🚀 go-pugleaf

They controlled it so tight -- they told those
Negroes what time to hit town, how to come, where to stop, what signs to
carry, *what song to sing*, what speech they could make, and what speech
they couldn't make; and then told them to get out town by sundown. And
everyone of those Toms was out of town by sundown. Now I know you don't
like my saying this. But I can back it up. It was a circus, a
performance that beat anything Hollywood could ever do, the performance
of the year. Reuther and those other three devils should get a Academy
Award for the best actors 'cause they acted like they really loved
Negroes and fooled a whole lot of Negroes. And the six Negro leaders
should get an award too, for the best supporting cast.


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Mr. Moderator, Brother Lomax, brothers and sisters, friends and enemies:
I just can't believe everyone in here is a friend, and I don't want to
leave anybody out. The question tonight, as I understand it, is "The
Negro Revolt, and Where Do We Go From Here?" or What Next?" In my little
humble way of understanding it, it points toward either the ballot or
the bullet. 

Before we try and explain what is meant by the ballot or the bullet, I
would like to clarify something concerning myself. I'm still a Muslim;
my religion is still Islam. That's my personal belief. Just as Adam
Clayton Powell is a Christian minister who heads the Abyssinian Baptist