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WEBVTT kvos special 31 01 s48 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:44.322 align:middle line:90% 00:00:44.322 --> 00:00:45.330 align:middle line:90% [MUSIC PLAYING] 00:00:45.330 --> 00:00:46.950 align:middle line:90% Welcome to Daily Quiz. 00:00:46.950 --> 00:00:48.870 align:middle line:84% This is Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and today, we're 00:00:48.870 --> 00:00:52.620 align:middle line:84% going to find out how high their PDIQ is, Parent's Dental 00:00:52.620 --> 00:00:53.950 align:middle line:90% IQ, that is. 00:00:53.950 --> 00:00:54.880 align:middle line:90% Are you ready? 00:00:54.880 --> 00:00:58.650 align:middle line:84% A baby tooth isn't too important since it eventually falls out. 00:00:58.650 --> 00:01:00.180 align:middle line:90% Right or wrong? 00:01:00.180 --> 00:01:01.080 align:middle line:90% You're right. 00:01:01.080 --> 00:01:03.870 align:middle line:84% Those baby teeth save space for permanent teeth. 00:01:03.870 --> 00:01:05.340 align:middle line:90% Here's the next question. 00:01:05.340 --> 00:01:07.830 align:middle line:84% Fluoridation helps prevent tooth decay. 00:01:07.830 --> 00:01:09.390 align:middle line:90% Right or wrong? 00:01:09.390 --> 00:01:10.470 align:middle line:90% Right again. 00:01:10.470 --> 00:01:13.680 align:middle line:84% Fluoridation reduces tooth decay by 60%. 00:01:13.680 --> 00:01:15.330 align:middle line:90% Ready for the last question? 00:01:15.330 --> 00:01:17.760 align:middle line:90% A 6-year molar is a baby tooth. 00:01:17.760 --> 00:01:19.230 align:middle line:90% Right or wrong? 00:01:19.230 --> 00:01:20.310 align:middle line:90% Right again. 00:01:20.310 --> 00:01:23.700 align:middle line:84% That permanent 6-year molar should last a lifetime. 00:01:23.700 --> 00:01:26.970 align:middle line:84% Mr. and Mrs. Smith, you certainly have a high PDIQ. 00:01:26.970 --> 00:01:27.690 align:middle line:90% Why? 00:01:27.690 --> 00:01:30.930 align:middle line:84% I see five good reasons, all with perfect smiles. 00:01:30.930 --> 00:01:33.450 align:middle line:84% And your prize is a lifetime of dental health 00:01:33.450 --> 00:01:35.160 align:middle line:90% for you and your children. 00:01:35.160 --> 00:01:38.350 align:middle line:90% By the way, how's your PDIQ? 00:01:38.350 --> 00:01:41.370 align:middle line:84% A public service announcement of the American Dental Association 00:01:41.370 --> 00:01:42.810 align:middle line:90% and this television station. 00:01:42.810 --> 00:01:48.786 align:middle line:90% 00:01:48.786 --> 00:01:52.630 align:middle line:84% Dick, you're described as one of the foremost Negro comedians. 00:01:52.630 --> 00:01:54.440 align:middle line:84% Is that description fairly accurate, 00:01:54.440 --> 00:01:57.200 align:middle line:84% or would you rather drop one or other of those two 00:01:57.200 --> 00:01:58.720 align:middle line:90% phrases, those two words? 00:01:58.720 --> 00:02:03.710 align:middle line:84% No, I think at one time, it had to be one of the foremost Negro 00:02:03.710 --> 00:02:06.070 align:middle line:90% comedians. 00:02:06.070 --> 00:02:11.680 align:middle line:84% But I think now, I rank among the top comedians 00:02:11.680 --> 00:02:15.110 align:middle line:84% anywhere in the world because of the demand 00:02:15.110 --> 00:02:18.530 align:middle line:84% that happened for me and because of the uniqueness 00:02:18.530 --> 00:02:19.790 align:middle line:90% in social satires. 00:02:19.790 --> 00:02:23.970 align:middle line:84% Not too many comics that would tread out into certain fields. 00:02:23.970 --> 00:02:27.173 align:middle line:84% But I think the description like it is now could stay, 00:02:27.173 --> 00:02:29.090 align:middle line:84% but it just haven't been updated, I would say. 00:02:29.090 --> 00:02:30.230 align:middle line:90% Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. 00:02:30.230 --> 00:02:34.730 align:middle line:84% Well, today, for example, in your appearance, say, 00:02:34.730 --> 00:02:39.590 align:middle line:84% here at The Cave are you out to give people a good laugh? 00:02:39.590 --> 00:02:43.070 align:middle line:84% Or are you out to make a very definite and very pungent 00:02:43.070 --> 00:02:43.760 align:middle line:90% point? 00:02:43.760 --> 00:02:45.350 align:middle line:84% Or is it a combination of the two? 00:02:45.350 --> 00:02:45.920 align:middle line:90% No. 00:02:45.920 --> 00:02:50.900 align:middle line:84% It's a combination of, one, wrestling with myself, 00:02:50.900 --> 00:02:53.030 align:middle line:90% to be honest, with me. 00:02:53.030 --> 00:02:56.400 align:middle line:84% If I'm honest with me, I got to be honest with the audience. 00:02:56.400 --> 00:02:59.960 align:middle line:84% Two, I come in here only as an entertainer and only 00:02:59.960 --> 00:03:02.180 align:middle line:90% to entertain the audience. 00:03:02.180 --> 00:03:04.670 align:middle line:84% When I go out and demonstrate for social changes, 00:03:04.670 --> 00:03:07.460 align:middle line:90% I don't go out to tell jokes. 00:03:07.460 --> 00:03:09.440 align:middle line:84% I happen to be a firm believer of the belief 00:03:09.440 --> 00:03:13.190 align:middle line:84% that you can't laugh social problems out of existence. 00:03:13.190 --> 00:03:15.740 align:middle line:84% People like to say this, but we didn't laugh Hitler out 00:03:15.740 --> 00:03:17.070 align:middle line:90% of existence. 00:03:17.070 --> 00:03:19.280 align:middle line:84% And the day we find a cure for cancer, 00:03:19.280 --> 00:03:20.510 align:middle line:90% it won't be through jokes. 00:03:20.510 --> 00:03:23.060 align:middle line:84% It'll be through hard, sincere work. 00:03:23.060 --> 00:03:28.970 align:middle line:84% Laughing helps the people create an atmosphere 00:03:28.970 --> 00:03:32.810 align:middle line:84% to amuse themselves, to take a five minute break. 00:03:32.810 --> 00:03:35.450 align:middle line:84% But the soldiers on the front line in Vietnam 00:03:35.450 --> 00:03:38.990 align:middle line:84% today, you probably find your most rich humor pertaining 00:03:38.990 --> 00:03:43.898 align:middle line:84% to that war over there, which is, for them, to stand up 00:03:43.898 --> 00:03:46.190 align:middle line:84% on the stage and use the same jokes back here that they 00:03:46.190 --> 00:03:49.400 align:middle line:84% use over there would be insulting and derogatory. 00:03:49.400 --> 00:03:52.190 align:middle line:84% But this is the thin line that humor carries. 00:03:52.190 --> 00:03:55.940 align:middle line:84% And if I worked to a room of 10,000 of the world's biggest 00:03:55.940 --> 00:04:01.730 align:middle line:84% bigots and won them all over, if I didn't get a laugh, 00:04:01.730 --> 00:04:03.190 align:middle line:90% I'd be a defeated man. 00:04:03.190 --> 00:04:05.788 align:middle line:84% Same thing if a minister worked to a room full of sinners 00:04:05.788 --> 00:04:08.330 align:middle line:84% and won them all over, if they laughed at everything he said, 00:04:08.330 --> 00:04:10.235 align:middle line:90% he would be a defeated man. 00:04:10.235 --> 00:04:12.530 align:middle line:84% Well, when I first saw you, which was, I think, 00:04:12.530 --> 00:04:15.330 align:middle line:84% either two or three years ago at the hungry i in San Francisco, 00:04:15.330 --> 00:04:19.730 align:middle line:84% this was the time of Birmingham and Bull Connor. 00:04:19.730 --> 00:04:23.150 align:middle line:84% Your humor then, the monologue which you delivered then, 00:04:23.150 --> 00:04:26.930 align:middle line:84% was quite different from the one that you deliver now, 00:04:26.930 --> 00:04:31.960 align:middle line:84% both in terms of racial texture as well as 00:04:31.960 --> 00:04:33.980 align:middle line:90% your kidding the establishment. 00:04:33.980 --> 00:04:36.173 align:middle line:90% It's a little different. 00:04:36.173 --> 00:04:37.340 align:middle line:90% Is this a deliberate change? 00:04:37.340 --> 00:04:37.840 align:middle line:90% Well-- 00:04:37.840 --> 00:04:40.540 align:middle line:84% Is it a case of just evolving because of current events? 00:04:40.540 --> 00:04:41.100 align:middle line:90% No. 00:04:41.100 --> 00:04:45.050 align:middle line:84% One, I'm a better comic today than then. 00:04:45.050 --> 00:04:46.070 align:middle line:90% I've gone through more. 00:04:46.070 --> 00:04:47.140 align:middle line:90% I've paid more dues. 00:04:47.140 --> 00:04:49.670 align:middle line:84% I've spent more money for research. 00:04:49.670 --> 00:04:53.310 align:middle line:84% I've been around the world to various key spots, 00:04:53.310 --> 00:04:56.240 align:middle line:84% and I understand certain issues today. 00:04:56.240 --> 00:05:01.400 align:middle line:84% And of course, my act in Canada is not watered down, 00:05:01.400 --> 00:05:03.260 align:middle line:84% but there's certain little inside things 00:05:03.260 --> 00:05:06.260 align:middle line:84% that I don't want to take the chance that 00:05:06.260 --> 00:05:07.900 align:middle line:90% have not made the papers. 00:05:07.900 --> 00:05:10.020 align:middle line:84% For instance, if I was in America tonight, 00:05:10.020 --> 00:05:15.110 align:middle line:84% I would be doing, oh, 10 minutes on the recent transit 00:05:15.110 --> 00:05:16.970 align:middle line:90% strike in New York City. 00:05:16.970 --> 00:05:20.100 align:middle line:84% Now being this far west, I don't know how-- 00:05:20.100 --> 00:05:21.350 align:middle line:90% and plus, out of the country-- 00:05:21.350 --> 00:05:25.310 align:middle line:84% I don't know just how that affected the general public. 00:05:25.310 --> 00:05:28.610 align:middle line:84% If I was in California, I would do less material 00:05:28.610 --> 00:05:30.880 align:middle line:90% on the transit strike. 00:05:30.880 --> 00:05:34.980 align:middle line:84% Now what could go worldwide was the blackout in New York City. 00:05:34.980 --> 00:05:37.760 align:middle line:84% You know beyond a shadow of a doubt this was worldwide 00:05:37.760 --> 00:05:41.780 align:middle line:84% because it caused a security problem, 00:05:41.780 --> 00:05:43.960 align:middle line:84% and it's a potential threat to everybody 00:05:43.960 --> 00:05:47.650 align:middle line:84% on the face of the Earth, a potential inconvenience. 00:05:47.650 --> 00:05:50.510 align:middle line:84% Whereas a transit strike, half the people in the world 00:05:50.510 --> 00:05:53.960 align:middle line:84% don't have transit, so this wouldn't affect them anyway. 00:05:53.960 --> 00:05:55.380 align:middle line:90% So it varies. 00:05:55.380 --> 00:06:00.100 align:middle line:84% Plus I am a better comic today than I was then. 00:06:00.100 --> 00:06:04.310 align:middle line:84% You were in the Watts area in Los Angeles during the riots 00:06:04.310 --> 00:06:05.003 align:middle line:90% there. 00:06:05.003 --> 00:06:06.920 align:middle line:84% It seems to me you were injured, were you not? 00:06:06.920 --> 00:06:08.110 align:middle line:90% Yes, I was shot in the leg. 00:06:08.110 --> 00:06:09.620 align:middle line:90% You were shot in the leg. 00:06:09.620 --> 00:06:12.890 align:middle line:84% What do you think can come out of that? 00:06:12.890 --> 00:06:13.520 align:middle line:90% Anything? 00:06:13.520 --> 00:06:15.050 align:middle line:90% Did it make any point anywhere? 00:06:15.050 --> 00:06:16.080 align:middle line:90% I don't think it did. 00:06:16.080 --> 00:06:18.800 align:middle line:84% I think the point that it did made the politicians covered it 00:06:18.800 --> 00:06:19.580 align:middle line:90% up. 00:06:19.580 --> 00:06:24.470 align:middle line:84% And I don't think anyone could have actually slept Watts 00:06:24.470 --> 00:06:26.780 align:middle line:84% and realize the explosive situation, 00:06:26.780 --> 00:06:30.290 align:middle line:84% realize that this was a normal reaction to people 00:06:30.290 --> 00:06:33.338 align:middle line:84% who's been oppressed over a long period of time. 00:06:33.338 --> 00:06:35.630 align:middle line:84% What happened in Watts didn't make the people criminal. 00:06:35.630 --> 00:06:39.620 align:middle line:84% The conditions that produced a Watts is criminal. 00:06:39.620 --> 00:06:43.820 align:middle line:84% I think it's no big secret that if this social problem existed 00:06:43.820 --> 00:06:46.490 align:middle line:84% any place on the face of the Earth today, 00:06:46.490 --> 00:06:48.350 align:middle line:90% we Americans could solve it. 00:06:48.350 --> 00:06:49.710 align:middle line:90% We have the know-how. 00:06:49.710 --> 00:06:51.950 align:middle line:84% We have the honesty when we want it. 00:06:51.950 --> 00:06:53.310 align:middle line:90% And we have the power. 00:06:53.310 --> 00:06:55.620 align:middle line:90% We have the finance. 00:06:55.620 --> 00:06:58.230 align:middle line:84% The fact that we played around with it, to me, 00:06:58.230 --> 00:07:02.040 align:middle line:84% reminds me of the same path the Romans took before she fell. 00:07:02.040 --> 00:07:04.750 align:middle line:84% She was too strong to be destroyed from without 00:07:04.750 --> 00:07:07.530 align:middle line:84% and crumbled from within with little social problems 00:07:07.530 --> 00:07:11.400 align:middle line:84% at a time when the statesmen had been completely pushed 00:07:11.400 --> 00:07:14.280 align:middle line:84% to one side in Rome, and the master politicians 00:07:14.280 --> 00:07:15.960 align:middle line:90% had come to the front. 00:07:15.960 --> 00:07:20.310 align:middle line:84% And politicians cannot solve this social problem. 00:07:20.310 --> 00:07:24.570 align:middle line:84% Politicians do more to create a social problem than solve one. 00:07:24.570 --> 00:07:28.885 align:middle line:84% And the same way that we can solve the Watts situation 00:07:28.885 --> 00:07:31.868 align:middle line:84% as a social problem is the same way we decided when we found 00:07:31.868 --> 00:07:33.660 align:middle line:84% out America was running behind the Russians 00:07:33.660 --> 00:07:36.820 align:middle line:84% in the missile race, we closed the gap, not 00:07:36.820 --> 00:07:40.480 align:middle line:84% through emotions, not through lying to the public, 00:07:40.480 --> 00:07:43.030 align:middle line:84% but by sincere effort, by going out, 00:07:43.030 --> 00:07:45.900 align:middle line:84% buying the best minds money could buy, 00:07:45.900 --> 00:07:48.117 align:middle line:84% and that way, we closed the missile gap. 00:07:48.117 --> 00:07:50.700 align:middle line:84% And the only way we're going to solve this social problem now, 00:07:50.700 --> 00:07:52.283 align:middle line:84% because it's so far out of proportion, 00:07:52.283 --> 00:07:56.290 align:middle line:84% is by bringing in top minds from all over the world and saying, 00:07:56.290 --> 00:07:58.470 align:middle line:84% OK, baby, it's no disgrace to have a problem. 00:07:58.470 --> 00:08:01.540 align:middle line:84% The disgrace is having a problem that can be solved, 00:08:01.540 --> 00:08:04.020 align:middle line:84% and you refuse to solve it, and you have the facilities 00:08:04.020 --> 00:08:05.400 align:middle line:90% and the know-how. 00:08:05.400 --> 00:08:08.130 align:middle line:84% And so I say I don't think we woke up from Watts. 00:08:08.130 --> 00:08:10.710 align:middle line:84% I think everybody looked at Watts 00:08:10.710 --> 00:08:13.050 align:middle line:84% as a negative blurb on the Negros 00:08:13.050 --> 00:08:17.100 align:middle line:84% instead of looking at Watts as an American situation. 00:08:17.100 --> 00:08:20.130 align:middle line:84% I think the British took the same outlook on George 00:08:20.130 --> 00:08:24.090 align:middle line:84% Washington and that band of cats he had as America's 00:08:24.090 --> 00:08:25.230 align:middle line:90% looking at Watts today. 00:08:25.230 --> 00:08:29.040 align:middle line:84% And had the British realized that this was not mob action. 00:08:29.040 --> 00:08:33.600 align:middle line:84% You see, five disciplined cops can stop a riot and a mob, 00:08:33.600 --> 00:08:35.880 align:middle line:84% but Hitler's army couldn't stop a protest. 00:08:35.880 --> 00:08:38.760 align:middle line:84% This is a legitimate protest that's going on. 00:08:38.760 --> 00:08:42.030 align:middle line:84% And if we're going to put Watts down, 00:08:42.030 --> 00:08:44.227 align:middle line:84% then we got to crucify the American history book. 00:08:44.227 --> 00:08:46.560 align:middle line:84% Because the American history book with George Washington 00:08:46.560 --> 00:08:48.852 align:middle line:84% told the mother country we weren't going to pay the tax 00:08:48.852 --> 00:08:52.050 align:middle line:84% and dumped her tea in the water, that was Watts, man. 00:08:52.050 --> 00:08:54.630 align:middle line:84% What happened in Watts was justified under the Declaration 00:08:54.630 --> 00:08:55.890 align:middle line:90% of independence. 00:08:55.890 --> 00:08:57.960 align:middle line:84% We say, "We hold these truths to be self-evident 00:08:57.960 --> 00:08:59.910 align:middle line:84% that all men are created equal and endowed 00:08:59.910 --> 00:09:02.000 align:middle line:84% by certain inalienable rights by the Creator. 00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:03.870 align:middle line:84% And when these rights are destroyed, 00:09:03.870 --> 00:09:06.430 align:middle line:84% it is your duty to destroy or abolish that government." 00:09:06.430 --> 00:09:08.760 align:middle line:84% The Declaration of Independence give peoples 00:09:08.760 --> 00:09:12.250 align:middle line:84% this right that's been oppressed over a long period of time. 00:09:12.250 --> 00:09:16.560 align:middle line:84% So I think had the British went in and understood 00:09:16.560 --> 00:09:19.050 align:middle line:84% early Americans, George Washington and them, 00:09:19.050 --> 00:09:22.560 align:middle line:84% and realized they were dealing with a protest and not a riot, 00:09:22.560 --> 00:09:25.500 align:middle line:84% we might all, today, in America, have a British accent. 00:09:25.500 --> 00:09:27.030 align:middle line:84% And it frightens me to think that we 00:09:27.030 --> 00:09:29.940 align:middle line:84% might make the same mistake that all of the world powers 00:09:29.940 --> 00:09:31.382 align:middle line:84% have made down through the years. 00:09:31.382 --> 00:09:32.840 align:middle line:84% Well, and when you went into Watts, 00:09:32.840 --> 00:09:34.350 align:middle line:84% you went in in an attempt to help, 00:09:34.350 --> 00:09:36.233 align:middle line:84% and yet, you weren't very successful. 00:09:36.233 --> 00:09:38.650 align:middle line:84% This brings up the point-- who speaks for the Negro today? 00:09:38.650 --> 00:09:44.772 align:middle line:84% Oh, it's not a matter of who speaks for the Negro. 00:09:44.772 --> 00:09:46.730 align:middle line:84% It's not a matter of going in to stop anything. 00:09:46.730 --> 00:09:49.257 align:middle line:84% I would be out of my mind to go in-- you want 00:09:49.257 --> 00:09:51.090 align:middle line:84% to stop something, you go to Washington, DC, 00:09:51.090 --> 00:09:52.110 align:middle line:90% and talk to white folks. 00:09:52.110 --> 00:09:54.030 align:middle line:90% That's the way you stop it. 00:09:54.030 --> 00:09:55.045 align:middle line:90% See, I have five kids. 00:09:55.045 --> 00:09:57.545 align:middle line:84% When my baby starts crying-- if anybody have any kids-- when 00:09:57.545 --> 00:09:59.580 align:middle line:84% the baby starts crying, if you run to the crib and yell out, 00:09:59.580 --> 00:10:01.700 align:middle line:84% "shut up," the baby's going to cry louder. 00:10:01.700 --> 00:10:03.610 align:middle line:84% Oh, I got enough sense just in my own house 00:10:03.610 --> 00:10:05.485 align:middle line:84% to know you don't run into something after it 00:10:05.485 --> 00:10:07.020 align:middle line:90% starts to say shut up. 00:10:07.020 --> 00:10:12.250 align:middle line:84% I went in mainly to review the situation, 00:10:12.250 --> 00:10:18.210 align:middle line:84% to study the pattern of it, and to ask 00:10:18.210 --> 00:10:21.060 align:middle line:90% the Negro, what do you want? 00:10:21.060 --> 00:10:23.535 align:middle line:90% 00:10:23.535 --> 00:10:25.660 align:middle line:84% Not to tell him that this is not the way to get it. 00:10:25.660 --> 00:10:26.970 align:middle line:90% I couldn't tell a man-- 00:10:26.970 --> 00:10:28.880 align:middle line:90% I am nonviolent myself. 00:10:28.880 --> 00:10:31.800 align:middle line:84% I don't believe in killing nothing, either a fish 00:10:31.800 --> 00:10:33.560 align:middle line:90% or animal. 00:10:33.560 --> 00:10:36.240 align:middle line:84% But it's very difficult to go in and scream to a man 00:10:36.240 --> 00:10:39.330 align:middle line:84% that he can't kill when he's soon to be drafted and sent 00:10:39.330 --> 00:10:41.710 align:middle line:84% to a foreign country, and laying on some cold dirt, 00:10:41.710 --> 00:10:44.160 align:middle line:84% shooting at some foreigner that he never met before, 00:10:44.160 --> 00:10:48.360 align:middle line:84% to guarantee Vietnam instant freedom while his black loved 00:10:48.360 --> 00:10:51.120 align:middle line:84% ones have to get theirs on the installment plan. 00:10:51.120 --> 00:10:53.690 align:middle line:84% So I say again, you go to Washington, DC, 00:10:53.690 --> 00:10:55.565 align:middle line:84% and to the white folks in the power structure 00:10:55.565 --> 00:10:58.150 align:middle line:90% if you want them to shut up. 00:10:58.150 --> 00:11:03.240 align:middle line:84% Any time Negroes break through in anything, 00:11:03.240 --> 00:11:05.220 align:middle line:84% Negro leaders are not given credit for it. 00:11:05.220 --> 00:11:07.280 align:middle line:90% America's given credit for it. 00:11:07.280 --> 00:11:09.900 align:middle line:84% When we had the march on Washington, 00:11:09.900 --> 00:11:12.780 align:middle line:84% it was everything white folks expected out of a good march, 00:11:12.780 --> 00:11:15.700 align:middle line:84% America was the one that got credit for this. 00:11:15.700 --> 00:11:18.090 align:middle line:84% If you could have heard the American Information 00:11:18.090 --> 00:11:20.610 align:middle line:84% Department's tapes that they released on this, why, 00:11:20.610 --> 00:11:22.390 align:middle line:90% it was just unbelievable. 00:11:22.390 --> 00:11:23.310 align:middle line:90% And the day is over. 00:11:23.310 --> 00:11:24.852 align:middle line:84% When something happens, Negro leaders 00:11:24.852 --> 00:11:26.180 align:middle line:90% are going to get the blame. 00:11:26.180 --> 00:11:28.650 align:middle line:84% And when it happens good, America gets the blame. 00:11:28.650 --> 00:11:31.860 align:middle line:84% The problem that exists over there is the American problem. 00:11:31.860 --> 00:11:34.110 align:middle line:84% And if you stop for one minute and ask yourself, who's 00:11:34.110 --> 00:11:35.760 align:middle line:90% the white leader in America? 00:11:35.760 --> 00:11:36.650 align:middle line:90% They have none. 00:11:36.650 --> 00:11:37.650 align:middle line:90% Who's the Jewish leader? 00:11:37.650 --> 00:11:38.350 align:middle line:90% Who's the Irish leader? 00:11:38.350 --> 00:11:39.300 align:middle line:90% Who's the Italian leader? 00:11:39.300 --> 00:11:40.860 align:middle line:84% Then why in the world are we the only group 00:11:40.860 --> 00:11:42.166 align:middle line:84% in a big country, the strongest country 00:11:42.166 --> 00:11:43.530 align:middle line:90% in the world, that got leaders? 00:11:43.530 --> 00:11:44.640 align:middle line:84% If the leaders was any good for you, 00:11:44.640 --> 00:11:45.900 align:middle line:90% we wouldn't have none neither. 00:11:45.900 --> 00:11:47.190 align:middle line:90% And who gave them to us? 00:11:47.190 --> 00:11:48.820 align:middle line:90% The white press? 00:11:48.820 --> 00:11:51.370 align:middle line:84% So the true Negro leaders in America 00:11:51.370 --> 00:11:53.530 align:middle line:84% are unheard of by the masses, which 00:11:53.530 --> 00:12:00.350 align:middle line:84% is people like Lawrence Landry, Jesse Gray, Stanley Branch. 00:12:00.350 --> 00:12:03.280 align:middle line:84% These are the people on the local level 00:12:03.280 --> 00:12:06.940 align:middle line:84% that all of the national figures have to go in and deal with 00:12:06.940 --> 00:12:10.510 align:middle line:84% to have effective demonstrations. 00:12:10.510 --> 00:12:16.210 align:middle line:84% The Negroes love Roy Wilkins, Martin Luther King, Jim Farmer, 00:12:16.210 --> 00:12:19.240 align:middle line:84% Jim Forman, because they have always 00:12:19.240 --> 00:12:22.210 align:middle line:84% had the eloquence to go downtown and ask the white folks 00:12:22.210 --> 00:12:24.200 align:middle line:90% for our demands. 00:12:24.200 --> 00:12:27.150 align:middle line:84% But they kept coming back empty-handed. 00:12:27.150 --> 00:12:28.573 align:middle line:90% Now, I love my Mama. 00:12:28.573 --> 00:12:30.740 align:middle line:84% And if my mama didn't bring me nothing on Christmas, 00:12:30.740 --> 00:12:33.160 align:middle line:90% she could justify the first one. 00:12:33.160 --> 00:12:35.082 align:middle line:84% But don't let me sit through every Christmas, 00:12:35.082 --> 00:12:36.790 align:middle line:84% and you not bringing me nothing, and when 00:12:36.790 --> 00:12:38.680 align:middle line:84% you do bring me something, it's short of what 00:12:38.680 --> 00:12:39.970 align:middle line:90% everybody else is getting. 00:12:39.970 --> 00:12:41.770 align:middle line:90% I turn against my own mama. 00:12:41.770 --> 00:12:44.560 align:middle line:84% Let alone a negro, who's not close 00:12:44.560 --> 00:12:48.040 align:middle line:84% to me but from a national level, and this is what happened. 00:12:48.040 --> 00:12:50.340 align:middle line:84% And this is where the white power structure 00:12:50.340 --> 00:12:53.740 align:middle line:84% have made a tremendous mistake, is by putting the Negro 00:12:53.740 --> 00:12:59.740 align:middle line:84% leaders out on a limb where the things that they bring back 00:12:59.740 --> 00:13:02.410 align:middle line:84% to the community is far short of what the community wants, 00:13:02.410 --> 00:13:04.570 align:middle line:84% after the community had listened to them 00:13:04.570 --> 00:13:07.790 align:middle line:90% for a long period of time. 00:13:07.790 --> 00:13:11.320 align:middle line:84% And there's going to be more problems of this. 00:13:11.320 --> 00:13:16.180 align:middle line:84% You see, we have Negroes now flying jets for United 00:13:16.180 --> 00:13:18.940 align:middle line:90% Airlines, Negro stewardess. 00:13:18.940 --> 00:13:21.700 align:middle line:84% Hertz and Avis Rental Cars, you see Negroes at the ticket 00:13:21.700 --> 00:13:24.370 align:middle line:90% counter, in the airlines. 00:13:24.370 --> 00:13:26.590 align:middle line:84% Thurgood Marshall is Solicitor General. 00:13:26.590 --> 00:13:28.500 align:middle line:90% Ralph Bunche is in the UN. 00:13:28.500 --> 00:13:30.250 align:middle line:84% But the type of Negroes that this impress 00:13:30.250 --> 00:13:31.957 align:middle line:90% wouldn't throw a brick anyway. 00:13:31.957 --> 00:13:34.290 align:middle line:84% If they didn't have, they ain't going to throw no brick. 00:13:34.290 --> 00:13:36.570 align:middle line:84% The brick-throwing ghetto brother, man, he 00:13:36.570 --> 00:13:38.560 align:middle line:84% ain't never heard of Thurgood Marshall. 00:13:38.560 --> 00:13:42.090 align:middle line:84% Don't know United Airlines exists till they have a wreck. 00:13:42.090 --> 00:13:44.510 align:middle line:84% And Hertz and Avis don't mean nothing to him. 00:13:44.510 --> 00:13:45.880 align:middle line:90% He never wanted a white woman. 00:13:45.880 --> 00:13:48.400 align:middle line:84% He don't want no tremendous education. 00:13:48.400 --> 00:13:49.810 align:middle line:84% He's been without it for so long, 00:13:49.810 --> 00:13:51.610 align:middle line:90% he's learned how to survive. 00:13:51.610 --> 00:13:54.970 align:middle line:84% All he's trying to do is outlive that rat in the bedroom, 00:13:54.970 --> 00:13:57.970 align:middle line:84% and there's no poverty program to teach him how to do that. 00:13:57.970 --> 00:14:01.070 align:middle line:84% That's what's going to bring America down to her knees. 00:14:01.070 --> 00:14:03.650 align:middle line:84% That's the guy we got to go in, and we can't trick him. 00:14:03.650 --> 00:14:05.800 align:middle line:84% When you go into Watts, and you ask him, 00:14:05.800 --> 00:14:07.410 align:middle line:90% you say, what do you all want? 00:14:07.410 --> 00:14:08.735 align:middle line:90% And he say, nuttin. 00:14:08.735 --> 00:14:10.510 align:middle line:84% Well, "nuttin" not in the dictionary, 00:14:10.510 --> 00:14:12.920 align:middle line:84% but nuttin in the revolution mean "everything." 00:14:12.920 --> 00:14:15.610 align:middle line:84% You go to the Negro leaders, they give you a list of stuff. 00:14:15.610 --> 00:14:18.880 align:middle line:84% We want equal jobs, equal housing, equal schools, 00:14:18.880 --> 00:14:21.100 align:middle line:84% and a lot of things we forgot to mention. 00:14:21.100 --> 00:14:23.860 align:middle line:84% That little guy in the ghetto, when he say nuttin, 00:14:23.860 --> 00:14:24.660 align:middle line:90% he mean everything. 00:14:24.660 --> 00:14:26.142 align:middle line:90% He ain't bringing you no list. 00:14:26.142 --> 00:14:27.100 align:middle line:90% You know what he wants. 00:14:27.100 --> 00:14:28.310 align:middle line:90% Give it to him. 00:14:28.310 --> 00:14:30.320 align:middle line:84% Only way we going to solve the problem. 00:14:30.320 --> 00:14:33.400 align:middle line:84% And by blaming these things on Negro leaders, which 00:14:33.400 --> 00:14:37.451 align:middle line:84% America did, is not going to solve the problem. 00:14:37.451 --> 00:14:39.287 align:middle line:84% If it weren't for demonstrations, 00:14:39.287 --> 00:14:41.370 align:middle line:84% country would've gone up in smoke a long time ago. 00:14:41.370 --> 00:14:44.880 align:middle line:84% It's a simple pattern that the cities where 00:14:44.880 --> 00:14:47.310 align:middle line:84% we've had mass demonstrations have been the cities that 00:14:47.310 --> 00:14:49.590 align:middle line:90% haven't blew up. 00:14:49.590 --> 00:14:52.230 align:middle line:84% And I don't know why white folks all over the world 00:14:52.230 --> 00:14:54.070 align:middle line:84% can do research, but for some reason, 00:14:54.070 --> 00:14:59.280 align:middle line:84% they haven't done the research to really find out the angles 00:14:59.280 --> 00:15:01.193 align:middle line:90% to solve many of the problems. 00:15:01.193 --> 00:15:02.610 align:middle line:84% And if they knew this, they'd pay. 00:15:02.610 --> 00:15:05.193 align:middle line:84% They'd finance demonstrations, and get some of their Uncle Tom 00:15:05.193 --> 00:15:07.560 align:middle line:84% Negroes, and get them a line drawn and get out. 00:15:07.560 --> 00:15:09.540 align:middle line:84% There's something about demonstration 00:15:09.540 --> 00:15:12.150 align:middle line:84% that gives the brick-thrower a ray of hope. 00:15:12.150 --> 00:15:15.900 align:middle line:84% He feels that somebody's really looking after him 00:15:15.900 --> 00:15:19.120 align:middle line:90% and going to solve his problem. 00:15:19.120 --> 00:15:23.160 align:middle line:84% Another pattern that seems not only America, 00:15:23.160 --> 00:15:25.350 align:middle line:84% but the whole world seems to be ignorant of 00:15:25.350 --> 00:15:28.020 align:middle line:84% is that we never have race riots in the South. 00:15:28.020 --> 00:15:29.880 align:middle line:90% We blame all the racial-- 00:15:29.880 --> 00:15:30.985 align:middle line:90% everything on Mississippi. 00:15:30.985 --> 00:15:32.110 align:middle line:90% They never have race riots. 00:15:32.110 --> 00:15:34.410 align:middle line:90% This is northern products. 00:15:34.410 --> 00:15:38.010 align:middle line:84% And Watts had never occurred in the South. 00:15:38.010 --> 00:15:40.170 align:middle line:84% So somebody better go in, and do the research, 00:15:40.170 --> 00:15:43.170 align:middle line:84% and find out, with all the publicity 00:15:43.170 --> 00:15:44.670 align:middle line:84% the South has been getting, how come 00:15:44.670 --> 00:15:47.940 align:middle line:90% they never had a race riot? 00:15:47.940 --> 00:15:49.800 align:middle line:90% Because they honest. 00:15:49.800 --> 00:15:51.630 align:middle line:90% They don't hide it. 00:15:51.630 --> 00:15:55.510 align:middle line:84% And they air it out, and it's not hard to see. 00:15:55.510 --> 00:15:57.510 align:middle line:84% But in the North, they lie about it, 00:15:57.510 --> 00:16:00.870 align:middle line:84% and it creates a tremendous bitterness. 00:16:00.870 --> 00:16:03.780 align:middle line:84% What do you think of the legislation 00:16:03.780 --> 00:16:06.332 align:middle line:84% which has been passed recently, the Civil Rights 00:16:06.332 --> 00:16:07.040 align:middle line:90% Act and so forth? 00:16:07.040 --> 00:16:07.873 align:middle line:90% Is this helping any? 00:16:07.873 --> 00:16:11.460 align:middle line:84% Is this providing any kind of ray of hope 00:16:11.460 --> 00:16:12.630 align:middle line:90% to the guy in the ghetto? 00:16:12.630 --> 00:16:14.670 align:middle line:84% It's not providing too much ray of hope 00:16:14.670 --> 00:16:16.560 align:middle line:90% because he wants his now. 00:16:16.560 --> 00:16:18.360 align:middle line:84% If you put a tourniquet around a man's leg, 00:16:18.360 --> 00:16:19.560 align:middle line:90% it stops the bleeding. 00:16:19.560 --> 00:16:21.240 align:middle line:84% But if you don't get him to the hospital real soon, 00:16:21.240 --> 00:16:23.365 align:middle line:84% get the tourniquet off, gangrene's going to set in. 00:16:23.365 --> 00:16:25.140 align:middle line:90% He's going to die anyway. 00:16:25.140 --> 00:16:27.560 align:middle line:84% Well, what else along the legislative line do you feel 00:16:27.560 --> 00:16:29.413 align:middle line:90% will come forth soon? 00:16:29.413 --> 00:16:31.330 align:middle line:84% Well, there will be plenty of legislation that 00:16:31.330 --> 00:16:32.720 align:middle line:90% will probably be coming forth. 00:16:32.720 --> 00:16:36.380 align:middle line:84% I think we'll start getting legislation for the North now. 00:16:36.380 --> 00:16:38.210 align:middle line:84% Particularly, the Civil Rights legislation 00:16:38.210 --> 00:16:42.110 align:middle line:84% was aimed predominately at the South. 00:16:42.110 --> 00:16:47.720 align:middle line:84% And we need legislation that will make the United States 00:16:47.720 --> 00:16:49.370 align:middle line:90% Constitution work. 00:16:49.370 --> 00:16:51.390 align:middle line:84% And this is a constitutional problem. 00:16:51.390 --> 00:16:55.950 align:middle line:84% We were not out demonstrating in Birmingham three years ago 00:16:55.950 --> 00:16:58.567 align:middle line:84% and on the [INAUDIBLE] streets of America 00:16:58.567 --> 00:16:59.900 align:middle line:90% for something that didn't exist. 00:16:59.900 --> 00:17:01.520 align:middle line:84% It would be very unfair if we was 00:17:01.520 --> 00:17:05.030 align:middle line:84% asking white folks to create something special for us. 00:17:05.030 --> 00:17:06.530 align:middle line:84% And I think they're very unfair when 00:17:06.530 --> 00:17:08.990 align:middle line:84% they create something special for us, like a Civil Rights 00:17:08.990 --> 00:17:09.490 align:middle line:90% bill. 00:17:09.490 --> 00:17:12.500 align:middle line:84% We didn't march for a '64, '65 legislation. 00:17:12.500 --> 00:17:15.079 align:middle line:84% We marched for the United States Constitution. 00:17:15.079 --> 00:17:17.150 align:middle line:84% And if Black America's going to be judged 00:17:17.150 --> 00:17:20.492 align:middle line:84% under '65 legislation, and White America's 00:17:20.492 --> 00:17:22.700 align:middle line:84% going to be judged on the United States Constitution, 00:17:22.700 --> 00:17:25.213 align:middle line:90% that's racial segregation. 00:17:25.213 --> 00:17:26.630 align:middle line:84% What of America telling us they're 00:17:26.630 --> 00:17:29.555 align:middle line:84% going to give us a new version of racial segregation? 00:17:29.555 --> 00:17:31.950 align:middle line:84% Or are they going to do away with it, period? 00:17:31.950 --> 00:17:35.780 align:middle line:84% And this is the problem that legislation creates. 00:17:35.780 --> 00:17:39.890 align:middle line:84% You see, if a man's been riding on your back for two weeks, 00:17:39.890 --> 00:17:42.863 align:middle line:84% and you never tell him to get off, he got a good ride. 00:17:42.863 --> 00:17:45.530 align:middle line:84% But at the point you turn around and tell him get off your back, 00:17:45.530 --> 00:17:46.947 align:middle line:84% he might not get off, but he going 00:17:46.947 --> 00:17:48.675 align:middle line:84% to have a bumpy ride from there on. 00:17:48.675 --> 00:17:52.170 align:middle line:84% And for 100 years, we've had someone riding on our back, 00:17:52.170 --> 00:17:53.420 align:middle line:90% we never said anything. 00:17:53.420 --> 00:17:57.170 align:middle line:84% But now, we've said, asked, very gently, to get off, 00:17:57.170 --> 00:18:01.160 align:middle line:84% and he's refused to, in a very insulting way. 00:18:01.160 --> 00:18:03.540 align:middle line:84% He's loosened his grip, and he says, 00:18:03.540 --> 00:18:05.810 align:middle line:90% boy, let me tell you something. 00:18:05.810 --> 00:18:09.110 align:middle line:84% I know I'm wrong for riding your back, 00:18:09.110 --> 00:18:11.135 align:middle line:84% but I can't stop riding your back now, 00:18:11.135 --> 00:18:12.665 align:middle line:84% and you got to be out of your mind 00:18:12.665 --> 00:18:14.840 align:middle line:84% to ask me to get off your back after me 00:18:14.840 --> 00:18:16.970 align:middle line:90% riding your back for 100 years. 00:18:16.970 --> 00:18:19.100 align:middle line:84% But I won't ride your kids' backs. 00:18:19.100 --> 00:18:22.080 align:middle line:84% It's going to take a generation for me to get off your back. 00:18:22.080 --> 00:18:24.452 align:middle line:84% Well, I know he means that, so I'm 00:18:24.452 --> 00:18:25.910 align:middle line:84% going to head on down to the bridge 00:18:25.910 --> 00:18:28.480 align:middle line:84% and jump off, because I'd just soon be in the river, 00:18:28.480 --> 00:18:30.510 align:middle line:84% dead, than to have him riding on my back 00:18:30.510 --> 00:18:31.703 align:middle line:90% after I told him to get off. 00:18:31.703 --> 00:18:33.120 align:middle line:84% He didn't even have decency enough 00:18:33.120 --> 00:18:35.960 align:middle line:84% to say ride on my back for a while, let's swap. 00:18:35.960 --> 00:18:37.070 align:middle line:90% Same thing. 00:18:37.070 --> 00:18:38.560 align:middle line:90% No different. 00:18:38.560 --> 00:18:41.780 align:middle line:84% And if White America had to wake up tomorrow morning 00:18:41.780 --> 00:18:45.510 align:middle line:84% as black as I am, they'll be fighting soon 00:18:45.510 --> 00:18:47.790 align:middle line:84% as they open their eyes up because they would get hell 00:18:47.790 --> 00:18:50.390 align:middle line:84% in the bedroom, man, before they even walked to the kitchen, 00:18:50.390 --> 00:18:53.070 align:middle line:84% before they even walked outside the house. 00:18:53.070 --> 00:18:54.750 align:middle line:90% And they wouldn't take it. 00:18:54.750 --> 00:18:58.220 align:middle line:84% And if they think we can put up with this 00:18:58.220 --> 00:19:00.730 align:middle line:84% any longer than we have put up with it, 00:19:00.730 --> 00:19:02.480 align:middle line:84% then they admitting that something's wrong 00:19:02.480 --> 00:19:03.890 align:middle line:90% with us, some kind of way. 00:19:03.890 --> 00:19:07.520 align:middle line:84% Either we are inferior or superior, one of the two. 00:19:07.520 --> 00:19:09.990 align:middle line:84% How bumpy is this ride going to get? 00:19:09.990 --> 00:19:12.920 align:middle line:84% It's going to be very bumpy, very, very bumpy. 00:19:12.920 --> 00:19:16.320 align:middle line:84% Because with the war going on in Vietnam now, 00:19:16.320 --> 00:19:19.870 align:middle line:84% and Negroes going over to Vietnam to fight, 00:19:19.870 --> 00:19:23.750 align:middle line:84% and when these Negroes come home, 00:19:23.750 --> 00:19:25.315 align:middle line:90% they have different attitudes. 00:19:25.315 --> 00:19:27.090 align:middle line:84% You see, we don't have the type of Negroes 00:19:27.090 --> 00:19:29.160 align:middle line:90% we had during World War II. 00:19:29.160 --> 00:19:33.310 align:middle line:84% They could lay over in France, and jump out the Jeep and land 00:19:33.310 --> 00:19:37.430 align:middle line:84% in the gutter when they heard the German planes coming by, 00:19:37.430 --> 00:19:40.640 align:middle line:84% and didn't know at what time they were going to be killed. 00:19:40.640 --> 00:19:43.880 align:middle line:84% And the war was over, and the German come over here, 00:19:43.880 --> 00:19:45.620 align:middle line:84% and we still got to jump out the Jeep 00:19:45.620 --> 00:19:48.350 align:middle line:84% and get in the gutter to let him by to get the job, and this 00:19:48.350 --> 00:19:51.470 align:middle line:84% and that, which is no malice to the Germans. 00:19:51.470 --> 00:19:53.420 align:middle line:84% The malice is showed toward the government 00:19:53.420 --> 00:19:56.060 align:middle line:84% that could let this, permit this, to happen. 00:19:56.060 --> 00:19:59.000 align:middle line:84% Well, you've got a different Negro we're dealing with now. 00:19:59.000 --> 00:20:01.850 align:middle line:84% Negro 20, 30 years ago had an empty stomach. 00:20:01.850 --> 00:20:04.220 align:middle line:84% Today, the Negro has a full stomach and a hungry mind, 00:20:04.220 --> 00:20:07.430 align:middle line:84% and a hungry mind do not tolerate the same thing 00:20:07.430 --> 00:20:09.230 align:middle line:90% as an empty stomach. 00:20:09.230 --> 00:20:12.380 align:middle line:84% A hungry mind-- Einstein had a hungry mind. 00:20:12.380 --> 00:20:14.600 align:middle line:84% Empty stomach deals by smell, and a hungry mind 00:20:14.600 --> 00:20:15.680 align:middle line:90% deals by sound. 00:20:15.680 --> 00:20:18.320 align:middle line:84% And all of those things don't sound right to us no more. 00:20:18.320 --> 00:20:20.450 align:middle line:84% This is what's affecting the riot. 00:20:20.450 --> 00:20:22.640 align:middle line:84% You see, in World War II, when they 00:20:22.640 --> 00:20:24.980 align:middle line:84% was bringing German prisoners back to America 00:20:24.980 --> 00:20:32.030 align:middle line:84% to the southern POW camps, the Negro guards, 00:20:32.030 --> 00:20:35.360 align:middle line:84% when they stopped to eat, the German prisoners 00:20:35.360 --> 00:20:38.765 align:middle line:84% was permitted to go in the front door of the restaurant and eat, 00:20:38.765 --> 00:20:41.720 align:middle line:84% and the Negro American soldiers had to go to the back door. 00:20:41.720 --> 00:20:43.982 align:middle line:90% That can never happen again. 00:20:43.982 --> 00:20:45.440 align:middle line:84% Charlie Drew-- if you could imagine 00:20:45.440 --> 00:20:47.420 align:middle line:84% how many millions of people would be dead today 00:20:47.420 --> 00:20:49.265 align:middle line:90% if it weren't for blood plasma. 00:20:49.265 --> 00:20:51.470 align:middle line:84% Well, an American Negro by the name of Charlie Drew 00:20:51.470 --> 00:20:53.360 align:middle line:84% invented blood plasma, and he bled 00:20:53.360 --> 00:20:55.490 align:middle line:84% to death in a South Carolina hospital waiting room 00:20:55.490 --> 00:20:56.960 align:middle line:84% because they didn't accept Negroes after he 00:20:56.960 --> 00:20:58.400 align:middle line:90% was in an automobile accident. 00:20:58.400 --> 00:20:59.820 align:middle line:90% Now these things are obsolete. 00:20:59.820 --> 00:21:03.540 align:middle line:84% You got a different Negro that America has to deal with today. 00:21:03.540 --> 00:21:05.240 align:middle line:84% And she might as well wake up and get 00:21:05.240 --> 00:21:08.600 align:middle line:84% aware of this, that she's going to have to deal honestly 00:21:08.600 --> 00:21:11.510 align:middle line:84% and fairly because all the tricks up. 00:21:11.510 --> 00:21:14.187 align:middle line:84% And as far as us out here at the head of the Civil Rights 00:21:14.187 --> 00:21:16.520 align:middle line:84% Movement, we don't know where it's going to happen next. 00:21:16.520 --> 00:21:17.270 align:middle line:90% We can guess. 00:21:17.270 --> 00:21:20.510 align:middle line:90% I figure Chicago will explode. 00:21:20.510 --> 00:21:24.480 align:middle line:90% Probably Los Angeles again. 00:21:24.480 --> 00:21:26.480 align:middle line:84% San Francisco area will probably explode. 00:21:26.480 --> 00:21:28.230 align:middle line:84% But you're just guessing at it because you 00:21:28.230 --> 00:21:31.200 align:middle line:84% know what potential trouble spots look like, 00:21:31.200 --> 00:21:34.960 align:middle line:84% but you have no guarantee about some little, small area. 00:21:34.960 --> 00:21:37.080 align:middle line:84% And I think when California blew, 00:21:37.080 --> 00:21:40.180 align:middle line:84% everybody should have been aware that it can happen anywhere, 00:21:40.180 --> 00:21:42.750 align:middle line:84% because this was the last place that people 00:21:42.750 --> 00:21:45.150 align:middle line:84% that wasn't informed felt it was going to blow. 00:21:45.150 --> 00:21:46.410 align:middle line:90% The government knows about it. 00:21:46.410 --> 00:21:49.880 align:middle line:84% This was evidenced when they released, after the riots, 00:21:49.880 --> 00:21:51.380 align:middle line:84% that out of 21 cities that they knew 00:21:51.380 --> 00:21:54.330 align:middle line:84% were potential powder kegs, that the only two cities that 00:21:54.330 --> 00:21:58.260 align:middle line:84% didn't accept their summer help was Chicago and Los Angeles. 00:21:58.260 --> 00:22:02.040 align:middle line:84% So I think it's very obvious that certain people 00:22:02.040 --> 00:22:06.510 align:middle line:84% in certain key position knows what's going on in America. 00:22:06.510 --> 00:22:09.540 align:middle line:84% For political reasons, they refuse to really 00:22:09.540 --> 00:22:10.950 align:middle line:90% deal with it honestly. 00:22:10.950 --> 00:22:15.810 align:middle line:84% Like the McCulloch Report, one of the biggest frauds going. 00:22:15.810 --> 00:22:19.190 align:middle line:90% He started out pretty good. 00:22:19.190 --> 00:22:21.568 align:middle line:84% And then again, you sometimes wonder, 00:22:21.568 --> 00:22:23.110 align:middle line:84% even if they had been honest with it, 00:22:23.110 --> 00:22:26.370 align:middle line:84% how are you going to say in 101 pages what the Bill of Rights 00:22:26.370 --> 00:22:27.210 align:middle line:90% said in 1? 00:22:27.210 --> 00:22:30.240 align:middle line:90% 00:22:30.240 --> 00:22:32.040 align:middle line:84% But to look at that McCulloch Report, 00:22:32.040 --> 00:22:34.870 align:middle line:84% it was a complete, total disgrace, 00:22:34.870 --> 00:22:37.320 align:middle line:90% and it was a political stick. 00:22:37.320 --> 00:22:38.870 align:middle line:90% No more, no less. 00:22:38.870 --> 00:22:41.850 align:middle line:84% And to think that Americans, who are supposed 00:22:41.850 --> 00:22:43.300 align:middle line:84% to be so intelligent, will end up 00:22:43.300 --> 00:22:46.700 align:middle line:84% spending over $100,000 for a three-month fraud 00:22:46.700 --> 00:22:48.210 align:middle line:90% and paid to get it. 00:22:48.210 --> 00:22:53.110 align:middle line:84% We paid for the aspirin to not cure the headache, 00:22:53.110 --> 00:22:54.880 align:middle line:90% but fix it so we can't feel it. 00:22:54.880 --> 00:22:56.250 align:middle line:90% This is all we did. 00:22:56.250 --> 00:22:58.380 align:middle line:84% You mentioned Chicago as a possible trouble spot. 00:22:58.380 --> 00:23:00.030 align:middle line:84% Is this the reason that you announced 00:23:00.030 --> 00:23:02.470 align:middle line:84% that you were interested in running for mayor? 00:23:02.470 --> 00:23:02.970 align:middle line:90% No. 00:23:02.970 --> 00:23:06.030 align:middle line:84% This was the reason that we demonstrated, 00:23:06.030 --> 00:23:08.400 align:middle line:90% to try to hold it back. 00:23:08.400 --> 00:23:09.930 align:middle line:84% We had a little problem in Chicago, 00:23:09.930 --> 00:23:12.590 align:middle line:84% but it was because we had so much trouble from the city. 00:23:12.590 --> 00:23:15.510 align:middle line:84% We found it very difficult to muster Negroes to demonstrate 00:23:15.510 --> 00:23:22.710 align:middle line:84% because the city of Chicago is so large that in going out 00:23:22.710 --> 00:23:25.070 align:middle line:84% with the city working against us as hard as they did, 00:23:25.070 --> 00:23:27.570 align:middle line:84% it was very difficult for us to get effective demonstrations 00:23:27.570 --> 00:23:28.900 align:middle line:90% in every area. 00:23:28.900 --> 00:23:30.840 align:middle line:84% So we concentrated on the powder keg, 00:23:30.840 --> 00:23:33.480 align:middle line:84% which was the South Side of Chicago, which we're still 00:23:33.480 --> 00:23:35.593 align:middle line:90% going to trials now. 00:23:35.593 --> 00:23:37.010 align:middle line:84% Kneel down in the street and pray, 00:23:37.010 --> 00:23:39.870 align:middle line:84% and you're arrested for inciting a riot. 00:23:39.870 --> 00:23:42.060 align:middle line:84% Cops jumped on me in Chicago and put me 00:23:42.060 --> 00:23:44.873 align:middle line:84% in the hospital for almost four days. 00:23:44.873 --> 00:23:47.040 align:middle line:84% And very conveniently, the cop goes to the hospital. 00:23:47.040 --> 00:23:49.500 align:middle line:84% They end up with assault and battery charges against me, 00:23:49.500 --> 00:23:51.417 align:middle line:84% and all of this type of stuff that would never 00:23:51.417 --> 00:23:52.410 align:middle line:90% happen in the South. 00:23:52.410 --> 00:23:54.870 align:middle line:84% The beauty of a Bull Connor was he came out 00:23:54.870 --> 00:23:56.220 align:middle line:90% and watched his cops, man. 00:23:56.220 --> 00:23:58.030 align:middle line:84% When you scream "police brutality," 00:23:58.030 --> 00:24:00.770 align:middle line:84% he didn't sit in the ivory tower like our police commissioner 00:24:00.770 --> 00:24:02.550 align:middle line:84% in Chicago and says, I don't believe it. 00:24:02.550 --> 00:24:04.020 align:middle line:90% It's not true. 00:24:04.020 --> 00:24:07.050 align:middle line:84% Bull Connor was in the street, man, and he knew what happened. 00:24:07.050 --> 00:24:09.175 align:middle line:84% And he would tell you, yeah, I'm going to knock him 00:24:09.175 --> 00:24:10.080 align:middle line:90% down again tomorrow. 00:24:10.080 --> 00:24:15.000 align:middle line:84% And nobody likes pain, but physical pain 00:24:15.000 --> 00:24:16.570 align:middle line:84% is much different from mental pain. 00:24:16.570 --> 00:24:18.570 align:middle line:84% And what White America sends us through up North 00:24:18.570 --> 00:24:24.060 align:middle line:84% is mental pain, which runs you crazy, eventually, which 00:24:24.060 --> 00:24:26.520 align:middle line:90% leads you into mass violence. 00:24:26.520 --> 00:24:28.800 align:middle line:84% What do you think about Martin Luther King's movement 00:24:28.800 --> 00:24:29.560 align:middle line:90% to Chicago? 00:24:29.560 --> 00:24:31.227 align:middle line:84% How do you think that's going to end up? 00:24:31.227 --> 00:24:33.090 align:middle line:84% I think it's frightening that the city let 00:24:33.090 --> 00:24:37.280 align:middle line:84% conditions get to the point where Dr. King had to come in. 00:24:37.280 --> 00:24:39.930 align:middle line:84% I think the second largest city in America 00:24:39.930 --> 00:24:42.420 align:middle line:84% should have been able to solve the problems without a Dr. 00:24:42.420 --> 00:24:43.920 align:middle line:90% King having to come in. 00:24:43.920 --> 00:24:48.810 align:middle line:84% The fact that he's there creates very interesting analysim, 00:24:48.810 --> 00:24:51.180 align:middle line:84% because the nonviolent movement have never 00:24:51.180 --> 00:24:53.160 align:middle line:90% been effective up North. 00:24:53.160 --> 00:24:56.070 align:middle line:84% Matter of fact, this went the other way. 00:24:56.070 --> 00:24:58.243 align:middle line:84% It gave the Negro a cheap cop-out up North. 00:24:58.243 --> 00:25:00.660 align:middle line:84% The Negro said, I would have gone to Mississippi with you, 00:25:00.660 --> 00:25:02.255 align:middle line:90% but I'm too violent. 00:25:02.255 --> 00:25:04.373 align:middle line:84% He's never had no record for hitting White folks 00:25:04.373 --> 00:25:06.540 align:middle line:84% or lynching White folks, so he took a cheap cop-out. 00:25:06.540 --> 00:25:09.090 align:middle line:84% But he's been telling himself for five years 00:25:09.090 --> 00:25:10.920 align:middle line:84% that the only reason he didn't get involved 00:25:10.920 --> 00:25:12.820 align:middle line:90% was because he's too violent. 00:25:12.820 --> 00:25:13.800 align:middle line:90% He's told himself this. 00:25:13.800 --> 00:25:17.550 align:middle line:84% Now you have created a violent Northern Negro that's 00:25:17.550 --> 00:25:20.700 align:middle line:90% waiting for a reason to hit. 00:25:20.700 --> 00:25:24.240 align:middle line:84% And you see, in Selma, Alabama, when we demonstrate in Selma, 00:25:24.240 --> 00:25:25.845 align:middle line:90% we hold a mass rally. 00:25:25.845 --> 00:25:30.000 align:middle line:84% Well, you've got 12,000 Negroes at the most live in Selma. 00:25:30.000 --> 00:25:33.720 align:middle line:84% So if 3,000 come out to the rally, 00:25:33.720 --> 00:25:36.420 align:middle line:84% you have a fourth of the Negro population 00:25:36.420 --> 00:25:38.640 align:middle line:84% that you've taught nonviolence to, 00:25:38.640 --> 00:25:42.750 align:middle line:84% and that fourth can go back and teach it to another fourth. 00:25:42.750 --> 00:25:45.500 align:middle line:84% And then you hold your next rally, and you get some more. 00:25:45.500 --> 00:25:49.793 align:middle line:84% Well, in Chicago, we held a rally tonight. 00:25:49.793 --> 00:25:51.210 align:middle line:84% With a million and a half Negroes, 00:25:51.210 --> 00:25:54.730 align:middle line:84% we don't have the facilities to house a fourth. 00:25:54.730 --> 00:25:57.970 align:middle line:84% So in Chicago, if 5,000 people showed up, 00:25:57.970 --> 00:26:01.140 align:middle line:84% which is a good rally, but what is the percentage of 5,000 out 00:26:01.140 --> 00:26:02.760 align:middle line:90% of a million and a half? 00:26:02.760 --> 00:26:04.650 align:middle line:84% And that means your town is not nonviolent. 00:26:04.650 --> 00:26:08.970 align:middle line:84% And it would take you 20 years to reach a whole town 00:26:08.970 --> 00:26:11.920 align:middle line:84% without the White folks giving us their communication system. 00:26:11.920 --> 00:26:14.040 align:middle line:90% Will they give you that system? 00:26:14.040 --> 00:26:14.550 align:middle line:90% No. 00:26:14.550 --> 00:26:15.920 align:middle line:90% After we take it, they will. 00:26:15.920 --> 00:26:17.720 align:middle line:84% I think after Watts broke out, we could have went in 00:26:17.720 --> 00:26:19.050 align:middle line:84% and held a prayer meeting anywhere 00:26:19.050 --> 00:26:20.580 align:middle line:84% we wanted to hold it in Los Angeles. 00:26:20.580 --> 00:26:23.442 align:middle line:84% But in Chicago, we got arrested for holding a prayer meeting. 00:26:23.442 --> 00:26:25.650 align:middle line:84% So if the riot broke out, they give us the whole town 00:26:25.650 --> 00:26:26.150 align:middle line:90% to pray in. 00:26:26.150 --> 00:26:29.580 align:middle line:90% 00:26:29.580 --> 00:26:32.280 align:middle line:84% We haven't run short of clean water. 00:26:32.280 --> 00:26:33.340 align:middle line:90% Yet. 00:26:33.340 --> 00:26:36.060 align:middle line:84% Oh, some of our cities and towns dump their waste 00:26:36.060 --> 00:26:37.290 align:middle line:90% into our waters. 00:26:37.290 --> 00:26:39.090 align:middle line:90% Some of our factories do. 00:26:39.090 --> 00:26:42.910 align:middle line:84% But there's still time, still enough clean water. 00:26:42.910 --> 00:26:45.630 align:middle line:84% And it's true that farm chemicals and mine wastes 00:26:45.630 --> 00:26:47.820 align:middle line:84% are polluting some rivers and streams, 00:26:47.820 --> 00:26:50.610 align:middle line:84% making some lakes unusable, but there's still 00:26:50.610 --> 00:26:53.930 align:middle line:90% time, still enough clean water. 00:26:53.930 --> 00:26:58.230 align:middle line:84% Anyway, we know how to clean up our water, and we must do it, 00:26:58.230 --> 00:27:00.280 align:middle line:90% so we will. 00:27:00.280 --> 00:27:01.430 align:middle line:90% Won't we? 00:27:01.430 --> 00:27:03.920 align:middle line:84% Why, there are people working on the problem right now. 00:27:03.920 --> 00:27:06.500 align:middle line:84% Waste treatment plants are being built today, 00:27:06.500 --> 00:27:10.790 align:middle line:84% or being planned, or being talked about. 00:27:10.790 --> 00:27:15.770 align:middle line:84% But there's still time, still enough clean water. 00:27:15.770 --> 00:27:17.170 align:middle line:90% Would you help? 00:27:17.170 --> 00:27:20.180 align:middle line:84% Our supply of clean water is in danger. 00:27:20.180 --> 00:27:21.980 align:middle line:84% The facts are all in a new booklet. 00:27:21.980 --> 00:27:23.000 align:middle line:90% Get your copy. 00:27:23.000 --> 00:27:26.210 align:middle line:84% Write Clean Water, Washington, DC. 00:27:26.210 --> 00:27:28.330 align:middle line:90% There's still time. 00:27:28.330 --> 00:28:18.538 align:middle line:90%