Talk:Ten-Point Program (Black Panther Party)

Merge proposal
This article had previously been merged to Black Panther Party following a discussion that involved only two editors and was completed in less than 15 minutes. (See the original discussion here). I have reverted that merge so there is now a full article at Ten-Point Program. A new article has been created at Black Panther Party Ten Point Program that is quite similar to this one. Clearly we don't need two such articles. I believe the sources on which the new article is based could be used to further the analysis of this article. Any takers? WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 21:37, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
 * In the absence of any discussion on the matter, I have performed the merge. WikiDan61 ChatMe!ReadMe!! 13:33, 25 May 2013 (UTC)

Merrittalum's edits
I don't know why someone removed Merrittalum's edits, but those were definitely not vandalism! That is the second half of the ten point program, the ten points of "What We Believe." The contribution was important, and well cited. Hard to imagine why it was removed. Policing.the.police (talk) 02:47, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

Inaccurate contents
There are several discrepancies between the contents in the current version of the article and the actual text. For example point one of the text states (in both the version at http://www.freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/Black%20Liberation%20Disk/Black%20Power%21/SugahData/Books/Cleaver.S.pdf and the version at https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/1966/10/15.htm) that “We believe that Black people will not be free until we are able to determine our destiny.” This is inaccurately transcribed in the article as “We believe that black and oppressed people will not be free until we are able to determine our destinies in our own communities ourselves, by fully controlling all the institutions which exist in our communities.” This is a substantial difference. Another example is point ten, which states “We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace. And as our major political objective, a United Nations-supervised plebiscite to be held throughout the black colony in which only black colonial subjects will be allowed to participate, for the purpose of determining the will of black people as to their national destiny.” This is changed in the article to “We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice, peace and people’s community control of modern technology. This is again substantially different from the actual text, leaving out what the Panthers describe as their “major political objective”. The marxists.org version also leaves this out, but neither contain any reference to “people’s community control of modern technology”. How can these substantial differences be remedied? Which version of the text was the article based on, and which can it be replaced with? Patriotparty1776 (talk) 03:59, 30 January 2024 (UTC)