Five College Lecture Hall; Lecture by Reverend Hosea Williams on "The Poor People's Campaign in America"

At this time w o f c r e in Amherst and the Eastern educational radio network present five college lecture hall a weekly program of outstanding talks by faculty members and guests at Amherst Hampshire Mt. Holyoke and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts. Today a talk on the poor people's campaign in America by the Reverend Hosea Williams member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and project director for the poor people's campaign. Reverend Williams talk was recorded in September at the University of Massachusetts. First a Seder like to bring you greetings from my leader Dr. Rafferty but I haven't met. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference. I'd like to also thank those that. Have made contributions monetary and some other matters. And helping us to carry on the works that were started by the late. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.. As a part of the scripture which reads

here come the dreamless kill him. And we shall see what becomes of his dreams. Why certainly we had a dream and. They killed him. And it's up to you and I. To show them. What shall become of his dream. We feel that. The Poor People's Campaign. Is somewhat responsible for the death of Dr. King. I do not feel like Dr. King was killed by some racists. Dr. King was assassinated by. Some nut. I feel sure it was an ideology or a plan. And a scheme. To eliminate this man that they feared by bringing together.

The poor blacks. Of poor whites. The poor Puerto Ricans the poor Mexican-Americans the poor Indians that he had found a combination and found. A program. That would force America to deal with. The cause of her illness rather than the symptoms. Of her pain. The looting. The high crime rate. The routing is not going to stop. Until something is done. For those that have been oppressed. And keep crying up. The poor people's campaign is not our campaign of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. It's one that we have given birth to and leadership to. It's not a campaign of poor people but a campaign and not a campaign of black people. But of poor people.

And my friends it has been one of the most gratifying experiences in my whole life. It was the last dream of Martin Luther King Jr.. And trying to make the American dream a living reality. Certainly the masses in this nation no longer will sit stand idly by. While they are robbed and robbed their rate not only of their monetary rights but of all of the human rights and. That dignity rights. So the poor people's campaign was launched to try to get America tried to force America to deal with. The cause of a problem. Rather than to keep even a citizen given an aspirin to soothe the pain of the symptoms of the problem. I'm my first but I'd like to start off by saying that we included all elements of our society.

We realize that there are black women in Mississippi. Given birth to babies without even have ever having prenatal care. We realize there are many babies being born in Alabama. And Georgia and even in the ghettos of New York and Chicago that would be afflicted for life because of brain damage that have been caused by malnutrition. We know that there are a lot of up prostitutes today in the streets Friesen upon society not because these are women who are bad by nature. But because mainly they came from homes where their father. Could not only not enough money. To give them just the basic necessities of life. They decided to become a school drop out. We know that prisons that they are charged with young men that were schooled at a school drop outs that turned to a life of crime not because they are an inmate labor day. But because their

fathers did not only anough money. To give them the barren necessities of their life so they dropped out of school and turned to a life of crime. We know that the ghetto was a field that not only are black but many whites. That have lost faith in this nation. I. Cannot understand why. That this nation should even exist. We know that there are many blacks in the ghettos of America. That. That can find no reason to live in Iraq. We know God gave us a great nation. Richest nation upon. This in a fluid society. But engulfed in this a fluid society it is an invisible lonely island of poverty. We're a sick economic society drives poor women. Out of their home every day. To raise children out into so boobs while those little children in the ghettos have to raise themselves. My friends I

happen to be a victim of not ever having had a mother. I might as we'll have been hatched by some game of some chicken. Because my mother begged me into this world but ever since I can remember. When I rose in the moon and I found no mother and I'll shake. That black woman was driven out of her home by a sick absolutely economic society. She had to go over to the white folks house and raise white children whilst new black children had to raise us lives. And this is what the poor people's campaign is all about. My father never had a white. That during my lifetime. It. Was early in the morning even it was earlier when he rolls his wife over in the suburbs. Scrim and hate him percolating coffee to some right family. Or some white man while my father had to get up and fix his own britches. So this is what the poor people's care. Plane is all about.

Poor People's Campaign is trying to make democracy a living reality. Nor have many reason that we should not be in Vietnam. First thing our national security is not extinct. And we consider the war in Vietnam a part of genocide. Practiced by middle. America find out she doesn't need black people in a long mirror to find out she doesn't need poor people in a lot. It's black people and poor white boys who were afraid and died in that war. These rich poets some are never their parents able to keep them in skilled maneuver that they remember after a fight that unjust war in Vietnam. This is what the poor people's campaign is all about. My friend Dr. King died fighting for garbage workers. Most eloquent are to turn out times a Ph.D. from Boston University a man from backgrounds for more than legal means. Died fighting for garbage workers. Dr. King used to talk about his commitment one reason because of his religion. And if

I find it very hard why. Our country is caving not from without but escaping from within. And I keep saying and I have asked myself two important questions after Dr. King's death. Can America be saved another question Is America with Satan. And the poor people's campaign has wormed their way up we are trying to create a society where men are loved to be male. We are trying to create a society free of welfare. We don't need welfare. People need opportunity. But as a turbulent society to target yes. That would work a garbage man all day long all week long. Who has been already cheated out of an education and give him the most regular weight that our society can afford him and then let him take on 55 or 60 dollars a week to take care of family US 7:08 this is a turbo system a phrase.

I accuse our country's being one of the most hypocritical and one of the most loved and she nice nations on the face of this earth. Because you check on the books in Washington and find out what a democracy supposed to be and find out how we live in the streets of this structure. It's all a different story. That's why I don't think we can win and unjust war in Vietnam not just because of the unjust war. Because we don't have nothing to say of Northern ish. We over there trying to sell our product. That we ourselves have not bought. And that is the mockers. Only democracy however little tin was in Resurrection City USA and in Washington D.C.. And I am convinced that you cannot take a good run and kill an idea. Had this been true Christianity would have their own camp. We all whatever our military might try to kill or not to because we can't tell the Vietnamese nothing about democracy because we don't know nothing about democracy here in America. Is the most hypocritical nation on the face of it. As it is greater fruits aside.

Frances cave in around us and that's what the poor people's campaign was all about. To make America face up to the proposition of a man being to make a stop over freedom and she didn't. Poor baby is out of the piece of glass and yet. We found in March Lisi turns back every year and he joins back this year. 217 million knows and don't apply. I didn't have a proper preparation to feed hungry people. But he did just that money 217 million to go kill via the MEs buy American stock today. Got Freeman my friend throwing millions of tons of food away into the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. By. Black women giving birth to babies with brain that it was a matter of attrition and he said we must notice food that I negotiate in order to maintain price stabilisation so the rich can get richer and the poor can go. While America better come to us it seems. Like a fairly normal apart and not leave enough that none of the power. Who gets married and brings up the

day. When nobody will have no power. I'm saying this is what the boat people care paid is all about trying to get America to face up to us in. Every hour be entitled to a decent life. Don't tell me they don't have a job because they were right doesn't it. Just. One of the most hypocritical nation citizen this mission. That means fantasy can work I have to strip in a physical stamina. I have a designer. Why should a man care garbage can or do you know that he has two or three jobs just to furnish a shack please find it. Astonishing. That back in bins for his children suck. Wow she Cierra got his cane all the lot they are white but America does not want to pay. Now see this is why Dr. King was killed because. Programs that do not not cost. I did not cost American I think. We have Santorum ever read of how do we help America.

You can afford every manager and that man which you can afford have decent pay. It's time to stop reason maybe this time the stock Razan but. Is tired. This time of friends my amorous and Smith There are always other colleges and. Mysteriously universities. Start having a poor black people a time is rather dull. We have paid the price for being a part of this nation. Stop Pampers. That's what the poor people's campaign is all about. We knew my friends we started to put people camping it would not be like say of Alabama not be one big thing in it come up with some no turning freedoms in voting bill. We knew it would not be like Birmingham Alabama did come up with some tough plans this civil rights bill. Which tells me I have the right to go into a restaurant but refusing to pay the price I can afford to go in a restaurant. People care peanut just Santa America and America you are at a crossroads. And we don't have to worry about Russia we have to worry about communism nor the phone

out Elegy. If we don't do something about seen and even ingest this in this country there will be no America for Russia to destroy. We are going to destroy us as you may not believe this. Not people in power. People are going to get over being beaten by me and might deal in Chicago. All the poor people's campaign is saying I am creating an image of God and I am entitled to a decent living by virtue of my stature in being in the murk that people in the sleeve in the structure over 250 yet can you tell us no we don't turn you loose free. And don't have the decency to give us a. Time to catch a bus to go to time. While the same time the tone had said it did her up for a go the mayor knew deceptive Douglas act about. What she was given All right. Kevin from you today because of the way out Wes. Not only was white folk in the middle because of land out west. He was getting at the logical assists up to develop that might what we are saying to the Americans that we are part of.

We go stand up and demand we don't play fair all we can make of someone perfect for the Pharaoh. Gobineau rest. Of America come across it yet they are the reason of the Poor People's Campaign is not a. Good newspaper headline tell you it was over in Israel. We don't schedule real McCain. Dr. King guy he mapped out. He gave us a roadmap. We're not going to stop. The stuff going to resume. Consider didn't do anything to provoke right. My free Resurrection City was some three months old some some 10 weeks old and there was not one major rat in America as long as the rest of the city is still. That was not in major writes the first week they closed it down. And maybe your feel sick utopian message to says maybe you feel like you hold you safe to a home in UAC and nobody is free in this country and everybody is free. And Dr. King talked about if you may have found something worse than far. You do not

deserve to me. And I want to come in. And congratulate these young people who are causing these rebellions in these colleges. Don't a thing I got to say about it you don't have enough. Going on. That's the only thing I want to say because we are tired of this country are treating our young people like a train a animal. Educate in your training and fun except to maintain the status quo while sick the economic society where the rich get rich in a poker pool we're not saying equal divide with some sticks then they have three other people's money tomorrow. But we say every man ought to be entitled to the job you live tomorrow America you jobless where you earn your living not a sweat of your brow I get to Rockefeller this way I did to you for chemistry. You have a million jobs and we have took a nap just not I'm not going to pick up your paper. Never a reason to get your. Army have to eat grapes on a mountaintop like a cow. But me enough emigrated together my wife and children and she begged for me

but I'm saying history. You do have a responsibility. We can create jobs as though we create cap stores to go through the stratosphere and I'm talking about a jobless one. Where a man can exemplify his God given creativity and not just for money. But that his other mankind would be able to live just a lot happier. That's what education as Dr. King was an educated man his last year of his life he ordered six hundred and fifty thousand dollars from speaking engagements alone and out of pocket. Jesus Christ was executed many credit he was a builder. He got a pope. That young Smith writes about a kill of the dreams. That's what producing your hip is enough was producing your beacon and that's producing your prison is not producing it. Right National Center America. They teach me to go to church on Sunday to teach me to praise God and to be with Jesus all day Sunday

but for Monday Miller decided not to make the thief out of me. That's what medicine is doing this is not a man or Jordan have had it is doing is a feat. He refused to pay a man a decent living for a decent wage. May I have an end sport be the best man a nation may have Atlanta Georgia. If you check right here in this town check what the garbage man did and you are cheating about here too. All Atlanta saying are we are saying is we are asking a nation that is able and capable to give every man a job. And those that are too old to work at those that are not physically able to work. Give them a good deed and you didn't go read it yourself. America the poverty and ignorance Inzi a disease that are robbing and raping you of your future as much as I ask myself a question my grandfather told me a lot of our house the stand the shackles of time it had to be built on a solid foundation and I think how America came into being how the union was

really and Robert his character not 28 million units a part white paper team here and practice genocide only in the young are they reduce them from 28 million to about 25. Then I say I wonder is this country would have built on a solid foundation. You know I think sometimes it may be hard just pass the baton on to some of the relation because of our commitment to nonviolence and I believe what this is about the poor people's campaign is all about God knows the Resurrection City we have here we have the deprived we had a don't try. We have no the fair Mike they were nobody. We have know that our last hope and faith in a system called democracy. We had there was the greatest experience of my life. We knew the pharaoh when given in D.C. So we already had plans before we went to D.C. to go to the Republican convention and go to the Democratic convention. We didn't think the Pharaoh would give in there.

But we also had planned to go into these congressional districts where these bigots up. Those that voted against the needs of poor people. Those that vote for the Sox aside. Where they keep talking about socialism and they already have socialism for the rich. They want to have capitalism for the poor. See they are already subsidizing me. You were. Reality TV only Scotrail Eastern from Mississippi just think teen thousand dollars every month. In order to put his leg in a land bank. In order not to grow no more food for starving people in order to maintain price stabilisation. What a risk get richer the poor get poorer. Fact even thousand of them are taxpayers money that's what he should get. But those black people on his land the government he may have the decency enough to say why use me go play you 13000 letter was a black people's backs me if you don't have that man. And let them raise what they can I'm. Not to tell them we go put your own Fady dollars per month for welfare and then they say we

steal what Downing they go to more than that. America does not wake me and are tired of seeing our women cannot. Rocket going to lose their money. You subsidize he get subsistence that they are they can lose in the money they have subsidize. The poor folks have to be on welfare. The poor people's campaign to put everybody on. Welfare everybody will get all subsistence. That's what we going to do. That's what we're all about. To make America face up and one thing she can say she can say she's not poor in a most respects as it already proved it. We brought people together with the riches that we prove and I think that's what Dr. King committed suicide. We took poor people and brought them together and we proved one be a touch me when I saw a white man from New York City said now what a white man from Alabama talking about the same foot on your neck bro the New York City's almost put in Alabama. Not only bring an ethnic group together so to speak bring the damn Yankees in a damn practice the other powerful feel good togetherness nation.

We're just asked if you you know we just ask. That you give me an opportunity to be mean. You give black people an opportunity to be back. Don't teach just because we're black. We are back. Don't teach us we got the street now have white folks to be beautiful God made me in his own image and black is beautiful it is beautiful to be black. I'm not saying right is Urban is white. We're going to be right. Yes where is beautiful it is true it is true that what is beautiful is beautiful to be white but I am black. And I must be given an opportunity to realize that I'm right even though I am right and somebody's going to tell me that member has to be a meat in your house. Now maybe we don't have to do anything about it. But we're terribly untrained and I want to congratulate these young people. I often tell about this parable where you take a mound and you train him to rule a bowl and you you've got him in captivity. He's a slave for you and you train him to stand on a tape and even training to just to fire him. He's in training but he's in captivity he's a slave for the master. This is not what we want for our

young people who are young people to feel free to be able to think free. Take that while I had a job he can roll in a ball he can jump no rope he probably run from a fire hose. But believe me he is when he gets ready he decides what he ought to go to sleep and that's what our young people if they need to be able to live their lives because God gave it to him not you. And I congratulate you these college rebellion only going to bed is now going to news institution because they are training people for the stab missionary and not educate them for a decent life. Money has become our God. I don't care what time you go into. I can tell you run our town the man with the money I don't care where we made it from prostitution ascent and then share a Scotch whiskey. He wants the town because he got the money. Now the poor people's campaign we head continues down from Mississippi from Georgia that was a certain way we left Mississippi.

We went to Georgia Georgia to where we left Mississippi then to Selma Alabama from there to Montgomery Alabama. From there we stopped in Atlanta Georgia to Macon Georgia and Savannah Georgia there we went over to our Charleston South Carolina to Greenville South Carolina. From there to Durham North Carolina to Charlotte North Carolina to Norfolk Virginia to Richmond only to watch. And each town we went in France people are entitled to life. We didn't spend one dime for food and we didn't spend one dollar for transportation. We just told the people we'll come into your town. And we'd like to eat and we like to speak that night and we want some transportation to the next town if you don't have normally discussed in your town to demonstrate that you can get some. We have accounted for. Thank you. Thank you. Then we had a decent lady came out of Boston into Providence to do York City only into our church in Paterson and on into Philadelphia and women and going away and all of what it washed in we had a minute matter that came out of us a

car came out of Milwaukee and Minneapolis Minnesota to walk into Chicago and Chicago down to believe it was you with your Kentucky we had one stop someplace in there and back up into to Pittsburgh Pittsburgh and back up into the leader and to creep into Detroit now the Pittsburgh and it came on to watch then we had to do the Western way. It came out of California came through Nevada came down through the Appalachians where we picked up the poor whites and the Poor People's Campaign only is on a schedule. And we're not going to stop because the routing and the looting we are going to do it nonviolently. We know that that is an element out there that disastrous to turn violent but we are not here to violence because I think one reason the world is in such a terrible fix today the white man has use violence to sever his problems and you cannot take gasoline and put out a fire. We don't want this type of worm like we have today.

We don't want to change white masters for black or brown masters we want to change as a sign away every man is old. Master. His own captain it is free to master this so. We can do this. Now I want to screw with your questions and I will let you go to the poor people's campaign we are committed we are committed to the garbage man and I don't care what city you go into. Robert each of these two I think about them are supposed to be able to talk about the least these the least of these the least of them. But also was talking about there was a whatever city you're going to find out who is worth it. These are the worthy people. These are so out of it. And the thing that I find so hard to understand. These are not the people in Resurrection City. These are educated people. These are hungry meager people but understands the commandments of God and understands the destiny of mankind. While we sit idly by and we read about our rights and we read about the

Romans and we don't understand them. But we have to go knowing that military might and military power. Cannot Suppress the dignity of mankind. It has never been done they couldn't do it in Africa. Where they had machine guns and airplanes Afghans fought with sticks and a lot of knots and gut. Instead of full Arab be your slave. I'll be buried Margaret. And I'd rather go home to God. And then be free. Now there are questions from. This. I don't think we can afford it. I think while we want to get up a new way out of this and like this I think we are working

against time. I think there is a possibility of stimulate and there are masses across this country demanding their rights and letting Johnson know this is not his America. But this is not what America is I am. I may be poor but this is not America. Now if you notice the garbage maidens are striking all throughout the country. We got to get they want I mean in a fireman's And how are we people to strike and. We got to tell America that this is our country and we demand that our country change its course and I'm not talking about just a course of party. When you've got a country like our country that will shoot down any man that stands up. For human dignity. You have see the MPO the world and they're not back to George what is it. And they haven't shut molesta Maddux Aminah rivers they have charted some of the stronger.

But to kill to Canada boys they killed Dr. King. They killed Bob Spike's International Council of Churches. They kill my friend who hit the Marshfield foundation and numerous other people they have killed. So I'm saying we are with I guess time we can afford to chip away and that's what he young people use commas need to rise up now. And said to me you're not going to take this in and this. Is where While this is really good. That's right. Another was a we get beat they say we escalate when they get beat they called police brutality. This is one of the the whole banks one of the one of the demands and necessities of in a type a revolution or even reform is a means of communication.

Yes the RCA starve its people I have to say this Mohammed speech has appeared in some of these recent covers Dr. King had to start his own paper cause so for now what we need to do in these communities that we have now have a program to organize and youth but we don't have to do in these communities and this is another place where the young people can stand up with these college newspapers. You have the pop. And all you have to do is use the power. Now we try to talk to all those young people in Chicago last that we were going through the bloodbath when. They couldn't afford to help the poor people so they engulf us and let us through and we beat these kids mainly because they knew if they hit these kids these kids would hit back. But if these kids could have adhered to nonviolence as a means to an end. If they really had given them that bloodbath in Chicago this would despair of doing with the Democratic Party and only answer I have your question. If we have to rise up against these niggas now you talk about an election in Russia. They want to kill anybody to tamper with the nomination of Humphrey and in

Chicago they want to kill a body. I sort of follow up 22 delegates. The news didn't tell anybody. Twenty two of me threw up. But no chance of getting fired. This was terror was a police state. So now we just have to rise up again and when it stopped reading the newspaper and Carcer newspaper stright. Now no whites can do that. And it don't take a whole lot of them to do it. But that's enough right thinking white folks to unite with the black folk to go downtown and tell a man who advertised in that paper you better take your way adds up. Take your heads up if you don't we're not going to abide not only to people we not know about nothing else out of your story that you don't know whites and blacks do this and our people like our people. That sort of his recent cover so awful but it's news to me you know the thing about it is now in our. Daily gave the police a license to kill five black people was killed in a ghetto from Friday afternoon there Tuesday morning and you can hear one word of mine

a lot I'm headed wait for that moment to get to those white kids over there and for the whole day. But they just turned them loose and made it nigga season over in the South Side West Side of Chicago. Hacking is for.

One kid they get 1 percent privileges to this year. That is too little too late. That's the only thing I can say. And the other thing I can say that's down you know a quarter of these colors is what these two do break up these courses for the next college. Because they have a chorus of all my people. And we're I'm saying. What some things with this rap I believe in civil disobedience. See Jesus Christ believe in civil disobedience. Jesus Christ protested and demonstrated all the time. So I don't mind demonstrate and protest all the time I am it murder child is entitled to an education. These children here given them nothing they don't rob their mothers and fathers were led by they'd given him nothing. Can Have. Right kids are able to go to school. And rather than giving up 1 percent on a freshman plan we are to be given him 1 percent or more of these white kids can afford to go to school. So 1 percent just pay nothing but us conscious of. It's a aspirin for the

pain caused by cancer and you start feeling good cause you got aspirin. Want to cancel each your body. This institution and this state has a responsibility to this nation to rid this nation of poverty ignorance and disease which is the straw in this mission. That people of this country gets I don't we haven't gotten a racial thing. The partnership across the air freely able to stabilize a sick obsolete economy and we'll still freely these kids most of them from home that freely it will cost. More than $50 a week to keep a garbage man and his six children up. So he let us out of physical sleeve and then put us and men to sleep. I'd rather be back in 3 Renee at $50 a week to take care of a wife and six children. And then you say we right now when you say we abandon you say we are criminals. Yes. Here.

You go. Yes. Me. You. Me. Let me speak to that. Let me speak to that. Yeah.

Johnson is Si. And he's my patient. And I am not saying. I'm not sick because I gave up a $30000 a year job to fight for the dignity of this country. I'm not sick Those are moving out of middle class blacks and started to help my black brothers and sister which included my mother my father just idiocy. I'm not go fight that war in Vietnam that Johnson has perpetrated. He's my patient. Johnson C. Johnson with fuses to appropriate the necessary reforms. To deal with the problems in the ghetto. But he approved the necessary form to build up the military might to put us in concentration camps. It would all be good boys. He'll say can you wait just a minute I finished asked and he said. You say what you say he is sick and I am not sick. I'm not sick because. The same life I live on a Sunday morning until Sunday night. I leave that from Monday morning to Monday night. And Robin to weigh our suit cost a hundred

twenty five dollars. Our brother we won't get 15 internship it out over the bay. I meant my brother Justin is sick and I'm not sick. Now I want to talk about this 15 is this what percent. Even when he is dead. Well if it was 1.1 percent bestie of nothing. Compared to the needs of this country. People are not going to sit back in a moment and be wrong. If it was 1.1 percent. And you didn't have it you if it was if the odd need is 1.1 percent. You see young black people just not go wait in among them. Don didn't wait no longer. He led people to the sea and they were beaten into Blair-Brown like it was rainwater. And I'm sand. We are not just don't wait any longer. Then chatted to him. Was. There one percent that you bring here Professor. Turns out 99 percent to be OK. Even a term a C don't. What the power structure goes you trade him into educator.

That's one of the problems they themselves get caught up in monetary value as a monetary and the American system. But the thing I'm worried about is that percent is there for a bit. And this person here cannot represent that percent the fact that you cannot have people have free and half slave and there are many black boys and girls with braids that probably has a cure for cancer. Who cannot get an education and they turn it into Lina run out into the streets. So I'm not going to praise someone for giving me a slice of bread. Women talk to unload every American is entitled to a decent education and I'm level of the University of Massachusetts totally responsible. I'm holding America responsible folks. So I'm not on the I'm just not excited about that one percent. These people out in Mississippi and you know Mississippi. Southerners know Mississippi. You know who own a MP You know mostly as a rule but some of the homes.

Who owned it in the genocide of the seven is only. And it's just not the 1 percent you have the 1 percent across the nation. Understand if something isn't done for the young people we have tried. Yes yes we have tried nonviolent movements all across the nation. What has the power structure yielded nonviolent movements in this country and this is why some time is so hard when a kid asked his nephew Mr. William don't valance bring results and no lie about it we went there the manifest said take some of the time. We were going to town for six months a year trying to get people to abide by the violence and the power structure never bought stock not come in town to have a rot and at least they gonna put some spike was also more homes. I mean of course yes. It. Was still me. Oh I. Know.

Here there is no war. Right now there are only four. So you are ready while you're only hours. Away. Why oh why oh. Why. So you're saying that people don't. Get it right and then they get straight to am I ask a question.

You understand that they do not reject people on the basis. Of the right people so no it's never because they can't pay us to. Work. Well what is the reason that the number one reason. So what so what are you saying redeploy to so no. People are not interested in coming. When I feel like calling the right

for. Me. Your point that you know the government has. Have you checked the college records and see the participants in it are young people and college. I guess the number the percentage of young people in that war in Vietnam and they don't volunteer for don't you see they are jacked up and qualified for it. So we can jack up and qualify for these college. I agree with you what you're saying is true true but I'm saying when this nation you know come to grips with its its problems you know. Yes. You're right.

You're. Right. I do feel what happened in my community but you know I haven't yet attorney James James already didn't kill Dr. King he might have pulled the trigger but though the Senate Dr. King's film was the guilty one the real guilty one though they told us be happy to see those people. That have created this this. Transcends it. James Earl Ray is just a simple. And they turn Jay moderate loose tomorrow. They are so many more chains already is that they're going to kill the net more don't know stop and say See. But for Johnson to keep a dish from night $13000 a month while. Poor people cannot know in almost all of the land that their father generation and give them 30 dollars a month away are fair. These are murderers of Dr. King. You see so I'm not they turn James already loose tomorrow. I would tell the brother to cool. I would tell a brother to another question me.

What. Has a lot to that because a lot of white people I know. We know we're not free. To write people think they are free but any are slightly free Come on George and have much meaning and you know after that you're not for. Another thing it is that some of you have become the sort of song that a system that we have. Under you to you becomes a slave to the system. And you feel like you really. The white man talking of the night you all are just lazy. But we are not innate Malays or we were not born like this. A society trained us to be lazy and then try to give us a job this is a cruel jest. It's like my mother no know about it she won. And like women in this

country don't make as good a wise generous white women not because they are black. But the average black woman a somewhat detached from scrubbing for a wall and washing dishes in an enclosed at night. In order to make ends meet at home when she get home just to try to exemplify in a type of femininity. The average black man don't make as good a husband as a white male. See the this is this is one of the great thing that one of the most damnable thing that the system did to us and I used to wonder what is the difference between these Jews asininity plenary progressives so much and he's black folks that seem to get stuck. Well you know the Jews already have been oppressed. They have always been able to maintain a little bit of culture. Some have enough are always going to start again but they brought us to this country and the wrong of our culture. So we would think they were good masters and we would think we were happy slaves. And this was worse than raping a 4 year old girl to rape a 4 year old girl you destroy one life. To rape the people of your culture destroy our own planet. And we discussed been bad ass

wow we said Black is Beautiful is believed to be because we just they took our God and gave us their god. They took our language and give us their light which they took our family structure. And gave us their family structure. They took our value system everything we hear raped us and robbed us of our culture and now we are scuffling back. Tran again the worst appreciate I have. Trying to get Ari's black women is not frankly weeds like white folks mimic an epic. I got to hear our story had a look GOOD GOD give you a good look at her hair and just weird keep it straight and come out of it. So our. Put in a. Kind of Quick question of the article. Yes. Because the majority would accept. Work. Well. I have to say that I don't think Maine is sensitive to the needs of my people.

People still operate from a point of self-interest and that's trying to get people stirred up over the war. Now we don't want to play in the major prize of the war because they are taking money that should be building million and nobody is killing me. And then we have a larger percentage but how can you tell a man who is hungry. And hell and they can bet about join a peace movement unstoppable 5000 miles away that is not so much service. Now you know but our problem is real to us for these young people to think about how their mothers have to lay people to send them to school or what meager possessions them or that they just can get to what. Yes. Why.

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that we are not marching in the streets for what exists today we are not trying to crush the power structure. Of Freedom. What do you and what you got I don't want the right man. I want a different side to a different system. I would except. Maybe that what he has written in Washington. God forbid except in this which he deals in history. That I don't want a society where some of us put to bed every night without the biggest mind of our. Beds stuffed with food like the biggest man has been he while a thousand other people are dying of malnutrition. I don't want to system like that. Where some women spend a thousand dollars to give birth to have babies and other women can't even get prenatal care. We're not asking for a system like this where kids can come to our school likes

the University of Massachusetts and other kid but in my eyes can't get out of high school. I'm not asking for a system like that. So I'm not we're not trying to crush the system down and we are trying to change. I will make that very clear. We are trying to change it and we're not talking about no we'll give everybody an equal of our will. But we talk about giving out the Warner system with as we are fair. We don't want no welfare. We want opportunity daily cannot continue to control welfare control Chicago if you're rich or cargo or the welfare system. And robs one of this human dignity it teaches them to reduce themselves to less to know by. Sort of society that we are interested in is wanted. Martin Luther King Jr. talked about. Let people love one another. When you are your neighbors keep. We're not telling the rich to get poor. We just had in the rich to let the poor get a limb which. God never indicted Well he Vincent diabetes they

helped cause he was rich. Not these with the hair because. Look less. At the same time. I've never been a millionaire was in. Doubt. You had Abraham a big millionaire open him. So we're not condemning we're we just didn't have to go places. Thank you. Thank you. That was the Reverend Hosea Williams of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference project director for the poor people's campaign as he spoke in September at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. This has been five college lecture hall a weekly program about standing talks by faculty members and guests at Amherst Hampshire Mt. Holyoke and Smith Colleges

and the University of Massachusetts.