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said that if if my job of keeping my job means that I have to make any compromises in the liberation struggle in this country, then I'll gladly leave my job. This is my position now We have to talk about the political content. We have to talk

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about the necessity to raise the level of consciousness of the people who are involved in that movement. And if you analyze the war in Vietnam, first of all, it ought to become obvious that if the United States government pulled its troops out of Vietnam, that that

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repression would have to crop up somewhere else. And in fact we're seeing couple weeks, which is the chaining and gagging of chairman Bobby Seale and is sentenced to four years for contempt of court. I think that demonstrates that if the link up is not made between

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what's happening in Vietnam and what's happening here, we may very well face a period of full blown fascism very soon. And I think there's something perhaps more profound that we are to point to this whole economy in this country is a war economy as disruption on

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the campus. Then, he says. Disruption and industrial areas. I think it points to the fact that they are going to begin to use that whole military apparatus in ordered to put down the resistance in the black and brown community on the campuses in the working class

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communities, American troops. But I l l is that we can draw some very profound parallels. I think way us government get out of Vietnam because rather be satisfied Our knees of our people in this country Wait, e don't have to feel guilty about taking credit for

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my father's defense away in green. Uh, was another member of the family. Well, um, I'd like to talk a little bit with you about the point that Masai made about whose responsibility it is, in fact, to make sure that this demonstration is a demonstration that's relevant

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to black people. Now, I can remember a long time ago when the civil rights movement was a very popular thing around this getting in and people were picking in and people were pro testing and everything, and the call came up then for, uh, compensatory solution to

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the problems. Compensatory hiring, compensatory housing, compensatory other programs. Ah, lot of people myself included, made the point that this nation has a 200 year debt to black people, and it's a debt that we're not gonna make up by on paper treating that Miko, but only when

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we take extra steps and begin to find some sort of compensatory way to make up for the hell that we visited black people with for 200 years in this nation. Well, of course, we have a lot of differences among the movement about this. A lot of

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the Liberals were saying, Well, that's just reverse discrimination. No, it has to be equal and even all the way around the debate continued for some time. Then it died down as people turned off into other issues. Well, it seems to me, finally, that in relationship to

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Vietnam we have finally achieved that compensatory progress. I don't know if it's in fact, I know it's not the same one we were seeking, but it's the compensatory thing. Nonetheless, there's 40,000 Americans dead now in Vietnam. 10,000 of those are black people now that's a compensatory

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measure that's not quite as compensatory as the number of black people on death row. But I think it shows a little bit about what this society thinks about the value of a black person's life. Likewise, it's not just on the death has made a serious mistake

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in this demonstration and in organizing and building for it. And what that mistaking is is that you have relied on white people to make this demonstration relevant to your community, and that's not gonna work now. It may be I agree people in the peace movement or

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a little more advanced than a little more progressive than the population at large. Maybe only 4/5 of them are racist instead of 9/10 of them. But don't forget that this is a demonstration. There right now is in the hands of white people that is being directed

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and guided by white people, and that is where the mist ake has come about. Now you know that there's been a big dispute and I'm sure that mus I can tell you all about it. There's been quite a dispute in the organization of this demonstration with

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that dispute. Contrary to a lot of what you've heard is not a sectarian dispute. It's not a organizational dispute, it's a political dispute and it's a dispute over political questions. And those questions are first and foremost a dispute over the relevancy of the United Front policy,

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because that is what the fight in the organization of this demonstration has been about, and that takes a couple of forms. One is the single issue versus the multi issue approach to this demonstration. Now, I don't know how many of you are even aware that one

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of the demands of this demonstration coming out of the Cleveland conference and carried on at least all of our material is Stop the repression free all political prisoners. That is the demand of the march, the free, all political prisoners. But how much have you heard about

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it? How much have you heard that point discussed? How much have you heard people take the platform and demand the political prisoners be freed and to spell out exactly what that is? There's another good frustrations. Where is the lady? Have another

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