Let the Fire Burn Page #2
When Reverend Audrey Bronson wants to
practice her religion, nobody beats her up.
But when MOVE wanted to practice their
religion, people started talking about, uh,
"it's not done that way."
There are Catholics and Methodists,
evangelists, theologians, you name it.
We were the religion of life.
Where is it written that we could not
have a religion of our own?
Your brother, Vincent Leapheart
was John Africa, is that correct?
My brother, Vincent Leapheart,
was my brother.
John Africa was the founder
of the MOVE organization.
And they were one and the same?
I said my brother was my brother.
And I said John Africa was
the founder of the MOVE organization.
John-Vincent Leapheart
is my brother.
When Michael was about two years of age,
he was taken by his mother...
to a residence occupied by members
of an organization called MOVE.
And Michael was subsequently
given the name of Birdie Africa.
Michael Ward was, of course,
no more a member of MOVE...
than a child of Republican
or Democratic parents...
would be styled by
a particular party label.
He was throughout,
an absolutely innocent,
guiltless, and under the circumstances,
vulnerable child and youngster.
Now, when you go to school
and you embrace that education,
taught in school is separation...
is categorization,
alienation, conflict.
You're taught black, white,
blue, green.
Up, down, back, forth.
Taught, uh, Protestant, Catholic.
Taught Yale, Harvard.
Conflict. War.
You know, if a child does not know
that he is black and I am white,
if he is not taught
that categorization,
if he is not taught
that separation,
In the place of that,
all he can gravitate to,
all he can know is harmony,
is unity, is love.
Life! Life!
- Did you like raw food?
- Some of it.
Some of it?
What did you like particularly?
Watermelon, mangoes...
and sweet potatoes and onions.
And onions.
Did you all eat any meat at all?
Only one time
we ate raw chicken.
cooked food and the
children not eat cooked food?
Do you know?
They said they wasn't
used to raw food.
They weren't used to raw food
and the children were used to raw food.
Were you all ever punished
for taking the food or anything?
Yeah. Did they punish you
when you...
- They had meetings on us.
- They had meetings?
Would they ever hit the children?
Uh, so you didn't get any spankings
or anything like that?
- They didn't believe in spanking.
- They didn't believe in spankings.
I see. Did you, uh-When they holler at
the children, what would the children do?
- Cry.
- They would cry?
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