pata motherfucker first tell me the meaning what does
00:16:18it mean the meaning is understanding understanding like between you and i yeah say we borrowed on
00:16:25certain matters yes and then we said okay let's forget about our differences yes so that understanding
00:16:32is called muafaka good lord in heaven
00:16:41muafaka okay i understand why you try to avoid using that way yes i am because there's a phrase in
00:16:50in
00:16:50in 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 i remember you cannot talk to peter
00:17:12you know three words without exchanging horrible words one 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 so a lot of people came
00:17:34out and
00:17:34everybody was saying wow wow what is this what is this then we saw it was peter in tanzania we
00:17:44don't do
00:17:44that if you hate somebody you there is a way of uh giving the message that when i don't like
00:17:51you
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 i think he has some frustrations from america
00:18:21love the way on a baby
00:18:38i love the tanzanian people i think they are gentle considerate loving people and things are so
00:18:46much more mellow here so much more polite but it's hard for me
00:18:50who you need to 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
00:19:03i 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
00:19:19this is a daily struggle for me
00:19:27yesterday i received an email about my lawyer is done so much dramatic will take place uh with
00:19:35our efforts to have my conviction thrown out and my legal situation i really believe that
00:19:45now 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 that
00:19:59uh
00:19:59that his conviction was probably politically motivated she said but it's going to have to be resolved in the
00:20:06courts or either a presidential pardon anyway we'll see what happens i'm confident however
00:20:12that eventually i will prevail somebody else give me a question
00:20:17there's a tattoo oh lord i knew someone would see that you're the first one yeah these were put
00:20:23on me when i was in the navy this faded said pete this one says mom i've never in my
00:20:31life called my
00:20:31mother mom never in my entire life now the creme de la creme ready are we are we prepared for
00:20:39this
00:20:39there's this one which is a what could what could i have been thinking a 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 and you
00:20:52want to know what i got in hong kong let me show you you want to see this is not
00:20:56going to be salacious
00:20:57or anything like don't get upset or worry this is a black panther that i had put on in hong
00:21:04kong in 1958
00:21:06long before a black panther party was ever thought about isn't that just a little odd coincidence isn't
00:21:11that something yeah we work with a lot of organizations universities and study abroad programs
00:21:18tourists come out here and they give us donations for staying here with us so this is how we survive
00:21:24financially we operate and we function on a wing and a prayer
00:21:39let's see we talk about water situation sister is bad this could get disastrous you know let let me
00:21:45tell you everybody may i make make a suggestion please forgive the indelicate subject at the dinner
00:21:51table yeah but when you pee don't flush the toilet do not flush the toilet when you pee and when
00:21:58you
00:21:58take showers please be brief
00:22:09one of our major difficulties in living here in this village is our lack of water and the fact that
00:22:16our water supply is so uncertain when there's no rain everybody's battling trying to get a little bit
00:22:26more water this can't be this is a holy mess there's a trickle of water coming in from the park
00:22:36the water
00:22:37water is the absolute last of our reserves we have nothing else
00:22:48i had 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
00:23:01i've been on a temperature between 100 and 101 for three days you have headache yes it's not real bad
00:23:09but i do have headache at first i thought maybe it was malaria then
00:23:26so you would need some antibiotics also and get malaria
00:23:44so it's a double win so you got bronchitis you got malaria that's right
00:23:51how did you know that i was afraid of typhoid
00:23:55hmm i'm not hearing it but your head was hurting though
00:24:00yeah
00:24:01oh yeah come on yeah here we go
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 going to the classroom and see all
00:24:33those students you know working and thriving any kind of inconvenience that we experience is nothing
00:24:42compared to that because i know we wouldn't be able to live a life like this in the states no
00:24:47way
00:24:49charlotte is probably one of the most positive human beings that i've ever met in my life and
00:24:54she can deal with anything but we get malaria far too much we actually are getting malaria three and four
00:25:02times 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
00:25:22they come out okay you can completely rid them out of your body aching and chills and sweating and
00:25:30fever it's horrible this is just taking
00:25:38that's so nice we got a show like this we can enjoy it
00:25:42did it as 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 congratulations you qualified for the state firm i know this was going to march it
00:25:59well he'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
00:26:12is that a teacher yeah i think she flipped out or something look at it
00:26:22okay we're gonna have another student teacher
00:26:26affair developing there see i see through all that squish
00:26:32he's he's he's running that squish for getting closer to it you see white middle class keys in case
00:26:38you had notice i'm leaving not everything is black and white mr jackson standardized tests i'm speaking
00:26:44now sir oh testing board is comprised of a broad spectrum of funny how 53 percent of white kids
00:26:51answered that same question correctly when only 22 percent of black kids did how do you know this
00:26:55i know it because i read about it well run it then education ceases to be learning with the three
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00:27:01are read remember and regurgitate oh oh that was a good one wasn't it
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