 people want to say that black lives matter but we gonna show them that it matters I don't want to say that black lives matter we need to develop a politics that shows that black people matter that black power matters and that power resides within the people. No cusses, no peace, no racist police. Today I walk in solidarity with the black student union at UC Berkeley. I'm an alum of the black student union as well. We fought for tender mass for institutional change on that campus we still see the racism on that campus but I come from a long tradition where the black student union on UC Berkeley's campus is fought by any means necessary to overthrow these systems of oppression and that's what we say by any means necessary will overthrow these systems of oppression. We have to understand what's going on right now and we have to be very clear about the politics that is happening. This is terrorism. This is a terrorist attack against the black community ever since the first enslaved African landed on this country we have been catching hell by white supremacy because every day for the past 400 years we've experienced 9-11 every day for the past 400 years and the execution of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and Tony McDade was a terrorist attack. We have to say we are done with police terrorism. We are fighting against police terrorism. We are fighting against the police. We are fighting against the FBI. We are fighting against the DEA. We are fighting against ICE. We are fighting against the National Guard. All of these motherfuckers is pigs. I walk in the spirit of a black radical tradition where we call to abolish the police. Where we call to abolish all of these systems that oppress us. There's a reason why we're here in Berkeley, California where Kayla Moore was brutally executed in the same way that Eric Darden was murdered. In the same way that George Floyd was murdered but because of her status as a black trans woman and because she had mental health issues we don't say her name. So say her name, Kayla Moore. Liberation comes when we all band together. I'm interested in black power to keep it honest. I can't rely on our white people. I'm keeping the band. I'm keeping honest with y'all. But what y'all can do is educate your own people. But we preach this black power. The politics of liberation. You feel me? And that's where we're coming from. We need a politic of liberation in order for us all to be free. We can't just say black men's gonna be free. We can't just say black straight women is gonna be free. It gotta be all of us. We gotta do it for the thugs. We gotta do it for the sex workers. We gotta do it for those who are incarcerated. It is all of us to move us. I'm also reminded today and I don't want to get on nobody bad side but we gotta be clear about what's going on. It ain't a revolution. It's a truth. I gotta tell the truth. We gotta be clear about what a movement is versus what a moment is. And right now we isn't a moment. But it is our duty to make this into a movement, a liberation movement. You know, I was excited when I seen people protesting, people resisting, people breaking windows of these capitalist pigs. I was excited. But at the same time we are seeing counter-revolutionary forces come and co-opt a movement. We have black people doing the cha-cha slide with police officers. We have people dancing with the national fucking guard who came in to kill you. That is a counter-insurgent. That is a tactic. That is psychological warfare. The military goes to Iraq and teaches Iraqi youth the maca rena as a need to appease the rebellions that was happening in Iraq. This is why we need to be educated. This is why we need to have black radical politics. Black revolutionary politics. The politics of liberation. We can't fight capitalism with black capitalism. We fight capitalism with socialism. Because we understand that capitalism is a system that we are fighting. We realize that there is a lot of people out here today. And I think that shit is important. But we got to realize the difference between mobilization and organization. We are all probably here with the same issue. We say fuck police brutality. Right? But that is kind of a... We can just say fuck police brutality. But what does that do? We just want the brutality to end. We want the police to end. We need to abolish the police. We need to define the police. All of these systems have to go if we want to be free. And that is why we need political education. Because some people might say, hey, Blake, we might need some black cops. Black cops kill black people at the same rate as white cops. There is no such thing as a good cop in this racist system. Because if there is a good cop in this racist system that means you are saying there is a good slave patrol. This system is rooted in slave patrols. The first shared badge is slave patrols. We are talking about abolishing that police department right there. We are talking about taking that shit over. That is the politics that we come from. And that is the politics that will get us free. We don't need another black president. A black president in a white house that was built by slaves. What a fucking contradiction. So I need to remind people that this Black Lives Matter movement started under Barack Obama. Barack Obama who bombed millions of people in the Middle East. Barack Obama who bombed millions of people on the county. Barack Obama who told people in Ferguson and people in Baltimore to stop looting. To stop acting like thugs. He said the same shit that Donald Trump said, but the difference is because, you know, Obama and Jay-Z, you know, they shake hands, they play some basketball. It's all cool. We look past it. Obama is a fascist just like every other president in this country has been. And I know people say fuck Trump, but you know what, fuck Biden too, period. White supremacy is like an octopus that has hella different tentacles. You cut off one another one rose and there's still a bunch of tentacles. We gotta cut the whole octopus off, but the whole octopus has to be abolished. The Democrats and the Republicans, that's all propaganda. It's like a bird. The left wing is a fucking Democrat and the right wing is a Republican. The same bird and they all flap together for the fly. You feel me? We gotta get rid of these motherfuckers in this entirety. If you're telling me to vote, I ain't voting for no Democrat. Fuck the Democrats, period. I ain't fucking with no bloop Democrat. I ain't fucking with none of that shit. At all. Why fuck with a Democrat? This got us what we got in right here. OPD, full of Democrats. City of Berkeley, full of Democrats. Berkeley is named after a fucking slave on who we won't even change the name of this city. Y'all love so fucking much. Poison is poison whether it's red or blue. And we gotta understand that poison will kill you. Some might be faster and some might be slower. But fuck Joe Biden, fuck the presidency, fuck the White House, and fuck America. We have to be very clear and very honest about what a revolution actually is. I said this ain't a revolution because every revolution has took bloodshed. Every revolution has called to violence against these systems. And we have to rethink if that's even violence. Is it violent that I defend my humanity? Is it violent if a pig attacks me that I attack back? That is being saying I am a human fucking being. And I'm gonna assert my humanity by any means necessary. We need a material revolution. Take all the money and fund it into housing for black homeless people, for black houses people. Take it and put the money for black addiction centers. You feel me? Take it where we have social services, people's programs that take care of the material needs of our community. We're in a material revolution. We don't care about reform. We need material revolution in the spirit of the Black Panther Party. People's programs, that's what we need. So I'm gonna end before they cut my mic. I'm surprised they haven't cut it already yet. You know, I am a family member of Jalil Mutakeem, one of the longest-held political prisoners in the United States of America. He was a part of the Black Panther Party. He was incarcerated at 18 years old. He's been incarcerated for 49 fucking years. He was fighting for my black ass before I was even born. He was fighting for your black ass where for you was born. He was fighting even for your white ass before you was even born. This movement cannot forget about our elders who are still incarcerated. We still have Black Panthers incarcerated. We still have Black Liberation Army members still incarcerated to this day. We cannot forget about political prisoners because when we talk about political prisoners those rights become for all prisoners. When we fight for political prisoners, those rights become for all prisoners. When I say free, y'all say Jalil. Free all power to the people.