King Is Dead (1968)

that's right we should get together and kill white we should do something about kill them we should get something get together and blow them up they they Ain people they animals they're not human they're animal got chance to kill up kill all the Beast come here bobie you come here come here what you going hold all right you can film this they fighting about um King death you f that right there y be cool man you don't think nothing about it I don't think [Music] nothing it see if if they care anything about us we trying to make the Board of Education you know has some respect for the death that's right they don't have we out here no respect for him we ain't got no respect for him so we don't go to that's right and all don't got their [ __ ] up well that's respect that's [Music] us I know you you [Music] I what do you think about what do you think about the murder of Martin Luther King I think that's no good well what I think about it is um I think I feel like the rest of the color people around here that something should be de about it I mean uh right now they still haven't found the uh the murder yet and I think that we should be able to uh you know start something around here in order to find out what what we don't even know nothing what do you think you ought to start he well I think we ought to start our freedom uhhuh that's what I'm for I'm For Freedom how do you do that how do you get that how do you do that the only thing I know is kill like they kill that's that's that's my proposition kill like they kill all right take two take 10 for everyone they killol we going R we going to put the [Music] in one thing you know this is this is this is Negro himself you know this is all negro actually this is not so man because all people they have just as many intelligence as they have finger poppers this is not necessarily man the the expression of the ghetto this finger popping and Jack this ain't right and all that jazz you know what I mean everybody this is a thing this is a move actually that's all man it's not necessarily a way of expressing yourself correctly because if you don't like something you have to get the cross of the people you're not supposed to go along with with whichever way they want to reject you and your stereotype you know you know because they say the black man like a basical and he's this and that and the other but he's not really and way I feel my this ain't it this ain't where it's at man I don't feel this way you know and it's all a the whole thing is a plot man as long as they can project us like this to the to the rest of the world they'll say well we don't need anything we don't want anything anyhow we're satisfied popping our fingers and Jazz as far as we concern we need an instant to okay hold silence they would say now the Negro is INF fuor by Nature because of Noah's curse and so one brother during the days of slavery wanted to justify slavery and uh he had set his argument up on the framework of Aristotle's thinking he could say now all men are made in the image of God then came his minor premise God has everybody knows is not a negro therefore the Negro is not a man they argue now on more cultural and subtle sociological grounds uh the Negro is not culturally ready for integration and uh if you integrate uh schools and if you integrate too much uh the Negro will pull the white race back a generation and then they go on to say you know that the Negro is inherently criminal and all of these things now these people never say to us that many of these problems are problems of urban dislocation and that poverty ignorance and disease breed crime whatever the racial group may be that these conditions are environmental and not racial and it is a torturous logic to use the tragic results of segregation and discrimination as an argument for the continuation of it but I submit to you this evening that this way of nonviolence will help us not to seek to rise from a position of disadvantage to one of advantage Is Us subverting justice we will not substitute one tyranny for another for black Supremacy is as dangerous as white supremacist the time to do right is now and that the time is always right to do [Music] right