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What do you intend to talk to at least all about this first one? Well, uh, the coloring book does not square at all with our experience of the reality of the Black Panthers, the members of the Black Panther Party. I feel that there know that the

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serving of breakfast too Uh, 2 75 to 100 Children here in our parish each day was something that really gave a sense of self worth, of self esteem and dignity to the young people who did this, who came at six o'clock in the morning in order

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to prepare this breakfast. I myself, for example, to was witness to the cooling of a potential riotous situation on on Fillmore Street by the Black Panthers themselves, though it got into the press in another way. But I happen to be there and saw the Black Panthers

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cool is potentially riotous situation eso that. I think that the total context has to be viewed here, and certainly the coloring book does not reflect for us, but we have seen experienced in our contact with the Black Panther Party and the members of that party Sacred

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Heart Church in the heart of The Fillmore district is one of perhaps a dozen churches in the Bay Area where needy school Children, usually black, are given free breakfast by the Black Panther Party. San Francisco police Inspector Been Lash Cough told a Senate committee yesterday that

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the Black Panthers had used the breakfast program here to pass out coloring books designed to indoctrinate black Children to kill white policemen. The book depicted black youths shooting or hitting pigs dressed in police uniforms. Church Pastor Father Eugene Boyle said distribution of the book was stopped

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immediately when it was discovered and the whole incident was overblown. I feel that there was no reason for Inspector Ben Lash cough. Bring this before the You know this indiscriminate, uh, condemnation of condemnation of us, me and the work we're doing here before the McLelland Senate

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investigating committee. Except, uh, except the fact that he was determined that he was going to that he was going to continue with the harassment of us here at Sacred Heart because of our again our involvement with the black community and are urgently addressed to the Police

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Department, that the police community relations we revitalized and that there really be a effort made on the part of the mayor and the part of the police chief to see that this is done. You say, continued Harrison. Well, they've been other instances and to this degree

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that they that the members of the Police Officers Association have frequently go on to the archbishop with various reports about what we're doing here. Uh, even to the extent of fabricating certain things about what we're misinterpreting, let me put it that way, misinterpreting what we're doing

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in this area. This is not the first instance, therefore, of this kind of harassment on this program, Father Boyle said he feels that both he and the Black Panther Party have been misrepresented. In any case, he said, until city or state officials inaugurate a program to

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feed hungry Children. Sacred Heart Church will continue the breakfast sponsored by the Black Panther Party. Ben Williams reporting for eyewitness news. His statements carry the strong implication that these coloring books that allegedly were given out by the Black Panthers were handed out in great quantities at

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our breakfast that they were practically handed out every day that this was the kind of message that they were giving to the Children throughout the whole breakfast program, which began on March the 10th and went until school concluded in the early part of this month, the

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early part of June, I would just like to state for the record that we became aware of only three copies of this coloring book here at Sacred Heart. I have only seen one original copy of this book. Uh, I, uh once I became aware that this

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book was in existence and saw one of these copies, I immediately objected to the book. My objection was strong, and it was unequivocal. It was heated by those who were running the breakfast by the Black Panthers who are running the breakfast. And I never saw that

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coloring book again. And this was early in the breakfast program. I would say sometime toward the end of March. Uh, that it was. It was given out. I objected to the coloring book because of the fact that I am against this kind of literature, No matter

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by whom produced, it is gross. It is inflammatory. It is racist. And it is therefore I feel counterproductive. I'd like also to point out that the Black Panthers themselves indicate that they did not, uh, subscribe to this book that they deny that it was a book

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that they have put out or that they sanctioned or that they okay.