Clenched

CLENCHED FIST

by Dave Marsh, Captain Detroit White Panthers

There's a bunch of weird shit goes down every time I see some of our young brothers and sisters at rock'n'roll places, on the street and elsewhere. These kids be giving me the "V" sign which stands for three things, victory, peace and love. O. K., but not enough. If you need to have a symbol let that symbol be the clenched fist, symbol of "power to the people".

The clenched fists will indícate to the pigs and dogs that you don't intend to be fucked with. Because you will not get power or victory or be able to love anyone freely until you become more militant, until you decide that you will not allow your brothers to be beaten robbed and kidnapped by representatives of the jive honky pigculture.

lt is true that, as Che said, "In a revolution either one wins or one dies." It is important that you understand this, that you see that as long as you make that "V" you say "O.K. I CAN be fucked with without taking violent measures to defend myself and my brothers." You are telling the pigs that you wi stand idly by while they grow stronger daily to rip of who?????? YOU, that's who!! YOU'RE next on their list. They ain't just gonna rip of the vanguard, that is such Black men as Eldridge Cleaver, Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale and Rap Brown or such white leaders as Tom Hayden, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Pun Plamondon and John Sinclair. Oh, no, they want to become like them (pigs!). They gonna attack and jail you for jive reasons, they will lie on you to your younger brothers and sisters, they will STOP the movement COLD. Which is what they HAVE to do to survive as PIGS!!

But if you hold up the clenched fist (symbol of "all power to the people") you indicate to the pigs that you will NOT be fucked with (EVER), that this fist is prepared to smash any motherfucker who messes with you or your brothers be they black or white. You will be telling them that you don't give a damn what jive shit they be runnin' to you because you do NOT, do NOT have to fear him because