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. + - . * Re: Afro-American Broadcasting and Recording Company in these various countries were just socializing and had turned their backs on the cause of their black brothers here in _America. I heard a lot of complaints so we sat = 4zead . ah af the fe fened # bfra down and organized a branch of the Organization of Afro- American Unity (GAAU) in this country. “Y am not in @ society that practices brotherh I am in a society that might preach it on Sunday but they — do not practice it on no day, on any day; and since I could see that America itself is a society where there is no brotherhood and that this society is controlled primarily by racists and segregationists in positions of power from Washington, D.C. They exercise the sane forms of brutal oppression against dark skinned pecple in South and North Viet Nam, or in the Congo, or in Cuba, or in any other place on this earth where they are trying to exploit and oppress. This is a society whose government does not hesitate toe inflict the most brutal form of punishment and oppression against dark skinned people all over the world, to wit, right now what is going on in and around Saigon and Hanoi and in the Congo and elsewhere, They are viclent when their interests are at stake, but all of that violence that they display at the international level, when you and I want just a little bit of freedom, we are supposed to be non-violent. They are violent. They are violent in Korea, they are violent in Germany, they are violent in the South Pacific, they are violent in Cuba, they are violent wherever they go, but when it is time for you and me to pretect ourselves ,2gainst lynchers they tell us to be non-violent, That's a shame. Bearsuse we gat tricked inte being non-violent and when VAY FE Bee ee Oe ee Se ve ae er somebody stands up and talks just like I did they say, why, he is advocating violence. Every time you pick up newspaper you hear where one of these things has written into it I am advocating violence and I have never advocated any violence, I have only said that black people who are the victims of organized violence perpetrated on us by the Klan, the Citizens Councils, and many other forms, we should defend ourselves, When I say that we should defend ourgalvas againet the violence of others, they er a er es - teed dl NS Th a ——= = use their press skillfully to make the world believe that I am calling on violence, JI would not call on anybody to be viclent without a cause, but I think the black man in this country, above and beyond people all ever the world, will be more justified when he stands up 7