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srtain members of the press here. Because what is ping on in the Atlant
- -ess towards SNCC and towards SNCC's Atlanta Project, you see. And you
teyre telling a whole lot of lies in order ali nato black people, you k.
.om each other, you know. The black advocates who are in Vine Ci ty . the
tlanta papers, you know, like this article on the editorial page today is
Ncusing SNCC of "spewing racial hatred", you know. Now, I've been their
The conuni ty working, you know, and I don't know of anything anybody ha,
aid that can be construed to be racial hatred, you see. And that there
defineni t attempt on the part of the Atlanta papers, you know, I mean, wt r
,u have a paper devoting its cartoon, Ralph McGill's column, Eugene Patters:
Alurm, plus the editorial column all to SNCC, you know, in a derogatory ma.:.
au know, something is wrong, you know. especially if all they are attackir,
s "black power". When you go back and look, you see, look at the records oa
iese so galled liberals - now, these are liberals like Ralph McGill and iugt
itterson. You go back and look at these articles that guys like these used
'o write, you know, ten or fifteen years ago, you see. So, I mean, like, yo
yow, that's my definition of a white liberal. They re turnii tail now, yo.
* ~ In other words, you know, as long as, you know, the white man has his
Out on our neck, you know, white liberals come up and say "you ought to 8qu
little faster", you know, I mean, you know, Ralph is going up and knocking
.ia hell out of s - eeM o. +a s+ se ^. - r ..,s . % ,,, r F . o he -
'lk about the
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.ay in the work that a s group is going today, In other words, taking bi
-;ver ar a terry and not trying to define it, how does integration work wit
Eck power? Or do you believe or do SNCC people believe as LeRoi Jones
separateat?
you mean by "integration". If you .-
uat whi te people from Beverly Hills are going to nove into Watts and ti
th us and send their kids to the schools in the black community; if ye
lik about whi te people in Lowndes County sending their kids to Lowzdes
'eedom Or anization schools and we sending sone of our kids to their
hoole, then I'm for that. That's integration. But when you talk about
gainingg the energies of my neighborhood and send them to your neighborhood
d tell e that because they go through there they're better and the rest
us are still bad because we haven't been through there, then you can
we your supremacy, because that's all it i s.
:ander: What about the work of this man in Vnr r rrCr h% SNCC want out?
you think he has a valid purpose there":
chapel Do you know, for a fact, that SNCC wants him outl You can
dngs around, baby, unless you work for the press and you're saying that
"s a press person,. (Laugh).,% . I * - . I1.1-. I 1 1
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