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Yeah, yeah. For these past few months, the american negro has been put under a public microscope and examined much like a tumor threatening to rupture each day. Newspapers, radio and television offering fresh X rays of the tumor showing a steady growth malignancy and appropriate despair for

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the patient. No one but no one has felt the probing and attention any more than the people here in Hunter's Point near san Francisco's Naval shipyard. Hunters Point had been rated by the news media as one of the big potential trouble spots of the nation. But

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despite that advanced publicity, there has been relatively little trouble here this summer. Most of the attention has gone instead to those so called spokesman for the black community, who show up at news conferences, city hall meetings in parades seeking either public funds or public office. So

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it would seem on the outside that there is a vigorous dialogue going across this country on the problems of the ghetto, with an occasional hopeful sign here and there of progress in the area of jobs, education and housing, but on the inside of the black community,

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at least here in Hunter's Point, the signs point to an entire new culture of black brotherhood. It's not the kind of movement that has a name yet or seeks publicity, but it certainly deserves more than it's getting. Unlike the civil rights movement, which gradually adjusted to

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the give and take of the political processes, this new form of black power has no stomach for politics or politicians, little trust for the established black leadership and virtually no patients left for white racism. This is something that has been brewing here in the Hunter's Point

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area for some time, but has yet to make the headlines, perhaps because it has yet to make trouble. Some of the people you will see and hear these reports will be harsh, perhaps even crew, depending upon what you're used to hearing. But if you really want

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to know them, you have to go down into their world to meet them to talk about their problems on their terms and in their language. And that is what we're going to do this week. Let's begin now with Floyd Zebra, a young legal assistant in Hunter's

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Point who is fed up with many things the white man now controls, including the news media. But I think that was covered very well. Uh, I guess you guys don't get out here too often. You guys don't get out into maybe the 100 point area too

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often. You know, when, uh, when, when the police are out here, uh, banging on people's heads or anything like that. But, uh, you know, it seems like when a newspaper reporter or uh, you know, anybody, you know, from the news media comes out who they want

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to talk to our using these leaders, you know, the leaders of the neighborhood, nobody ever has uh, you know, the people that live, you know in this garbage can you know anything at all. I mean, it's always uh, you know, uh the leaders man, this doesn't

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know everything even though, you know, they live away, you know, like forest hills or even out of town even, you know, but they're supposed to know everything uh, about what's happening to me and nobody knows what's happening to me but me because I have to, you

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know, I live in it, man, you know, this new black culture is more or less a dignity culture where we can see in the maybe the older people where they definitely like dignity, which some of us uh have called them handkerchief heads, man, cats who were

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about to the man, you know, this type of thing. The white man, yeah, about to the white man, you know, there's a definite lack of dignity that we see. And in our parents, maybe Just an older people in general, you know, where they've been going along

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with the system, you know, for, you know, who the hell knows 400 years, you know, they're going with the system, which, uh, you know, I don't think, you know, we're not, what about some of the games that the civil rights movement has made you feel that

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this it gains for whom and for me, you know, the fair housing, I can afford that house, man. You know, you know, for them it's fine for the cat who's making that maybe from $9000 up, Maybe $5000 up, man, you know, a year. It's fine man

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before, can't like me, man who has to stay down in this mush man every day and go, hey, I can't afford it. Some of my people, you know, don't even have even have jobs, man, you know, so that they can uh, supposedly enjoy the civil rights

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bill anyway. I disagree with the civil rights bill anyway, you know, to say, because I think it was made for, uh, for foreigners. You know, you know, I'm an american citizen man. I'm a city, United States of America. You know, the United States Navy, three years

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and six months type thing. And I think that, you know, the bill of rights and the constitution should be enough for me, man. We're being that it's not, you know, to hell with it. You know, you know, I think this is a lack of understanding and

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uh, you know, from, from the whites and some of the blacks. Well, we say negroes, man, who, who, who's they live on the outer fringes, man of the so called ghetto. Uh, quite naturally they wouldn't understand because they, as I said before, you know, they don't

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live here. You know, I live here, man. The stick is on my head, not their head. The police can come in here and they can do anything that they damn well, please man and go home and uh, eat and talk to their kids. Like nothing has

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ever happened. You know, maybe, you know, screaming his wife, maybe I wrapped a couple of *** today, you know, which is groovy, Huh? What are some of these things that happen that we don't hear about? Well, you take this area? It seems that when there's a

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baseball game, you know, the kids, maybe they're standing over there. You know, maybe they're just standing around because this is the only place they have to meet this particular corner across the street. It seems that the police come out here one day, they had, uh, they

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broke out with their shotguns and the kids sit with their, with their machine guns and things and slam some kid up against the wall over there, you know, with the guns at the next, you know, and you know, this, this is, this is their way of

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telling them, you know, to get off the street, Phil Kaye, who is one of the few whites working and living in Hunter's Point, is the associate editor of the spokesman, a monthly newspaper. He to reflects resentment of news coverage in the ghetto. Okay. Oh, if if

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they could. Uh, well, uh, a couple of ways, one, I think the news media itself has to recognize that they are working from a white bias. They're working from from from from a white standpoint, they're basically part of white society. They must realize that they've been

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living with racial superiority myths. They've been living with all kinds kinds of myths about people who are not white, which are are pretty damn bad. And I think if they can begin to recognize that if they can begin to deal with their own faults and try

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and compensate that either, you know, through the uses of, you know, not not just bringing a black man on the staff, they've got to make a change themselves. Lauren Bradford works out of the war on poverty office in the Western edition, he charges that many of

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the failures of the war on poverty were actually brought on by a bad press about a situation, you see? Then he began to think that way anyway, and he begins to look for the negative things and not the positive things. What are some of those positive

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things? Well, for example, you were were work here in the community. We find that people are unable to get immediate aid from the Department of Public Welfare. We give away food here, you know, we go to other organization within the community who donate food and clothes

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to do Western Edition D. O. C. The people come and work with our intake and referral person and tell them what the problem is is we immediately even donate baskets of food to the people from here. See these are the kinds of things that that never

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get in the newspaper were not particularly looking for advertisement, but we we don't want to be, you know, depressed by the things that you know that we the mistakes that we make. You see