Question

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. When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

The Black Panther Party Platform
October 1966

According to this excerpt, what are the Black Panther Party members in favor of?

breaking away from the US government if they do not get what they want

working peacefully with whites to reach a compromise

getting at least half of their 10 points fulfilled by the US government

Answer 1

breaking away from the US government if they do not get what they want

The excerpt calls for a UN‑supervised plebiscite to determine black people's national destiny and speaks of dissolving political bonds to "assume... a separate and equal station," which indicates support for self‑determination/secession.