CAPITALISM PLUS DOPE

EQUALS GENOCIDE
By Michacl “Cetewaya” Tahor (Political Prisoner, ¥V 21)
BLACK PANTHER PARTY, U.S.A.

WY, TUE B.P. X-PRESS: 222

THROUGH THE BASEMENTS, CLOSETS AND BOOKCASES OF
TUE 60'S, THE BP X~PRESS PRESENTS TO YOU PAMPHLETS
AND EXCERPTS FROM BOOKS & PERIODICALS OF A REVOLU-
TIONISTIC ORIENTATION.

WHY THIS INFORMATION? BECAUSE THERE IS A PITI-
FUL, NBSENCE OF TIE KINDS OF CONCEPTS, STRATEGIES,
TACTICS, SUMMARIES AND EXPERIENCES THAT HOTIVATED
THOSE OF US WHO WERE "YOUNG* (i.e., "ready for ac-
tion®) BACK “IN TUE DAYS.®

OUR YOUNG BROTHERS & SISTERS TODAY, WHO ARE MOV-
NG TOWARDS (I REPEAT: MOVING TOWARDS...) A TRUE
INTEREST IN LIBERATION & REVOLUTION, NEED TO KNOW.
AND WE WHO BEEN THROUGH IT NEED TO SHARE WITH THEM
WHATEVER 1T IS THEY NEED TO KNOW THAT CAN HELP TO
MOVE BEYOND OUR ERRORS.

THIS NEED TO KNOW PREPAKES THE WAY FOR THE KIND
OF CREATIVE THINKING NECESSARY 70 BREAK-THROUGH TO
NEW GROUND. ~IT IS THE HOPE OF BP X-PRESS THAT THESE
REPRINTS WILL HELP RAISE ONE'S AWARENESS, PROVOKE
NEW THINKING, MOTIVATE THE DEVELOPHENT OF THE KINDS
OF PRACTICES OR ACTIONS WHICH HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO
LIBERATE US PROM THOSE BEWAVIORS, CONCEPTS AND PRAC-
IICES WUICH HAVE PROVEN INEFPECTIVE IN BUILDING OR-
GANIZATION AND UNITY FOR,CHANGE. /

LASTLY, BE BVER MINDFUL OF LANGUAGE USED, AND

iug LIFE APTER THE 60'S MOVEMENT OF CERTAIN' AUTHORS
4b X-PRESS MAY REPRINT, BUT POCUS PRIMARILY ON THE
CONTENT OF THE REPRINT AND WHAT CAN BE LEARNED FROM
IT. LANGUAGE & AUTHORS MAY CUIANGE UP OR LATER BE-
YRAY THEIR ORIGINAL CAUSE, BUT IF THE CONTENT HAS

VALUE, USE ITI WITH THAT THESE REPRINTS ARE OFFER-
ED.

WE MUST LEARN FROM THE
CRADLE TO THE GRAVE!

POWER TO THE PEOPLE!|

INTRODUCTION

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This pamphlet presents to you the writing of former
k Panther Party member Michael Cetewayo Tabor. It
written in 1969, when he was being framed in the

New York Panther 21 case. Ceteway, or "Cet® as he wai

atfectionately called, was a shining example of th

"X" factor. ile, 1ike Malcolm, demonstrated powerful

that even the brother and sister off the block, the out-
lav, the welfare addict, the dope fiend, gangmember, otc.
could Off the chains of addiction and Jungle men-
tality and change. TEY COULD ARISE OUT OF THE HELL-

FIRE INTO THE NEW ROLE MODEL OF THE PANTHER, THE DYNA-
MIC REVOLUTIONARY WHO SERVED THE PEOPLE IN THE QUEST
FOR LIBERATION.

Bl

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s old at-the time of this writing.
What makes this unigue is not only that he d

the subject of the *Plague* or the chemical
waged on the African-Amerikan bantustan; it in that he
was a former addict, a victim of its genocidal afe
For five years, from age 13 to 1

This was the rebellious '60's. The curtain-raisers
intreducing the coming glorious revolution to bring
Einal relief to our long-suffering people. The capital-
ist pigocracy correctly saw thin as the uitimate HORROR
to the Amerikan way. Therefore, they had to nip thin
threat in the bud. Their counter-revolution experts
targeted, among others, that segment of our people who
were to be the cutting edge, the spearhead of the Biack
Revolution. This was what the Panther defined as the
“lumpen-proletariat,” the sister/brother on the corner,
the unemployables, the first to be made totally expan-
dable by the new technologies of the AmeriKorpormte
Empire. Chemical warfare was the hidden, unspoken policy
to squash this particular threat.

With this, and additional social and cultural forces
arrayed against our youth, many man/woman-children sensed
bleak, hopeless, meaningless future before them. Many
ounbed, Lo the sasy-way-out. seemingly, TS OWLY WAY Our,
ond bit the chemical bullets.’ Cet, sucked under into this
1iving-death for 5 years, overcame the death (to be born-
2gain) to become one of the leading forces in the New vork

Black Panther organization.

(Continue on next page)
A3 you will sce, this former street addict demonstr-
ated the ability to analyze, understand, and deal with
the problems of our bantustans in revolutionary problem-
501ving manners. Cet, through the Panther, gave living
Prool to the dynamism of the street force and its poten-

Tial for leadership and creativity in a suffering move-
went.

Today, in 1991, we suffer yet another major chemical
war offensive. 1In Cet's Lime the genocidal spearhead
was called dope, smack, horse, or heroin. Today, it'
Called CRACK. what will it be called tomorrow?

n reading this pamphlet, what's important is that
Cet presents a picture of the "connections® (Dope + Cap-
italisn = Genocide) and thie business operations behing
this of fenaive. Thia aspect of the connections remains
the same; but we can be assure that the cholce of chemi-
cal weapon will continue to change. How WIll we deal
with this present and future of fensiver

50, we ask that you understand the connections and

the operation of this ethnic/class chemical war. Under-
stand the why's, and then you'll that *bope + Capi-
talisn = Genocide" is still timely, and a must reading.

) POWER TO THE PEOPLEI

Risk kel

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THE PLAGUE

Yechacl Cetevayo Tabor fs ane of the Panther 21. He 15 23
J5ura 01d. For five years, from age 13 to age 18, thije
1iving in Harles, Tabor vas addicted to hersin.

The most”escapist and self-destructive activity for vs
#nd ane of the mst profitable for the capitalist, and there-
fore the most encouraged by him, 15 drug addiction, specif-
ically heroin addiction.
eroin addiction, the Plague, the scourge of the Black
potondes of Babylon. The Plague, whose spiritual, moral poy-

chologieal, physical and

social destructive pou

The Plague, opium From Turkev,
shipped to Narseilles, converted

Black ghetto. The Plague, poison-
ous, lethal, white powdery sub-

ey-crazed beasts to
Black youths who
are desperately
seeking a kick, a

high, a means

anything that will help make then oblivious to the squalor,
©0 the abject poverty, disease and degradation that engulfs
them in their daily existence.

Initially the Plague dods just that. Under its sinister
influence, the oppressive, nauscous, ghetto prison is trans-
fomed into & vircual Black Valhalla. Cne becomes npervious
©0 the rancid stench of urine-soaked tenement dingeons, -
afected by the piercing cries of anguish of Black folks
driven €0 the brink of iusanity by a sadisic soctal systen.
Whatfected by the deafening vail of police car sirens as
they 2ear ehrough the streets of the Black Hell en route to
answer a 1013 call from soae other pig-police Who is in a
stite of vell-deserved distress. Unutfocted by the .trash
cans whose decayed, disease carrying, gasbage has overfloved
t0 £ill the ghetto streets.

Yes, wnder its ecstatic: influcnce one ls made oblivious
10 ugly realities. but there is a cruel trick, a cruel
monstrous trick, a deadly flin-flan svalting its naive,
youthful victin for, as the illusionary besuty of the herotn-
induced high begins to vanish, correspandingly, the tesporary
immnity from reality attained wider its cheaical trance van-
ishes. The reality that the pathetic victin sought 5o desper-
ately to escape, once again descends upon and re-engulfs him.
the rancid stench of urine-soaked tenement dungeons begins to
assail his nostrils. Those Black cries of anguish seen to

blend with the ailing sirens of pig-police cars. He hears
them now very loud, and very clear == in stercophonic sound.
Mnd that garbage that Flovs over onto the streets from m-
collected trash cans is felt underfoot.

The young victin is not long in discovering that only by
taking: another dosage will he be able to attain sanctuary from

his hideous reality. Each shot of the Plague that he injects

into his blood systen brings him that much closer to the

grave. Soon he is strung-out, hooked. He is physiologically
and psychologically dependent on the Plague. Both his body
and his mind have becone addicted to heroin. lle has now be-

come a full-tine chartered member of the Ciowd © Socicty. ilis

physical body begifs to take cn a decinated appearence.
shaneless disregard is displayed tovard his clothes. That his
shirt is filthy and his shoes are soleless, leaving him valk
virtually on his naked feet, does not matter, That his un-
washed body nov emits & most foul odor disturbs hin but
1ittle. That his non-addicted friends now shun him and look
wpon hin with contempt matters not, for the feelings arc
mutual. They no longer have anything in common. Everything
ceases to matter. Everything except heroin, the Plague.

s he continves, his body begins to build wp an immmity
to the drug.. Now, in order to attain his euphoric high he

must increase his dosage. This means that he must obtain more

mohey. So enslaved has he now becore that he will do an:thing
..‘

for a bag, for a "shot." To lie, to A\

him. Whatever he must do for a “shot"
fl, he will do, he must do, for he is a slave to

the Plague. The vicious cycle grinds into
2otion. He violates what the ruling class

defines as being the law in order to

< secure money to feed his sickness.
Inev- K izably he gets flagged-off, busted.

He g0es to Jail, &nd after he has served
ouc his sen- .7 tence e is released. The first
thing he wants is a shot, The tycle son-

cinues. And he plunges deeper and
desper into the aby-

tion. And there, aluays there and ever
willing, for a price of course, to

meet the addict's demand for dope 1s the

snal pic of degrada-

coprman, the destr, tho purver
poison, distributor of death, mer-
surdering scum of the planet, vile
capitalists, salesmen of death on the a
installment plan, the dope pusher, the &
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.. g,

Dope selling is beyond & doubt one of the Ko
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sost profitable capitalist undertakings. The profits from it
soar into the billions...

The extent and ate of profits reaped from the dope in-
dustry could arouse the eavy of U.S. Steel, General Notors
and Standard 0il. Frem the highest lovel ta the lovest, the
Profits are enormous. 1€ the individual is sufficiently
ambitious, cuming, ruthless and vicious, he may graduate
from the status of street peddler to big-tine wholesaler
and distributor in a short span of tine.

The Plague could never flourish in the Black colonies
if it were not for the active support of the occupation for-
ces, the police. That narcotics arrests have increased in a0
vay mitigates the fact that the police give dope peddlers
imunity fron arrest in exchange for mansy pay-offs.

It s also the practics of pig-police, especially nar-
cotics agents, to seize a quantity of drugs from one dealer,
arvest hia, but caly tum in & portion of the canfiscated
drugs for evidence. The rest is given to another dealer Mho
sells it and gives a percentage of the profits to the narco-
tics agents. The pig-police also utilize infomers who are
dealers. In retum for information, they récleve imunity
from arrese. The police camnot solve the problea, for they
are a part of the proble

When you consider that a kilo of heroin purchased by an

inporter for’$6,000, when cut and bagged and distributed
W11 bring back a profit of $300,000 in a veek's time, it

becones easier to understand that even if the death penalty
were imposed on drug profiteers, it ould not deter the

trade.
The lying, devious puppets of the bourgeols ruling

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class, the demagogic politicans of the Capitol Hill have

now passed & law which gives narcotic agents the right to

crash into a person's home without knocking, on the pretext

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i of looking for narcotics and "other evidence.” Now anyane who
‘ thinks that this law will be confined to just suspected

drug dealers is laboring under a tragic and possibly suicidal
delusion. To assume that only suspected drug dealers will
be affected by this law is to negate the reality of present-
day Ameriiia. To allow yourself to think for one moment
that this lav only applies to suspected drug dealers is to
deny that the laws being passed, the policies being implea-
ented, and the methods and tactics of the police have become
| blatancly and shanelessly fascist...
A characteristic feature of class and racial oppressicn
is the ruling class policy of brainashing the oppressed in-
to accepting their oppression. Initially, this program 1s

sowing the seeds of inferiority in the souls of the oppressed.
But as the objective conditions and the balance of forces

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l carried out by viciously isplanting fear into the minds and
the oppressor, 4t becones necessary for the oppressor to
modify bis progran and adopt wore subtle and devious
thods to maintain his Tule. The oppressor attempts to throw
the oppressed psychologically off-balance by csbining &
Policy of vicious repression with spectacular gestures of
§00d-will and servics.
Given the fact that Black people have abandoned the

non-fnctional and ineffective tactics of the "Civil Right

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era and have now resolved to attain their long overdue 1ib-

eration by any means necessary, it has become necessary for
the oppressor to deploy more occupation forces into the
Black colony. The oppressor, particularly in New York, real-
izes that this camnot be done overtly without intensifying
the revolutionary fervor of the Black people in the colony.
Therefore, a pretext is needed for placing more pigs in the
shetto.

And what {s the pretext? [t goes like this: Responsible
negro commmity leaders have informed us, and their reports
concur wich police Eindings, that the negro commmity is
Tavaged by crine, muggings, burglaries, murders and mayhen.

The streets are unsafe, business establishments are infested

by amed robbers, comnerce camnot function. City Hall agrees
with negro residents that the main cause for this horrible
situation is the dope addicts who prey on innocent people. Yes,
the dope addicts are to blame for the ever-increasing crime

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rate And City Hall will answer the desperate cry of the negro
residents for greater protection -~ send in more police!

That victins of the Plague are responsible for most of
the crines in the Black ghettoes is a fact. That Black drug
addicts perpetrate most of their robberies burglaries and
thefts in the Black commmity against Black people cannot be
denied. But before, out of desperation, we jusp up and screan
for more police protection, we better rencaber Who put the
Plague in Hrlen, Bedforu-Stuyvesant and the other Black coms-
wnitics. We better reacnber who ultimately profics from the
drug addiction Of Black people. We better remenber that the
police are alien hostile troops sent into the Black colonies
by the ruling class, not to protect the lives of Black people,
but rather to protect the econoaic interests and the private
property of the capitalists and to make certain that Black
people don't get out of place. Rockefeller and Lindsay give
less than a dam about the lives of Black people. And if we
don't know by now how the police feel about us, then we are
Teally in bad shape.

Before, vhen the hone of a Black person was burglarized
by a drug addict, or a sister had had her purse snatched, the
police took all night to respond to the call, or didn't respond
at all. The burglar or purse-snatcher was hardly ever caught.

In nost instances, when someone was arrested, it was the

wrong person. But when an exploiting capitalist business es-
tablishnent in that very same ghetto, especially a white one,
gets ripped off, there are imediately 15 siren-vailing po-
Hce cars on the set, and three dozen pigs are running wp
and down the street, vaving guns in everybody's face. And
you can lay § to 1 odds that somebody is going to jail for
it. Whether or not the arrested person perpetrated the act
is irrelevant from the pigs' standpoint. The racist pig-
police use Blacks as an cutlet fot their sadistic imulses,
inadequacies and Frustrations. Now that more police have been

$ent in the situntion has gone from bad to warse.

The racist pig-police, the demagogic politicians and the
avaricious businessmen who control the politicians are de-
Tighted that
Black youths
have Fallen
victin to the
Plague. They
are delighted
for two reas-
ons: one, It

is econondcally

profitable, and

tvo, they re-
alize that as

e

long as they can keep our Black youths standing on the
street comers "nodding" from a shot of heroin, they won't
have to vorry about us vaging an effective struggle for lib-
eration. As long as our young Black brothers and sisters are
chasing the bag, as long as they are trying to cop a fix,

the Tule of our oppressors is secure and our hopes for free-
don are dead. It is the youth who make the revolution aid it
i the youch who carry it out. Without our yowng, we will

ver be able to forge a revolutionary force.

We are the only ones capable of eradicating the Plague
from our commmicies. [t will not be an easy task. It will re-
quire treaendous effort. It will have to be a revolutionary
progran, a People’s program.

The Black Panther Party is presently in the process of
formlating a program to conbat the Plague. It will be con-
trolled totally by the people. We, the people, mist stamp out
the Plague, and ve will. Dope is a form of genocide in which
the victia pays to be killed.
SEIZE TE TIME!
INTENSIFY THE STRUGGLE!
DESTROY THE PLAGUE!

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