Black Panther: Why We Are Building Our Own Medical Center

First of all, the Black Panther Party is tuned to the needs of black people and other oppressed people. It has opened a free medical center for the same purposes we opened a free breakfast center and free breakfast program: to let the people know we are concerned with their basic needs and desires, to educate them about the fundamentals of socialism, and to heighten the contradictions within this capitalistic system.

When I mean heighten the contradictions all I’m saying is that let the people be aware of the fact that the black panther party an organization which has only been existing 1966, is taking care of people, helping them as far as health care is concerned, and the federal government with all this wealth and resources not doing anything on a major scale you know, we in the black panther party believe that there is violence in this system, when I say violence I’m not talking about the overt violence usually associated with the club, the knife or the gun.