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I don't think that there are very many athletes who are going to say, well, yes, I want to go over there and run for white folks and then go back and live in this community. What steps will you take next in pursuing this boycott? I'm not

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going to take any steps. Ah a number of leaders, black leaders, negro leaders across the country have contacted me concerning their endorsement of it and what they can do to enforce it to a certain extent. Uh and this is something that we will decide upon what

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the next level this warning No. What have we got to lose the first place? The second thing is this is that the United States has been able to stick itself up hypocritically as the leader of the free world, primarily because the racial problem in the United

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States has been defined as an internal affair, an internal affair. The one thing that we will accomplish out of this is something that we've been trying to accomplish for a long time Ever since 1954 and that is to get the racial situation out from under the

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rubric, the jurisdiction of Uncle Sam and get it into the world arena. I don't know of any athlete. Perhaps there are some who are really ready to make this decision that they're going to go over and running olympic games, which is going to be defined by

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the black community, the community from which they come and the community to which they're going to have to return. Not out of choice, but out of segregation ghettoization, what have you And if you remember white folks did this, we didn't, uh, the United States in there,

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in a very real sense, it's just as racist as South Africa ever hoped to be.