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nie a AR Me RE ENTE. on Ko ee hotr se eso! esas est RE: COUNTEROR1. /TA,: ION WEEK So that really we tried to move into bread and butter issues like housing, even though like many white people and many colored people.awe still concerned about open housing, we've been trying to close the housing that's been open for a long time. We moved, you know, into areas like welfare, recreation, < employment, et cetera. Now, as we were moving into these things, as JIM stated this afternoon, our movement was basically to be included into the decision making and we came out of some very naive bags like the prob:em is that black people just don't know how to work in this system. So what we got to do is to teach black people how to do that. So like we vote and we go to city council and we go to the Welfare Board, and go to all them folks. And we say "White folks, like we know y'all didn‘t know that we was living like this, but we've come here to tell you that we're living like this.“ And so here we are, and this is a democrach and now we know how to work in y'all's democracy. So here we are. Now that was a very naive, you know, kind of assumption. But in our honesty it was a basic assumption that we were operating from. A second kind of assumption was that although white people are, were, will, all that, racist, were racist, are racist, that when you confront them with a clear-cut and illegal action, even as they talk about illegal action, that they would do something. You know in other words, if you brought pictures of houses that were falling down, brought xerox copies of the building code that says houses shouldn't be falling down, and xerox copies of building code that said that the city is going to make the landlord fix the houses up that's falling down, then if we brought all that and let it out to them, little petition, got to have petition, got to be signed by five folks, that they would say lise “that's right," like “We going to fix the house.” Now you know, we laugh, but you got to understand that this is where we were coming from. And ~ n look, man we wrote petitions, we got petitions, mammy, we got petitions of everything. We got them from way back so you know, we're into that. And the 27