For that black woman deciding to do it anyway and if it wasn't for that black woman teaching me how to do the same I would not be standing here today. Were it not for black women there would be no Underground Railroad no one to campaign against black bodies swinging from trees like Strange Fruit there would be no protest songs like the ones that came up from the toes through the woman up through the lungs and out the mouth in the mind of the brilliant Nina Simone there would be no black women voting like the 96 percent of us who did vote and said hell no to the said ministration there would be no America if there were not black women . This is an old to black women because black women are magic. Were it not for black women June Jordan never would have wrote a poem about her rights that I now have tattooed across my heart like a pledge and a promise were it not for black women there would have been no one to fight for me and I would not be here to fight alongside you when they said she can't she shouldn't she's too young she's too smart for her own good she's too disruptive she's too proud she's too bold to our day she has to persistent she took too long she should just give it up she can't succeed can't graduate high school can't graduate college and can't graduate from graduate school 8 years later can't cry out in the night the black lives actually do matter and can't ignite the imagination of millions does that black woman think she is well I'll tell you if it was an hour for black women were it not for black women this black woman standing right here in front of you would not have finished her degree while fighting for the rights of domestic workers and fighting for black lives all over the world including my own and fighting against corporate greed and baby You 100 point just 5 minutes from where we sit right now against the pointing of babies for profit fighting against kids being shot and killed on t. Trains and exposing sewage in public housing exposing the world that lives within the richest city in the world exposing police kicking down the doors of black women looking for their children to put in a cage instead of taking them to a college 7 or a job or a dream were it not for black women like Dr Dorothy Serota and Dr Donna Lissa Fisher and Lynette Schwartz Patrice colors and ate a program tray away and marital pop. Kalter and you and Jordan and Barbara Smith and Letty for Simon and Harriet Tubman like a partner Angela Davis Erika Huggins Linda Burnham Ty and us Ella Baker Brittany Cooper Sojourner Truth I'd a b. Wells Audrey Lourdes Mina Simone Maya hall penny proud Patricia Hill Collins Jesse Powell Betty against Joanna Abernathy Emma Harris Aspinall a Jackson a lot nettles aside a sick or remission McBride Janetta Johnson Kimberly Crenshaw Janet Mark miss major Griffin Gracie Dream Hampton Michelle Obama may at a pub called her and Korean games and so many others who spirits course through my blood there would be no me no you know us no civilized society of which we speak we I you and me we owe everything to black women. So yes all lives all contributions but this. This isn't to black women this is bigger than that this is about black women who are sister and are transgendered no gender disabled queer immigrant black women who time and time again keep trying to tell y'all better get showing y'all we are magic this is an ode to black women thank any and every god you want for the resilience determination audacity persistence dedication power presence willpower and the lifting up of all of us all the time without ever having been asked to do so 2 because we just do that this is an ode to the potential and the possible of the Praxis a brac women Congratulations to the class of 2017 and in particular Congratulations to the black women who persisted and the black women who helped them every step of the way let's go. So that was guys that were. Giving her giving a commencement speech as a state graduation ceremony just happened recently over an 18 to park across the bay and I want to share that with you. Tone setting. Piece I mean personally. I'm all about it I'm all for it but let's move on and to Angela Davis next. I too love Angela Davis has to say after that we'll hear a little bit from Malcolm x. And then after Malcolm x. I'm going to play the audio from the video of Eric Garner So you should know that that's coming and if that is something that you can't hear or don't want to hear. Do you know that it will be the 3rd different person that will come over your radio waves I'll come in again and let folks know just so everyone gets to know take care of themselves that quickly and all that. Much much more about the total. This is time of the Black Panthers past the very powerful still exist in the Black Panthers are still extremely active in the open community and in communities all over the country I'm not sure whether you are aware of what is now happening in the Black Panther Party in the kinds of things that members of that party are doing you tell me 1st of all if you're going to talk about a revolutionary situation you have to have people who are physically able to wage a revolution were physically able to organize and physically able to do all that is done but the question is how do you get. Confrontation and was that the question you were asked you. See that's the I mean that's another thing when you talk about a revolution most people think. Without realizing that the real content of any kind of revolutionary thrust law is in the in the principles and the goals that you're striving for not in the way you reach them on the other hand. Because of the way this is scientists organize because of the violence that exist on the surface everywhere you have to expect that there are going to be such explosions you have to expect things like that is reactions if you are a black person and the black community all your life and walk out on the street every day saying white policeman surrounding you. When I was living in Los Angeles for instance long before the situation that. Occurred I was constantly stopped noted that the police didn't know who are who I was but I was a black woman I had had a natural and I suppose thought that I might be a quote militant and when you live under a situation like that constantly. And time and then you. Ask me. You know whether I approve of violence and that just doesn't make any sense at all . Whether I approve guns I'd go up in Birmingham Alabama. Some very very good friends of mine were killed by bombs bombs that were planted by braces. I remembered for from the time I was very small I remember the sounds of bombs exploding across the street or how shaky I remember my father having to have guns or disposal at all times because of the fact that at any moment someone who we might expect to be attacked the man who was at that time in can complete control of the city government is name was Bull Connor. What I often get on the radio when make statements like. Niggas I moved into a white neighborhood we better expect some bloke shit tonight and sure enough there will be plugged shit. After the 4 young girls who were who live very few lives one of them lived next door to me I was very good friends with the sister of another woman my sister was very good friends with all 3 of them my mother taught one of them in a class by mother in fact when the bombing occurred one of the mothers of. One of the young girls called my mother and said. Can you take me down to the church to pick up Carol you know we heard about the bombing it and I don't have my car and they went down and what they found they found limbs and head strong all over the place and then after that in my neighborhood all the men. Organized themselves into an on patrol they had to take their guns and patrol our community every night because they did not want that to happen again and that's why when someone asked me about violence. I just I just found an incredible book is it what it means is that the person was asking that question has absolutely no idea what black people have gone through the back people who experience the country since the time the 1st black person was kidnapped from the shore was a rush to. Distinguish as brothers and sisters ladies and gentleman. Friends and enemies. I want to point out 1st that I happen to be here this evening. And I'm thankful for the invitation to come here to Detroit this evening I was in the House last night it was about. But I didn't they didn't destroy all my clothes but you know what happened on fire that you smoking on thing I can plant on. What I have on now. And. It wasn't it isn't something that made me lose confidence in what I'm doing got my wife understands and I have children. And even in their young age they understand I think they would rather have a father or brother or one of the situation maybe some will take a stand in the face of any kind of reaction. People rather than compromising later on that brought in shame and. So I just ask you to excuse my appearance I don't normally come out people without a. Shirt in a time I guess that's somewhat a holdover big like most movement which I was in and that's one of the good aspects of that movement it teaches you to be very careful and conscious of how you look at it which is a positive contribution on their part. But that positive contribution on their part is greatly offset by too many other liability. Before I get involved in anything nowadays I have this but not my own position and which is clear that I am not a racist and any form whatsoever I don't believe in and on racism I don't believe in any form of discrimination in the segregation I believe in Islam I'm a Muslim and there's nothing wrong with being a Muslim nothing wrong with the religion of Islam but just teaches us to believe in the law as God and those of you who are Christians probably believe in the same god . Because I think you believe in the God created the universe and that's the one we believe in the one who created the universe only difference being in calling. And we call in our law Jews call them just hold it if you can to understand Hebrew you'd probably call him the whole word to. You can understand. But since it is the white man your friend took your language away from here during slavery the only language you know is his lameness you know your friends when so you call him you call them the same God calls and he put a rope around your neck you go Oh God he calls a god. Thank you everyone there why when you call on the Rangers. Thank. You when I was in but most of the movement I wasn't we didn't have the real religion of Islam in that movement it was something else and the religion of Islam doesn't teach anyone to judge another human being by the color of his skin the yardstick that is used by the Muslim. Maybe another man is not man's color but the man's deeds the man's conscious behavior the man's intentions and when you use that as a standard of measurement or judgment you never go wrong but when you just judge a man because of the color of his skin then you're committing a crime because that's the worst kind of judgement if you judge is indeed because he wasn't viewed as not as bad or judging him because he's black because if you're going to hide his religion you can say something else which a lot of them do that they say there's something. But the black man when they start indicting us because of our color of it I mean when died before we were on which is the worst kind of crime that can be committed in 1100 that taught us that the white man could not enter into Mecca and Arabia and all of us about him we believe and he said the reason he couldn't that was because he's white and inherently evil it's impossible to change and the only thing that would seem him is Islam and he can't accept Islam because by nature he's evil and therefore by nothing. Little except become a Muslim he could never end and this one. And you know and so when I got over there and went to Mecca and saw these people who. Hails him and all those things I say well but I I watched him closely and I noticed that there was a though they were white and they would call themselves why it was the difference between them and the white one over here and that basic difference was this. In the Arab world are in Africa where the Muslims are if you find one who says he's white all these going is using an adjective to describe something this incidental about him one of his instant incidental terrorist attacks so although there's nothing else to it than just blank but when you get a white man over here in America and he says he's white he means something else you can listen to the sound of his voice when he say's what he means he's boss so. That's what might mean. In this language you know the expression 21 he made that he said you know all the mean the same like means 3 blocks is that it so that when he says he's white he has a little different sound in his voice and I know you know what I'm talking about just by the bank that I saw that Islam was a religion of brotherhood I also had to face reality and when I got back into this I met in society I'm not in a society that practices Brotherhood in a society that might preach it on Sunday but they don't practice that in on no that on any day. And so those things I could see that America itself is that. Where there is no brotherhood and that this is a scientist controlled primarily by racists and segregationists and it is. This is a society whose government doesn't hesitate to inflict the most brutal horror of punishment and oppression upon dark skin deep. Will all over the world to hit right now what's going on in. In and around Saigon and Hanoi and in the Congo and elsewhere they are violent when there is this are at stake but that when all of that violence that they display at the International that when you want I want just a little bit of freedom was supposed to be. There but they were violent in Korea they're fine in Germany they're bound in the South Pacific they're violent still with the violence wherever they go but when it comes to you and me to protect ourselves against lynchers they tell us to be known but. We should defend. And when I say we should defend against the violence of others they use their Prez hillbilly to make the world thing that I'm calling on. And I wouldn't call on anybody to be bound. Without a cause but I think the black man in this country above and the people all over the world. Will be more than justified when he stands up and starts to protect himself no matter how many necks he has been greater than he has to crack. I saw in the paper where they in the on the television where they took this black woman down and all of them and not her right down on the ground. Down the street you saw it you try to pretend like you didn't see it but unions it had done something about it and did it. Thanks so they shared and his henchmen. During this black woman on the ground. On the ground and Negro men standing around doing nothing about saying well let's overcome them without capacities of what kind of phrase is that over. And then it disgraces the rest of us because all over the world the picture is glass ceiling a black woman with white groups with an ease on her holding her down. Black men standing around why you are looking at it is they are most less day in the country. When I saw it I just passed a law to run. As one of educated well this link. And the wire said in essence that this is the reason warn him that I no longer held in check by the white supremacists by the hundreds separatist Black Muslim movement and that if. A presence in Alabama causes harm to Dr King or any other. Black person in Alabama who's doing nothing other than trying to enjoy their rights. Rockwell and his 2 clubs playing friends would be met with some retaliate from those of us who are not in this know. And I haven't heard from around. And brothers and sisters if you would. Would just realize that once we learn to talk the language that they understand they will get the point. You can never reach men if you don't speak. A man speaks the language of. You can't come in peace but he'll break windows as. I've been doing all the wrong. Commands big spring you can't speak to him in German if you speak Swahili you can't communicate with. Us to find out what does this man speak and once you know you know his language and know how to speak his leg and he'll get the point. Some communication and understanding will be developed and given in this country long enough to know the language the Klan speaks they only know one line and which is what I have to doing in 1065 I mean this with you have to do because most of us already been doing. Is stunning new lame learn the language that it is that they understand and then when they come upon those dead to talk we can talk. And they will get. Real good dialogue there will be some communication and I'm quite certain they will there will then be some understand why because the Klan is a cowardly outfit they may have perfected the art of making Negroes be a prick and as long as the negroes a free the Klan is safe but the claim itself is a thing of it's someone I'm never come after one of you. Come together. And use it is when they put in a rope around his neck same to give them a lot I know not what they do. As long as they've been doing it the experts say they know what I. Know since the federal government has shown that it isn't going to do anything about the coffee then it is a duty is you in my duty as miniscule mundane is that as I do to the people to organize. And let the government know that if they don't stop that Klan will stop. And then you see the government doing something about I don't think they want to do it just on some kind of morality snow. We only need. Vigorous action in self-defense and that bigger is actually we feel. Justified. In initiating by any means necessary. And when we say just the press calls us racers in reverse with skillful manipulating of the press they're able to make the victim look like a criminal and a criminal look like that right now and in New York we had a couple cases where the police let the other men mostly men charged him with assaulting a user tries to make it look like he's a criminal and they're going to this is not a dollar and if you study how they do it here then you know how do you know this is the same going all the done and if you want to know in a week if you see what these men are doing to us then. In between there and they have to guess with already built one realize that they are not I So that was enjoyed Davis followed by Malcolm x. . Who were both speaking around the same time active in the Civil Rights Movement of course. I want to share those with you because I thought they were interesting and. Provided. Viewpoints that sort of wrote rode along with each other but brought different perspectives. This next piece I'm going to play view is. Audio from the video of Eric Garner who was murdered by the New York Police Department. Being questioned and then handcuffed and then. Killed So if you don't want to hear that or can't hear that it will be about a minute 45 seconds long. But I just want to let you know Ok I got going what did you just say I just believe me I would just say that this is a quick ask. Me How can I. Make a. I'm serious. I'm not going to go. All over your. Books I was so anything. I did nothing to sit on tongue about this it's. Good to look at one that's a good one just as it were to. Do. This it was awful what every time you see the people that's when I talk to the sounds they raise force only ever before trying to lock somebody breaking up a fight. I must tell you to do something. I think I still don't know. Because every time you see you want to mess with the stuff you want to make money what this is all so. Among them of this is please leave me alone until the last of the old. Girl Who can touch me girl came over that's why it was. Here. Right now you don't. Really remember her but your neighborhood we're. Going to put it here in front of you and move Brotherhood you know everything is. Good once again. Come. Back. Way. Those changes by tube actually go. To progress in Peace Eric Garner rest in peace Oscar Grant rest in peace Trayvon Martin rest in peace. Everyone who has been murdered at the hands of police and military. And for the color of their skin for their belief system. And for who they love. And for where they live. Maybe they'll rest in peace. Got a little bit more free got about a little over 10 minutes on the air. In places where you. Tonight because my conscience leaves me no other choice I join you in this meeting because Simon deepish agreement with the aims and work. They are going to rise Asian Rich has brought us together. Cried j. And Lehmann concerned about Vietnam. In the recent statement which of your executive committee. Are the sentimental of my own heart and I found myself in a car. When I read its opening line it's a time comes when silence is betray you. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam the truth of these words is beyond doubt. But the mission to which they call us is a most difficult one. Even when pressed by the demands of an a truth. Men do not easily assume the task of opposing that government's policy is special and time of war. Not does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all of apathy of conformist thought with them in one's own bosom and in the surrounding world. Moreover when the issues at hand same as perplexing as they often do. And the case of this dreadful conflict. We always on the verge of being mesmerized by uncertainty but we must move on. And some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony but we must speak we must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision but we must speak. And we must rejoice as well for sure this is the 1st time in our nation's history. That a significant number of its religious leaders have chosen to move beyond the prophesies of Smoove patriotism to the high grounds of a fine descent based upon the mandates of conscience and the reading of history. Perhaps a new spirit is rising among us. If it is let us trace its movement and pray that our own in a being may be sensitive to its guidance but we are deeply in need of a new wave beyond the darkness that seems so close around us. Over the past 2 years as I have moved to break the betrayal of my own silences and to speak from the burnings of my own heart. As I have called for radical departures from the destruction of Vietnam many questions have questioned me about the wisdom of my path. At the heart of that concerns the score I have often the lodge and loud why are you speaking about the war Dr King. Why are you John ing divorces of dissent peace and civil rights don't mix they say onto hurting the cause of your people they ask and when I hear them they're out front on the stand the source of our concern. I'm nevertheless great delicious satin for such questions mean that the Enquirer's have not really known me my commitment or my calling. Indeed that question suggest. That they do not know the world in which they live. And the light of such tragic misunderstanding. I deem it of signal importance to try to state clearly and I trust concisely why I believe that the path from Dexter Avenue Baptist Church the church in Montgomery Alabama where I began my pastor it leads clear lead to this century where at tonight. I come to this platform tonight to make a passionate plea to my beloved nation. This speech is not addressed to had no eye to the National Liberation Front It is not addressed to China to Russia not is it an attempt to overlook the ambiguity of the total situation. And the need for a collective solution to the tragedy of Vietnam neither is it an attempt to make Navi at Nama the National Liberation Front power guns a virtue not to overlook the role they must play and the successful resolution of the problem. While they both may have justifiable reasons to be suspicious of the good faith of the United States life and history give eloquent testimony to the fact that conflicts are never resolved without trust given take on both signs tonight however I was not to speak with him nor in the National Liberation Front but rather odd to my fellow American and. That is that outside of our obvious and almost facile connection. Between the war in Vietnam and the struggle I and others had been waging in America a few years ago that was a shining moment in that struggle. It seemed as if that was a real promise of hope for the poor both black and white through the poverty program that our experiments hopes new beginning then came the buildup in Vietnam and I watched this program broken and if this were rated as if it was some idle political plaything of a society gone mad on wall and I knew that America would never invest. The necessary funds on energy is in rehab illa teaching of its poor so long as the adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction to. So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor. And to attack that is such. Perhaps a more tragic recognition of reality took place when it became clear to me that the wall was doing from more than devastating the hopes of the poor at home. It was sending vast sons and Bab brothers and husbands to fight and to die an extraordinarily high proportions relative to the rest of the population. We were taking the black young men. Who had been crippled by our society in sending them 8000 miles away to guarantee live it is in South East Asia which they have not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem. So we have been repeatedly faced with the crew on our name watching Negro and white boys on t.v. Screens as they kill and died together for a nation that has been unable to see them together in the same school. So we watched them and brutal solidarity burning the huts of a poor village but we realize that they were. The same. 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