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those who, those who wear their hair long are influenced by two different groups of people. The first are the eastern and oriental mystics who wear long hair and beards and our most exemplified by the image that every hippie has seen of jesus in the picture in

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the family bible, the other has to do with the american west And in the last three months in the Haight Ashbury, the costumes are changing $2kins and uh and indian garb, many of them are very interested in the american indians, not only because of the native

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american church has a mind expanding drug as it as the basis for the peyote cult, but also because the indians are noble and idealistic and live close to nature and and have you are able to get along on very little wampum and still have a good

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way of life. So the many of the hippies looked to me like the pictures of Buffalo Bill and others look like the chief Sequoyah and all I have to say is that I enjoyed playing cowboys and indians when I was a kid, very much a negro

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and have no interest in the hippie movement at all. I should perhaps say parenthetically at this point that the hippies are almost 100% white and that the negroes in the Haight Ashbury do not take very kindly to them at all As one Negro leader put it

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in tones of unmistakable bitterness. All we want for our people is what these kids have given up and the threat involved in that, that someone has already prepared to give up The very thing you're trying to achieve for yourself, along with the implication that they have

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the very unfair advantage of being able to leave the Haight Ashbury and go back to those comfortable middle class circumstances anywhere, has really not endeared them to the negroes who were there before the hippies came, and will probably still be there after the hippies leave.