I’VE FOUGHT FOR SOCIAL CHANGE SINCE I WAS 10. THAT’S 50 YEARS.

Since the age of 10, I was afforded the opportunity to be engaged in social change, fighting for the same freedoms that my family engaged in. They were all supporters of the movement that was taking over the country at that time and supported the Black Panther Party. I was the youngest of all the children. Just like any kid, I looked up to my older brothers Wally and Larry and Dickie. Larry wasn’t around much because he was off doing time, and Dickie went off to Vietnam. But I wanted to be just like them.

Kids like me, we were like the younger siblings of warriors.

I got to ride around with my brother in his 1960 Corvair, and I did see a lot of traumatizing

Germany is an alcohol and drug counselor. He lives in Point Loma. stuff. But honestly, at that time, I didn’t know it was traumatizing, I just assumed that’s just the way it is. So when the police would come up or you see people get shot, most people might cringe, but I just thought it was it was a natural thing.

My older brother says I was like Michael from the ’70s TV show “Good Times.” I was aware, and I learned to speak up for myself when I saw something that was unjust at a very early age.

I was actually a paperboy. The national Black Panther Party had its own newspaper, and we sold that paper on the streets here in San Diego, that’s what I did. People in the neighborhood wanted to see what was going on, and they were not going to get that information on the news here, so they supported the paper. It sold for 25 cents. I used to like the cartoons. They depicted the police as pigs in the