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13th Page #6
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- 2016
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Why?
We shouldn't ask,
"Why is Bill Clinton so strong?"
We should ask,
"Why is the black community so weak
in our inability to defend ourselves?"
Let's not forget how many martyrs
we put in the ground in the '60s and '70s.
Let's not forget how many of our leaders
had to leave the country or are in prison.
You stripped out
a whole generation of leadership.
You ran them out the country,
you put them in prison,
you put them in... in cemeteries.
And then you unleash this blitzkrieg,
and we don't have the ability
to defend ourselves.
You can tell the story
of white leadership in America
and never mention the FBI one time.
You can't tell the story
of black leadership, not one,
without having to deal
with the full weight
of the criminal justice system
weaponizing its black dissent.
under the threat of death.
I have no martyr complex.
I want to live as long
as anybody in this building tonight.
Dr. King, people forget,
was not this beloved figure
that everybody wants to put on a pedestal.
Uh, he was considered one
of the most dangerous people in America
by the head
of the Federal Bureau of Investigations.
Don't tell me
that Dr. King has no relevance
to young brothers in the street.
They dealing with little cops.
He was dealing with the top cop.
We were brought here
against our will.
We were not brought here
to be made citizens.
We were not brought here
to enjoy the, uh, constitutional gifts
that they speak so beautifully about.
Malcolm's whole entourage
was infiltrated with police.
He may have had as many police
as he had regular folk
in his entourage, under cover.
today asserted that the Black Panthers
represent the greatest internal threat
to the nation.
these Panthers represent
the greatest threat
to American democracy at the time.
The Panthers never were that big.
I mean, no one in their right mind
could ever believe
that the Black Panthers
in the history of the world.
The whole movement was criminalized
and destroyed systematically
by the government.
People haven't thought about
what it means to lose a Fred Hampton,
who somehow was able to pull together
blacks and whites
and Puerto Ricans and Native Americans
We're going to say it after this
and after everybody's locked up,
that you can jail revolutionaries,
but you can't jail a revolution.
He had to go.
The head of the Black Panthers in Illinois
was killed today by police in Chicago.
Illinois Panther Chairman
Fred Hampton and another Panther leader
from Peoria, Illinois, were killed.
This is where our chairman
as he lay in his bed
sleeping at 4:
30 in the morning.They literally went
with his pregnant wife
next to him in the bed.
So afraid of a leader
We know the history of folks
who've done this kind of standing up
to these systems,
and we know how the system has
murdered them, assassinated them,
exiled them, excluded them,
or found ways to discredit them.
Assata Shakur was one of the great leaders
of the Black Liberation Army.
That, um, order given by J. Edgar Hoover
was essentially
to destroy any black, progressive...
Third World movement in this country.
They put her in prison,
and her allies said,
"We're not gonna leave her in prison."
"We're not gonna leave her in prison."
And pulled her out of prison and got her
to Cuba. She's in Cuba right now.
And within the next five years,
something like, uh, 300 prisons
are in the planning stages.
This government has the intentions
of throwing more and more people
in prison.
Criminalization of Assata Shakur,
the use of the media to represent her
as a dangerous criminal.
And of course, in my own case,
where I was represented by the FBI
The FBI has put
on its list
of the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.
Then with Angela Davis,
the power of the black intellect...
One thing
that we have to talk about,
coming to grips with,
is this whole question of crime.
What does it mean
to be a criminal in this society?
That had to be broken up.
And in my case, Ronald Reagan
was the governor of California,
Richard Nixon was
the president of the US.
The whole apparatus of the state
was set up against me,
and they really meant to send me
to the death chamber
in order to make a point.
The actions of the FBI
in apprehending Angela Davis,
a rather remarkable, uh, story again...
The system tried
to put the sister on trial,
and the sister said,
"No, we puttin' you on trial."
Comes in, the big Afro,
she didn't go press her hair.
You know, most people,
they'd have got a nice little press.
You know? They'd have been
in there with little white gloves on,
praying to Jesus.
She came in like this.
And she devastated the prosecution
But the question is
how do you get there?
Do you get there
by confrontation, violence?
Oh, was that the question you were asking?
Yeah.
So, I grew up in Birmingham, Alabama.
Uh...
Uh, after the four young girls who were...
who lived very...
who lived...
One of them lived next door to me.
I was very good friends
with the sister of another one.
My sister was good friends
with all three of them.
My mother taught one of them in her class.
And they went down.
And what did they find? They found limbs
and heads just strewn all over the place.
I remember,
from the time I was very small,
I remember the sounds of bombs
exploding across the street.
Our house shaking.
I remember my father having to have guns
at his disposal at all times
because of the fact that at any moment
we might expect to be attacked.
I mean, that's why,
when someone asks me about violence, uh...
I just, uh...
I just find it incredible.
Because what it means is that
the person who's asking that question
has absolutely no idea
what black people have gone through,
what black people have experienced
in this country
since the time the first black person
was kidnapped from the shores of Africa.
And when you strip out
a whole generation of leadership,
running folk out the country,
killing folk, framing folk,
you will be vulnerable
to Bill Clinton or anybody else.
They'll do to you what they will.
There's a man going 'round
Taking names
He has taken my father's name
And it's left my heart in pain
There's a man going 'round
Taking names
Going 'round
Going 'round
An armed
neighborhood watch leader
a gated subdivision near Orlando.
He thought the 17-year-old
looked suspicious.
He's got his hand in his waistband.
And he's a black male.
These a**holes,
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