We'll be nominating Hubert Humphrey.
Anything we can do to discourage them will be, I'm sure, wholeheartedly appreciated by the nation.
So if you can get across, make your voice heard, it might possibly have some effect.
Look, 25 ,000 American guys have been killed.
These people should be at convenience.
Because they have permitted it.
They have allowed it.
And if they're on your side, they don't mind it.
And if they're against you, then fuck them.
Randolph Street branch is open.
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They have their hours.
What we did right now was try to set up some ground rules.
They say we can go to 18 South Michigan and West on State and the 48 I received is a Now when we get there, they are trying to reach their communication to find out if we're going to be stopped at that point.
Now, again I'm saying we have a legal right to go to my house.
Now if anybody gets arrested on their way to my house, that's a false arrest.
Now, we are going to pull out of here now.
We're going to stay on the left side of the street.
We're going to walk as slow as we can because the general has to let his troops know down the line that the art of daily gave him earlier ain't no good no more.
Hold them there.
Hold them there.
Okay, I left them just as they turned out.
Stay in the line.
Four breaths, four breaths.
Keep moving.
Four breaths.
Keep moving.
One six one, they are at twelve now.
Ten four.
You know what Dick Gregory looks like? Gregory lives on in High Park.
I think it's on 55th Street.
If the march was to continue beyond 18th Street, it would be going right through the heart of the black belt in Chicago, South Side of Chicago.
They felt that this many people making, attracting, would attract quite a large number of black people and they felt that perhaps, in my opinion, they felt that perhaps the march would swell and perhaps over 100 ,000 people would just growl, they feel that they could not control.
Okay lieutenant.
Lieutenant, very slowly.
That's good.
That's good.
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That's good.
That's good.
That's good.
That's good.
That's good.
Thank you.
Nice and peaceful and calm.
Off for peace.
Peace.
We are on the way to my house, up on the sidewalk.
We have met the arrest situation once we step off the corner.
I and the troops move back five feet.
Now we're going to move across the street and at that point we'll meet the concentration.
Remember you're on your way to my house.
Let's move it baby.
There's not going to be no gas because when we walk across the street legally, then they're going to arrest us legally and then I feel we got a false arrest suit.
You are not on your way to a convention.
You are on your way as a private citizen to my house.
Now all of a sudden there's a whole bunch of people in front.
I don't know who that whole bunch of people is.
I think they ought to get away from in front because we're trying to do it so as to preserve head.
Everybody agree on the idea of preserving head.
We're not out to get clobbered.
We're out to exercise our constitutional rights of protest.
All you stalls just be cool.
All who attempt to go any direction other than west will be subjected to arrest.
Any other direction besides that direction you go to jail.
Stand on the white line.
Please stay over me on the white line.
All stalls be cool.
The disagree has been arrested.
All delegates please.
All delegates please.
We have been told as delegates of the Democratic National Convention categorically that we cannot walk on our present course where we are taking this evening's stroll.
We feel this is a violation of civil liberties.
It is a refusal to respect our right as citizens to the streets, to free movement in this that is yet our America.
If we want to go to jail, let's go to jail.
I have to remember in our city we all have to have causes.
Our main cause for two years in the convention business has been to struggle our way out of the potential losses.
A high speed but temporary beautification program is underway in the dilapidated area surrounding Chicago's amphitheater.
The grass along the highway on the main approach has been brightened with flowers.
As delegates turn off the highway they'll see freshly painted aluminum cyclone fences.
Coming up here to Pershing Road is where the barricades were.
From that section on you had to have a pass to get into it.
In other words the people who lived in there had to have these screens too.
An undisclosed amount of money has been spent on redwood fences.
They extend for miles along the routes the delegates will take, screening out the vacant lots, the debris, the impromptu playgrounds of the poor.
In other words all the ice source, the lots were all the debris and all of that which in other words put the fence up to beautify the street.
The redwood fences may remain, hiding the unfinished business of the city.
The delegates will come and go.
The people of the neighborhood will go back to things as they are and always have been.
It's always the poor guy that nobody worries about.
In other words it's just the way things are.
You see it every day of the week.
If you travel the city of Chicago you're bound to run into it.
That's commercial.
I doubt that y 'all talk to these white folks about y 'all, but y 'all don't understand it.
It's the same thing, man.
That's what's wrong with black folks today.
Talk around.
Yeah, well let me write it down.
Why are you not going to do it? Yeah, well I understand why a lot of people are going to talk in the first place about the things that are going on.
Because they know that the white people are only here to find out black people's position on the thing.
They're because they think that what's now the Democratic convention is only something that happened to white folks there.
And the black people understand that this is something that's been happening to them for years there.
A lot of brothers say this is another commercial thing.
This is something they've been talking about for the last four years there.
White people coming here now, they want to know what black people's feeling about the whole thing.
Black people know what the thing is now.
Black people, you know, at the point now, they don't give a fuck about rapping, nothing, nothing for action.
They feel that the hunkies coming here, fuck with them, they better die here.
And that's the simple reason now I've been standing here for ten minutes trying to get other brothers to talk.
These other brothers don't want to talk no more.
You're talking about the Democratic convention, you know.
They whoop niggas down here every night and never nothing say, and y 'all be telling me about Democrats.
You know, y 'all can take that down the street somewhere, man.
Just later, later.
Our biggest job is, you know, just getting our thing together.
Later for whitey.
They all grew up together.
Right in this neighborhood here, all our life, me and him.
All our life in this same neighborhood.
I grew up in this neighborhood myself, you know that.
You didn't grow up before we did.
Yeah, I didn't grow up before you did, but I know the issues that's going on.
Well, you know how rough it was when you grew up.
Imagine what it was like when we grew up.
Right on.
I did that there, but I also know what's going on there.
As far as the police, you know what's happening.
You ever eat any powdered eggs? You ever eat any powdered eggs? You drink any powdered milk? No, no, I don't feed them.
I don't feed them.
Hey, please.
You're talking about the police, Black, I keep telling you.
You, uh, the police ain't y 'all.
Later for the police, man.
The police, they got their jobs, that's their job, let them do it.
But if you get your thing together, you ain't got to worry about no police action.
People are under the impression that police are invincible.
And you know that the police is this, that's it.
When you say police is over.
Later.
It's, uh, we can, me and you get together and can be so strong and so, you know, blend in so well.
Ain't nothing gonna bother us no way.
I think I be worrying about the police, sir.
We, man, these people know police jumping on niggas.
These people know police beating them up and only, like you say, here they come now because some hunkers got jumped on at the Democratic convention.
But the police, man, y 'all, y 'all overemphasize it.
The police is a bunch of bros.
A bunch of young, ignorant, patted boys that can't do no better.
So they go out there and get on the job where they think they're gonna harass some Black dude.
That's all.
The average dude, you see a police, he must be some kind of sickness anyway because if he white, he can go out there and get a $15 ,000 a year job if he has something on the ball.
Those are the things you, you, uh, you put up with.
In other words, you just, in other words, you wanna, you seem to avoid all that.
In other words, you're staying away from trouble.
You don't wanna get in trouble.
So you stay away from, uh, from that and you don't wanna be involved in it.
You don't fuck with the police before we gonna fuck with you? You ain't gonna put that on me.
You believe that, Free? Yeah, I believe it.
Because if this is another man, I'll shoot that damn dude.
You ever seen the police come around and crack Black people's head for no reason at all? You haven't ever seen that, huh? Because I only got hit upside my head.
What you doing in there saying that you be hit upside your head? What's wrong? You didn't have to hit me.
Have you seen Black people get hit upside their head and wasn't doing anything that you felt that was wrong? I have seen that.
If a motherfucker don't take care of himself, he a dumb, mother.
Yeah, you dig? Check out your own self.
That's all you got to do.
Am I driving? You know, the only thing I said there, you know, I've seen the police crack a lot of people's heads for no reason at all.
You have cracked a lot of people's heads for no reason at all when we was growing up.
Remember? Yeah, well, that was a different time.
Okay, now I'm telling you, now it's still the same thing.
But I'm talking about the police, you know, cracking people's heads.
What you care about the police? You didn't care about them? Hey, man, I'm not nobody's...
Sorry, man, I'm playing for Saturday.
See, Black people have been demonstrating and going on for I don't know how long.
And, you know, we've been getting our heads beaten, whatnot.
We knew what was going to happen when those folks went down there because we have seen the pigs on the scene.
We know what he's like.
We know what he's capable of.
Just being a damn pig, oinking and beating, and walking the streets.
I'm sick of these damn pigs walking our streets.
And so everybody gets uptight when a few hunkies get their heads beat.
What did they do when we was getting our heads beaten? So I don't even want to deal with why they got their heads beaten.
No damn walker reporting up, whatever else that's going on.
I just want to deal with Black and Black liberation.
My scene is picking up my damn gun, and I'm a mother.
Have my baby in one hand, my gun in the other, and walking up to some hunkie, all hunkies, saying, I'm here, motherfucker, to get what's mine.
You know, like all over the city of Chicago, each person like Black Power is doing their own thing, and the Irish Power, whatever you want to call it, you know.
We're all people, and all poor folks.
And like the Democratic convention, you know, and they're shortening their bill of sticks and that, and they seem, you know, they didn't care what kind of person you was.
They worked on you with that thing.
We realized, the whole us, like Durlein, all realized we in the same boat.
Power flows from the barrel of a gun.
Did you feel that something had to be done about daily before the Democratic convention? That's right, man, that's right.
When he put out that shoot, when he put out that shoot to kill, man, the man that just done got power mad.
He just done still done got so much power, man, he worse than Hitler.
I said to him very emphatically and very definitely, that an order be issued immediately under his signature, to shoot to kill any arsonist.
Sure, everybody get a gun and go down the street and every dark one you see, shoot.
You know what I mean? They're all evil.
But after it kind of calmed down and everything else, why, there was a different story to them.
To shoot the main or cripple, anyone looting, any stores in our city.
Isn't he after all the men who coined the phrase, good government is good politics? He does believe it.
And he thinks good government includes the suppression of leftist dissent.
When they had this convention, about three of them thought, you know, when they put out that shoot to kill order, you know what I'm saying? So his colleagues come up and told him, look here man, you got to modify this thing.
So he goes and modify it, but it still mean the same thing.
So when they had this convention, they said this is my city and you all can't do what you all going to do.
So he figured that these black brothers is going to start some of these things.
So he gets these boys all hyped up, you understand? You know, like you're going to be playing football or something like that.
You know how the coach keeps coaching Italians, he says, well look at that, we got to do this and we got to do that.
So naturally, this convention comes, but there ain't no black folks, they don't care who's there.
They going to whip somebody, they got to whip somebody.
You said the police was there, the police, all this military force was there for the black people there.
That's right, man.
But we was cool.
We laid dead.
We going to dig and see what happened.
But the police, they got to whip somebody because they fired up.
They just got to whip somebody.
They don't care who they whip.
And when the white folks dig, they say, look here baby.
They tell this, look here baby, you done fucked up because you whipping my kids.
But now you whipping them black folks, it's a shame.
I don't want to, we wouldn't like to see you do it, but you done fucked up now, dad, because you done whipped my kids, baby.
That's my man.
He has studied, lawyers, doctors and so on and so forth.
And these middle class, booze wild folks, they going to college, they ain't got dough.
They folks got dough.
People like us, we ain't got no dough.
If we go to college, we got to go on athletic scholarships and so on and so forth.
So what did he do, dad? They said, well, this is my kind of dude.
He blocked off a whole neighborhood now.
And people live there, they can't raise their money.
It's hot.
They can't raise their money.
What kind of shit is that? You know this, man, don't you? I just want to see how far, you know, your ideas are.
I know these ain't hard.
See, right here is the anthem theater, right in here.
All along here, and all these streets were blocked off.
These are the little businesses that were complaining that couldn't get, in other words, they couldn't get in there too.
After all, the success of the city is based on the total input.
And conventions are valuable to the city basically for two reasons.
One, of course, they bring money to the city, but also there's a fantastic exchange of ideas that occur at a convention.
Hey, hey, hey! Come on, let's go! Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on! Come on! Hey, hey! Come on! Hey! What are you doing? What did I do?
