When the police phone operators laugh at you, call you monkeys and hang up on you.

@ajsharp @BoingBoing

When a third of your boys and men are in some stage of the prison system.

When cops regularly kill without penalty.

When the cops are constantly harassing, brutalizing, arresting and killing you and your people, what is it called if not self defense?

Remember remember that the Black Panthers' original name was the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense.

Self Defense. That's important.