Black Panther 10 Points Program
(created in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale)
[Rewritten in 2025 by Jermaine The AnkhGod]
The Black Panther Party’s Ten-Point Program, originally drafted in 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, outlined the party’s demands and beliefs, advocating for racial justice, economic empowerment, and self-determination.
The Black Panther Party Ten-Point Program
1. We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black community.
Don’t let anyone tell you that Freedom isn’t a birth right. We owe allegiance to no one that we don’t want to give our allegiance to.
2. We want full employment for our people.
No income leads to bad decisions and fast lifestyles. Our counterparts know this.
3. We want an end to the robbery by the capitalist of our Black community.
From our time, to our resources, to our money, and even our Queens, the Capitalist of our Black community still drains us everything today.
4. We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings.
Because who the hell would want to live in a house that they can’t live comfortably in? They don’t do it.
5. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in present-day society.
As we watch “Black History” no longer be taught in schools, we have also watched the rise of adults that don’t know sh*t about their ancestors and their origins.
6. We want all Black men to be exempt from military service.
Black people don’t even war with their oppressors. No agenda of the country’s elites have us in mind, therefore how can their fight be ours too?
7. We want an immediate end to police brutality and murder of Black people.
No one has killed more Black people than the police. Most deaths were dealing with non-violent offenders. They were formed from the Runaway Slave Patrol and you’re incarcerated in privately owned prisons ran as plantations. You’re fed scraps and are paid the cheapest of labor. Do the math.
8. We want freedom for all Black men held in federal, state, county, and city prisons and jails.
This may be the only point that I don’t whole heartedly agree with. Since this was written in the 1960s went Black men weren’t doing nearly as heinous crimes as they are today.
9. We want all Black people, when brought to trial, to be tried in a court by a jury of their peer group or people from their Black communities, as defined by the Constitution of the United States.
This is the only way that a trial including a Black Man or Woman can be tried fairly. This is our constitutional right.
10. We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice, and peace.
If you ask me, this is the true Dream of an American. Land to call your own. Food to consume for substance. Housing to put on your land. Education to learn and grow. Clothing so that we aren’t walking around in public, ass out. Justice for those that wrong us be them either Black or any other race. Lastly and the most important, Peace because in peace we can spiritually grow to our collective levels of understanding. Anyone or any entity that opposes that is nothing short of a terrorist unit orchestrating chaos.
The Ten-Point Program was a revolutionary call for Black empowerment, economic justice, and an end to systemic racism. It remains a foundational document in discussions about racial and social justice today. This was created in 1966. This excerpt was written in 2025. That’s a total of 59 years. In nearly 60 years, how many of these points have been resolved for us by those that capitalize off of the Black Community?