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the buffalo Rue err aereo Whoa Canyon LeBeau Larry Fucking batty Wasow a bow Ready, buddy? Whoa, Yeah! Whoa! LaRue e or me? Les Oh, Room e or mealy. Oh, Mhm. Hello. My name is Maya Angelo. The late Langston Hughes wrote a poem that

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said Look like what drives me crazy Don't have no effect on you, but I'm gonna keep on at it till it drives you crazy too. This is the last program in the 10 series of 10 1 hour program series Blacks Blues Black in program number one.

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I discussed Black American African carry overs positive carry overs in current black American life. Um, we looked at some of the Children's games, the hat and go seek. And I sang, uh, this song that is used with that game. The song is last night, night before

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24 robbers at my door who all his head asked me to let him and hit him in the head with a rolling pin. Who All his head. 5 10 15 2025 30 35 40 Who? All his head. 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80. Who

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rolled his head who all is him Who all? Is it all the way here in Holland? I We have Yeah. Talked about ways of communicating Black Americans, uh, can communicate in some strange ways. Tonal, but not with formed words. Mm mm. Oh. Hmm. Mm. Mhm. We

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went to the Little Zion Baptist Church in San Francisco and heard Reverend Drummer Sing a song that shows the joy Black Americans have in praising God Go to the Lord, a

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great, uh, relation between the blues and between religious music. And in that first program, I sang a song that was written by Oscar Brown Jr and Matt's Roach. And the song is old fashioned traditional blues, except that it's modern. It's like a folk song that was

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written yesterday, and it has a political significance. It's drive a man. He made a life, but the man that ain't his wife chopping cotton don't be slow. Better finish off your role aim. But two things on my mind drive a man and quitting time. Drive a

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man, the kind of boss ride a man and lead a horse when it's cattle nine tail fly, you'll be happy just to die. Run away and you'll be found by his big old red bone hound Patty Roller bring you back Make you sorry you is black

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Chamber Two things on my mind Drive a man and quitting time Ain't but two things on my mind Drive a man and quitting time ain't but two things on my mind Driver men and quitting time A modern blues We talked to Mr B. B. King, who

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is the king of the traditional blues. He talked to us and he played for us. Do you remember? I'm going to ask you one last question and then we'll be finished. The question is, what is the blues now? Wait, Mr Can. One of the things I'm

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interested in here is the relationship of the blues to African music. So you don't have to unless you feel it. You don't have to deal with that, director, But I would like to know. What do you say the blues is, or all whatever it is? Oh,

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boy. You know Well, I'll tell you, I've never been to Africa. But I can say this from what I've read. When the Negro, the so called Negro were brought to America, there were a lot of people very spiritual. I'll put it like that. Uhh. At least

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they've been talked to me so and some of the guys felt by praying to God wasn't telling them a loose. So instead of just singing, you know, like, God help me, this guy was having problems, you know, like the well his old lady has been taken

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away. And what have you and he said about it. So he started to sing instead of singing to God. He was singing about what was happening to him, hoping that maybe God would hear him. Yes, you know, But this didn't seem to work with the other

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brothers that was supposed to be real spiritual or holy or what have you. So he was just singing to himself, and then I I would. My feelings is that we've heard that ladies will cry when something happened to them. A man won't crown outside but usually

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cry inwardly so I personally me the way I feel when I have blues. I mean, when I have not seen them. I'm talking about what I have them when something had gone wrong, somewhere or other with me or with some of my friends are just the

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surrounding Well, I feel it inwardly and I sing about it. I just have to a lot of times you don't have friends to talk with, so you just sing. You sing about it. Do you sing? Because this hurts. It hurts inside, like so many things hurting

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today. I mean, it bothers me like there was a time when something could happen in Europe or Asia, Africa or someplace. We never knew about it until maybe 68 months later. But now, today everything happened. You know about it right away. Just like your friends around

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you. Something happened, and maybe you can't go. I can't come to you and say, Well, it happened last night because maybe it might be one of those funny type of things that you I feel that you may laugh at me about it, so I'll get out

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to myself and I sing about it, and eventually it becomes a song or a melody will come to it, come to you to sing this particular something with. And I think this is, uh, how it begins. Really. And I think this is the way Wait.

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Negative African ISMs was the subject of our second program. I used a poem that was written by Mr Paul. Laurence Dunbar called The Masks We wear the mask that Grins and lies It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes This debt we pay to human guile

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With torn and bleeding hearts We smile and mouth myriad subtleties Why should the world be over wise in counting? All our tears and sighs may let them only see us while we wear the mask We smile but oh my God Our tears to the From tortured

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souls arise We see up and God, the clay is vile beneath our feet And long the mind Uh huh. But let the world think otherwise we wear the mask It is a fact that the young people today are saying Take off the mask face a reality

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that is mass class We are people have for 349 years big wine, cajoled, implored, threatened, died lost their dignity in a vain attempt, a vain search for their dignity. We had no raggedy of people in the world ever stood up and saying I got a robe,

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You got a robe they didn't have shoes on their feet We sing by and by by and by I'm gonna lay down this heavy load Well, my suggestion is it may be so by and by But when you lay it down you'll probably lay your arms

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down with it It has become they become so attached And the idea that you're going to wait till later on to understand it better by and by, uh I think is a is a vein use of energy. Bishop Nero from Oakland, California, sang that song for

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us, and I think you'd enjoy hearing it again. Bishop Nero and the Nero specials. Mhm Whoa, Bye. Thank all of the things I think we will. We will tell better.

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Uh oh. Apathy is another drain on our energy budget. It is a very real fact. In West Africa. It is a very real fact in the United States and anywhere black Americans or people of African descent, Are it? It to me suggests, uh, pride gone wrong,

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gone sour indifference, even a fear of trying to be as good as possible as as as up to par as possible. We saw a scene in a restaurant, a scene that I'm sure is duplicated in restaurants all over this country every 15 minutes, whenever anybody wants

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a hamburger. Good morning, miss. Yeah, What you want? I'd like to hamburgers to go, please. And two chickens to go. Two hamburgers and two chickens. How do you want those chickens? I want the chicken's fried. And with the hamburgers, One with onions and one without onions,

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please. Oh, and our two orders of fries, please. Well, how you want those, those hamburgers? Well, naturally, I want my meat cooked. I want it well done. And one with onions and one without onions. Two orders of fries and two fried chickens to go naturally, huh?

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Yes, please. Could you hurry now? Don't rush me now. Oh, well, I'm double parked outside. You see that car out there? You see that? I don't want to get a ticket. Yes, I read the side when I came in. Yes, I understand that, but Well, do

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you recognize that? It's painful? Isn't it funny? It's sad. Our young men are in the street today and our middle aged men are in the street. They will no longer be pacified by offering them another ham bone from the kitchen from somebody else's kitchen. Our men's

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agony will not be assuaged by, uh by talking sweet to them. They are asking us for something else They're asking us and asking themselves to to reassess that male female relationship. Of course, it is true. Our people were brought from areas in West Africa where the

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matrilineal descent was. The was the custom. There was also, however, pay triennial control so that that meant that there was a balance there. When the slave owner saw this tendency on the part of his slave of the African in that he had to to go along

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with mother dominance. Then he built up on it. So we were We were cast by history, by tradition, into one role, and we were caricatured further in that role by slavery. Uh, the black woman must realize she is not a man. The man also must realize

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that he is a man. We have that to do if we are to survive. The, uh, the scene that you're going to see now I'm certain, is, uh, it is endured in black homes around the country. I suggest that we read this honestly and weep and

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that we dry our eyes and change. Look here. I got paid today. I got some money for you. Well, there's no point in acting like, uh, Sosa. Didi, baby. I mean, I'm the only one that's making any money. I'm the only one that's bringing any money

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in this house, you know? So don't actually like you're on your high horse with me. What? You think I am? A machine? You think I'm a horse? You want me to be Mama and Papa too? Is that it, Raphael? Huh? Well, you've got another thought coming.

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I'm getting sick of it. For my part. I just don't know how if I can take it any longer, you know, it's a drag. Every time I come in the food, there's no food. Cook. There's no place is filthy. You can't even say anything. Now. Now,

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where you going now? Out in the street, huh? Can't you even pass the time of day with me? What? Baby? What are you doing with Yusuke paper? Where are you going? Maybe you and I can read you. Leave me. I say we don't leave. You gonna

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leave me here with all these kids and all these bills. Yeah, well, go on. I don't care. You ain't no good. No, I always do it. He wasn't no good. You ain't no good. You black man, ain't no good. Leave me here. Just leave me. I

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don't care. We discussed selfishness, and I pointed out that the ironwork in New Orleans in the French Quarter was not only executed by black Americans by slaves, it was designed by slaves. But those slaves had come from a system where they had never taught their skills

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to anyone except a very close relative or a slave who, as we know, could inherit, uh, that that holding in the end of knowledge that that securing of knowledge to to oneself or to one's family is so dangerous that we see villages. Most of the villages

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in West Africa today looked just as they looked 400 years ago because obviously the slave buyer or stealer took those men who had skills. And it left not even an apprentice in in the village. So the villages, uh, simply read progressed from wherever they were 400

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years ago, we went to the Louis museum. And so, uh, some of the collection of Dr William Bascom. We saw your about mask there, and you can see that these men had tremendous skills. This is a melody mask from a Yoruba town in data May Gilad

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A is a cult which propitiate witches. And here we see the mask itself is that represents the head of a woman with her cloth head tie. And above it is a man with his ex climbing a palm tree either to collect palm nuts or to tap

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palm wine. This top part of the mask is removable and is fastened in with a wooden peg. And this is not the complete mask yet, either, because in each of these holes here, a palm frond was cut and set in so that the whole mask stood

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up another four or 5 ft taller when it was warned, Willie coated Seal or to properly call him, announce his name, kill, rape, etc. Cause it's still a South African poet, uh, recited one of his poems to us that he dedicated to his wife, who is

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a black American. Interestingly enough, uh, the poem is in Tijuana, and I enjoyed it very much. I'll read the poem and Jonah and then read the translation to, uh, yeah, to Melbourne. The poem is dedicated to my wife, Melbourne Marshall with uh huh Jody Tone Rosa

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feeling Hama Bonnie Yeah, Got their money, Their money. Get a calendar Tabbouleh. I kind of wanted to dance. Yeah, uh, for milk. Morning smiles in your eye like a koi moment captured by an eternal noon And from yesterday's I imagine naked like a Kimberley Diamond full

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like Limpopo after rain singing your unnumbered charms Oh, that's beautiful Miss Blondel Breed And Mr Danny Duncan of the Zach Thompson studio danced for us a piece of choreography done by Mr Zach Thompson while I recited a poem by, uh, Carol Repeats Coated cell called The

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elegance of memory Distances Separate bodies Not people ask those who have known sadness or joy. The bone of feeling is pried open by a song The elegance of color A familiar smell this flower are the approach of an evening. All this is now the elegance of

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memory deeper than the grave larger than the distance between my country and I things more solid than the rocks with which those sinister thieves tried to break our back there are memories between us deeper than grief. There are feelings between us much stronger than the cold

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enemy machine that breaks the back. Sister. There are places between us deeper than the ocean. No distances. Pry your heart opened, brother mine to learn to love the clear voice. The music in the memory pried open to the bone of feeling. No distances, the elegance of

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memory. No distances the elegance of memory. In program number four, we discussed black music in passage. It was a wonderful program, very light. Ah, we had cast Bonsignore here in the studio and he said on a talking drum that you were welcome to the program. I

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explained that the talking drum operates on a system, not the Morse code, but actually the sound of the word it, uh it, of course, means that you must know the language in order to understand what is being said. But because the music is tonal and rhythmic,

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because the language rather is tonal and rhythmic. No two sentences sound alike. So when you hear a sound like Dada, Dada, Dada, Dada, you know that that can only mean a certain thing. And Mr Bones here play that for us and a wee bit of Abuja

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and danced for us. Now, before we go farther, I should like to tell you what I'm going to give you a book list at the end of this program. So you have another 20 minutes or so in which to

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get a pencil and paper and get a book list of suggested reading materials that I'd like to leave with you. We did a program on music. We had the the heavenly tones from Oakland to come and sing rain. They I think they captured that respect the

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black man has for the natural phenomena. They talked about rain. Yeah. I want you to dig your mind. Yeah. Mhm. Okay. Mhm The history of the Black American The total history Well, the salient facts of the history were

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captured in a poem by Mr Sterling Brown. A poem called The Strong Men Keep coming on. I recited that poem to you and also showed you that story in Prince in slide in pictures The strong man keep coming on Oh, freedom, Oh, freedom Oh, they changed

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you in cause awful Oh, freedom over me They sold you to give a few gentlemen, ease. But before I be a slave, they gave you the jobs they were too good for. I'll be buried in my grave. They broke you in like oxen. They made your

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women breeders. They swelled your numbers with bastards. But before I'll be a slave. I'll be buried in my grave and go home to my God and be free. They tried to guarantee happiness for themselves by chanting dirt and misery off on you. Mm mm. Oh, freedom

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over me. But before I'll be a slave. I'll be buried in my grave and go home to my God and be free. What reaches them makes them ill at ease. Today they shall prohibition at you. Thou shalt not this thou shalt not that reserved for whites.

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Only you laugh one thing they cannot prohibit the strong men coming on. The strong men getting stronger, strong men. Stronger, stronger, stronger. We had some friends in the studio on that program. Miss Karen Richardson, who is the daughter of the Richardsons who owned the success bookstore.

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Uh, Mr Glenn Battle from Howard University. Mr. James Bircher from Cal State Hayward. Uh, Mr Willie coated steel, who is the South African poet you had met before Mr Lothario Lothario, who did a reading for us on that program and also as a part of the

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panel. And the start of our program that evening was Miss Pamela Johnson, who is 10 years old and bright and black and beautiful and brilliant. Well, the people began in one particular spot, and they spread all over Africa in different directions. Some people went this way,

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others one another, and as they moved, the foods became different because they grew in different climates. And so they make good of what they had there and what they ate contained more Mellon in some parts and more sit carotene in others. And this is the melon

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and make their skin darker. And the carotene made their skin lighter and in different places, they their skin was lighter and then others. It was darker, and others they had different shades of all kinds of colors. But I first actually started learning about African history at

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Merritt College, where the program that's now going on throughout the country was first initiated and I was particularly interested in the culture of Africa because I related to it even though there had been a void. By that, I mean that the student, uh, in my time

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when I was coming up, he didn't relate to Africa. He said, Oh, man, what you're talking about? I'm African. I'm black. You know, uh, I'm not no African, You know, I'm a Negro where he didn't relate to Africa, Africa, because he wasn't actually, he was not

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aware of the greatness of Africa. All he had seen through the movies and projected through books and Tarzan and this type of super image was just travel, brother running around with a spirit, you know, uh, through the jungle climbing trees, you know? So this let me

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see a little more of Africa and understand that we had great civilizations and that Africa also was where the, uh, life began. Where man originated helped me a lot. But can you imagine? Can you try to make up for me a story of what would happen

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to you if you didn't know who you were? If you look in the mirror every morning and you saw this little brown face and everybody thought it was so ugly, what do you think would happen to you. Well, you wouldn't think very much of yourself. And

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you think you were nothing and nobody cared for you or anything. You didn't have any history, No backgrounds. You couldn't go forward because you didn't really know what had happened to you before. Before the time. Well, in history before, even the century are what your people

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have done. So you could be there that day or whenever it was. I think she has put her finger on something very important. You're in love. In the program for the program on Education, we went visiting around the Bay Area to a number of schools, and,

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uh, we've got some very good film. I think we went to the Martin Luther King's School. A school that that is operating on not on a shoestring on on the tip of the lace needs help. Very much exciting school. We saw Mr Well, Vince tried there.

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And his group of healthy black Children. We have a dance around. We have. We like James around. Witness. Can you dig it? If you can. I can. We can dig it. We listen to James Brown music Do Do you have a James Brown record. No, I

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don't know where you would add. I bought a new James Brown record. This record says, Let yourself go. Hey, let's go outside. We can dance the James Brown We can dance the James Brown A James Brown. Can you dig it? We all like James Brown. Sock

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it to me later. Most black Children are taught that they cannot learn. In other words, there's a D education, a D education of the students going on rather than an education. I've just found a new phrase that I love. It's called the failure strategy, which is

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built into the school system. And I would suspect that's what you're trying to avoid here, right? How do you get the students to come? Well, how do you get them to stay away? Is the question to ask? Because after Martin Luther King School, we're open from

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8 30 103 and we are there some nights until seven. We do not put the kids out and they do not want to go home now. But the Children get no credit in their regular school, do they? For this summer? Could course. I mean, no, they

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don't, but it will help them to their work better and which some of these kids will not go back to public school. They will stay in our school. We do have accredited school. All right, So we may be having more schools than the Martin Luther King

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School? I hope so. It's an inspiration. Mr. Yes, this is our Our program is that we have to set up schools, community type schools where we involve parents, teachers and students to do the job that the public school is not doing for the child. That's cool.

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Needs your help. It needs to concentrated help of the black community. The Martin Luther King School. Now, Mr Stroud, uh, says that he would We they need, uh, support from the community and to see more schools of that type around the country. That's true. Mr. Leo.

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Brazil, who is who was the head of the black students union at Merritt College, spoke on ways of making education more relevant to the black student. He spoke at Cal State Hayward. Many of us, uh, you know, we want to be schoolteachers now. I was invited

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to a class English class at Hoover Junior High and the Black English teacher. She asked me to come and talk to her class. So I went and I talked. And I ask you a few questions about, you know, different things have been going on in the

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class. And what, you know, she was She She went to school down south, got a degree, creatures, credential and all that stuff. She's teaching English, but she knows nothing. She knows absolutely nothing about Afro American writers. She knows Baldwin and she heard, you know, they dealt

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with excerpts from my native son in the class, and that's about the extent of it. So what? I mean, you got, you know, again, here's that relationship that you use this argument when you talk to that administration, you say, Look, if you can't integrate black things

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into your subject matter, will let us have several black courses. Now, take, for instance, in English class. You go there, you come out of the ghetto experience. You're down in grammar school in grade school. I mean, junior high probably is when you read it or in

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the high school. How many of you read Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger. Okay, this is talking about a young wife wrong, come from a middle class white family in New York City going to prep school in this type of background, and you're supposed

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to sit down and read this and write a composition on it or a paper. Now, the thing is, is that you cannot deal with that. You cannot feel the emotions that that white boy felt at different points in that book, enough to put it down on

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paper and express it in a coherent manner so that the professor, you know will dig it and put that grade on it, because this is the type of thing to give you, Hemingway and Shakespeare and all these people who you don't relate to. Now, if the

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English classes could put like native Son in there, for instance, and when he gives you the booklets to read and say, Well, you picked the book that you want to do your title paper on, you pick native son. Why? Because you'll be able to write a

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beautiful paper. See, because you understand what bigger Thomas felt when that white girl slipped in that car. You know, he would show for how you tend stuff You know, we've all had that feeling. You know, when you get on the bus and everything, just the fact

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that the white person sits down next to your day automatically. 10 something tent you up. You dig it. See, you can write that. You can write about that. You can explain that because you've got that feeling like James Brown says. You see, I'm obliged to clarify

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a point I made on I think, that program or the one before dealing with education. I was quite harsh with black American students who set out to get a liberal arts degree. My reason for that is that if the young person are his counselor or the

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both of them or the child, and as a young young man, young person and his parents and counselors do not envisage that person being able to go on and do an M A in a specialized field, then that's when I think a liberal arts education is

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pretty much hopeless. Um, it is understandably. It is the the degree one sets out far in undergraduate work when one is planning to become a lawyer, a doctor, almost everything, including an Indian chief well an African chief? Uh, certainly, Um, But if you know you don't

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have the financial or spiritual or character wherewithal to pursue and get that special that special training, then I don't know what you're going to do with me. We were pleased. I was proud. I was inspired by going to to the Arabesque Oh, Air company. A company

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listed in Oakland owned by black men and, uh, the airport. And I mean an air cargo, air freight and air passenger service. They're licensed to fly all over the United States and Canada, and they have lovely planes. Mhm. Mhm. Yeah. I mean,

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what kind of, uh, not static. But what kind of interesting experiences do you have here at the airport or at any airport? When the people see the pilots of life first, it sort of stops things and stop and stare. You don't know what to make of

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it at first. And then they look for somebody else to get out. It was flying it and took. We went to an exhibit that was called Two Weeks in Blackness, set up by Mr James Bircher at Cal State. At Haywood, we saw the works of Mr

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Ben Hazard. It was a beautiful exhibit. There were quite a few painters at being shown there. Blitzer here is Carl Bird with dead mate. And it was a result, the death of Mount Luther King and in local area, the death of Bobby Hutton and about the

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same time, or approximately 4 to 5 death within the same area of black youth. And to me it had depression, of killing of human beings, as if it was like killing a bird on during open season. And this is my approach to this concept. Now, this

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painting here is called Medal of Honor. And this is another result from the death of Dr King and other black people and also representing the social struggle from the rights. Then this time they were putting new troops in the areas of writing and new troops in

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Vietnam, and everybody's getting meddled. So I felt like, Well, maybe Blackman needs a medal, too. And this one here is represented by the repeat of the image of top here and around the edge of the struggle, which you saw in the earlier with Oh, and also,

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you have a cutout figure here of a boy throwing melt off cocktail, which is my personal statement of the social conditions in the world today. It would seem that the history of our lives here is tinged with violence, wouldn't it? If folk literature has to do

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the best out of our literature has to do with our overcoming and struggle overcoming in a struggle, a struggle that remains unabated. Ah, I think then, that gives some credence to the statement that violence is as American as apple pie. Our last program dealt with violence

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in the black American world. We went to see Watts 1968 the summer Festival, and we saw the superficial physical growth tangible growth since, what, 1965. We saw the profound psychological growth in the black community from 1965 to 1968. We also looked at a film that was

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made in Cuba, a propaganda film to be shown abroad. The film, of course, is brought, uh, it's a compilation of the violence in the United States. It it works as a as a horror film. The photos and stills and and the films themselves were taken from

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American journals. It was shocking. Now Uh huh. mhm Now is the most. Now is the moment. Come on. We put it off long enough now. No, wait, No. Hey, now, now! Hello? Let's get your mother. It's there for you every day. And she just want what's

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right. Constitutionally. I went and looked in my old street. It there in black and white. Oh, three. Now I promised you a book list at the end of the series. I hope you're ready. I'd like first to mention a book by Mr John Hendrick. Clark called

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Short stories of American Negro Writers. Don't be put off by the word Negro. No one should be put off by that again. African Genesis by Robert R. Dre And then we heard the Thunder by John O. Killings. His second major book, Autobiography of Malcolm X, Before

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the Mayflower, Lerone Bennett and Anything you Can Get of Mr Bennett's By the way, Bird at My Window by Rosa Guy. She deals with violence in it Black bourgeoisie E. Franklin Frazier, Black Metropolis Harris Cotton and ST Clair Drake Black Power, Stokely Carmichael and Charles Hamilton.

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Black Rage to black psychiatrist Dr Greer and Dr Price. Cobb Blues People by the wonderful poet. Mr LeRoi Jones. Brown Girl Brownstones are the West Indian writer, novelist and essayist. Ms. Paule Marshall. Capitalism and Slavery by the President of Trinidad and Tobago. Dr Eric Williams. Most

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Important Book. Capitalism and Slavery. Crisis in Black and White, Charles East, Silberman Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States. Herbert App, Tika Volumes one and two, Mr Baldwin's Fire, Next Time, From Slavery to Freedom, John Hope, Franklin Important Book, Lost Cities of Africa,

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Basil Davidson and Anything Else You Can Get by Mr Davidson on Africa Man Child in the Promised Land, A Modern Novel by Claude Brown on Aggression, a book in which Mr Lawrence explains to us the nature of the beast. Gwendolyn Brooks are lovely Poet has a

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book Selected Poems. Mr Eldridge Cleaver. That bright, blazing light has soul on ice. Souls of Black Folk Classic by Dr W. E. B. Du Bois. Territorial Imperative. Robert R. J Again The Man Who Cried I am Let me tell you, every black person should have that

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book in their house now. John Williams, The Negro Intellectual Harold Cruise, The Negro Novel in America, Robert Bone. The Peculiar Institution Slavery in the antebellum South Doctor Stamp, Urban blues Charles Kill You notice that some books I say a must, a classic. And so all those

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books I have selected I have found them very important as research material, very important for me to know so I could share what I had the other day with you. I'll close the series, the program and the series first by thanking you for watching and thanking

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everyone for helping me and thanking my people. A poem by Margaret Walker for my people everywhere singing their slave songs. Repeatedly, they're dirties and their ditties, their blues and jubilees praying their prayers nightly to an unknown God bending their knees humbly to an unseen power for

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my people. Lending their strength to the years to the now years and the golden years and the maybe years washing, ironing, cooking, sewing, scrubbing, mending, planting, pruning, dragging along, never knowing, never reaping, never gaining and never understand that for my playmates in the sand and dust

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and dirt of Alabama backyards playing baptizing and preaching and Doctor and Jail and Soldier and School and Mama and Cooking and Playhouse and Concert and Hair and Miss Chumby and Company father cramped, bewildered years. We went to school to learn to know the answers to and

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the people who and the places where and the times when in memory of those bitter hours when we discovered we were poor and black and small and different and nobody cares. And nobody knew and nobody understood for the boys and girls who grew in spite of

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those things to be men and women to dance and sing and play and drink their wine and religion and success to marry their playmates and bear Children and then to die of consumption and anemia and lynching for my people. Throwing 47th Street in Chicago. Lenox Avenue

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in New York. Rampart Street Street in New Orleans, filling the cabarets in the taverns and other people's pockets, needing milk and shoes and bread and money and something something all their own for my people. Walking blindly spread in jelly, losing time, being lazy, sleeping when hungry,

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shouting when burdened, drinking when hopeless, tied and shackled and tangled among ourselves. Bye. The unseen creatures who tower over us. Amish intently Uh huh. And laugh for my people, blundering and groping and floundering in the dark of churches and schools and clubs and societies associations and

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conventions and councils and committees. Distressed and deceived and disturbed and devoured by money hungry glory craving leeches Preyed on by Fassel Force of State by fed Bye, Holy believer and false prophet For my people standing, staring, trying to fashion a better world out of hypocrisy, misunderstanding,

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confusion Trying to fashion a world that will hold all the people all the faces All the Adams and Eves and their countless generations Let a new earth arise Let another world be born Let a bloody peace be written in the sky Let a second generation full

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of freedom issue for let people loving freedom come to growth Let there be a beauty A final clinching a healing Let that be the pulsing in our spirits And our blood Let the marshal songs be written Let the dirties disappear Let a race of men now

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mean removal. Oh, he or me