October 7, 2020 — Transcript
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- 0:22i had a friend
- 0:24right he was a hunk he came from dc came
- 0:27from a rich
- 0:28dc family lives in georgetown his
- 0:31father's
- 0:32president of rca in washington dc and
- 0:35this this guy had been to pretty
- 0:39decent schools the best schools i'm so
- 0:42happy that i don't know whether it was
- 0:43his luck or his bad luck but he ended up
- 0:46pumping a radio with me humping a radio
- 0:49you know carrying a radio on your back
- 0:51with me
- 0:52okay now i told him
- 0:57that america was corrupt the system was
- 1:00bad
- 1:01and that all whites hated any kind of
- 1:04colored people
- 1:05and he told me you're racist you're sick
- 1:07man
- 1:08i told you watch your own people for one
- 1:10month
- 1:12then you tell me whether they
- 1:15are racist or not about a month and a
- 1:18half later
- 1:19he came to me and told me he said
- 1:22lorenz he said i'm a man without a
- 1:25country
- 1:27so i said to one says what what are you
- 1:29kidding me
- 1:30you pulling a bathroom on me again he
- 1:32said no man i'm a man without a country
- 1:34so i said what he says i'll tell you
- 1:37later
- 1:38later on he came over to me and he ran
- 1:41it down to me he says you were right
- 1:43he says i watched them and most of these
- 1:45people have they
- 1:46they don't care for anyone that's not
- 1:48white they think that everybody that's
- 1:50not white stupid
- 1:52that's home i told you that in the
- 1:53beginning he told me
- 1:55he says i'm a man without a country he
- 1:58says i don't know where to go or what to
- 2:00do
- 2:00i live here this is my community of
- 2:02course you live here but don't you
- 2:04respect the right
- 2:05why do you organize their own march
- 2:13[Applause]
- 2:25in opposition to the war in vietnam
- 2:27that's why i'm here
- 2:28i'll be glad to get behind the group but
- 2:30i want to go with them i'm a part of
- 2:32this community and i feel a part of it
- 2:43the black united action front has a very
- 2:46uncompromising
- 2:48attitude and policy vis-a-vis the war in
- 2:50vietnam
- 2:52the black united action firm does not
- 2:55call for
- 2:56negotiation the black united action firm
- 3:00called for the complete
- 3:02victory of the national liberation front
- 3:04of south vietnam
- 3:06and the black united action front says
- 3:08that all american troops
- 3:10have been out of vietnam and we wish the
- 3:13national liberation front to completely
- 3:15defeat
- 3:16all of the opposing forces that are
- 3:18trying to subjugate their country
- 3:20are you opposed to the one in vietnam
- 3:26are they on draft age
- 3:29so how do you expect to keep them out
- 3:31how do you plan it to prevent them i
- 3:33don't know
- 3:34all of them all of them are they are all
- 3:37my family
- 3:37but i see nine versus three boys i'll
- 3:40tell them all
- 3:41then the rest of
- 3:44in vietnam them but we don't
- 3:48i don't i don't have to i don't think
- 3:50i'd like to walk down there
- 3:52and demonstrate i think about it and
- 3:55pray that we don't have it
- 3:56we don't have to go and our boys don't
- 3:58have to go
- 4:00that's it this is the first
- 4:02demonstration there have been many
- 4:03demonstrations
- 4:04for several years ever since the vietnam
- 4:06war and it doesn't seem to change the
- 4:08government's views at all
- 4:10i'm beginning to wonder whether the
- 4:11people really ruled the government as it
- 4:13was supposed to be
- 4:14did you ever think i did well when i was
- 4:16small
- 4:18that's what i was taught my son was here
- 4:20for 13 months and was hurt
- 4:23three times and i think he have every
- 4:26right
- 4:34he was there for 13 months and i'm proud
- 4:37of him
- 4:44you know well you think that you should
- 4:46we should be there
- 4:47i think they should i think they should
- 4:50have did what my
- 4:50author said many years ago
- 4:54when i was a young girl in the first the
- 4:56second world war
- 4:58he said why didn't you go to right on
- 5:01through the manchurian
- 5:02i think truman was wrong by
- 5:05not letting me oh they go right on
- 5:08through them
- 5:09uh manchuria if he said if he had did
- 5:12what
- 5:12he wanted to we wouldn't have this now
- 5:14this is how i feel
- 5:16there's no group of plans over there but
- 5:19they're here
- 5:20what do you think of some people saying
- 5:21that black men have to prove
- 5:30[Music]
- 5:36right
- 5:51virgin woman have this thing
- 5:54pointed at my mouth
- 6:00the symbolic the symbol of america right
- 6:04right all that america stands for have
- 6:06your thing
- 6:07pointed in my mind okay you said you're
- 6:10just a country
- 6:11american grandma i have this in my mind
- 6:14turn it off and go and turn it on it
- 6:16will it makes no deal with me
- 6:18because i ain't nobody i'm so simple
- 6:21until i love everybody
- 6:23but you don't but you want to see what's
- 6:25going on so i'm letting you know what's
- 6:27going on
- 6:27right are you going to march in this
- 6:28march march i'm going to march right in
- 6:30this march
- 6:31uh-huh uh-huh and you think that it's
- 6:34going to end the war you think it's
- 6:35going to make well
- 6:36of course not it's not going in the wall
- 6:38but it just only expressed my sentiment
- 6:40that you feel better it doesn't make me
- 6:42feel any better
- 6:43but it expressed my sentiment
- 6:46because of course it'll make it's gonna
- 6:48make you feel better
- 6:49because you'd like to see me accept it
- 6:52and like like
- 6:53you say i am simple
- 6:56as like you just said i am simple
- 7:00you see simple now in its troop of
- 7:02personification
- 7:04tell mr charlie tell mr hayes tell the
- 7:07patterson syndicate
- 7:09the simple is here and simple as hear
- 7:11this thing
- 7:27what do we want
- 7:42hell
- 7:49[Applause]
- 7:58[Laughter]
- 8:02just a few of the uh what other people
- 8:05they killed
- 8:05that's not right that's not right
- 8:08you don't think they're killing black
- 8:10and white
- 8:18so many americans you think it's all the
- 8:21same everybody's dying
- 8:24what do you think about the water huh is
- 8:27the water doing any good the boy ain't
- 8:28doing nothing
- 8:29the war is no good it's doing work
- 8:32what are you doing about it why are you
- 8:34staying on the stoop why aren't you
- 8:35marching
- 8:36well because uh i've got some place
- 8:38today i'm march don't worry
- 8:41don't worry about it i'll join you but
- 8:42what they're doing is no damn
- 8:44good that's right i mean the government
- 8:47says they're stopping communism over
- 8:48there what do you think about that stop
- 8:50what
- 8:50they say they're stopping communism i
- 8:52don't
- 9:04[Laughter]
- 9:06taiwan
- 9:20have you seen the papers where the black
- 9:22men have a white man over the shoulder
- 9:25and saving them and everything else when
- 9:27that black man come back here
- 9:29he can't take that same white man over
- 9:31his shoulder
- 9:33how do you think things are going to
- 9:34change they ever going to change no no
- 9:36we going to change them well why weren't
- 9:38you marching today then i'm going
- 9:40i'm going to my heart
- 9:43i'm going to march because i might not
- 9:46live to see it
- 9:46but my children will live to see i'm not
- 9:49gonna that
- 9:50you and everybody else took everything
- 9:53away from us
- 9:54and we're gonna get it back believe me
- 9:56when we say we gon
- 9:58get it back and you think this march
- 10:00will help you to get it back
- 10:01it's a piece it's a step forward
- 10:04you know you got there one step two
- 10:06steps three steps you can't just
- 10:09buy them to the top what do you think
- 10:11about this question of patriotism
- 10:13that uh you should be patriotic and send
- 10:14your kids to fight over in vietnam no
- 10:17but for what
- 10:19what what we gotta be patriotic for
- 10:22what you gave us didn't give us
- 10:24something why should we
- 10:26keep them fight for you you all got the
- 10:29best
- 10:30part the best house the best of
- 10:32everything
- 10:33when we get it we have to stop and pay
- 10:36all of our salary for rents
- 10:39so halfway get a decent place to live
- 10:42i got a house that is full of so much
- 10:44rapid even funny
- 10:46man and i'm working every day
- 10:49and i'm working for the state so the
- 10:51united states government that don't even
- 10:53give me nothing
- 10:55and i gotta pay all that rest for a raft
- 10:57to come eat the right food i put the
- 10:59right food out there
- 11:00and when i wake up in the morning the
- 11:02rashfood was going i don't know where
- 11:04the rice was
- 11:05maybe they look better than i do but
- 11:07they're right here
- 11:20i had about 60 days left 64 65 days left
- 11:24to do it
- 11:25on the nom downtown and uh
- 11:28i was singing a song that i made up from
- 11:31you know another tune and it was uh soon
- 11:34i'll be going back to uh
- 11:36where the rats on the roaches roam and
- 11:40this
- 11:40guy who was next to me said to me uh
- 11:43what do you mean
- 11:44you got rats in your house so i turned
- 11:47to him and he was a honk i turned to him
- 11:49and i said
- 11:50yeah i got rats and roaches in my house
- 11:52don't you have any in your
- 11:54and he said to me no he said he'd never
- 11:56seen a rat
- 11:58and it started me thinking because soon
- 12:00i would be going back home and he would
- 12:02be going back home
- 12:03i would be going back to the rats and
- 12:05the roaches because i knew they were
- 12:06that
- 12:07if you come home right now you can hear
- 12:08him if you're eating in my kitchen
- 12:10you'll hear him talking
- 12:11and and he would be going back to his uh
- 12:15nice california pad and for me
- 12:19the problem would begin again and for
- 12:21him there would be no problem
- 12:25[Applause]
- 12:37like the rest of the [ __ ] they
- 12:38don't want their child to go over in
- 12:40midnight i really don't want mine to
- 12:42figure out what it's all about yeah
- 12:45that's the only reason i'm a mother just
- 12:47like everybody i know they feel the same
- 12:49way like i feel
- 12:50why do you think that the black people
- 12:52are demonstrating against the world
- 12:53because more black going over than any
- 12:56other color
- 12:57they say that the death rate of the uh
- 12:59black gi
- 13:00is uh comparatively higher than the
- 13:02defeat of the white gi
- 13:04and i i i i would like to
- 13:07come right back to basic training or
- 13:09even further back to high school
- 13:12where uh you're in a ghetto and uh
- 13:16your mother is on welfare and your
- 13:17father left home and then you have to go
- 13:19out and get a job and quit high school
- 13:20for some
- 13:21reason or other and you don't finish
- 13:23high school or you do get high school
- 13:24education and it's not
- 13:26it's not uh on a level with the white
- 13:29high school and you go to take the army
- 13:31test and you score lower than the white
- 13:33guys
- 13:34and the next thing you know you're in
- 13:35the infantry and that's one reason
- 13:38another reason is that uh a black guy is
- 13:40seeing uh
- 13:41their bodies in infantry and airborne
- 13:43these
- 13:44elite units would naturally want to be
- 13:47right where the brothers are
- 13:48so a brother will come in there he has
- 13:50three years of college
- 13:52and right away bam he wants to get into
- 13:54that elite outfit because uh
- 13:56uh his other brothers are there you know
- 13:58and uh
- 14:00that's why you see the 173 everyone in
- 14:02vietnam which we used to support when i
- 14:04was on helicopter
- 14:05uh missions uh it's
- 14:08i i can really safely say to my
- 14:11accountant
- 14:12about 60 of that outfit is black
- 14:16and another reason why he's dying so
- 14:18much is because of his uh
- 14:20he you just want to he just he just want
- 14:23to show the man that he is a man
- 14:25and that he can do anything that the
- 14:28white guy does
- 14:29and you go all out all out to uh you
- 14:31know prove that
- 14:32well i don't want my black boys go over
- 14:34there fighting ain't getting when they
- 14:35come here
- 14:36that's how i feel about it when they
- 14:38come in they don't get no jobs and they
- 14:40get turned down they get killed
- 14:41and get their legs come up cut off and
- 14:43don't get nothing that's how i feel
- 14:45about it
- 14:45you're against the one in vietnam that's
- 14:47why i guess the world's victim i don't
- 14:49like it because there's no good
- 14:50our black boys going they're getting
- 14:51killed and they ain't doing nothing for
- 14:53us
- 14:54and when we get here to get a job we
- 14:55don't get none and then another thing
- 14:57you're getting
- 14:58housework you've got to have you you
- 15:00have to go to a whole lot
- 15:01the hell to get that you don't even get
- 15:03that for nothing there used to be a time
- 15:05you could get a job
- 15:06like that but you gotta you gotta show
- 15:08your whole history where you was born
- 15:09high it was born to get housewife
- 15:12that's right i
- 15:15left the service in 1966 and i
- 15:20had a skill as an
- 15:24in aircraft
- 15:28maintenance i walked both
- 15:32kennedy airport and
- 15:38guardia airport for 45 days trying to
- 15:42find a job out there
- 15:44i wound up with
- 15:48a 60 buck a week job
- 15:53where i packed little light bulbs and
- 15:57things like that my take-home pay was 49
- 16:01a week what do you think about that
- 16:05demonstration well if they go to vietnam
- 16:07they went on their own
- 16:09the bible said we know that lies god and
- 16:11we ain't gonna worry about it no more
- 16:13you're not gonna worry about what we
- 16:15ain't worrying about vietnam if you went
- 16:17over there you went on your own
- 16:18yeah we gave respect to the government
- 16:20100 while we know what the government is
- 16:22doing
- 16:23with the people out here see we are five
- 16:25percent of poor righteous teachers
- 16:27see we know everything see we respect
- 16:30the government
- 16:31at all costs while we'll back him up but
- 16:34we know he doing their job while we out
- 16:36here to do a job
- 16:37also right just while we're here what do
- 16:40you think about the jobs they're doing
- 16:41the government the government the
- 16:43government is doing everything right and
- 16:44exact that's the way it's supposed to be
- 16:46the government has always been right in
- 16:47this app
- 16:48they doing their job and we doing hours
- 16:49the father center's going to do their
- 16:51job in the poor part of the planet earth
- 16:53what's the difference between the jobs
- 16:54they're doing their job you're going to
- 16:55be different see we're going to be
- 16:56building we're going to build a black
- 16:58nation that's going to be all wise and
- 16:59righteous
- 17:01that's right so we got our own rules and
- 17:04regulations and we know that god
- 17:05is alive and he is black why are you
- 17:08marching today
- 17:09why because we march for what we don't
- 17:12need the march we know who god is and
- 17:14the lord gonna take care of it all
- 17:16that's why his son's out here now you
- 17:18see three of us standing here
- 17:19protests you know we're feeling right
- 17:21here we respect the government we don't
- 17:23go through
- 17:23walking through the streets and
- 17:24protesting the people want to do
- 17:26something just go down there one at a
- 17:28time and tell the government what they
- 17:30want to do the government is writing
- 17:31this act they know what they doing
- 17:33sure do i see a lie to god he told us to
- 17:36respect the government 100
- 17:38and do anything the government acts well
- 17:40see we know we gonna do
- 17:41for the government see the government
- 17:43got to speak to us while we're the high
- 17:45intelligent people of this planet earth
- 17:47elijah muhammad he's the last and
- 17:49greatest opossum of almighty god allah
- 17:52see he already submitted 100 percent
- 17:55he's the holy muslim how about your
- 17:57friend this year that's my brother
- 18:02[Applause]
- 18:07how do you feel about the demonstration
- 18:08how i feel about it didn't you hear me
- 18:10speak ain't no difference we always
- 18:11weren't
- 18:18improve and come back home in no limit
- 18:19of time same way i went in there
- 18:22are you a girlfriend now no sir or
- 18:24either of you
- 18:25have you been called who said well i
- 18:27spoke to the governor why the government
- 18:29told me
- 18:30lay cool for a while you got a deferment
- 18:33yes sir are you trying to get other
- 18:35black youth to not going to the army
- 18:36are you know i'm not stopping you i'm
- 18:39not stopping
- 18:40not stopping nobody if you go to vietnam
- 18:42you go on your own
- 18:43see everyone is independent right this
- 18:46year is independent here
- 18:48if they don't know the independent why
- 18:49they got to go out in the street and go
- 18:51by themselves
- 18:52ain't no one will help them
- 19:03[Applause]
- 19:05i'm not in favor of cleaning up another
- 19:07country when this is filthy that's bad
- 19:13don't worry about vietnam you can't you
- 19:15can't guarantee freedom for the people
- 19:17millions of miles away when you've got
- 19:19crap going on right here in the
- 19:20neighborhood
- 19:21in this city right about there america
- 19:23needs their own face cleaning
- 19:24first we were in this
- 19:27foxhole and the ceo's he was one of the
- 19:30most scared people i've ever seen doing
- 19:32any kind of an operation
- 19:34and we were being artilleried by the uh
- 19:36north vietnamese
- 19:38artillery batteries in the dmz the
- 19:40mountain areas
- 19:42and he was speaking to another
- 19:43lieutenant he was saying the coons are
- 19:45getting out of hand
- 19:47he looked over to the other corner of
- 19:49the bunker and he saw me and he quickly
- 19:51changed the statement from
- 19:53to color people are getting out of hand
- 19:57now right away it doesn't make me feel
- 20:00like i want to help him
- 20:02or i want to serve his cause and from
- 20:04before
- 20:05i didn't have any kind of a feeling for
- 20:07it to start with
- 20:08i i i was on
- 20:12my way home north
- 20:15and and i stopped in a food shop in
- 20:28and i had on on the whole
- 20:32green suit i walked in and
- 20:36they wouldn't serve me
- 20:40so right then
- 20:46with me
- 20:49the green suit and the flag didn't mean
- 20:52a goddamn thing
- 20:55and 19 days passed
- 20:59and i was in in the vietnam
- 21:04and for for the first four months there
- 21:07i fixed flat tires on jeeps
- 21:12uh lightweight trucks and uh caught and
- 21:15killed rats
- 21:19then i complained
- 21:23and got in the
- 21:31school to learn how to fix
- 21:36uh once which is a three-week course and
- 21:39i passed that
- 21:40and and from
- 21:45that time on i i fixed planks you see
- 21:48and then the
- 21:52middle of the tour i walked in into the
- 21:55out
- 21:56house and and saw the
- 21:59usual racial slur written on the wall
- 22:04so my my whole mind changed and i said
- 22:08how how how would that i'll do
- 22:11my time and get the hell out
- 22:18first time i realized that
- 22:21the man was definitely after me uh
- 22:24personally and us generally black
- 22:27brothers
- 22:28was when i was getting ready to go
- 22:31overseas and uh
- 22:33i was going overseas with this
- 22:34helicopter outfit
- 22:36combat assault helicopter as an air
- 22:39traffic
- 22:40control modified to be a ground combat
- 22:42controller
- 22:44and i was trained for this in an air
- 22:48force school in mississippi
- 22:51and i was the only brother to graduate
- 22:57so uh before i before i get into the
- 22:59story i was i must say that uh
- 23:01the graduation party that the at the
- 23:04class had
- 23:05i was the only one who couldn't attend
- 23:06because i was the only black guy in that
- 23:08class
- 23:09and they had their graduation party on a
- 23:11beach in mississippi
- 23:14and uh i couldn't even go on that beach
- 23:17and it struck me real hard thinking that
- 23:20uh
- 23:20after all i graduated with the guys and
- 23:23i could at least you know
- 23:25uh uh be part of this celebration
- 23:29anyway uh i finally went overseas
- 23:33and uh i figured uh well this will give
- 23:36me some experience to go
- 23:37when i come back i want to do this thing
- 23:39in civilian life
- 23:40air traffic control
- 23:41[Applause]
- 23:44but when i got over there the guy made
- 23:45me uh
- 23:47a driver for the other officers in the
- 23:51uh
- 23:51company and i said look i'm an air
- 23:54traffic controller and uh
- 23:56i'm supposed to be doing my job but
- 23:58that's what you sent me over here for
- 23:59spent eighteen thousand dollars of
- 24:01family to school
- 24:03and uh he said look i told him i said
- 24:06look because i'm i'm black or
- 24:08is it is it the reason that is it am i
- 24:10too uh
- 24:11black for a job like that is that uh is
- 24:13is it
- 24:15uh air traffic control is it a job too
- 24:17uh too good for a man like me to
- 24:20do and uh immediately sent me to the
- 24:23jungle the fulfillment of the first
- 24:25infantry division
- 24:26the fifth artillery group and then i
- 24:29stayed until i got out best of black
- 24:32youth are in the battlefields
- 24:34of vietnam see the
- 24:39the best of white youth are often the
- 24:42colleges they're not going to vietnam
- 24:45you know what you get of the white guys
- 24:47over there are the
- 24:49lowest level of you know the poor guy
- 24:52the poor little racist guy
- 24:53from some honky town down in mississippi
- 24:57you know who will never amount to
- 24:59anything anything you know all his life
- 25:01will just be based on hate and black
- 25:02folk
- 25:03you know because that's how he's trapped
- 25:04that's how he's oriented
- 25:06you know that's how you live unless it's
- 25:09something basic and fundamental that
- 25:11happens that's how he'll die
- 25:14you know but the best of the white youth
- 25:16are off here in the universities and
- 25:18frankly they're not going
- 25:20and their parents are committed they'll
- 25:22do everything you know and their
- 25:24and they'll go to jail before they go
- 25:26but the best of the black youth are over
- 25:28there fighting another colored people
- 25:30and so that the racist enemy in this
- 25:32country does two things
- 25:34okay he fights a racist war
- 25:37and then trails war of aggression
- 25:38against the vietnamese people
- 25:40with black youth
- 25:44who are carrying the major share of that
- 25:46battle certainly in terms of
- 25:47percentage of casualties and fatalities
- 25:50and he also deprives
- 25:52black folk here of the cream of the crop
- 25:55of black youth
- 25:56for wage war against racist americans
- 26:16[Applause]
- 26:23i think it's wonderful
- 26:26i think the war i think it's very unfair
- 26:28why should the
- 26:30people american boys white and black go
- 26:32to vietnam to fight
- 26:34when a quarter of the american
- 26:36population can't even vote
- 26:38not only they can't vote they can't even
- 26:39go to a toilet down south
- 26:41a public toilet i think it's a wonderful
- 26:43thing and i hope they continue to keep
- 26:45it very peaceful
- 26:47and uh well
- 26:50i'm trying to tell them the way i feel
- 26:52about it that you're right
- 26:55just keep it straight you're alright
- 27:10[Applause]
- 27:18the war what do you think these marches
- 27:20can do whether you can arouse interest
- 27:22and dramatize an issue very very very
- 27:25important what do you think about the
- 27:26black people marching
- 27:27i think they have a greater stake in it
- 27:29than white people
- 27:34or is it an anti-peace peace movement i
- 27:36think it's real peaceful
- 27:38do you feel any anti-white sentiment
- 27:39here no not at all
- 27:42i think if there is any it will be
- 27:43dissolved in the common cores that
- 27:45they're all fighting
- 27:48[Applause]
- 27:55i think it's lousy they're nothing but
- 27:57communists every one of them
- 28:00they don't deserve to live in this damn
- 28:01country what do you think about the law
- 28:03well i think about the war i think is
- 28:05right where fighting isn't real
- 28:09that's what we're doing we're fighting
- 28:11for our freedom idiots
- 28:17[Applause]
- 28:26that's all right
- 28:30don't make no difference to him get
- 28:32pieces don't make any difference
- 28:34everybody wants the water in you know
- 28:38it's all right what do you think about
- 28:40all that
- 28:42demonstration
- 28:55how do you feel about the war
- 29:00[Applause]
- 29:10in 64
- 29:13i received
- 29:17mail from home when i heard that the
- 29:20three civil rights workers got killed
- 29:22and
- 29:23and then they had rice in brooklyn and
- 29:29and i said what in the hell am i doing
- 29:32out here
- 29:33and uh my whole
- 29:37mind changed
- 29:43these skills here
- 29:46and help my own folks at home
- 29:51use these same girls to
- 29:57be free because as as
- 30:00as i've seen it just being in
- 30:04in a civil rights march
- 30:13at all
- 30:15[Applause]
- 30:17because there's racist cops dogs
- 30:23hate electric trick sticks that
- 30:26they shock you with hoes hoes
- 30:30hoses and i cannot see
- 30:35myself being in a nice
- 30:38piece full civil rights
- 30:42march
- 30:45sing songs
- 30:54[Applause]
- 31:02well i have one pretty sharp experiences
- 31:05about this uh
- 31:06elderly vietnamese woman i was in charge
- 31:08of giving out the sea rats
- 31:10one day and this elderly vietnamese
- 31:12woman
- 31:14came along with a crowd of children she
- 31:15kept begging me
- 31:17for one of the sea rats
- 31:20and i told her no no no no no no
- 31:23and i was laughing with her and the
- 31:25children and this woman
- 31:28kept begging me for one whole hour
- 31:31she kept begging me and finally i looked
- 31:34at her and i
- 31:35saw in this woman's face you know real
- 31:38sincere
- 31:39begging and then i thought to myself
- 31:42this woman could be my mother
- 31:45or she could be my grandmother and
- 31:48that child that she's holding in her
- 31:50hand could have been a relative of mine
- 31:52and there she is begging for
- 31:56food and i got so much on her side
- 32:00i started coming out of a pity bag and i
- 32:02just
- 32:03reached down in the box and gave her two
- 32:05whole boxes of sea rations
- 32:07and they would you know the other guy's
- 32:09food
- 32:11and they were pretty riled up because i
- 32:13had taken their food and given to her
- 32:15but i couldn't help it really because
- 32:17it was her land we'd come to would
- 32:19destroy
- 32:20and she needed food for the child but
- 32:23the best part of it was she went away
- 32:26and about two hours later when we were
- 32:28getting ready to leave she brought back
- 32:30the bag of roasted peanuts
- 32:33for me and she gave it to me and she
- 32:36wanted me to eat it
- 32:38and i gave it to her
- 32:41and it just showed that really if you
- 32:45want to help people
- 32:46then the best thing to do is to give
- 32:48them
- 32:49food clothes instead of going over and
- 32:52trying to tell them what to do
- 32:54and this really played a heavy part on
- 32:55me because it brought the vietnamese
- 32:57people
- 32:58through this lady closer to me or closer
- 33:01to understanding than their problem
- 33:05but the black the black gi's over there
- 33:08we had uh
- 33:10with the the majority of the vietnamese
- 33:13girls you know
- 33:14uh we had a much more uh
- 33:17report with them than the white guys
- 33:20because they would always say me and you
- 33:21same same you know me and you same same
- 33:23gi come here you know
- 33:24things like that and uh well they got
- 33:27uh they got a dislike
- 33:31for the uh white guys uh because the
- 33:34white guys went around saying that we
- 33:35were sushi and was back in the state
- 33:36that we were we had tails we used to
- 33:39have tails we were descendants of the
- 33:41monkeys in africa and uh
- 33:43things like that you know whenever
- 33:44you're having sex with them why don't
- 33:45you take them you know look
- 33:46you'll see they have uh big
- 33:49buttocks you know and uh that's because
- 33:51of their you know
- 33:53origins in africa uh you know and uh
- 33:57well the vietnamese then it saw
- 34:00what was happening back in the states
- 34:02was happening right there in their own
- 34:03country it was
- 34:04racism right there in front of their
- 34:05eyes you know and they'll call
- 34:07us soul brothers hateful brother here's
- 34:09our soul sister things like that and
- 34:11the uh and what a lot of color guys
- 34:15wouldn't call the vietnamese of [ __ ] or
- 34:16slope you know the white guys
- 34:18will mainly do that because it's a
- 34:20racial epithet you know like uh they'll
- 34:21call us
- 34:22[ __ ] here cool and everything we'll
- 34:24call them vietnamese or their
- 34:26slope anything but for me i never did
- 34:28call them that you know because i think
- 34:30i've been doing them the same injustice
- 34:31the white guy the white man over here
- 34:33was doing to me you know
- 34:34you know i just call him playing
- 34:35vietnamese by their name you know
- 34:38there was a survey made in the marine
- 34:39corps
- 34:41and they wanted to know what the marines
- 34:43felt about the vietnamese people
- 34:44how they felt about them and it
- 34:48surprised many of the
- 34:49officers that most of the men
- 34:52came back saying that they thought the
- 34:54vietnamese weren't human
- 34:57and because they don't think the
- 34:58vietnamese are human then they treat
- 35:00them less than human they think they're
- 35:01pigs
- 35:02dogs everything else
- 35:07tell me about you talking about how you
- 35:08uh but how you felt when you went over
- 35:11there
- 35:12what used to be feelings about the
- 35:15associated with this country
- 35:19are you felt like being american and all
- 35:21that happened that changed
- 35:27oh well i i
- 35:31was blinded by
- 35:34a life of being in white schools
- 35:38hearing white lies and
- 35:42i
- 35:46thought that since i'm being sent there
- 35:49okay i'll
- 35:50i'll i'll i'll
- 35:55spend my time in in there and
- 35:58get out but uh
- 36:03i use
- 36:07to like write
- 36:11i until i was stationed down south
- 36:15and i learned more of this
- 36:18hate in both down south and in
- 36:23vietnam too and
- 36:27because of that i am very suspicious of
- 36:31of 99 and and 99 100
- 36:36of all whites in the states and
- 36:41to me my uniform and my flag
- 36:44[Applause]
- 36:46don't mean a damn thing now
- 36:50if it wasn't finished you wouldn't have
- 36:53the right to assemble here today
- 37:21they should gather them all together and
- 37:23put it on a grave of a
- 37:24of a soldier in vietnamese
- 37:35wait a minute i my parents come from
- 37:38italy
- 37:39and i would fight against my country for
- 37:42this country
- 37:44no i'm back uh looking back on this
- 37:47patriotism thing or
- 37:48what is patriotism is it my country
- 37:50right or wrong whether my country is
- 37:52right or wrong
- 37:53i'll stick with it all right is it right
- 37:56or is it wrong
- 37:56is it right or wrong take a look at them
- 37:58do they look like they'd be able to get
- 38:00into service
- 38:03you're yeah what do you think about the
- 38:05world
- 38:06well i don't care i don't know anything
- 38:08about it but i know if my country's
- 38:09there uh i'm behind my country
- 38:11do you have service man yeah
- 38:21i was a sniper in the third marine
- 38:22division and uh
- 38:25it really hurt me a lot of times to see
- 38:2613 14 year old kids that we'd killed
- 38:29but then again i'm there coming down to
- 38:31kill us
- 38:33and the thing is we we didn't start the
- 38:34bombing until they started bringing
- 38:36supplies down from north vietnam
- 38:38to resupply their men and uh we've gotta
- 38:41we gotta
- 38:42we gotta stay there now until it's over
- 38:47uh it does definitely i think martin
- 38:49luther king is hurting around a lot
- 38:51by saying that the colored people are
- 38:53fighting a disproportionate war over
- 38:54there
- 38:55because i know a lot of the color boys
- 38:57that i work with they were proud
- 38:59to be there what do you think about the
- 39:00black people
- 39:01[Applause]
- 39:02i think martin luther king made a
- 39:04mistake the tie of civil rights
- 39:06with the um
- 39:09uh vietnam war what do you think of
- 39:11martin luther king marching
- 39:21he is a communist educated communist he
- 39:24used the colored paper
- 39:25for the propaganda for moscow nothing
- 39:27else
- 39:28what do you think about the relating of
- 39:30the civil rights movement
- 39:31and the uh peacemaker well i'd like to
- 39:34see everybody get along
- 39:36i'm like i'm for everybody
- 39:40uh it says america for whites nrp stands
- 39:44for national renaissance party
- 39:47well yes but i also believe that africa
- 39:49should be for the blacks
- 39:52i believe i believe that we should have
- 39:54a white empire i believe that the black
- 39:56should be part of the black empire and
- 39:57that the asiatic should be part of the
- 39:59yellow empire
- 40:00i i see i think it's against the laws of
- 40:02nature
- 40:03i don't think nature meant it meant that
- 40:05the races should have been mixed
- 40:06i don't think he did because if he did
- 40:08then we all
- 40:09about nature i think that we all would
- 40:11have been born in
- 40:12one race taking part in this
- 40:16demonstration
- 40:18well there are a lot of negroes in this
- 40:20country who
- 40:21they they don't have good jobs they're
- 40:24they're in bed they're in a bad economic
- 40:26situation they live in ghettos
- 40:28and they see they see the war in vietnam
- 40:31as as the war of
- 40:33of the uh the ghetto war where you take
- 40:36a lot of people
- 40:36out of together and you send them over
- 40:38there to vietnam which i do agree with
- 40:40them on that
- 40:40that a lot of a lot of poor kids are
- 40:42being sent over to vietnam because there
- 40:44aren't any jobs over them
- 40:45over here for them i agree with them on
- 40:47that but
- 40:48i think it would be better for them to
- 40:50so i am opposed to the world of vietnam
- 40:52but i am not opposed
- 40:54to the american gis over there i will
- 40:56support them 100 percent
- 40:59but i want i want the war to be won my
- 41:01book says bomb hanoi
- 41:03if i had a plane and if i had a bomb not
- 41:05a nuclear bomb
- 41:06but a big enough bump i would bomb hanoi
- 41:09i don't want to go to vietnam and shoot
- 41:10at a tree but there's some guy behind
- 41:12the tree who i can't see
- 41:13and i don't know what he's shooting at
- 41:14me with it's ridiculous
- 41:17and you say these people have a right to
- 41:19march what's that sign over here i said
- 41:21that they had a right to much but
- 41:22no but they don't have the right to wear
- 41:24a vehicle uniform it says
- 41:26kill red peace creeps
- 41:29and well we we want publicity and uh
- 41:34we're getting nothing and uh we really
- 41:36actually wouldn't kill any red peas
- 41:38groups of course the idea
- 41:39it isn't such a bad idea but we really
- 41:42wouldn't kill them i think we'd let them
- 41:44live
- 41:44because to me communism is just a
- 41:46disease of the mind it can't be cured
- 41:48we there are a lot of psychiatrists and
- 41:50psychologists in this country
- 41:52who can cure communism of course they
- 41:54look at
- 41:55they look at other things um like it's a
- 41:57disease like they'll say that fascism is
- 41:59a disease which i don't think it is
- 42:00i think communism is a disease and we
- 42:03don't have to kill them
- 42:04we can cure them but people who were
- 42:06born racial and furious well
- 42:08unfortunately well they should have
- 42:11their own sphere of influence
- 42:13the sphere of influence for the african
- 42:15is africa the sphere of influence for
- 42:16the asian is asia
- 42:18let them stay over there
- 42:21i'm pretty disgusted and
- 42:24i won't hide that i'm pretty angry angry
- 42:27about the whole mess
- 42:28not only black veterans but angry angry
- 42:31about the way black people have been
- 42:32treated on a whole
- 42:34and everyone knows what's going on and
- 42:37still yet people there's some people who
- 42:39insist that nothing is going bad and
- 42:40that things
- 42:41are going for the better and we know
- 42:44that nothing's going for the better
- 42:46um i have been made even more angry by
- 42:50going to vietnam and having to
- 42:52contribute
- 42:53and seeing black youth die in vietnam
- 42:57and still yet coming back and no one
- 42:59wants to listen to us no one wants to
- 43:01hear what we have to say
- 43:02and no one wants to do anything for us
- 43:04we're still being treated as sub-humans
- 43:08i've came come back from vietnam and
- 43:09i've seen the things in my neighborhood
- 43:11i walk through the alleys and the alleys
- 43:13are piling high with garbage
- 43:15i see uh young children young black
- 43:17children running through the streets
- 43:19they don't have the proper clothes on
- 43:20and it's not
- 43:21it's not the same old lie that they
- 43:23their parents don't want to work that is
- 43:25not the case
- 43:26the case is they can't find jobs now the
- 43:29people complain about welfare they
- 43:30complain about what
- 43:31is being paid to these people now well
- 43:34we didn't
- 43:35think up the welfare scheme we didn't
- 43:38think up the welfare agency idea
- 43:41the man thought of the idea he is the
- 43:43one that put it into practice
- 43:45and he put it into practice to hide us
- 43:48he paid enormous sums of money
- 43:50for two rooms that the welfare agencies
- 43:53would pay something like
- 43:54a hundred and fifty dollars and these
- 43:55weren't two good rooms i can take you
- 43:57and show them to you right now
- 43:59they were rent infested rooms to plaster
- 44:02holes in the wall broken the ceilings
- 44:04corroding
- 44:05and they paid this money to the people
- 44:07to keep them off the streets to hide
- 44:09them
- 44:10and then they built subways and they
- 44:11built the subways under us so they would
- 44:13never have to see us
- 44:15but they did something wrong when they
- 44:17built those skyscrapers because then we
- 44:19could see the skyscrapers and we saw
- 44:21what they were putting out and then we
- 44:23started crawling out of
- 44:24our neighborhoods and taking looks at
- 44:26what the man had
- 44:28and because we saw what the man had then
- 44:30we became more angry
- 44:32and it's now because these people are
- 44:34demanding that they get what's theirs
- 44:36now the man says do away with welfare he
- 44:39says these people are lazy they're
- 44:40always collecting welfare
- 44:42oh man it was your idea it wasn't our
- 44:45idea
- 44:45so crawl off our backs these people
- 44:49didn't want to hide to start what they
- 44:51asked you for jobs in the beginning
- 44:53you didn't want to give them the jobs
- 44:54you didn't want to give them the better
- 44:55education you didn't want to give them
- 44:57the better housing
- 44:58instead you chose to give them charity
- 45:01and now you're complaining because you
- 45:04have to pay out more charity than you
- 45:06want to pay out
- 45:07i mean don't complain to us
- 45:10if you wanted to do free giving in the
- 45:12beginning
- 45:14continue to give free giving just
- 45:16because you started out giving a man a
- 45:17dollar and he's asking you for two
- 45:19dollars now don't start crying on our
- 45:20shoulders
- 45:22it's not our problem
- 45:27well uh i think uh it's a really
- 45:30pathetic situation uh
- 45:32i think this summer and uh i was
- 45:35succeeding someone's gonna really
- 45:37um see a change in the black man's
- 45:39attitude to what the white man
- 45:41what the white man is putting out to him
- 45:44so
- 45:45all i can say is uh it's going to be a
- 45:48pathetic thing
- 45:50if you really really read the riot
- 45:52report and
- 45:53see what it has in those pages
- 45:58you would you may not sleep nights just
- 46:01thinking what's going to happen
- 46:04unless a man does something to alleviate
- 46:07these conditions
- 46:08these worse than conditions not here in
- 46:11new york in chicago and in the south and
- 46:14mississippi all over the place it's uh
- 46:16it's right here the war is going to
- 46:19escalate right here
- 46:21as he escalates the war in vietnam it's
- 46:22going to escalate right here
- 46:24the price of an f4 phantom jet
- 46:27is two and a half million bucks each
- 46:31with that uncle sam
- 46:35can build two beautiful schools
- 46:40here
- 46:42for that same amount
- 46:46but instead it's being used to buy
- 46:51a high performance multi-engine
- 46:54jet that is being shot down and
- 46:59will wind up being a useless
- 47:03scrap a useless heap of scrap
- 47:10you know i think one of the worst
- 47:11mistakes that the man has ever made is
- 47:13to think that we would be
- 47:14full enough to be trained in
- 47:17warfare and still yet come back home
- 47:20watch our people live in misery die in
- 47:23misery
- 47:24and still be stupid enough not to want
- 47:27to help our people
- 47:28now for people on the street the people
- 47:31in the so-called riots i call them
- 47:32revolts
- 47:33the people in the revolts are to be shot
- 47:36down and killed
- 47:38then i don't think there's any brother
- 47:40who's going to stand around knowing what
- 47:42he can do
- 47:43and knowing what he's capable of putting
- 47:45out he's going to stand around and watch
- 47:48his own people get shot down
- 47:50if a man on the street dies i die
- 47:53if the this country ever decides to
- 47:55exterminate
- 47:56black people i'm sure they're not going
- 47:58to exclude me because i've been in
- 48:00vietnam
- 48:01they're going to exterminate all black
- 48:04people and that includes
- 48:05all vietnam veterans uh
- 48:08four little girls died in a sunday
- 48:11school
- 48:13the man who laid the charge was a white
- 48:16national guardsman yet the white people
- 48:19in this damn united states have the
- 48:21nerve
- 48:21to get shooken up when i
- 48:25say i will use my skills to fight
- 48:29for a revolt against 400 years of
- 48:34racism that's a bunch of bull
- 48:37because i i will be out in in the damn
- 48:40streets
- 48:41and and i won't be wearing
- 48:45a fatigue uniform and boots
- 48:50of of some damn armed force
- 48:54i got i got a solution to this whole
- 48:55problem i think it's the united
- 49:01just states out you know there's a big
- 49:03mistake let the people govern themselves
- 49:05you know i have elections and everything
- 49:06okay the nlf take over okay that's all
- 49:08right that's their country was their
- 49:10country in the first place
- 49:11and come back here and reorganize
- 49:13revitalize the whole all the programs
- 49:15that you have started
- 49:16revitalize everything you know just a
- 49:17regeneration of everything
- 49:19uh slums at inadequate house and
- 49:22everything just
- 49:23just get together and plan you know just
- 49:26okay this is a great society that's what
- 49:28johnson said okay i'll really make it a
- 49:30great society
- 49:31building better schools better housing
- 49:33you train the black people and
- 49:35the skills that that that the black
- 49:37people are supposed to be training
- 49:39and uh and just start a new society and
- 49:44then this would
- 49:44be really democracy you know it's uh but
- 49:47they're not going to do it
- 49:49if if the united states government were
- 49:51able to pull out of vietnam
- 49:53and you ask them what happened to the 80
- 49:55billion dollars they spent in vietnam
- 49:58why can't they put it in the in our
- 50:01black communities
- 50:02they're gonna say they don't have the
- 50:04money but where did all the money
- 50:06disappear to
- 50:08what are you fighting for why don't you
- 50:09just let people live just let us
- 50:12work just let us make a living each in
- 50:14their own category
- 50:16each working the best of their ability i
- 50:18don't want to live on park avenue i
- 50:20can't afford it but if my black brother
- 50:22can and can't afford it let him live
- 50:24my son mate can't go to harvard i can't
- 50:26afford it but if his black brother can't
- 50:28let him go
- 50:29i mean i don't know what we are fighting
- 50:32about i'll tell you
- 50:33one reason why they're fighting one
- 50:35reason why they're fighting
- 50:37it's not the idea of he has
- 50:40more than the other fella what they're
- 50:43fighting for
- 50:44and how you say kind of equal right
- 50:47yeah equal rights in america
- 51:06apartment the white guy want to move in
- 51:10the apartment who gets the first
- 51:11preference
- 51:11but that's what i'm talking about well
- 51:13you don't want to know
- 51:15if i had if i had first choice from the
- 51:18beginning
- 51:19if i had first choice from the beginning
- 51:21why shouldn't i get in there first
- 51:23because you're black ah that's what i'm
- 51:26trying to say
- 51:27that's not the end of the day
- 51:30vietnam now you're president of the
- 51:33united states
- 51:34because i am a democrat
- 51:48getting the same results that they're
- 51:50getting now
- 51:52no what do you think of the fact that
- 51:54more black men are dying over there than
- 51:55white men how does that make you feel
- 51:57well
- 51:57i don't know i really don't know
- 52:00whether the black man is dying more so
- 52:03than the white man
- 52:05but i do know this much i know that
- 52:08my boy is over there
- 52:11he's supposed to be fighting for his
- 52:13rights here in the united states
- 52:15but he's not getting them he is not
- 52:18getting them
- 52:19i want it i want it for him
- 52:23and if i don't think he's not getting
- 52:24them you believe me i'll do
- 52:26every book anything i watch today
- 52:29i don't know i have to see about that
- 52:33because i am an authority well then i
- 52:35don't know what's right normally
- 52:36i think the black people's fighting for
- 52:39wars ever since i can remember
- 52:41and even before your time of mine the
- 52:43black man has been sent all over the
- 52:45world fighting for his rights
- 52:46and your day there's oneness in his wife
- 52:49down there forming some kind of
- 52:51thing to keep the black child out of
- 52:53school in
- 52:54america let us clean up him my darling
- 52:58we would live what we preach in the
- 53:00world we wouldn't have the fight
- 53:03we are fighting for nothing because the
- 53:05white man say you
- 53:06fight the white man holds your light and
- 53:09the palm in his hand
- 53:11you're afraid to open your mouth
- 53:16he can put you out of your apartment he
- 53:18can take your
- 53:19job so you walk along with me come on
- 53:21and say what do you think about so and
- 53:23so so oh i got that to say i haven't
- 53:25seen himself i don't introduce me what
- 53:26can you do
- 53:27but you pay your taxes when i get my
- 53:29little envelope
- 53:30the bad got my money he don't ask me for
- 53:33it
- 53:34i'm a citizen then but if i open my
- 53:37mouth about anything
- 53:38else i'm a communist i'm a raverizer i'm
- 53:41stirring up things
- 53:42but the same thing that i'm speaking for
- 53:44for myself
- 53:45the white man doesn't and they're doing
- 53:47it all of his life
- 53:48what do you think of the black man
- 53:50defending himself with guns and over in
- 53:51vietnam and yet why do you keep
- 54:02when they push him like that what the
- 54:05hell are you if somebody keep on coming
- 54:07up to you with a damn gun
- 54:08what are you going to do yeah sit back
- 54:10they teach him to fight and kill over
- 54:12there
- 54:19well he's supposed to defend this damn
- 54:21song listen
- 54:23you said to me a black man that sent
- 54:25over to vietnam with a gun
- 54:27what should he do isn't a white man
- 54:29sitting over there right
- 54:30well what the hell if he should defend
- 54:32himself at home here too with the gun
- 54:34that's your damn life if they keep on
- 54:36[ __ ] them
- 54:38if they keep on [ __ ] them yet shoot
- 54:42the hell out of them
- 54:49if they pull then
- 54:53most people say if you don't like it
- 54:55here get out
- 54:56that's that's for spineless people
- 54:59spineless bastards who
- 55:01don't want to fight for what they
- 55:03believe in
- 55:06well i'm staying here because i was born
- 55:09here
- 55:10and i am going to fight for my freedom
- 55:14and before i have kids
- 55:17i am going to make sure that this damn
- 55:20united states deserves
- 55:23the existence of my kids because
- 55:26i will not rest until this
- 55:29until every sunday school is safe
- 55:33for my kids so that
- 55:39they won't get killed or beaten up
- 55:43like those kids down in mississippi
- 55:48in 1966 that
- 55:51is going to stop or else i'll be dead
- 55:56i they're one you white folks have
- 56:01have either one of two choices
- 56:05give me my damn freedom or kill me
- 56:09because i am tired of sitting by
- 56:13being an uncle tom or a house
- 56:17naked grow like
- 56:20booth and wilkins
- 56:24those two guys are not negroes
- 56:31they're white people with man tan
- 56:34that's all they don't speak
- 56:38for us they have
- 56:42have found their way in in into the
- 56:45white man's
- 56:47house the white man's establishment
- 56:50and they are not about
- 56:54to make waves but i i i
- 56:58am because i am not going to take
- 57:02seeing my kids walking to a newly
- 57:05integrated school and getting their
- 57:06heads
- 57:09whipped in my grown men because of that
- 57:11happens to my kids
- 57:12there are going to be a lot of damn dead
- 57:15white folks
- 57:16and and and and i mean a lot
- 57:19because i am not going to take this john
- 57:21no no more
- 57:25the the days of step and fetch it are
- 57:28dead
- 57:31the days of the plaque face big
- 57:34wide-eyed
- 57:35gin drinking black men
- 57:39are dead now we have
- 57:43what is called black consciousness
- 58:00[Applause]
- 58:06oh
- 58:12[Applause]
- 58:19oh will i be on television
- 58:26well i think the parade is wonderful i
- 58:28think you bring all the boys back home
- 58:30because
- 58:31it's a very unconstitutional thing yeah
- 58:41it isn't fair for our youngsters
- 58:44to be in vietnam fighting somebody
- 58:46else's wall you got negroes fighting
- 58:48people they don't even know
- 58:50and another thing
- 58:54but over in vietnam we're the majority
- 58:56and i don't think this is right
- 58:58that's why i think this demonstration i
- 58:59think is um
- 59:01some good gonna come out of it i think a
- 59:03lot of good gonna come out of it myself
- 59:27don't have no right being over there
- 59:28anyway the americans are the black
- 59:30people
- 59:31the americans are the black people
- 59:32they're all this is not our i think
- 59:34those people just settle
- 59:35differences when you think about the
- 59:38merger of the civil rights struggle with
- 59:40the peace movement
- 59:41in favor of the nation the leaders
- 59:42should be the same they should everybody
- 59:44should work for both causes
- 59:46i think so all right i mean what's going
- 59:49to happen
- 59:52this next presidential next presidential
- 59:54election
- 59:56johnson is going to stop this war and
- 59:58use it to bring the boys back home
- 1:00:00for for voters and soldiers and
- 1:00:02political rights
- 1:00:03it's a political war man the vietnamese
- 1:00:06the vietnamese
- 1:00:06people are being slaughtered
- 1:00:11told america to get out of there and
- 1:00:13lead those people along they had the
- 1:00:15fresh legends fighting
- 1:00:16and they didn't beat them and they are
- 1:00:18not going to beat
- 1:00:27time two them boys get killed eight boys
- 1:00:29get killed
- 1:00:31[Applause]
- 1:00:34what do you think we can do well uh if
- 1:00:36there's enough
- 1:00:38pressure public pressure used
- 1:00:41johnson can be shamed enough to bring
- 1:00:43these kids back home
- 1:00:45you're wrong for being over there first
- 1:00:47of all you have no right feeling
- 1:00:49and he's asking for this don't surrender
- 1:00:52man you gotta clean up your own backyard
- 1:00:54man before you can
- 1:00:55clean up somebody else's backyard the
- 1:00:57wall should be in mississippi and
- 1:00:59alabama and georgia
- 1:01:02and uh clean up their own backyards
- 1:01:05right
- 1:01:05in harlem the rats infested areas around
- 1:01:09here
- 1:01:10whiskey stores a church in a pool room
- 1:01:12that's all we got around here in holland
- 1:01:14this is where the war should be fought
- 1:01:17right here
- 1:01:18how do you think when you think we're
- 1:01:20not fighting it fighting in alabama
- 1:01:23you can't win down there because the
- 1:01:24united states government don't support
- 1:01:26you the attorney general
- 1:01:27you still let them gangsters uh use that
- 1:01:30hitlerism down there not aggressive
- 1:01:32enough
- 1:01:33it's coming this mississippi and georgia
- 1:01:35that's what it is
- 1:01:43you know this this this revolution is
- 1:01:45filled with so many ironies really
- 1:01:48uh first you tell us that it is manly to
- 1:01:50keep your word
- 1:01:52all right if you are a man you keep your
- 1:01:54word
- 1:01:55and now all the black people in this
- 1:01:58country are demanding and even the black
- 1:02:00people in the whole world are demanding
- 1:02:02is that you keep your word you told us
- 1:02:05we were free
- 1:02:06well then show us that we're free
- 1:02:09you told us that there is just this
- 1:02:11equality for all in this country women
- 1:02:13can
- 1:02:14stick to your word and let us see the
- 1:02:16justice inequality for all
- 1:02:19or else admit to us that you're not a
- 1:02:21man you're a worm you're afraid of us
- 1:02:23you're afraid to give us
- 1:02:24equal stead you're afraid that if you
- 1:02:26give us equal ground that we will match
- 1:02:29you and we will override you
- 1:02:31and if that's what you're afraid of us
- 1:02:33then then tell us that just what you're
- 1:02:35afraid of
- 1:02:36but don't keep hiding it from us and
- 1:02:38holding this up to us and every time we
- 1:02:40ask you for something
- 1:02:41you give us a little bit of something
- 1:02:43and it's all tokenism we don't want
- 1:02:45tokenism
- 1:02:46and they're most black men in this world
- 1:02:48that don't want charity
- 1:02:50and yet still every time we ask you for
- 1:02:52something you give us a little piece a
- 1:02:53little piece you're playing games with
- 1:02:55us
- 1:02:55we're not children we're big men i've
- 1:02:59seen my father have to put up with all
- 1:03:01kinds of stuff
- 1:03:02he was a big man he raised a family he
- 1:03:05went down south
- 1:03:06and he had to go around to the back door
- 1:03:08with his wife
- 1:03:10we're not asking for anything we're not
- 1:03:12asking for any favors all we want is
- 1:03:14what's ours
- 1:03:17now there are many black veterans who
- 1:03:19are coming back and they're mad they're
- 1:03:21angry
- 1:03:22do you think that they're going to sit
- 1:03:24down through this our fathers didn't
- 1:03:25have the knowledge that we had
- 1:03:28they sat through it but there are other
- 1:03:31black youth that are not going to sit
- 1:03:33through it we know about chair we know
- 1:03:35about uh
- 1:03:35fannin we've read the books of our
- 1:03:38revolution we've listened to mountainous
- 1:03:41quotations we know where we stand
- 1:03:44we're not gonna sit for it we're asking
- 1:03:47and if we ask and we don't get we're
- 1:03:49prepared to stand up and take it
- 1:03:52if i ask a man i tell a man i am hungry
- 1:03:56i tell him i am cold and i ask him to do
- 1:04:00something about my condition
- 1:04:02and this man holds a loaf of bread right
- 1:04:04in front of me so i can see it and i
- 1:04:06keep asking him i'm begging him
- 1:04:08to please give me a slice of the loaf of
- 1:04:10bread i am hungry
- 1:04:13then it is known by every psychologist
- 1:04:15that the next step in the progression is
- 1:04:17i am going to knock him upside the head
- 1:04:19and take the bread from him
- 1:04:21i'm not going to starve to death
- 1:04:24all we're asking no one wants to see
- 1:04:27blood no one likes the smell of blood no
- 1:04:29one wants war anyone who's been in war
- 1:04:32doesn't want
- 1:04:33war everyone knows what it is to see the
- 1:04:36inside of a man's gut hanging out and
- 1:04:38see your friends die see relatives die
- 1:04:41no one wants to
- 1:04:42regress back to the state of mind where
- 1:04:44you have to think
- 1:04:46it's all for the cause therefore my
- 1:04:48mother has to die my wife has to die my
- 1:04:50brothers and sisters have to die no one
- 1:04:52wants that
- 1:04:54but you're pushing us to it you're
- 1:04:57leaving us no choice we're asking we're
- 1:05:00begging the students of the columbia
- 1:05:02they asked the brothers down south as
- 1:05:04the brothers in latin america the
- 1:05:06brothers in africa they're all asking
- 1:05:09all they're doing is asking our fathers
- 1:05:11asked our grandfather's ass
- 1:05:14the presidents of our universities our
- 1:05:17colleges had to go to your back doors to
- 1:05:19beg that their children be given just
- 1:05:21enough money so that they could be
- 1:05:22taught
- 1:05:23something to live off and and yet still
- 1:05:27they asked and asked and asked and you
- 1:05:29refused to give them anything
- 1:05:32we're just about out of patience we're
- 1:05:35not gonna
- 1:05:36ask anymore the news media says that
- 1:05:39it's only the young that are militant
- 1:05:41only the young that want this and wants
- 1:05:43that
- 1:05:43okay we're 40 of the black population
- 1:05:46now or we were a year ago and still yet
- 1:05:50we're climbing before long we'll be 50
- 1:05:5255 and then we'll have a command
- 1:05:57we're not going to take it we're not
- 1:05:59going to take sitting in rotten parks
- 1:06:01and in
- 1:06:02in places that just aren't fit for
- 1:06:05living we're not going to take it
- 1:06:07there's a limit to a man's patience and
- 1:06:10everyone knows that
- 1:06:12god christ heaven everyone knows that
- 1:06:15what we're asking is not
- 1:06:17a million dollars all we're asking for
- 1:06:20is humanity
- 1:06:22we're asking to be allowed to live like
- 1:06:24human beings
- 1:06:27and god you tell us that this is too
- 1:06:29much to ask
- 1:06:31you're sick you're definitely sick how
- 1:06:35can you tell me that it's too much to
- 1:06:37ask to be a human being
- 1:06:58so
- 1:07:13you
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