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You know if it weren't for you colleges these colleges the system would have failed a long time ago and got clean. You see when you all finished high school you not dirty enough to join us. But by the time you get to college you are. So I say to you youngsters you know. Who's been in front of you cause the only reason we aren't going to be is because this as I look around you women in the audience. I really can't tell you how much you bros disgust me. I don't know no other. Animal on the face of this. Earth. That don't deserve to be here. Like you women. I mean if you could just open up your. Eyes and just think it's the whole world would have to change. The biggest trees get most. Like you running all around you not we want to write the poem we want to write to work.
With your head you a net machine doing all the work on. Him ladies when you was gone you was born a female. I mean nature cut it out. Perfect. Look how the hell you don't crawl spins billions of dollars a year to me in that see you stuff that's supposed to improve on you woman. You stand in mere hours. What would you do if you cannot improve on nature. He was born down. On your feet enough mean and jacked you up on you told us it was good for you Don't you think we would be wearing high heels to the I'm gonna wish you ladies check the records one day and see when is the last time a woman started a wall.
Was started by all of us DAMN FOOD me in but we got to come and get your babies defy them in the day you refused to give them up. That's the guy. Thank you. Women carry a baby in your belly for nine months. Spit it out. Watch it grow when it cry out play with it when it's happy and then one day one of us me and you towards the runny morning and you like the dam to say bye to. Thank you. Women start teaching them babies and. You not brazen. No murderers that's the day we will never fight was with them so you have to do without you. Thank you you know What really amuses me.
All over the world. Population. You never seen women get together and you know now it just seems normal that a population explosion bothers me. And women to have a baby. And if it bothers us so bad. How do you women I mean this is it I mean why don't you tell us to take it to us because if we can stop it or not you can. If you don't want to be that dirty at least your heels on even more women taking on the only. Way. Had we not tell you one thing. I don't give a damn what you do one way or the other as long as you do it because you want to do it.
I tell you the surgeon general of this country if we ever get a Kurd to release that report feel that the government last five years the fifty years from now if you study the field will be fatal ones and they would just release that so at least you would know what she was doing. This was not the first time. Same thing with reporters for 20 years. But people in London know about this report over here that's why they made them label birth control pills not if you can take them off the market. So are you trying to trick nature when you jump on a dead tree in spring and you get everything oh maybe 15 years from now when you look at the jump analogy it's not you know. Remember that it's very difficult to treat treat Mama Nature. So I say you youngsters you gotta get a big job ahead of you. Keep your eyes open 24 hours a day.
Think and there will be an hour. Still I was young I just dug watching everything and learn a whole lot. You always see Brother Greg always got my Bible by the way I want to read it. Well it was a time I didn't even take equipment to my room. And I found out that one day the missionaries went to Africa and Africans and all the land and missionaries had old bibles and when the mission is left the Africans had all the Bibles in the net at all. Thank you. I don't know why. One day I am walking to the Hilton Hotel. He'll know I have this hotel. And when I leave.
I can't tell you how much I learned from the White. Never forget when I met my first divorcing coming aboard. I say yes mr white person. Is a bar what is it you want to do when you grow up as a Christian when I grow up I want to go to Africa to visit my ancestor was a bar why you want to happen to them savages. When they are savages a bunch of them cannibals. Cannibal. He said they eat people. Real live human being. Christians were. Christians.
So two weeks later I got a confirmed I went to see my first Tarzan movie. Walked in the middle of Netzarim wasn't get cooking in the pot. That upset when I was eight years old I did know they were real live Africans. I didn't know it was California niggas had it here man know. I was upset I ran out moving ran to the first church I came to which happened to be a white Christian church for a. Cannibal and said Please pray I. Came up with. The boy. Yes. That I know Blackmore hadn't much since the cannibal. He was still touched over my prayer. Walked up to me on the altar. Reached down and took his
hand and put it on my knee to look. I looked up and said Thank you Mr. cannibal ancestors of mine. God made it all he said hang on more like more get that much since I want you to stay here and share communion with us. He said Get on your knees boy and open your mouth. This is my body and this is my mother. At the end yes I have really learned a lot from the. Christian. No I prefer Campbell. Cannibal.
You know if you really want to have some fun one day get this American history book and take it out. Read it without being programmed. This is probably the most corrupt field pieces a litigious ever been printed in his little world. All first page first page is beautiful every time I read first page American history book I just want to cry. Page 1. Here was the one you opinion that decided he wanted to break the shackles that bound him to the king and queen. He decided he wanted to strike out and find a new land where he could worship his own where he could seek out freedom of speech freedom of expression freedom of religion case anything wrong with that right. My God turned a. Page to saunas way over here to find his God he stole one of us.
Had. Ever held a prayer meeting. I kept going to find his god seems like and the more you read through the book The Worst. Yet. I love this. Not only did he steal us but he came to the shows and discovered a country that was already occupied. She said one day how do you do that. How do you discover something not only is occupied but is being you. And imprinted in our book and send it all over the world and wonder why people don't. How do you discover something that's like me and you in your latest in your brand new army and Molly the nerd mystic. She'd be a lass you would like it and discover.
The old. He was and then maybe you don't understand any Indians fear. Miss you. Give me dat. Who said that. Rap Brown. Was whose it is. Do you see the whites of their eyes. Was. A much slower reader. I always knew you would do me a favor. First next week if you stop and take a book write down copy just copy in
your pocket book what you want to hear me. One of these and the. Program black folks we got to do line. WALLACE Was he. And last year we didn't upset the whole system. King got killed a neighbor we came out in total country abetted in count because that would. Get together not trying to find out what happened to. The Pentagon's going crazy. And George Wallace What do you think I am do not commit in Rons are you not in need of this lazy shiftless one coming up to you was and I
tell you where we were we got a problem. We decided this past you and all those we went underground and studied the Consumer Reports. And. And at you when Rod season open up again we ain't dealin no mo mo. And hand with you is what I'd like for you to do for me when right I want you to go home get around you can. Get your television and put in the middle. Of the room and turn on the evening news to them time. Now turn on Huntley and Brinkley
CBS and ABC. I mean they try to cover the run but they do it from. NBC get such close ups of the rads you can recognize you can. Say look. I didn't know he was in Detroit. Nappy turned on MBC initial Dem Niggas burnin and. Run upstairs get pants bring him down sitting right in front of us. Just listen to him talk. That's why we can make progress. Just let him tell you now like you get behind him first turn to say a case like. Pain. And then reach in your pocket or your pocketbook and pull out the Declaration of Independence in behind while they watch TV. You read the Declaration of
Independence. OK they will never enjoy what they looking at but I'm sure you read what they read it. We know these truths to be self-evident. That all men all created equal and endowed by the Creator would certainly have a little right right to destroy all the home periods of. No duty to destroy all that government. Thanks thanks Chris.
Pa pa Now I know they're. Going to assume that there was some message Malcolm X left around. But I'm sure a lot of Miliband office were using they were going to foods that that there be that declaration and then. At one whatever people got to say you know why you don't like. PA. Thank god won that one black folks read we we believe that the Founding Fathers meant that to be. So I say to. The.
Maybe if you change the declaration of independence maybe you quit doing them. Maybe you have enough intelligence to come and get this white boy history book. Oh this is very difficult for you to teach me about your heroes and what they did to get free. Think I'm not going to do the same thing since the minute you give me liberty or give me death not me singing We Shall Overcome. It is not a bank school. Then a black kid can write about Martin Luther King on a history exam and passed we got to talk about these. Jams. Thomas Paine Thomas Jefferson George Washington D.C. The whites of the eyes you know they are heroes not marched on the British validly we would all be British.
So I say to you why it was back. Then you sent to me because we were immune. And when you get mad at mom I want to just really go home burn you scribble. Bush gave the mailman nothing you will of the things we do want to hear. Come on obviously book. In the early days when the British was the only used a white board. Year the white community and gone white is coming. Thank you. Thank you. So as I close tonight let me briefly speak to
you for a few minutes on one black attitudes in America. We've got to matter to you. And you know we don't give a damn about you and what the rest of the world. Think about I and. God. We know one thing this some. Black folks been doing in the lead. That must be right. Thank you. And when one folks wouldn't upset a loved one they had an. Angolan and we had homeowner harmony and. They went out with these and ever said don't do that no most of whatever we do in this we've been mighty and I say that we have added to these and I don't say you have to stop doing the thing you do.
Don't burn no ball crosses. My front lawn. Burn them in your backyard. Why you Barry I don't think you can get me to hang me an effigy do Olympic they'll never come from your animal planet. Take no more of these and so never ever get tired of these insults and this is what we are reacting to and we don't understand what all these fools is the upset of the baby if the elephant steps on you I think is normal for you to say ouch. We get insulted when white America turns out to be non. B Y telling us to be known by the only nation in the history the world has dropped a nuclear bomb on another human being is anything to be learned. Nobody knows it any better than me how much it hurts black folks because
I'm a slave to the nonviolent belief to the extent that. Five years ago I had become a vegetarian because I believe that national night kill means animals. So consequently. That's my hang up. I do not go around preaching nonviolence to the nation that has a constitution that says you have a right to bear arms and I see nothing wrong that I did not choose to bear. So nonviolence is my vegetarianism my hang up baby I've never narcos bagel place. And never let you put a poor job oh my. God never slap a stick of dynamite out your way and I never let you take my piggy and I'm saying to you that pretty insulting America that owns the mightiest army the mightiest Navy the mighty is airforce the state police to better police the local police all
of the American homes and then look at black folks don't. Not then and say to me now mom and more we say you go to hell. I am and we are so straight to America. If you are sincere about you'll freak out the noninvolvement as we say you prove it to black folks and to the world now due to the lack of we prove we're Bernese town down to the ground. But if you sincerely believe you give a damn about nonvolatile then asked Did you get up on that Indian reservation and cut my real brother news cause you can't be no more non-dominant than any Indians been in this country for less than 5 years. What happened. I thought you liked them. Then prove it. Get him or you will be a known Dave with
half a million Americans all ready to die. I'm not ready to give that phone of a better way of life than you want to give your Indian brother. Yes but will this country from you gotta be sick and insane. Yes. Thank you. And yes a few weeks ago I had enough job. Now you'll hear it thanking God for Thanksgiving do you know the Indians talk to you. Thanks. Nick. Here we all are you just saw with him locked up on that reservation. You you pray until I'm moms so you youngsters don't jump. So I save America can prove to us that she loves nonvolatile and she would rush and get my Indian brother off that reservation. Until then keep your mouth about because you do remember
playing games which stay up in the world. People should treat. It that Indian was a better way of life in the morning. All good once you realize you dealing with a nation. So in saying that do you make of people up to the muzzle of a gun she can keep you nigga. Oh you let that Indian in Arizona tomorrow morning get out on a vod Duckett's white folks drive in an expressway going to work and starts shooting at him. Now and yell and rant. When I didn't tell you why I did go home meter might be true. Maybe only way off economy. The old yes as you know that Indian Res. never hear of the moment to more than the whole country be upset on just him not him. Yes. Sunday morning you turn on television and look at Meet the Press and they'll be interviewing some more.
Tom Tom Indian to any of us would be saying everything to prove. Want to hear him now. Yeah me like the reservation. Problem comes from them young bucks. Them stop me runnin horses rap like LA have had I. Thank God I've maybe just as soon as that is going to keep coming off the reservation. Burning somebody down and. Giving them some of them blonde scalp covered in white ladies. He'll make some U-turn on television and you'll be doing the India next summer tune in next Tuesday night Indian brother hour long special seven part series no commercials
of yeti and Razan never know next year this time you ever you'd be in here talking to. Thank you. Thanks Our say to you young folks. Somewhere you change the system you have to see to it that a man do not have to become bitter. The bricks and fall to get a redress of grievances. You have to open up the communication to my brother. Not only will we give you what the Constitution say we will apologize for so long as the job youngsters have to do is say that I have to stand in to you. If the Indian wants a better way of life today you know you have to become violent because you don't give a damn if you get volatile or the press would be there and you learn things about it and you would make you ashamed your own American
you find out of the highest form of tuberculosis among in a minority group on the face of this earth happens upon your Indian reservation. You find out that the highest form of suicide among young folks happens upon your Indian reservation. You would find out that if you march down the street would Indian protest then if the Indian lived in Washington his kid would end up going to school in the state of Oklahoma after a break up union protest because the government has a right in the Union Bay because they see the love of America. The Bureau of Indian Affairs you heard of them. They handle Indian business with government and it makes about as much sense as the Indian business is hard to plan implement the civil right. You know the money it takes to run the bureau Indian Affairs.
If we wiped out the bureau human affairs in the morning and the money it takes a loan to run a bureau every Indian in America could get four thousand three hundred dollars a year piece. These economic problems would be 90 percent. We don't know that because he's been too peaceful. So I say to you youngsters their noninvolvement in this nation will fall squarely on your back. I'm Mexican brothers today and I asked the nurse please don't buy no table grapes. Are you listening. Are you helping me. Because if you keep eating them table grapes this year he'll have no alternative next year but to blow up the great. Then everybody will say. Thank you. Yes that is.
A Mexican song because you didn't help being nonviolent when they changed. Thanks so I say you youngsters tonight. We black folks got an attitude. We tired of these insults people asses not come we don't want to be called Negro how come we don't want to be called that. That's right just color black. And the reasons go you don't play no games which is why you play games. Tonight come to my country and leave me to come here when you get here. An Irishman lives are going to come to America. He was an Irishman over there.
He's an Irishman. When you get in there you don't play no games with your stuff. So we want to wonder. Why you want to play and one of us. We now have got our guns and when we got here we got to be our Niagra. The newcomers and color to know no man you don't play with. You. Don't play with them. Thank you. Thanks. So we say that we have an attitude today. I don't listen to them old niggas that work for you mom and dad and get you he had busted open. You see they didn't have a attitude to him 30 years ago. Black folks in this country on an empty stomach today. Black folks in America got a full stomach but a hungry mind and a hungry mind will not tolerate the same thing and if you stomach the empty stomach deal and smell Hungry Minds deal long solemn and old ones this country don't run right. To. The moon.
Three years in the Gulf our white boys burn up their draft card and within two weeks time the Senate and Congress had passed an anti or draft card burning deal but we haven't been able to get it. Anti-lynching below I asked you know one year this government just told me she thinks more of these than these things like me going to say thanks. Yes you say we are tired of the insults with. Nobody to love us no bottom like doesn't give a damn what you think about me. You saying you wouldn't and you don't expect. Reactions. Now you don't have to quit insulting us but you better learn to live with this reaction we got to if I was in Vietnam of the night.
He'll be in this country with you my black wife. And she couldn't take that money and go out of her house in any neighborhood she wanted. I got Keo she met the wrong folks. Yes. Thank you. Tell me I got to have a fair deal you live next door to you and. Thank you no red neck white russian cracker Broadstone means donut that came to my country to live on Russian you know and be a living the way she wants to live in my country. How come I got to get my thanks to all these Russian exchange students that come over here to my country to go to school they love
me no damn American citizen. Well that book this bad education for four years in Rome back to Moscow in eight years might drop a bomb on your mama's house. You don't demand they get you know their deal live anywhere you want DVDs all races there's college towns. Come on. Thank you. Thank you. So we say we are tired of these insults that people tell of the education is our problem. We got to have a million man in Vietnam tonight ready with their lives to free that foreigner. Have you ever heard one black or white American ever question that. Be it needs educational standards but you want a reunion with the army but you want to question MY you don't question you that no question. And when you do you question my educational standing question it right.
You know how many millions of people would be day a day on the face of this earth if it were not of the world. Are you aware of the fact that a black American by the name of Charlie in Venice. Don't take my word for it check it out in the library. Are you also aware of the fact that Johnny Depp and in Atlanta Georgia hospital waiting room after an automobile accident because they didn't accept Niggers never tell us the education of the man that had the wisdom in the juniors to give blood plasma to the world die from the lack of his own invention cause his face would like to have a damn thing to do with it. We said education not our problem. Vegetation a number of cheap white cop. We thank you and we and we tired of these insults and all of
the white folk that believe a nigga is the stinking smell him all a screechy ever walk the face of this earth as it has beautiful baby that's your hang up. I'm not here tonight to convince you that niggers numbs me. I will say to you go do your own research. Check. The records check the records at the cosmetics industry and you none of them want a bulge on a man who looks. Tired. They look at the MVA am commercials on television and see if you ever see a black harm. It was we didn't use your own intelligence you was born with figured out for you.
Niggas doing all this thinkin and white folks. Who really was that a lot of white folks. Probably your mom and dad taught many of you all have niggas moms is just that. I want to believe that. TRAMP. We do not know what the Africans do. When we know.
We're doing the same thing in the bush. There's a lot of wired both heavily black folks. I am. To you again I ask you to. Keep that inside me with. Me How can I be inferior when every white man in America. Especially those ones that want to believe I'm in theory know where the Chinese Japanese attack anyone. I'm no bear what do you want out of my desert and the babies me just didn't go to be able to man on the face of this earth and give them a big babies her is that you. Thanks. Thanks to the we said we tart of these these insults
people tell us now I want a job quit marching and when I am in the ghetto and. Pull you brother. Bootstrap Why don't you give him some boots woods and simple song. He was a lie you can't get man have all him baby you know you can't take care of. We know that we don't people. And we leave all you get to get upset over really. I never meant no white man did most of the money. And if words like believing he's the you know well upset you call it following me. Thanks. Better still call it what you call it money get him not to work. Would you really think you going. They are not the.
Babies We are men we get. We you know we know we're going to get more women to deal with the day it is just them learn how to harbor like good job and I can give you white boys so we can avoid prostitutes like you would have babies at home. Thanks. Thank You see we don't have. To prostitute activities because we do know what to do unless she talks to you and black women in America. When you say that we have to get only. White women in America. But when you hear blacks has to get 20 percent of the year to get
listed to record straight you think we ever get out of the ring. Thanks. Thank you and we say we talk a lot of these these insults. My dad had been killed during World War Two by a German and my dad had been killed in 1942 by German and 42 I was 10 years old I'm 36 years old. At me I was gone 26 years without a bed. Now that's not an insult but a German film a day because one day he's going to want to go to kill or be killed. The insult is the same German they could mine day in 1940 to that same German tonight to come to my daddy's country and live in a neighborhood with my dead boy KING LIVE you feel so sick. Thank
you. So I say to you tonight that we tired of these themselves people tell us that we make progress. Tired of that. And I've had several of my key years at home and every time only to get pregnant I realize how much progress we've made. The dynamo like Bell is dogging the progress of my latest baby which is eight weeks old now. Just name her since this country hate black folks. Mr. and Mrs. The baby girl named Emma. Yes yes. So name me is great to hear Bible talk. Call. Us. Where I stand every time only to get pregnant I see progress because I
remember just a little bit over 100 years ago when I had black slaves to do when up to help blacks my man and say Honey I think I'm putting it into black slaves fell down on their prey to their almighty God that their own born baby was gone. Don't think about that for one day. Ray Ray but you won't believe they didn't pray that anything happened to the mast just this is a guy we deal in which such an inhumane beast. Lot of you could blast us back given us this one of me I'm missing body. It would have been his God given to us. Malik just had to be a baby they could never get to keep them. Then one day after the baby was Vonn the black slave sister
rushed back up to my likes let your brother cry and Joe did not answer our prayers. His head looks funny. Thank you. Going to be mal adjusted them like slaves fell back down on their knees. Dear John thank you. Their god now just a baby that the white baby that they get to watch progress. Where I got them the like years at home with me and never had to pray for nothing less lonely maladjusted baby. All right we're getting there. As I leave you tonight I say please no more wind so no more civil rights legislation. We don't want civil rights bill we want to you know you think your rights legislation is good. Take it to your mama.
Now I tell you I tell you one thing we would like for you to do for us we like we do for us. One mo Beale called an honest white folks. For you get uptight it ain't got nothin to do with my problems. It it's I tell you what we would name it will name it the concerned hunky loan. In it a read like this. All 5 yo black male baby boy would have to be sent to a government camp one years you know putting white only between black women has 5 yo black male baby boy you have to go to government for one year. Now we will specify and know that they will wreck camp from the age of 5 to 6 and while there for that year. The good moon will teach them will let them sleep eight hours a day 16 hours a day now this is where it concerns no community.
After he sleep eight hours every day for a solid year you teach this little 5 year old black boy. Near you when you grow up. Don't know why woman don't they know why ladies don't never. Let me tell you something. You know we cannot believe that nothing upsets you know the bowl off then the sea on you know what a white woman and you don't want to talk about that brought forward a Hale thank you on. And who in the hell do you think she years and one day when you get on up courage to talk openly about that hang up with that bro you got. You might find out that this is something you do to make me miss one on one one of yours since you think she's yours. So what are you doing. You can advertise a brand new automobile without their white blonde so I feel a need to make my views right. Thank you have a time on the round you got the crowd in my face trying to sell one of your products.
Yeah I have a Pepsi Thurston Quince yet they're split up Pepsi I have a Pepsi and you too you know white was. It was really like do you get that Brown in my face 24 hours a day and just going to leave me with the product she coming home. I go to my house in my. House with my wife like turn on television and a dead white lady naked but I don't live in reality. But I want to. Get the bulk from Our Lady and you know me. I want to see my first movie I was four years old. You understand how you program four years old I want to see my first movie.
Never. Doing anything. I don't know what it was. I know you have. But I know what it was not. Me. I'm sure get me one of them when I'm home.
You are brothers this is not good news for you. I'm grown. And I'm a good meal white lady and Amanda it makes you the modem browed Hamel get me and I hope it makes you just so damn man that you have a no since not the program like you show them some. Ladies make it in the movie. You show them some that ladies hold the color you show them some Lexus to slide across the television screen with them live in Browse and maybe when you do that you could have the old lady back to take that bro to do anything you want. Who wouldn't just give the day a lot of my biggest issue so home of which I have to thank you thank you. Amref now with the good news program in Maine YOU DOn't BE GOOD
TO. Me days be changing me. As a writer you new day new to me. So I say to you. Thank you got a big job. To do. I read a lot. Don't be the way we program you to be. I don't know how many of you read the kernal report on civil disorders which say to solve the problem in a black ghetto was going to cost America 80 billion dollars. I say to America don't waste your money come down and not get over knowing the billion dollar. And I want to solve this problem confront. The black. And white folks in this country. America's going have to do something first of all. Cause you want Nicholas towards black folks is concerned.
You don't have to create an atmosphere in this country want a first time Mr America. Black folks don't trust white folks in the way you do that no money you don't get upon that Indian reservation and cutlery it probably will free my Puerto Rican but they're going to free my Mexican brother. Last but not least because my Jewish brother played games with himself but he should painter's face as black as mine and see which Gentiles have a say here when he realizes just say sneak and trick bag the rest of us. So what we saying is short and sweet Jesus free my Jewish brother. What a week of brother. Makes the brother of. My Indian brother. You see their first child one brother first come and get my want to get one together. Thank you all so. Problem. Without free and the rest of the people we say take down the dollar. Buy yourself some of the money.
Again that comes out of the history book. That comes out of the American history book is called One Patrick Henry. I've. Were you were and briefly let me let me discuss two quick things I think is pretty important before we say good night. One is a those of you that voted for me. I want to thank you. Well I was like the only candidate that was running for the presidency rested in food runner for shares. And didn't do too bad we got a million and a half votes and when you stop think you're probably just going to invest in a free machine. I stood up did he have stood up late election night look the returns when Nixon's office came
on line says Nixon's going to be an asset out of bed in Humphrey's Office came out alive. Humphrey is going to sleep there. But it meant I was the only one who was. And I. Kept I kept stand up hope Annette Alston would come in and put me over the top. Thank you were. And yeah I knew I'd lost Dallas but I figured you could do it and so I woke up when I looked around 3 o'clock that morning my sleep with me I held a press conference I don't know how many of you read about it. I declared myself the Independent Writing president you know stays in exile. When nobody up to tell me I couldn't do it. So now I'm the write in president going into Washington D.C. almost all
painted like all of the Black house and were you know the ration is that for the. 4th of March. Anybody want to come. By and let me tell you the interesting thing about the plan you see a president of any country to give you right the must don't harm me. And that's what I've been doing lately we're trying to get what we call the food on me. Where the glass house for the next four years is going to deal with solving the problem of wiping out hunger the first in America and then around the world a third of the American people go to bed hungry. It's disgraceful and that's really what my fantasy is all about I've gone 15 days as of today without eat and drink nothing but to steal water. AS. A protest against how much food we eat and our brother. How money can get you so I intend to go 40 days if I can
to dramatize this. But there's a lot of brothers and sisters in this country all parts of the country Mississippi Appalachian that's starving that we should we should put a stop to it. And so I got some cards I brought with me that we will leave some here on this side some on the side. And for those of you that come up to get a card if you would pass it back to whoever's behind you we can get them passed out. Little bit of no time. We also have some envelops the cards you don't have to put a stamp on it. They already stamp if you want to join the food on me and help solve the problems of hunger and fill up the card and mail it in. For Christmas we plan on feeding people. Not Nothing elaborate. Beans navy beans sell for eight hours one hundred pounds and we go give a hundred pound sacks of navy beans to families throughout the country. This is the envelop for you
dollars if you care about dissipate the envelops and the cars will be on each side of the stage. As you youngsters particularly young white folks fight for human rights. Thank God you got off that civil rights kick. I beg you to remember that there is a whole white. Brother and sister in America that everybody's forgotten about. I mean it's groovy to join the Peace Corps is groovy to get upon the Indian reservation is groovy to go into the Ghetto brothers and sisters do not forget about those old white brothers sister that nobody gives a damn about. Because if you forget about him I guarantee you Jane years from now you will be asked as uncomfortable then as your mom and dad. Don't let nobody teach you that poverty
causes riots S&M life poverty started rises white here Billy would have burnt this country down 75 years ago but he's always been the poorest man is the insults and now he's about to get these insults and I beg of you white kids who resent him. It's very difficult for black folks to get down there because the system have taught him a lot of planes. It's somewhere you white kids got to get into that white ghetto you got to see to it that his kids kids in school to his ole US an interest exams and I'm all for him. California say Dammit you know trick so many damn exams a black man move the hell I know what can be on look like. What you don't know what achievement looks. So as I say there's a whole as universities we're going to demand and
get that interest exam lowered because of what we've been through winks and passes just a little get past that and if we can't be a normal American kid goes out in a nigga supposed to be as dumb as some white folks think it is if not us all up in a week anyway and I say. All white. Who's had an ethical background the same as black folks that you don't have to see to it that the kids don't get into the universities to see get a big job upon you and I hope you do it well. As I leave you I'm sorry we haven't got time to get into question and answers like I would like to after we finish passing up the cards. Those of you that got to split if we had any time for a few questions will get into it but I have them 30 plain that I have to catch back out let me say those of you that will be traveling during the Christmas holidays there's going to be driving. Please please please. If you're staying home along with you then just take the time coming back to school.
Damn Russian to get back here the first day of break you need to use the elfin no likely need all the young folks yet leave their death on the highway this coming holiday to the US. Oh fools we don't do it now. So I say you have a happy holiday. You have a. Very pleasant New Year. And have a wonderful life. Until again may I say to my brothers and sisters of Oh thank you. May God bless you. My nature have fun with you. Thank you. Thousands.
Program
Fasting Dick Gregory entertains (Part 2 of 2)
Producing Organization
KPFA (Radio station : Berkeley, Calif.)
Contributing Organization
Pacifica Radio Archives (North Hollywood, California)
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cpb-aacip/28-9k45q4rx88
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This is a recording of the speech given by the Black comedian-turned-activist Dick Gregory on the 15th day of his 40-day protest fast. The speech was delivered to over 3,000 students at the University of Texas at Austin on December 12, 1968. In the speech, Gregory touches on a number of subjects, including the Vietnam War, the draft, the cigarette industry, the press, the future of America, and more. Part two.
Broadcast Date
1968-12-12
Genres
Event Coverage
Topics
Social Issues
Public Affairs
Subjects
Gregory, Dick; University of Texas at Austin; African Americans--Civil rights--History
Media type
Sound
Duration
01:02:26
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Producing Organization: KPFA (Radio station : Berkeley, Calif.)
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Pacifica Radio Archives
Identifier: 10598_D01 (Pacifica Radio Archives)
Format: 1/4 inch audio tape
Pacifica Radio Archives
Identifier: PRA_AAPP_BB4090B_Fasting_Dick_Gregory_entertains_part_2 (Filename)
Format: audio/vnd.wave
Generation: Master
Duration: 1:02:21
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Chicago: “Fasting Dick Gregory entertains (Part 2 of 2),” 1968-12-12, Pacifica Radio Archives, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed November 13, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-28-9k45q4rx88.
MLA: “Fasting Dick Gregory entertains (Part 2 of 2).” 1968-12-12. Pacifica Radio Archives, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. November 13, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-28-9k45q4rx88>.
APA: Fasting Dick Gregory entertains (Part 2 of 2). Boston, MA: Pacifica Radio Archives, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-28-9k45q4rx88