History of the Negro People; 8; Our Country, Too

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An American and whether I. Like what's going on here and that's what I am and my identity with America and a beautiful way of life and it's painful. I want an opportunity to develop to express myself to move about this country and I

choose as I see it. I don't want a helping hand. I feel that if I'm allowed freedom of expression freedom of movement I don't need any help I can help myself. I honestly tried to believe that I was somebody and always for during my life to keep that feeling I didn't have some value. And I see value knowing what that word means. And there's been many a night in my life when I went to sleep and known very deep inside me that I really wasn't he was much. More and more. Youngsters are ever going to not be apologetic for their racial

background not apologetic. Come on. It'll be many years before this thing is completely erased. I think we are beginning to head in that direction. Where. They. Have got say so many times. If you are a Negro in this you get to hear. That it is a generalization too simple.

So when you're born black in this country you got troubles. And began to scratch the surface. Just so many built in. Ways by which the Negro disfranchise. Any white man could make any negro no matter how you get before be people coming up to him will be having a duel and he might be. I mean no matter how stupid the white man always made you feel about you. And your passion and that's what you gave up your whole life. Find you about history and. So.

It. May well be a Negro he doesn't know really what. What he really doesn't have anything to lean on he doesn't know what he really is. Because he's really taken away from what he should be. And so he just. US between something and something that. You. Know. People might feel that you have a television you have a car you have this you live it's good

but they don't think to realize what we do to get these things to. Do. Or. Become. American. And. That. We don't the day we don't no longer speak of the arts the town is the Negro. It's natural. That. We.

Only. To ourselves as Americans. And when that day comes I think. Only America will be a great nation. And that. The quality for all Americans. Will be a reality. Show. That. There has been real change in the south in the past. It's a remarkable thing that's a very encouraging

sign. It's sort of a tenuous thing. But there was a realization that the darker people in the world are going to make more positive contribution to world culture take a much more active voice in how things are going to be politically socially economically. And this is reflected in the life of conscience. There's a positive tone on it. Things will be better that we will be able to get better jobs that there will be breaks in many areas. The negro in the way you know he is in part Senegal he's seen this happen before and he sits back and sees and ask himself now how long will this last.

He has lived through too many of these developments to ever put his final hope and peace. It's sort of an inner. Strength that makes him having faced so much deprivation and hardship over the centuries to be able to look at these things philosophically. Well we hope it's going to last but it doesn't. We have known Harthouse this. This is the real revolution was taking place. It was very day. It is the image of the big role of the self today. This is the revolution sort of internalized revolution but nevertheless this is a revolution in the sense that this is the image of the league no doubt has it himself. But he does have roots that his beginnings didn't get it didn't begin as a

Master's plantation and for levels Georgia or how quick South Carolina. Began. It began centuries and centuries even before the white man climbed out of the. Cave. I feel that the Negro has to learn. To be to respect himself as being a negro. Then he can be. Getting by with what he wants to do that is necessary for him to accept himself and respect himself where the society has taught him. But he is not a respected part of society is not a unit in this society. When they go Pena I feel has to be free of the yoke in order to create freely and as the yoke is there.

He it's difficult for him to be that strongly created. It's always this lump in the stomach that you can't possibly. It's difficult for him to digest his food. Difficult for him to create what he wants to create. And so there was always this little. Feeling that he has denied his race if he doesn't make some contribution to it. And I'm producing I was told this is new PRI wedding band we are now getting started raising the money which is why we're all here. I think that's all. And I hope you all like it. I'm not the only kind of love they want from us. It's wrong to hate and it's wrong to love too. We got to be good. Got to be free. Time is going to make cry when they must treat us who care. Well is treat each other who care what we got to be

so good for you do your honesty your hard headed thing cause they'll kill it if we know they don't want it anyway. Last night I woke up thinking all of my people that didn't. I dreamed that all the dead black men gathered together and spit at the foot of my bed. In the corner from my room cry and wait for something. I've always been afraid of dead people but I know it can't do any harm. I wish they could fight back. Oh that awful side. Lynch dead men gathered in spirit at the foot of my bed. I got up from my troubled sleep. Who's there. Only the shadows flickering on my wall. Oh Lulu. What these white people have done to us all they want in return is to be loved with a green Leelah. If you're not we got. Favorite. Sports sport you. Allowing them. To call. Me.

Up. And give good news. You have to be able to to. The best thing. In. Life. A negro is a loser when he was brought. Up. Here. You have to take the bit sweet and. Be the Biggest Loser. You know what it is and you get to go forward to see what it says. Every child should be made to feel proud of himself for himself. From. The beginning. From the start. You are great. Your horizon is limitless. You know your mind is is a wonderful thing you can do anything in the world. This this is the heritage you know that child needs.

Are students in high school and elementary grades can read through a history book and never realize what the Negro has played any part. This was the terrible actual distortion of the history of the country when we really study carefully the history of the United States. We find that the Negro has been part of every phase of our development. He came over with Columbus to be the pilot on Columbus his ship was a negro. This is such an elementary fact but something which will give help the the negro child and his image as is done for every other ethnic group which is made up the history of the country. But it is an integral part not so special or chosen people but it's an integral part. And when he was present when he was given an

opportunity he made a positive productive contribution to the history of the country. Every place. We have in the last 100 years been investigating the cause of the white people not really then it's only natural that we have to look back into our own. We find they are being trained European people and we got freedom. Naturally when you free a man who has all the traditions and customs taken away from him what is it to restore to him everything that he had before. We have to show.

What do we have to show for millions of dollars that have been spent and the 100 years and 16 we don't want to do. This. I. Mean we. Can.

Say that we as a radical liberal do not have inherited. That. So crowded for. Us as Negroes so crowded to me. I don't know what my. Wait wait wait.

When father came over on I don't know what section of Africa he came out of. I don't know what tribal language. He had. I don't even know what plantation he first hit. So it's difficult for me to trace back my ancestry that. I believe with the American Negro. We have been striving not so much to retain or to hold onto the glories of the past because we have no worries but duty and strive for glory for the future. Or. No. A lot

for. Me to you. From. What. We. Know. I make it all right for a. Very nice group. The Dixie Hummingbirds out of Philadelphia you

know so many of us are living in kind of places where we're having a lot of grand children have nowhere to play and there are all kinds of dangers now. Wouldn't it be ever so much better if you were living in the suburbs of Queens a nicer community. Now if I told you that you could get a place for as little as seven hundred ninety five dollars down on a mortgage or even 10 percent down on a conventional mortgage I bet that's that you make your move toward living the way you want to live in your own home in the suburbs. Good idea. Good idea. You.

Go what. Do. You. Want to live. Decently. You know. But. I feel like. I just can't make that. You know I just I just can't make that. And. I've tried. And I've been. Knocked around pushed around and talked around. All my life. But I have. Seen. Some progress. Do.

You. Do what. You are going to get or. Do.

You do for you. For you for. It.

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