A lot of these young folk abandoned the journey and the trajectory laid forth by their fathers and grandfathers. While their fathers and grandfathers were entrepreneurs, who had bus lines, who had stores, who had dentist offices and doctor's offices. Rather than going the way of their fathers and grandfathers, they chose to become militants. They chose to let their hand off of the proverbial plow and instead pick up a picket sign, because they thought that that ticket sign would get them the success that they so craved.
Let me tell you something man, if you don't want me to eat in your store or eat in your restaurant, just let me know.
MLK. Because of this system, they would have to eat up front and we would have to eat in the back. We can't even communicate. We have some dear white friends here, who are with us, and we want to eat together.
I'm not gonna be beggin' to give you my money.
00:20. I'm far more concerned about the good, the decent people who quietly pack their bags and move away. And this it seems to me is more damaging to our cause and more dangerous to the total cause of integration.
Under Martin Luther King's tutelage, you saw this pathetic proliferation of black intellectuals coming out speaking in such a way as if their dignity and self-worth as men depends upon how many white people let black people into their spaces.
The people who will say, "I'm with you," "I am for you," but what about property values and the man's right to run his business?
Their objective was to use the arm of the federal government to force even private owned companies to serve and to hire who they, the Civil Rights activists, said they should serve and hire.
MLK. We have asked for upgrading in employment in the stores so that you have negro clerks and negro sales men and women.
01:18. I believe that we should call upon the federal government and I'm happy that the federal government is now working on . . .
The negro college student is destined to be leaders of their race . . .
Because they went to the university is where they received Marx's sociology training, these black intellectuals just assume the position of speaking on behalf of black Americans at large.
Segregation to the average negro means being held back. He's looking for progress, he wants to move forward and the American mainstream segregation holds him back.
01:49. All of the training they received was in the vein of activism in the soft sciences. None of them have ever run a business before. None of them actually knew what it was like to work with your hands, and so they completely disregarded the fact that blacks actually owned businesses, that blacks were actually entrepreneurial.
"Thousands of businesses owned and operated by Negroes it would be difficult to name a business or profession in which the Negro has failed to find opportunity."
This is what they did. I was born in the Jim Crow South. My people were part of that. They had towns like that all the way through the South where black people run these towns, where they have their own schools, where they have their own sheriffs, their own police departments, own municipalities, and there were safe places for black people to go.
02:41. I look at it and I think it through. Nobody can deny what you're saying. Nobody can deny that something happened in the sixties with the Civil Rights movement and Civil Rights Act. Something happened. How do we go from accelerating in a pace greater than white people to decelerating at a pace greater than any other race?
Many of the students work with Dr. Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
We have utterly pushed aside the old "stymated" adult leadership in the South and we have organized ourselves into student groups, into student protests, nonviolent protest groups.
A lot of these young folk abandoned the journey and the trajectory laid forth by their fathers and grandfathers. While their fathers and grandfathers were entrepreneurs, who had bus lines, who had stores, who had dentist offices and doctor's offices. Rather than going the way of their fathers and grandfathers, they chose to become militants. They chose to let their hand off of the proverbial plow and instead pick up a picket sign, because they thought that that ticket sign would get them the success that they so craved.
BE SURE TO CHECK OUT THIS VIDEO where at the 00:39 minute mark it is noted that
The presumptive head of the Civil Rights Movement happened to be a black man, Martin Luther King. Stanley Levinson was always in his ear, always in his ear. Levison was a secular Jew who was committed to the idea of social justice. He wrote everything that MLK said publicly. Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, Martin Luther King, 1958, and Strength to Love, 1963. [Levison] ghostwrote every book and article published under King's name. Dr. King knew that Stanley was a communist, but since he too shared Levison's Marxist sensibilities, he was all too willing to accept the leadership of Levison.
Marxists wrote King's speeches so well that even conservatives were duped.
02:18 Giving the Negro an equal break is not enough.
I'm going to bring the government down and have them put a gun to your head.
