13th Page #2
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- 2016
- 100 min
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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.
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
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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