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Now we have African Americans

in Los Angeles,

in Oakland, and Chicago, and Cleveland,

Detroit, Boston, New York.

And very few people appreciate that

the African Americans in those communities

did not go there as immigrants

looking for new economic opportunities.

They went there as refugees from terror.

We didn't just land in Oakland,

in LA, in Compton,

in Harlem, in Brownsville in 2015.

This is generational...

generational trauma.

The letters "KKK"

were carved with a penknife

on the chest and stomach

of this man in Houston, Texas,

after he had been hanged by his knees

from an oak tree and flogged with a chain.

The Chicago Negro boy,

Emmett Till, is alleged

to have paid unwelcome attention

to Roy Bryant's most attractive wife.

And then

when it became unacceptable

to engage in that kind of open terrorism,

then it shifted to something more legal.

Segregation. Jim Crow.

Laws were passed

that relegated African Americans

to a permanent second-class status.

These things really begin to live out

the prophecy that Griffith was making

about the way that race operates.

And this fear of crime

is central to all of this.

Every time you saw a sign

that said "white and colored,"

every time you had to deal

with the indignation

of being told you can't go

through the front door.

Every day you weren't allowed to vote,

weren't allowed to go to school,

you were bearing a burden

that was injurious.

Civil rights activists

began to see the necessity

of building not just

a civil rights movement,

but a human rights movement.

And I think we should start now preparing

for the inevitable.

Yeah!

And let us,

when that moment comes...

go into the situations that we confront

with a great deal of dignity,

sanity and reasonableness.

They want to throw

white children and colored children

into the melting pot of integration,

through out of which

will come a conglomerated,

mulatto, mongrel class of people.

Both races will be destroyed

in such a movement.

We just got a report here

on this end that the students are in.

Negroes were trying

to integrate the bathing beaches.

And the Florida Advisory Committee

to the US Civil Rights Commission

warned that the city was becoming

a racial superbomb with a short fuse.

Civil rights activists

began to be portrayed in the media

and among, you know,

many politicians as criminals.

People who are deliberately

violating the law,

segregation laws

that existed in the South.

For years now,

I have heard the word "wait."

It rings in the ear of every Negro

with piercing familiarity.

This wait has almost always meant never.

Justice too long delayed

is justice denied.

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