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You don't know what we have.

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You think you know what we have.

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You don't know what we have.

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No, I'm serious about that.

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I mean, that hurt my feelings when he told me that.

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Now I asked him to come down here now and say something on his behalf.

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He got up early to come down here and tell me that he don't want to talk about that job.

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See, as long as you keep talking about that same stuff, you can always be down.

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This is Christmas Eve, right?

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Yeah, this is the day that Christ is supposed to be born.

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They say that every man is created equal.

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So what happened when they took you out of the police station?

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What do you mean?

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The police were out there with their sign on their car.

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What that do we serve and protect?

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That's right, John.

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They serve us with them .38s and them shotguns and shit and protect the white folk.

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That's what they do.

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This is Christmas Eve, the night where I've been misused.

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My husband told me that I shouldn't be on the street at this time of night.

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That I should be at home and I'm a man of 27 years old and I know I've got a qualification to be out on the street at this time of night.

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Now, I've been to jail myself quite a few times.

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You know, I've been to jail every since about 14 years.

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I mean, in and out, in and out.

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Every time I get out, I go back in.

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I get out, I go back in.

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I know what the police is going to do, I tell you.

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Look it, I got my teeth knocked out over here with a big old ball of handcuffs.

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That's not going to happen to me no more.

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Never.

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Never.

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If you're arrested today in the near north neighborhood in a car that's two years old or older for failure to make a left turn signal,

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you know darn well that every person in that car is going to be yanked out of the car by the police officers.

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I understand that there is a police directive that in giving a ticket, the police officer is to approach the automobile.

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And there is to be no request made to get out of the automobile.

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This directive is completely bypassed in the areas that they want to rule by fear.

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When you come out to you, you gotta come out with your hands out. Your hands out.

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I was coming down Jackson Boulevard one evening.

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And the police put the light on so I pulled over to the side.

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And I got out of the car.

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When they got out of the car, you know.

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And they came to me and they asked me for my driver's license.

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So I showed them from here.

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And then they told me that I didn't have no tail light on the left side of the car.

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And so I said so.

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You know and so they said well you know you gotta get your ticket you know.

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I didn't want that you know.

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And so before I knew anything they had turned me around on the car.

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They started pushing all over my pockets and patting me down and everything.

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Like I was a criminal or something you know.

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And then this time I turned back around and told them me they'll do that you know.

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They're gonna arrest me and take me all down to the station.

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And then this time they sprayed some jive in my face you know.

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Wait a minute, at this time was you resisting arrest and everything?

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No I wasn't resisting no rest.

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And they sprayed something in my face.

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The little old stuff they spray in your face.

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Mace?

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Mace.

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Then they got next to me you know.

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So I was turning around to try to get my breath you know because that stuff is rough.

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And by this time I made for the gang where you know tried to get some out you know.

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Because this time a whole lot of people had gathered around I was trying to get some out.

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And I couldn't get no out.

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Then they started shooting up in there with shotguns and everything you know.

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And then by this time they had called some you know this time a whole lot of police came around.

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And had me stand up and a little white rookie cop came out and hit me.

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And when he hit me I didn't have no other choice but to hit him back.

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And when I hit him back this time five or six more was on me with rifles and hit me all in the head.

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What were you doing when this rookie cop hit you?

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I wasn't doing anything.

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I wasn't doing anything.

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All the words he came and hit you for nothing then?

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He hit me for nothing.

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He called me and said you little black motherfucker you and then hit me.

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By this time I didn't have no other choice but to hit him back.

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When I hit him back another white cop hit me behind the head with a shotgun.

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I fell.

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Then they was all over me.

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They handcuffed me behind the back.

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They took me all down to the station and I talked to the man you know.

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I said why you want to do that?

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Then they gave me a whole lot of static down there.

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And then behind that when I went to court the judge told me that I didn't have no respect for the police

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and gave me 60 days in the county jail.

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The more you want the less you get out of them.

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In other words the less respect you get out of them.

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Any courtroom you go in, any judge, colored white, pink, purple, any color he is, the less respect you get out of them.

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If you're poor you ain't gonna get nothing.

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That's the reason I don't believe in that law.

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That law ain't nothing.

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That law ain't nothing. That law is for people with money.

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If you have got no money you don't have no law.

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I don't have too much faith in the legal system at all.

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Legally they have to lower the bonds but I don't think they're gonna lower them enough as to whether they will.

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They just can't lift that bread you know.

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And one particular mother I talked to last night, I told her that the total bond was $13,000.

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And she started crying on the phone because she knew it was impossible for her to raise anything.

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She got about four or five kids.

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Some cop might have gone into court and said black panthers and that's the first he heard of it.

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He got panicked you know what I mean.

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So he better set a high bond.

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Or on the other hand the whole thing might be clear to everybody and they might be starting to do their program already.

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I kind of don't think they're that much together, but it's hard to tell.

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There ain't no point in speculating about it really.

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Well you know this goes like this here.

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If you're white you're right. If you're black stay back.

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We say old song, Negroes name help them name poor white remains like a bus or train.

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You know cats say yeah right I dig it.

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And you say like is it black cats who are like you know stopping you and making you pay them off on your way home from working in that company factory before you go to that bar where you cut each other up?

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No man it's like the man is making you tight.

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The man is turning you in on your wife.

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The man is turning you on your buddy on the line.

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And they're starting to dig it, but they're always related to the black man.

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And they got the racist thing about them man.

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They don't dig the black man.

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You gotta get them over this man.

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And they can't get over the hill when they fight with the black man for the common cause.

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That's out of sight. That's beautiful.

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If we can't get you together and you together and me, we get all three of us get together.

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We ain't gonna have nothing going on.

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If we can't get our heads together I say well maybe I'm the one part about a bill and you know another and you know another.

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And when we get together if all three of us don't go together we can't build it.

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It's a close fight anymore. It's nothing more really a race fight.

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But they don't realize it yet that it's a close fight.

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Some of them do.

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That could be the way it would be. Right now I still think the color is a factor.

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There are...

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Indians say you know from the time Whiteman showed up here and we've had meetings with them and discussed things.

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That they've always taken things from us and it's you know and things aren't gonna change now which they really haven't.

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And it's just continued on this way.

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They want a gold coast back here.

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Here's a picture on the wall uptown out to regain its glory.

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And you can't do this with pig farmers and Indians off the reservation.

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You gotta get rid of them.

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Because the high rise that they build here you know even like the 221D3s.

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That one high rise well you know nine thousand six hundred dollars for taxes on one high rise that replaces a couple of buildings.

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That's more taxes than a whole city block.

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And that's why you know poor people are uprooted.

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You should you know talk to the young patriots.

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They're just young street guys who are doing things.

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And what do we want to do? We want to stop getting hassled. We want to have our office.

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We want to do our thing without you know getting hassled by the cops.

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We want to get all together.

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I sat in jail for two years man.

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Why didn't you tell me we gotta get them?

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And I thought I did a lot of thinking man.

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And the thinking is that there's a rich man man.

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And a rich man all the time gotta have a dog to kick you know.

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And that's us brother. That's us.

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Where's the dog?

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Where the dog is kicking man.

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Like my mother she pays 30 rent for two rooms.

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She pays 20 on groceries.

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And she's got 10 bucks left to get back and forth to work and that ain't shit.

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Okay I want to fight man but I don't think you can deal with the man on his terms.

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There's some times when you got to go in you know you can say non-violent.

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And then up to a certain extent you know you have to use violence.

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You gotta use your wits man. Everybody got wits. Everybody got some smarts.

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See one of the things that's good about the young patriots is there's different kind of people in it other than southern.

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You know we just got Spanish, Indian, Italian, some blacks in it.

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Roberta.

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Roberta's the cool head.

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Where's he come from?

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Cuba.

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He come from, we even got a Cuba.

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Cuban.

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Cuban guy.

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Can't understand English but you know he can talk anyway you know.

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See them they're all interested in the problems they got here.

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You know and they want to change them.

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What we have to do now is pull ourselves together into a functioning group of people who can go out and rebel against them.

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I'll tell you what man get about 20 of us one night and we'll jump one cop and we'll tear him apart with our hands.

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And we'll put the fear of God in the rest of the sun.

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Take a sad song and make it better.

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Remember to let it read in your heart.

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Then you can start to make it better.

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If anybody fuck with my kids I do the same thing them kids.

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I give them a gun and put it on.

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Like that.

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You think I'm bullshitting you?

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Men die too man.

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I'm hit man.

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I get it.

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I get it.

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I feel the same way.

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Somebody's dying man.

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I'll give you shit with one hand.

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That's right.

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Somebody's dying.

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Take a sad song and make it better.

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It's the bourgeois motherfuckers.

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Yeah one bourgeois man.

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The one that's got the green shit.

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The same cats that are sending people over to NAMM to die but they're also sending people

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over to kill other people man.

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Nobody wants to die.

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Nobody wants to kill each other.

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They got no say in what the fuck's going on anymore than we got any say in see.

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I'm saying the cats are making bread in that fucking war see.

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Okay we send our fucking troops to NAMM because the cats are making the fucking arms in the

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government man.

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The cats are selling the bullshit whatever they're selling it you know.

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Textiles man.

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The cats that are building army bases are making bread and they're tight with the cats

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in the government.

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They're saying to the government man listen man to protect our investment we got to keep

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the fucking South Vietnamese regime going see.

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So that means that means it means they send over American cats to die over there so they

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can make their fucking money.

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Our group the United States of America that little group does not agree with the other

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group.

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It ain't agreement man.

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It is because they don't.

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No it ain't man.

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Now like they want to pull our motherfuckers man I think they're gassed man.

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I dig the fuck out of Kong man.

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I think those motherfuckers got all kinds of balls.

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They want to pull our troops out of Vietnam.

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They don't want to.

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They do.

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No they don't.

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I heard it on the radio they said before they would talk.

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I heard a lot of bullshit on the radio.

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Bullshit man.

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It's bullshit.

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Do you think we should pull our troops out of Vietnam?

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Look at this.

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All right now say if we pull our troops out they have got time to build their defenses

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against our country.

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And when we go back.

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What makes you think the motherfuckers want our country man?

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If I don't want their motherfucking country.

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Don't make a noise.

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They want to take it.

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Who is they?

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The government.

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What government?

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The little group.

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The American government and the Vietnam government wants to take it.

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They want power to take over our country.

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That's why they're fighting in the first place to see who gets more land.

243
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I don't think it's the land thing man.

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I think it's the money thing.

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Fuck the rest of that shit.

246
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You buy real true honest friends with money.

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If you got money you can buy fucking shit if you want it man.

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I'm here.

249
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I want to hear something man.

250
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Like Jim says man with money you can buy a cop and I'm going to beat on your ass.

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Kill you man.

252
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They're going to get away with it.

253
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Money is something but can you, I mean like can you just have money.

254
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Like if none of us bought us.

255
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Can you buy us to be your real friends to protect you.

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257
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I can buy people to kill you.

258
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So you can fuck you.

259
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If I don't want to deal with you I can wipe you out man.

260
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If he can't buy you he can buy people just like you.

261
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If I had a gun I can wipe people out too man.

262
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You're going to smoke.

263
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Because you're going to organize like the pigs are.

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You're going to organize like the army is man.

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The fucking pigs are shit.

266
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The fucking army is shit man.

267
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We got to get our power going so we can fight for what we want against the people who do not believe about what we want.

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That's what the fucking pigs are.

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I would say the pigs don't believe in what you want.

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The fucking pigs that is not an organization to protect people.

271
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That's a fucking racket to make money.

272
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What's everything else in the fucking world man?

273
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What's this war for?

274
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The war is the same thing.

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A racket to make money.

276
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A lot of cats are defecting.

277
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A lot of cats are saying well I'd rather get hired and fight your war.

278
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And they say well take me to the stockade.

279
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I want to go to jail.

280
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I don't want to get killed.

281
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He's like a black cat like the panthers now.

282
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Getting the whole thing about you know Huey sitting in that chair with his sword.

283
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He's not on an ego trip.

284
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What he's saying is he's doing something so good.

285
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So little black kids can say, right when I grow up I'm going to be a panther.

286
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And white cats ain't got nothing to look forward to.

287
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They got no alternative.

288
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They know it gives us dignity and we're going to fight too.

289
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When people's fighting us we can put up a fight ourselves.

290
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But I believe that we should really have united powers.

291
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We shouldn't fight each other.

292
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And that's what we're trying to do here.

293
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We're trying to get people to come in.

294
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Like I'm going with you tonight and talk to these people.

295
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I want them to come into our circle.

296
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Like he said there shouldn't be little circles.

297
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It should be all one big circle of people fighting for the same thing.

298
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We're not only coming to our circle.

299
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We should go into their circle as well.

300
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We should all go in together.

301
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When we say come into our circle then it makes it a clique again.

302
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As a direct result of that letter there has been a change and we did get some publicity.

303
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And I gave Bill an article that was written in the Tribune which you want to be read.

304
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It gives us direct credit for this change.

305
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I don't know you people. You people don't know me.

306
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I'm from the Young Patriots on the North Side.

307
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You people here are middle class whites.

308
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Oh God, we've gone through this too.

309
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I'm tired of it man. Just tell us what you don't like.

310
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We really don't.

311
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Now, you all think that cops are supposed to protect you and all this good shit.

312
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But we want to get all these people together so we can fight together.

313
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Y'all can join us.

314
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If not, y'all can fight.

315
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We want proper housing for the poor people.

316
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We want proper jobs for the people that have no education to get jobs.

317
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The right payment.

318
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We want decent housing so people can live.

319
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People that's got nine children, their father can't work.

320
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That's what we want.

321
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That's what I'm here to talk to you about tonight.

322
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But John, you see we have two candidates who have come here.

323
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One man is waiting here a long time to get some speech.

324
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I've been waiting all my life to tell you.

325
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I would like to amend the motion to ask Johnny to come back at a future meeting

326
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and to discuss this matter thoroughly as the later point of the agenda.

327
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Thank you.

328
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For this little light of mine and I'm gonna let it shine.

329
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Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.

330
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Everybody sing along.

331
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What we gotta do is let it shine and know I'm at neighborhood power.

332
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Wherever we might be.

333
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That's the whole subject of the night.

334
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Protect your neighborhood, protect your people.

335
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Join here together and stand up for what's yours.

336
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I'll hold the neighborhood, Chuck.

337
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All right, let's go one more time.

338
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Yeah, you'll lose to me, man.

339
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Hit it.

340
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We shall not be and we shall not be moved

341
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Like the tree that's planted by the water

342
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We shall not be moved

343
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We've gotta keep working on those people.

344
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They're gonna keep messing over as long as you just sit around and let them.

345
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I know that many people don't like this kind of talk.

346
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Maybe they just like to sit around and have a lot of fun.

347
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If you're gonna have a lot of fun after you move out

348
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and have to go back to the hill country or down on the plains or Missouri,

349
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before you kick out into another slum and then you don't have no people with you.

350
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I knew how it was when I first come to uptown.

351
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All I was living here was a lot of hack-like folks.

352
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They called me hillbilly.

353
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Man, that's a proud name to wear anymore.

354
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If you don't get organized, more and more.

355
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If we don't get this coalition going, we don't get the burst of people.

356
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And the young patriots move, build up more and more.

357
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We're not gonna be able to do anything, I'll read it.

358
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Everywhere I go, I'm gonna let it shine.

359
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Everywhere I go, I'm gonna let it shine.

360
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Everywhere I go, I'm gonna let it shine.

361
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Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.

362
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Say, I'll get the ball, the dog got the ball.

363
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Dog's chewing the ball.

364
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He got it.

365
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He said that he wanted me to come back and y'all were gonna ask him what.

366
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I brought some of my brothers along with me tonight.

367
00:19:28.520 --> 00:19:31.500
They know a little bit more about uptown than I do.

368
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They lived there longer than I have.

369
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This is probably about your running down to your own.

370
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My name is June Bug. I'm in the young patriots.

371
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I've been in uptown about 10 years.

372
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And uptown is like a southern ghetto.

373
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A lot of people who migrated from the south to the north.

374
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They had a better job and stuff like that.

375
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We had a school set up to teach neighborhood people how to,

376
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I mean not how, but how the system works in the United States.

377
00:20:01.460 --> 00:20:06.000
Things from taxes, things to how Meridally goes on about his stuff,

378
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about Vietnam, Vietnamese people,

379
00:20:09.860 --> 00:20:12.460
and about why we're in such a trap.

380
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Because it is a trap.

381
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No ladies on welfare.

382
00:20:21.340 --> 00:20:21.820
It's a trap too.

383
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Like it's not a side story.

384
00:20:25.320 --> 00:20:28.840
We're just trying to survive through a thing like everybody else is.

385
00:20:28.960 --> 00:20:29.440
It's in the ghetto.

386
00:20:31.160 --> 00:20:34.340
I know there's a story that y'all heard from,

387
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that you've heard before from people who's fighting in the black ghetto.

388
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Like the Black Panthers.

389
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A group that I will respect for their name and what they're trying to do.

390
00:20:47.680 --> 00:20:50.960
Because partly I understand it and I feel it.

391
00:20:51.600 --> 00:20:55.260
Everybody, these guys, young guys, including myself,

392
00:20:55.760 --> 00:20:58.560
got together and organized a march over the local police station.

393
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Who was protesting against this one cop who happens to be one of the most

394
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decorated cops in Chicago and also one of the biggest killers.

395
00:21:08.560 --> 00:21:11.680
Okay, what happened is this cop jumps up and says,

396
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look son of a bitch in Hillbilly,

397
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since I see you out on the street again tonight, I'm going to blow your head off.

398
00:21:19.460 --> 00:21:24.060
We wasn't smart enough, we didn't know that we was going to be attacked by the cops right away.

399
00:21:24.600 --> 00:21:25.140
But we were.

400
00:21:25.680 --> 00:21:30.020
Like everybody broke up, everybody went home, everybody went to the local hangouts.

401
00:21:30.320 --> 00:21:32.980
That's when it happened when they called us two or three at a time.

402
00:21:33.580 --> 00:21:37.880
We got our heads beat in, the kids got shot at, got run out of the neighborhood and everything.

403
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You know, like this button here.

404
00:21:41.460 --> 00:21:44.460
You know, it's got all colors.

405
00:21:45.160 --> 00:21:48.380
It's red, yellow, black, black, brown, whatever.

406
00:21:49.120 --> 00:21:53.360
It's still a coalition in uptown of different organizations getting together.

407
00:21:54.880 --> 00:21:58.620
I'd like to introduce Bob Neagle, section leader for the Black Pampers.

408
00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:01.700
Well, I'll have to tell you my story.

409
00:22:02.100 --> 00:22:03.900
These brothers have already did it.

410
00:22:04.140 --> 00:22:05.540
We're all niggers, it seems like.

411
00:22:06.440 --> 00:22:13.700
Do you have any proposed plans or remedy, all of these wrongs that are in existence now?

412
00:22:14.280 --> 00:22:18.720
Do you have some specific project that you can come to us and we can support?

413
00:22:19.000 --> 00:22:23.540
Or how can we help you to accomplish as a community?

414
00:22:23.620 --> 00:22:27.400
How can we help you to accomplish whatever you want to accomplish?

415
00:22:27.500 --> 00:22:31.560
There's a certain ways that we needed most of this month, of getting a place open.

416
00:22:31.560 --> 00:22:35.700
We've been doing it different places trying to do it, we can't do it.

417
00:22:36.660 --> 00:22:42.420
And ways of if you've got any doctors or lawyers or money in the group to help us out.

418
00:22:45.100 --> 00:22:46.960
And every time, what can we do for you, man?

419
00:22:47.220 --> 00:22:48.420
What can we do for you?

420
00:22:48.760 --> 00:22:50.940
These other cats are here tonight, man.

421
00:22:51.300 --> 00:22:54.500
And we all should be right now trying to help these cats out, get their thing together.

422
00:22:54.800 --> 00:22:59.680
We're going to the community, and also get the community together, man, you know, and see if they want it.

423
00:22:59.680 --> 00:23:04.680
I would like to know the pamphlet's feeling towards Jews. Are they going to start this?

424
00:23:06.620 --> 00:23:10.400
Well, I mean that book, I don't mean to be your kind of stuff.

425
00:23:15.580 --> 00:23:23.600
Well, the only way I can answer that, is in some communities, the Jew is a symbol of exploitation.

426
00:23:23.600 --> 00:23:36.600
You know, in some communities, the Italian is, the Polish cat is, the Japanese is, and some communities, the black cat is a symbol.

427
00:23:38.360 --> 00:23:42.940
So if the people are oppressed, this is happening to be the cat, they want all things.

428
00:23:43.320 --> 00:23:46.180
That's all I can say. That's all I honestly can say.

429
00:23:46.440 --> 00:23:49.220
You know, I think you're missing a very important point.

430
00:23:50.340 --> 00:23:54.420
Today, the people here are very strong enough to help themselves.

431
00:23:55.140 --> 00:23:57.000
And you have to organize your own.

432
00:23:57.540 --> 00:23:58.520
What's so bad about you, love?

433
00:23:59.120 --> 00:24:01.320
What's so bad about you, love? How much you pay for it?

434
00:24:01.480 --> 00:24:04.580
That's beside the point. That's beside the point.

435
00:24:04.800 --> 00:24:05.940
You're going to attack me.

436
00:24:06.980 --> 00:24:09.380
I listen to you, now you listen to me.

437
00:24:10.320 --> 00:24:11.160
What's the point of listening to me?

438
00:24:11.600 --> 00:24:12.540
That's not the point.

439
00:24:12.720 --> 00:24:12.980
What's the difference?

440
00:24:13.860 --> 00:24:14.500
I don't understand.

441
00:24:14.740 --> 00:24:16.640
What's the difference? I'll tell you the difference, man.

442
00:24:16.640 --> 00:24:19.480
You know, you live in a town where you got roaches and rats.

443
00:24:19.860 --> 00:24:21.300
You just ain't about to get to the next minute.

444
00:24:21.320 --> 00:24:22.720
What's the matter I'm talking about?

445
00:24:23.020 --> 00:24:24.220
Well, what are you talking about?

446
00:24:24.400 --> 00:24:28.420
Get your grown-ups, get your parents to go around knocking on doors.

447
00:24:29.200 --> 00:24:32.820
You don't want charity. That's what you're getting now. It's no good.

448
00:24:33.800 --> 00:24:34.500
We're getting charity?

449
00:24:34.980 --> 00:24:39.100
Any ABC, none of that's any good. You want to get out of it, right?

450
00:24:39.280 --> 00:24:43.820
What they're trying to say is that their problems are your problems too, lady.

451
00:24:43.820 --> 00:24:48.660
Would you guys consider organizing long black people?

452
00:24:49.520 --> 00:24:50.960
Well, hell yes, man.

453
00:24:52.440 --> 00:24:58.440
You talk about no exploitation from whites, blacks, or anybody.

454
00:24:59.160 --> 00:25:01.720
But I'm going to ask you straight out.

455
00:25:02.120 --> 00:25:05.160
What other than capitalism, what we have here?

456
00:25:06.060 --> 00:25:13.460
You're going to have, you can say, well, okay, you know, whatever is it, that's a fair profit, that's fine.

457
00:25:13.460 --> 00:25:15.260
Where do you draw the line?

458
00:25:15.540 --> 00:25:20.360
Panthers is the vanguard, man. We're talking about tearing the shit down from the bottom, down from the bottom, going up.

459
00:25:20.780 --> 00:25:23.140
A non-capitalistic state, that's what we're talking about.

460
00:25:23.900 --> 00:25:25.080
We're talking about revolution.

461
00:25:26.140 --> 00:25:28.460
People get hung on like Panthers of self-defense.

462
00:25:29.120 --> 00:25:30.460
You know, that's, that's hand-war.

463
00:25:30.940 --> 00:25:33.940
We're talking about war, guerrilla war, urban guerrilla war.

464
00:25:34.120 --> 00:25:35.020
It's going to be tried.

465
00:25:35.560 --> 00:25:39.420
And we're not talking about trying to, you know, we've been trying all these things you've been talking about, man.

466
00:25:40.400 --> 00:25:41.860
You know, no good.

467
00:25:41.860 --> 00:25:43.820
For these brothers' sake, it's no good.

468
00:25:44.580 --> 00:25:49.260
How come these guys is all very nice, but it's also very, a lot of liberal bullshit.

469
00:25:49.740 --> 00:25:55.480
You've just played the great liberal game of being very interested in what's going on someplace else.

470
00:25:55.620 --> 00:26:02.800
I am tired, man, of every time people saying to me, we are nothing but goddamn white middle class son of a bitches.

471
00:26:03.540 --> 00:26:03.840
Wait a minute.

472
00:26:03.900 --> 00:26:08.240
We are ready to do action now, if there is action now.

473
00:26:08.240 --> 00:26:11.840
A lot of you guys have got a lot of talk and knocking us, fine.

474
00:26:11.940 --> 00:26:13.540
And I think we've got a lot to learn.

475
00:26:13.840 --> 00:26:28.280
But if there's anybody who feels that in any way that they have been pushed by police, we will do what we can, action now, by going to see Brash personally, if necessary to arrange a march, if necessary to put it in Royco's column.

476
00:26:28.500 --> 00:26:31.100
Now what else can you do aside from shoot the cops?

477
00:26:31.420 --> 00:26:36.740
Well, if you've got a program or an answer other than criticism, tell us.

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Okay.

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