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¢ x te <i “~ n we Lote te Me . x) yout © sey n 7 isd af re ol : pete ony 2a f es i tAS ' .oe .. 5 an od Sag veg! we SiMay ; . : : ; 7 ee ' Ree Ee Or ted | bu): EP A FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION , 1/22/70 On January 17, 1970, REGGIE SCHELL, Captain, .— . Black Panther Party, Philadelphia, Pa., appeared and made a speech at the "Political Repression Conference," in the Common Facilities Building, Univesity of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa. The following is a transcript of SCHELL's speech: “J want to start off by saying the silent majority have found that the people have the power, ali power to the people, I’m going to say to the pigs and to the ones who came in htre to report on what I'm talking about can report back to Hoover that hig mama's a pig, too, At this point in the peoples’ struggle, the stuffs getting pretty deep and we're still not free. I'm sent here tonight or I'm supposed to. come here tonight to talk about repression, I looked up ‘repression’ in the dictionary and this is what it said: ‘Put down, subdue, crush, ° keep under due restraint,* Any black man or any . black woman can tell you about that, So, I'm gonna get off into fascism, This is ; - don't like to hear but it 3s here, Fascism as white man's capital, Fascism is suppres- Sion of opposition, political opposition and before I go into that I just wanna read somethiny to you from an article from Minister of Defense Hucy P, Newton: ‘When white people send a representative into the politica) ara, they have a power force base that they represent, When white people | through their representative cm not say what they . want, there's bound to bé political consequence, ‘ This is evident in fact of the farmers don't get, are not given adequate prices for their crops the economy will be free of political consequence, . coe eee They will let their crops rot in the field, and they will not cooperate with other sectors of the economy. To be political you must have political consequences, when you do not receive your desires . “wisoyoutronot—politic k-peopienre—————————— On__LAT/70 et Pittsburgh, pas tiles Pittsburgh 100—j.6555—— SA nd wok 47 by___8A 1/20/70 This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions ef the FBI. it ts the property of the FBI end Is leaned to your agency! ft end Ns contents ere net te ba distributed eutside your agancy. Dote dictoted tae 2» Bonar: PUR Dry y i