Side A: Young People in Grant Park. Side B: NY [?] Caucus; AC; Grant Park Rally [crossed out]
He put down the Mississippi Freedom delegation back in 64.
He was instrumental in putting that down so that they weren't seated.
I think most of Yuma Humphrey's liberal stands have been made because they were politically useful at the time, not out of any liberal conviction that he had.
His stand in 48 for the Civil Rights Plan was politically very useful for him.
It was not out of any great conviction.
In the political, Humphrey demonstrated in West Virginia in 64 that he can't get votes.
If they want to win this election, I think all Republicans and the Democrats have a death wish.
Spiro Agnew on one hand and Hubert Humphrey on the other hand.
I think both parties are actually seeking to lose.
One party going by default, if anything.
McCarthy demonstrated in the primaries that he could draw votes.
He beat the administration resoundingly in almost every primary.
I wouldn't say ignored, but he's being passed over here.
He doesn't cooperate with the big city bosses.
A McCarthy nomination would definitely change the structure of American Democratic politics.
In other words, if McCarthy were with the President, he'd have to work with him.
This wouldn't go down at our level in Chicago of politics.
I think if McCarthy or McGovern were President, it'd be hard for a big city boss of one single city to control a convention as Daley is obviously controlling this one.
What about this Ted Kennedy swaddle? Have you heard about that? Yes, well, in a practical matter, I think Kennedy would be a fool to take it now.
I think any Democrat who runs now is going to have a hard time being elected.
And if Kennedy is defeated at 36, he might be washed up later on.
While if he waits and there are four years of turbulence, the country might be ready to take him and cooperate with Ted Kennedy.
So I think he'd be a fool to take it now, and I think he knows it.
The country will survive four more years.
Whoever wins in November will be impeached before the four years are over.
Who do you think will impeach him? The Congress is controlling this as much as the presidency at this point.
The question is, will we have a convention in four years? Will there be enough of this country left to have a convention? Or will the political system deteriorate so badly that there won't be a convention? We won't need one because the totalitarian forces of this country are taking over to the extent.
Do you think that's because it's not too sensitive to the real needs of the people? I think the primaries demonstrated that.
I think the primaries and subsequent goings on here at the convention, at least Republicans, except for Nixon.
I don't think Nixon represented the true views of the Republicans, even.
I think Rockefeller had more support.
Yet at least Nixon did win the primaries.
Humphrey didn't win any primaries, and he's far and away.
Today I think Humphrey will be in.
I think Daley's going to declare for him.
I think the country's in a conservative swing.
And that these people that are being elected are what the majority of the people want.
It's too bad for us, but I think that's what's happening.
I think it's showing the nature of American democracy that none of the major candidates are really going to be able to go to the people.
They're going to have to be protected by troops and national guardsmen, and none of them can go out among his constituents and talk to them.
In Cuba, Castro is able to walk through the streets of Havana with no protection whatsoever, without being afraid.
In America, this bastion of liberal democracy, none of its major leaders can walk around without being protected from his own people.
We had delegates last night in that hotel.
The people were supposed to be representing us.
And there were policemen lined up so that we could not get to them.
Four or five of them came down.
Most of them stayed up in their hotel windows.
If I can't even talk to them, I don't know.
How do you get to speak to one of these guys? How do you get to talk to a guy like Johnson or a guy like Humphrey? How do you get to communicate with him? Can you write him a letter? Will he answer you? Will he acknowledge your feelings? Will he let you discuss the situation with him? Will he allow for any kind of contact with people? No.
He just does whatever he wants to do.
And his concern is only with his political machinery and his political power.
He has no concern, whatever, for student thought, which is supposed to be the revolutionary thought in the country.
It's supposed to be the thought that moves the country, your future leaders and all this jazz.
Do you feel threatened by this group here, personally? No, I don't.
Do you feel that we're a danger to either you or to the surrounding lovely park here? These are the people.
Well, I guess you were kind of hurting the park.
But no, I don't feel threatened.
Would you feel less threatened by us than by our magnificent police force in this town? Oh, well, no.
As a newsman, and obviously aware of what's been taking place in the city with the police and the newsmen, who would you feel to be the more dangerous group to you personally as a representative of the free press? From what you've seen and what you've read, what you've heard.
I do think Daly is overreacting to the Yippee threat.
It's known that Daly does take a bath every day.
And he's denied the Yippee's access to the Conrad Hilton showers in order to prove his point.
I think if Daly would open the Conrad Hilton up for showers, many of this group would balance her take them.
He lied to fit these thick showers.
The point that I'm trying to make is that I think Daly overreacted.
And of course I knew about this meeting here, this convergence of dissident groups.
I am aware of the sentiment of my generation.
I don't think they would necessarily cause any trouble unless confronted.
I think it would be foolish for unarmed young people to go against national guardsmen on one hand or policemen with billy clubs.
And a billy club in the hands of a Chicago policeman is as dangerous as a rifle.
I have the experience of the Chicago Police Department.
You can't see I'm well groomed I suppose in regard to this bunch.
But still I've been stopped and searched for no reason.
And I've gone down to the, this is before the convention or anything, I've gone down to the police station and filed my complaints.
In every case the police officers have lied, out and out lied.
And the investigations have never borne fruit at all.
As a matter of fact I know most of the chiefs here, most of the captains in the districts, especially the 18th district where they seem to go after us with Vandetta.
One of the good things about this is that white America is beginning to see, you know, beginning to be treated by the police the way black America has always been.
And white kids for the first time are realizing, you know, what black America is up against all the time.
We have to face it for maybe only one week.
These people have to live with it, you know, day in, day out.
People are just beginning to wake up.
Maybe the residents of Chicago are beginning to wake up when they see those troops out there and they see their policemen go berserk.
A lot of residents were also hit by overzealous policemen.
They're beginning to see what things are really like and the nature of the system, which happens to be very violent.
I think that now the middle class white America, which is the bulk of our country, instead of being able to ignore the brutality of the police in this city and others against the black population, now it has to deal with their own children being clubbed and being gassed and being treated brutally by the police.
In one way, perhaps, the police action against the young people has been our best demonstration because it brings to white middle class America the reality of police brutality in this country and the control of the police by men like Mayor Daley who will allow this, actually order it.
These policemen act under orders.
A policeman has no guts at all.
He won't do anything unless he believes that his commanding officer and his hierarchy will support him.
As a matter of fact, in one of my cases, I did get the captain of the 18th district, Captain Conrad, to admit that it was police policy to search all suspicious cars in his district, although this is unconstitutional.
He said, we have to keep law and order without defining it.
I answered that the law works both ways.
I don't even really think like one.
But the police in Chicago are autocratic.
I don't know if it's true all across the country because I only live here.
They do capriciously search cars.
They do capriciously arrest people.
They are rude, intemperate, belligerent, and altogether fascist -like.
I think I'm about as middle class as people get.
Nevertheless, I think that the middle class is just as aware of this as the hippies and the hippies and whatever other group one might mention.
I should ask you all, do you see parallels now between what is taking place here and what took place in France just recently? I mean, we saw demonstrations on the street, but we saw the vote go to De Gaulle.
I think there's a more distinct parallel between what's happening here and what happened in Germany in the 1930s.
The only difference might be that there is a large, vocal, intelligent group, these people, who are making noises.
And a lot of my kind of people, while they may not join, are listening, and our views are perhaps being modulated.
Can I ask you, you middle class people, to support us a little more than you have been? We could use you out there, believe me.
You can't very well expect, I don't think it's reasonable to expect it, we all come down here and sit with you all day long.
Is it reasonable to expect 18, 19 and 20 year old kids to bear the burden of the guilt of this whole system? Which I think is what is happening.
I think really you have a view of my generation, which isn't really that much different from yours, a view which is not correct.
I think we're just as disgusted, just as upset, just as alienated, and just as frustrated.
I think maybe our tactics are probably more passive, and perhaps even less effective, but at least they're more within the system.
Then how come there are no colored people around that call them niggers? Well, I don't, and I don't think my friends do.
Those friends of mine who do, I correct.
I know a lot of people who do.
You can't deny there's racism in this country.
I think racism exists among blacks, and I think it exists among white liberals.
I think I am to some extent a bigot.
I try to recognize it as a flaw in myself.
But I think maybe many of you recognize yourselves as bigots and therefore have sort of overcompensated.
Now, whether that's an actual, a correct assessment, I couldn't be, I don't know, but I suspect that's true.
I don't deny that bigotry exists.
I do deny that white middle -class America, the people who dress in button -down shirts in the whole business, I do deny that they are unaware of it and that they are unwilling to make some, to make a legitimate effort to correct it.
They're aware and they make some kind of legitimate effort.
And like this afternoon, there's going to be a whole group of people who are going to try and march in that amphitheater because they feel there is no other way to demonstrate their protest.
A lot of those people, I think, are going to get bloody heads that it's very possible.
At the last minute, they may grant us a permit.
I was marching when you were in junior high school.
Yeah, but right now, this march, the average age will be maybe 21, 22.
All right, maybe you're too old to march, but I just, I see a lot of kids getting their heads broken open, and I don't see them, you know, you're aware of it and you give us some kind of support, but is it enough? I don't know.
Those kids in the park last night, the night before, a lot of kids were really hurried.
Mace, tear gas, you know, what are the decent citizens doing about it? I think Mayor Daley shouldn't have outlawed you from the park, but since he did, then there have to be other tactics, it seems to me, other tactics than direct physical confrontation.
It may be that ultimately you're proof correct, but at least that's my view.
This confrontation does demonstrate something.
It demonstrates the feeling of the police departments in America.
I was in many foreign countries, in Copenhagen, the policemen ride bicycles.
In England, they're unarmed and there's Speakers Corner in Hyde Park for descent.
I think now, as I said before, that now that the police are busting the heads of the children of the white middle class Americans, that perhaps white middle class America will come to the realization that police brutality has existed and that America is more totalitarian than they thought.
Before, this only happened in the ghetto, and America has always turned its back on the ghetto.
Well, the young people were brought to the ghetto to the Conrad Hilton, and now America must see what the police do to our people, our own people, citizens.
On the other hand, you may be provoking a political reaction which will destroy those things you're working for.
It may be that a slower but more effective method of working within the established system would in the long run produce the results you desire, whereas your techniques may produce just the opposite.
Well, the political reaction I'm concerned with is a surfacing of latent views.
Anyway, so why not provoke it? Let's get it out in the open.
If you're not, let's find our sides.
We hear a lot of speeches today about polarization.
Let's find out where we stand.
If a man is a fully liberal, if a man isn't really willing to accept equality with the black people, let him say so right now.
We've seen a man named Hubert Horatio Humphrey be the champion of the black people in this country.
The black people of this country would rather vote for John Wallace than anybody else in the world.
Because John Wallace let us know where we stand.
But Hubert Humphrey and the rest of these candidates do not let us know where we stand.
Now we are not here to make hatred.
Racists don't come between us.
But what do become between us is giving a fair shake.
Now as far as the burning, the average one of us don't want to burn.
The average one of us don't want to burn.
But that's the only way we can be seen or heard.
As far as our recent riots in Chicago.
So John Wallace, I mean Wallace knows what to do.
You know, I just, I don't know.
The highest people here are our residents of Chicago.
And Wallace knows where we stand.
And Hubert and all the rest of them guys, bullshit.
Dick Gregory made a statement last night that if Mayor Daley were to take his word at shooting all looters, the first thing he would do would be to shoot half of his city council.
My sister was a teacher in the ghetto.
Her seven year olds returned to school after our recent riots saying that the violence always started out the same.
A group would gather, windows broken, the police would go in, take what they want, and then allow the black people to go in one by one and help themselves.
But the police were looting first.
The police in Chicago are the best money can buy.
Any resident in the city knows, because he probably bought them.
I think that gentleman's views were representative of some of the feelings starting now.
At least George Wallace is a racist and he admits it.
Hey, you don't have to back his views.
At least he's honest to the people.
I mean, we're in direct opposition to what he stands for.
But at least he does stand for something.
He doesn't hide it behind rhetoric and leave outs and stuff.
I mean, we all hate what he stands for.
Hey man, you better leave that cat where he is, man.
You don't need him for no goddamn president.
You must be insane or something.
You want a national guard in your backyard and on every corner, man? Probably going to have many.
Say man, Eldridge Cleveland, Dick Gregory are running for president, man.
You can write in Dick Gregory just as easy as you can elect Wallace.
You dig it? You can get Dick Gregory on a ballot just as easy as you can elect Wallace, man.
And quit talking about fatheads like Wallace, man.
That cat's the only people ever...
The only candidate that most of the people know about is...
What he's saying is they never brought up in the news and they leave out Gregory because he's never brought up in the news.
The news media is leaving out...
Hey man, you know what? Look here, man.
Do you think they want a black hat to hit this country, man? This country is run by a WASP, man.
You dig it? Right Anglo -Saxon Protestant, Shaq.
And they don't want no black people running it, man.
They don't want a Roman Catholic to run it.
If you got a choice between a Humphrey and a Wallace, Wallace, you know where he stands.
Humphrey one day says one thing, next day another.
You never know what he's going to do.
I'm just trying to show that liberal you and Humphrey is...
...are going to affect my life, are going to affect...
Well, they're going to affect my life and they're going to affect my community, see.
But they're not going to affect my life and my community in a positive way.
You dig it? Now, in the lawmaking body, man...
Obviously, I mean, it's racist, man.
Black people, man, for the last hundred years we haven't even been fully represented in the lawmaking body, man.
We haven't had a representative in Congress or legislation or whatever have you, man...
...to, you know, let those people know where we're at, man.
Because they don't want to hear that shit.
They'll keep us smothered out, keep us behind the fence...
...until we get ready to tear the fence down.
You dig it? Until we get ready to come on the other side of the fence.
Well, what you're saying is true.
But why do you continue to elect the people in the Chicago ghetto that daily assign? As long as daily keeps on going down to the ghetto jack and snatching bums out of hallways, man...
...and giving them two bucks so that he can keep on being the mayor in this damn town, man.
The cats, man, they'll cut off a ghetto mother's welfare check, man...
...if she doesn't go and vote.
You dig it? They can't cut it off.
For one thing, it's against the law.
If you throw them out, they can't cut it off.
If you vote them out, they can't cut it off.
They don't control the machine if you don't vote for them.
Daily counts them the way he wants to.
Hey, man, don't you know daily got people on this voting list, man...
...that have been dead for the past 20 years, man? But that stuff can be corrected.
It's been corrected in other cities.
This shit ain't gonna never be corrected, man, cause y 'all don't know about it.
Chicago isn't like any other city.
Chicago isn't like any other city.
That's because too many people have not been willing to make the effort that it takes to throw them out.
Marching in the street just makes people say, well, daily was right all along.
No, marching makes people aware of it.
By public relations, we want to win them by reason.
I mean, public relations isn't good enough.
Political effort was tried with the McCarthy campaign, and it's pretty obvious it hasn't worked.
I mean, you couldn't put in more political effort than was put into that McCarthy campaign, and it's gonna lose.
So there's your political effort for you.
Hey, you're working on a premise that this is a democracy.
Expressways go right through the ghetto.
Daily's been able to build expressways to bring the white middle -class people in from the suburbs...
...go right through the ghetto without even seeing it.
And build miles and concentration camps up and down Lake Street, man, and everywhere.
A 13 -story building, man, where little black kids, two and three thousand little black kids...
...to a building with two broken -down elevators, man.
Now what if something happens, man? How in the hell are three thousand little black kids gonna get down two broken elevators? You dig it? Yeah.
You dig it? It's happening, man, and you gotta be aware of it.
I think this is my demonstration, though, is good.
Because otherwise, this city won't see the ghetto.
Because daily's built fences around the ghetto.
Have you taken the route to the convention? These delegates are going to the convention through the ghetto, through the black neighborhood...
But the only way you can vote daily about a social ballot...
...either that or the alternative, which I can't accept, which is complete physical reservation.
The people who are voting have to have the fences torn down.
Can you see more political effort going into a campaign than went into the McCarthy campaign? And yet that lost.
I would begin to guarantee that every time people decided they were gonna support a clean gene...
...or a good candidate, that he was gonna win.
All I say is that ultimately the only way that you can win...
...you can't beat him in the streets, he has all the guns.
But we beat the man in the primaries.
There was a 70%, 80 % vote for peace in the primaries.
And we're still getting a war candidate.
Working within the system, we tried it.
He being the establishment, not just daily, he has all the money, he has all the guns...
...he has all the organization.
The only way you can beat him is when you pull...
He doesn't have us outnumbered.
He doesn't have you outnumbered.
The only way you can beat him is when you pull the curtain behind you.
That's the only way you can beat him.
If we don't have the news media, nothing we say gets out.
We pull the curtain behind them and they fix the votes.
We didn't get it until the police speed up on them.
I was talking to National Guardsmen today, I talked to several.
As a matter of fact, I'm relieved they're here.
I think National Guardsmen with M1 rifles are safer than our police with billy clubs.
I'm quite happy they're here instead of the police.
I talked to them, they don't want to be here.
They're young, they're like us.
They don't want to shoot their own generation.
I feel sorry for them, they're awful tired.
But I don't know how effective a force a National Guard would be against their own people.
A National Guard is a white group primarily.
It's very difficult for black people to even get in the National Guard.
So they might be effective against the black people, but I doubt they'd be effective against us if they'd want to be effective against us.
We're their generation, we're the new generation.
We're going to outlive everybody else.
When we do, there's going to be a lot of changes.
When the cats give up their shoes, they lose.
Because from there we take it.
We're not going to wait until we're 50 years old to take power.
If you want to work within the system now, you're going to have to wait four more years before you can elect another president.
Four years is an awful long time to wait.
Just sit back and say, well, I'm going to wait.
I'm not going to do anything now.
You dig it? What do you propose then if you don't want any...
Yes? What type of a new world? What type of a new world and where is it going to come from? Where is it going to come from? It's going to come out of the heart of mankind.
It's NBC, aren't you? What network are you from? Free -lance here.
Act in the very center of it, man, and have big things push out on the surface of this planet beneath it and expand it.
The Bible is going to make it bigger.
Look at what Jesus said, the man was created in the image of God.
And okay, brother, defying God.
Defying God? Well, I said God is the only golden, all -pervading, never -changing, ever -changing strata of all creation.
Okay, and if God has that much power and man was made like God, just like God...
Well, man made God made man the keeper of the keys to his salvation.
Man is made just like God and therefore man has the potential of God.
Have you ever thought about your brain? No, I've never thought about it.
He's a lovely man, he's not white.
But have you ever thought about the brain? Ramakrishna says that there are levels of consciousness that a man can attain during his lifetime.
There's a first level on which there's an attachment or a non -attachment or self -abnegation or a detachment from objects, you dig.
And the second level is meditation, total liberation of the mind and total liberation from the physical body, you dig.
And the third level, the third level is a consciousness that is in a sense becoming all -pervading, is becoming all -knowing, beginning to have a super -sight or open the third eye in which to peer into all things created.
And the fourth level is a level of nothingness.
The fourth level is where we absorb everything and we're boundless and there's no limits, there's no circumference, man.
There's just eternal energy, you dig it.
And that's what we're all going to, man.
It doesn't stay forever, but it may come back as an animal, it may come back as a stone, because as soon as the energy becomes independent, man, it collects again, you dig it.
How do you think these things keep manifesting if it doesn't attract? Where is your guy? Where is he? Was he in Lincoln Park? The fourth level is a level of nothingness.
The fifth level is a level of nothingness.
The sixth level is a level of nothingness.
The seventh level is a level of nothingness.
The eighth level is a level of nothingness.
The ninth level is a level of nothingness.
The tenth level is a level of nothingness.
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I have just come from that area.
The way the loudspeakers point is, the way we hear the audio clearly from him, all that they're loudening, it's not clear why they want the mic changed.
...and the one thing you can do is increase the signal to the rest of all of the voters.
It is necessary for any voter to have to move forward.
I think that's the message of the Black Master Party.
The Black Master Party is not making the live broadcasts just because they want a sound card.
It is very clear when you listen to all these leaders, or if you listen to the president's legal, or the captain's legal, or the US government, that they're not allowed to make this new thing into a sound card, because they can't get the sound card to be sold out.
The sixth factor, the reason they realize this, is they realize any revolution in the country is necessary to develop a legitimacy for your own actions.