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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.
00:02:39She'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.
00:03:58Good morning.
00:03:59Good morning.
00:03:59How y'all doing?
00:04:00Good morning.
00:04:02How y'all doing?
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.
00:05:39Human. 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.
00:06:41Right 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.
00:06:56Before 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.
00:07:07The Black Panther Party turned my life away.
00:07:09I bet a lot of the, can you imagine, how a lot of the elders in the village would view
00:07:14this.
00:07:15Who is this? I said, oh that's Mama Charlotte. They say, who? What's she doing with the gun?
00:07:20Yeah, is she going hunting or what?
00:07:24Do 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.
00:07:39This is like coming home.
00:07:41And it really was.
00:07:42You had this puzzled expression on your face.
00:07:45I don't know about that many.
00:07:47Do you know when I got off the plane here, and this is the truth, Shirley.
00:07:51Now, 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.
00:08:29I said, oh, boy, I'm going to be a great girl.
00:08:33I said, oh, my brother.
00:08:35Wait a minute.
00:08:38Wait a minute.
00:08:39How much is it?
00:08:42All right.
00:08:43What's it going to do?
00:08:51I'm going to go again.
00:08:53I'm going to go.
00:08:54I said, oh, my sister, I got my mother.
00:08:55I said, oh.
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 because he's more hyper.
00:09:52And 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 I'm growing him, not 14 years ago.
00:10:54No, of course not.
00:10:54But I wanted to ask you, how do they feel?
00:10:56I don't agree with what Claire says.
00:10:58But I still notice that throughout the African-American community, I still think that a lot of young people
00:11:04who still sense some resentment and get choked by the anger and the resentment and can't break out of that
00:11:09and almost wallow at times in the anger and the resentment.
00:11:14And 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.
00:11:25But can you imagine how difficult it is to forge your head when you have never had an opportunity educationally?
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.
00:11:39But whites weren't slaves for centuries.
00:11:42But if 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, it's hard, Pete.
00:11:51It's not easy for whites.
00:11:53No, it's not.
00:11:53I agree with you.
00:11:54It's not.
00:11:55But you certainly, in any kind of intellectual honesty, you can't compare that with what blacks were.
00:12:01You were too intelligent a man to look at people that were treated like cows and chickens
00:12:07were denied 100% against the law to know 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.
00:12:19The first thing is to admit.
00:12:21And that's hard.
00:12:23That's the hardest thing.
00:12:24That's the hardest part.
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.
00:12:42We 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.
00:12:53If 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,
00:13:03was that young blacks 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,
00:13:18and the civil 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 what blows my mind, too.
00:13:30We'll find people that'll come in our presence now,
00:13:33and they'll talk about social issues and racial issues and things like this,
00:13:37but these are things they don't think about when they're not,
00:13:40and they think they have to do this in our presence.
00:13:43Because they mean well.
00:13:44No, but that's the killer.
00:13:45This is the killer.
00:13:46This is the killer.
00:13:47They think in their mind that they are being as progressive,
00:13:52and they're saying, look, look, it's really your fault.
00:13:56He said it's your fault.
00:13:57Are you playing a big part of the problem?
00:14:00Yeah.
00:14:00But he means well.
00:14:01Yeah.
00:14:02I 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,
00:14:07but I don't like it, do you?
00:14:09You mean you're dealing with those issues?
00:14:10No, I'm talking about the whole cross-cultural thing,
00:14:13when it brings that uncomfortable feeling, you know.
00:14:18I'd really, I'm not going to do this,
00:14:20but 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?
00:14:28None whatsoever.
00:14:28There can never be any cooling off between the Black Panther Party
00:14:31and the racist pigs, regardless of what level of pigs we're talking about,
00:14:35until all oppression has been ended, until we've seen them all sent to their graves.
00:14:40When I look at that footage,
00:14:43I'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.
00:14:57But when I see myself adopting a totally unreasonable stance,
00:15:03it 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,
00:15:11to shoot his way into the Senate and take McCollum's head.
00:15:14But while 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 Eichard's head.
00:15:22The interviewer, when I said that I wanted to take Congressman Eichard's head,
00:15:26who 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.
00:15:37And I said, I 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 Eichard 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.
00:16:07See, I'm getting struggling already.
00:16:09Try to use it.
00:16:10Okay.
00:16:13Tumeipata, muafaka.
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.
00:16:30Yes.
00:16:31So that understanding is called muafaka.
00:16:35Good Lord in heaven.
00:16:40Muafaka.
00:16:41Muafaka.
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.
00:16:53And it means, certainly does not mean understanding.
00:16:57You 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.
00:17:26And I don't know what happened.
00:17:28But he chased a man with his knife.
00:17:32So a lot of people came out.
00:17:34And 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,
00:17:50Bwana, I don't like you.
00:17:52But not chasing him in front of people.
00:17:55With a panga.
00:17:57With a knife.
00:17:59It 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.
00:18:14I think he has some frustrations from America.
00:18:20Shoot.
00:18:21Grab the way on that baby.
00:18:23She can cheat me.
00:18:24I'm going to get you.
00:18:26I'm going to get you.
00:18:38I love the Tanzanian people.
00:18:40I think they are gentle, considerate, loving people.
00:18:44And things are so much more mellow here.
00:18:47So much more polite.
00:18:49But it's hard for me.
00:18:51Who do you need to do 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.
00:19:19This is a daily struggle for me.
00:19:27Yesterday, I received an email about, my lawyer has done so much traumatic will take place 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 janet reno that's it
00:19:50this case even reached her desk and uh she was in a sense sympathetic she said yes i couldn't
00:19:58agree more that uh that his conviction was probably politically motivated she said but
00:20:04it's going to have to be resolved in the courts or either a presidential pardon anyway we'll see
00:20:10what happens i'm confident however that eventually i will prevail somebody else give me a question
00:20:17was a tattoo oh lord i knew someone would see that you're the first one yet these were put on
00:20:23me when
00:20:23i was in the navy this faded said pete this one says mom i've never in my life called my
00:20:31mother mom
00:20:32never in my entire life now the creme de la creme you ready are we are we prepared for this
00:20:39is this
00:20:40one which is a what could what could i have been thinking a turtle man i've got stuff on me
00:20:48that i
00:20:48said lord please let no one see it before i die you know and you want to know what i
00:20:53got in hong kong
00:20:54let me show you you want to see it this is not going to be salacious or anything i don't
00:20:58get upset or
00:20:59worried this is a black panther that i had put on in hong kong in 1958 long before a black
00:21:07panther party
00:21:08was ever thought about isn't that just a little odd coincidence isn't that something yeah we work
00:21:13with a lot of organizations universities and study abroad programs tourists come out here and they give
00:21:20us donations for staying here with us so this is how we survive financially we operate and we function
00:21:34on a way in a prayer
00:21:35i see we talk about water situation sister is bad this could get disastrous you know let me tell you
00:21:46everybody may i make make a suggestion please forgive the indelicate subject at the dinner table but when you pee
00:21:53don't flush the toilet do 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 fact that
00:22:16our water supply is so uncertain
00:22:21when there's no rain everybody's battling trying to get a little bit more water
00:22:26oh this can't be
00:22:29this is a holy mess
00:22:33there's a trickle
00:22:34of water coming in from the park
00:22:36the water is the absolute
00:22:38last of our reserves we have
00:22:40nothing else
00:22:48i 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
00:23:01i've been on a temperature between 100 and 101 for three days
00:23:06do you have headache
00:23:07yes it's not real bad but i do have headache at first i thought maybe it was malaria then
00:23:14let's get to it
00:23:27so you need some antibiotics also
00:23:29and get malaria
00:23:44so it's a trouble
00:23:46so you got bronchitis you got malaria
00:23:48that's right
00:23:51how did you know that i was afraid of typhoid
00:23:54hmm
00:23:55i'm not hearing it
00:23:56but your head was hurting though
00:23:58yeah
00:23:58mm-hmm
00:24:01yeah
00:24:01yeah
00:24:04oh yeah
00:24:06yeah come on
00:24:07yeah here we go
00:24:10you gotta worry about things like
00:24:12malaria parasites
00:24:14there's other parasites that you gotta 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
00:24:22but 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
00:24:37anything
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
00:24:58we actually are getting malaria three and four times a year
00:25:08it's the most horrendous disease i think malaria kills more people in suburbs saharan africa than anything else including aids
00:25:17the parasites the parasites hide in the liver
00:25:20and 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
00:25:45not because people do evil
00:25:48but because people sit by
00:25:50and let them
00:25:51sorry
00:25:52good point
00:25:54congratulations you qualified for the state tournament
00:25:57i know this was going to march it
00:25:59he
00:26:00he's upset about something
00:26:02yeah i can see it right there
00:26:04look at that all tight face
00:26:09oh now that's that's smart
00:26:12is that a teacher
00:26:14yeah i think she flipped out or something
00:26:16look at her
00:26:19whoa
00:26:20everything okay
00:26:22we're gonna have another student teacher
00:26:27affair developing there
00:26:29see i see through all that squish
00:26:32he's he's running that squish for getting closer to it you see
00:26:36white middle class kids
00:26:37in case you hadn't noticed i'm leaving
00:26:39not everything is black and white
00:26:41mr jackson
00:26:42standardized tests
00:26:43i'm speaking now sir
00:26:45uh-oh
00:26:46testing board is comprised of a broad spectrum
00:26:49of funny how fifty three percent of white kids
00:26:51answered that same question correctly when only twenty two percent of black kids did
00:26:54how do you know this
00:26:55i know it
00:26:56because 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
00:27:03uh-oh
00:27:06that was a good one wasn't it
00:27:21can we use k
00:27:34to be learning how to persevere
00:27:37this
00:27:37time
00:27:37rude
00:27:37have
01:01:52What are you doing?
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