Allen Building Crisis: Tape #11
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(applause and cheers) | 0:03 | |
- | And you know why else I'm here? | 0:11 |
'Cause I don't accept geographical limitations | 0:13 | |
when my black brothers and sisters are involved. | 0:16 | |
And so I'm here because they're here, | 0:19 | |
and I'm gonna be here. | 0:21 | |
And I'm also here because I've worked to try and change | 0:23 | |
the lives of all poor people. | 0:27 | |
And one of the things that has been standing in the way | 0:29 | |
of changing the lives of poor people | 0:33 | |
have been black Uncle Toms and white Uncle Toms. | 0:35 | |
When these brothers and sisters out here | 0:38 | |
start talkin' 'bout doing their thing and doin' it right, | 0:39 | |
that means we gonna start gettin' rid of those Toms | 0:41 | |
that we been graduating out into the black community, | 0:43 | |
and they're gonna start dealing with | 0:46 | |
the rest of the brothers and sisters out there. | 0:48 | |
And so I wanna be here to celebrate | 0:50 | |
the death of the Uncle Toms. | 0:52 | |
And we gonna celebrate that tonight | 0:54 | |
'cause Uncle Tom's dead on Duke's campus. | 0:55 | |
(applause) | 0:58 | |
He's gone. He's dead. | ||
And he sees, you know, all the little boys | 1:01 | |
that came to Duke. | 1:03 | |
They ain't here no more. | 1:05 | |
They been replaced by black men. | 1:06 | |
All of the little girls that came here, they gone. | 1:08 | |
Ain't nothin' here now but revolutionary black sisters. | 1:11 | |
And that's what we talkin' about. | 1:15 | |
(applause) | 1:17 | |
And the other reason I'm here is because Duke, | 1:18 | |
Duke is still messin' over the non-academic workers. | 1:21 | |
They still messin' over. | 1:26 | |
Duke still owns slum houses. | 1:27 | |
They build a few trees around it, | 1:30 | |
but they still slum houses. | 1:32 | |
Duke still owns it. | 1:34 | |
Duke is still gettin' into shaky dealings | 1:36 | |
with the housing authority. | 1:38 | |
And lemme run it down to you. | 1:40 | |
Wasn't too long ago that a man | 1:41 | |
who's the chairman of the housing authority | 1:45 | |
also was working with one of those mills out there. | 1:47 | |
The one that's right next to Durham. | 1:50 | |
He was on the board. | 1:52 | |
And they had some land. | 1:53 | |
Of course this was a business. | 1:54 | |
Then the business has to pay taxes on the land. | 1:56 | |
But Duke is an educational institution. | 1:58 | |
They don't have to pay taxes. | 2:00 | |
So Duke bought the land from mill | 2:02 | |
so Duke don't have to pay taxes on the land. | 2:05 | |
But then housing authority turned around | 2:07 | |
and bought some apartments from Duke | 2:09 | |
even though nobody wants those apartments. | 2:11 | |
Now I ask you, how is it that a man who's on | 2:13 | |
the board of this mill and on the housing authority board, | 2:16 | |
how did they all get involved in Duke? | 2:21 | |
And how did Duke end up selling these apartments | 2:23 | |
after they had just bought some land? | 2:25 | |
It couldn't be because they wanted to get | 2:27 | |
their money reimbursed, could it? | 2:28 | |
It couldn't be that there was any involvement | 2:31 | |
in that at all, could it? | 2:33 | |
Could of been it was a coincidence, wasn't it? | 2:35 | |
'Cause when white people. | 2:37 | |
(applause and cheers) | 2:38 | |
And see, just let me say one thing. | 2:46 | |
You know, like, people say, | 2:49 | |
whatcha all want with a Afro studies program? | 2:51 | |
Why can't you all take the courses we take? | 2:53 | |
Why can't you all learn about literature | 2:55 | |
like we learn about it? | 2:57 | |
Hell, everybody reads Shakespeare. | 2:59 | |
Everybody can, you know, run around, et tu Brutus. | 3:00 | |
Everybody can run around being Hamlet. | 3:03 | |
Everybody can run around tryin' to be Romeo and Juliet. | 3:05 | |
Hell, we don't wanna be Romeo and Juliet! | 3:09 | |
We wanna be Willie Ann and Willie James is who we are! | 3:11 | |
(applause) | 3:15 | |
We can't learn about ourselves talkin' 'bout | 3:17 | |
snow-capped valleys and mountains where we live. | 3:20 | |
On tobacco fields and ain't no mountains | 3:24 | |
on the eastern part of North Carolina nowhere! | 3:27 | |
And so we gonna learn about that. | 3:30 | |
That's why we gotta have... | 3:32 | |
We gotta believe in ourselves. | 3:33 | |
We gotta know who we are. | 3:34 | |
And only we can do that. | 3:36 | |
And you see, we can't do that unless you have | 3:37 | |
an Afro studies program that we can control. | 3:39 | |
That we can control. | 3:42 | |
You see, because unless you control somethin' | 3:44 | |
you can't really deal with it. | 3:45 | |
So you know, this is all that this is all about. | 3:47 | |
You know, the time has really come, you know like. | 3:50 | |
I would like to get into name things. | 3:54 | |
And one thing I hate to do is to come up | 3:55 | |
and to give white people therapeutic tongue lashings. | 3:57 | |
You know, you invite the town militant. | 4:01 | |
And he gets up and he (howls). | 4:04 | |
Then you know, everybody goes out sayin' | 4:07 | |
he really cussed us out. | 4:08 | |
I feel good. | 4:09 | |
I don't want you to feel good! | 4:10 | |
(applause) | 4:12 | |
You know, I don't want you to feel good. | 4:17 | |
I want you to go out here and feelin' bad. | 4:19 | |
Just like I feel. | 4:21 | |
I feel bad. | 4:23 | |
And that's how I want you to feel. | 4:24 | |
So I ain't up here trying to give you | 4:25 | |
no psychological thing. | 4:27 | |
I'm up here trying to tell you, | 4:30 | |
look, I don't care what you call it yourselves. | 4:31 | |
You know, like radicals, liberals. | 4:34 | |
I don't care what you call yourselves. | 4:36 | |
What I want is, are you a human being? | 4:37 | |
And if you're a human being, are you ready to deal | 4:39 | |
with some black human beings | 4:41 | |
who are trying to gain their humanity? | 4:43 | |
I don't care what you calling yourselves. | 4:45 | |
See because, you talk about radicals | 4:46 | |
like that's a dirty word. | 4:48 | |
All you Christians talkin' 'bout radicals. | 4:50 | |
What in the hell would you have called Jesus Christ? | 4:52 | |
What would you of called him? | 4:55 | |
(applause) | 4:56 | |
What would you of called your man? | 4:57 | |
Do you know that most of y'all woulda turned your back | 5:00 | |
on the man that you go to on Sundays | 5:02 | |
in your hypocritical fashion. | 5:05 | |
Because he was a radical. | 5:08 | |
The cat had a beard. | 5:09 | |
According to the thing, he had all that long hair. | 5:10 | |
What is that? | 5:13 | |
What do you call people like that today? | 5:15 | |
You don't wanna be associated with 'em. | 5:16 | |
You know what that means? | 5:18 | |
You couldna be associated with that man. | 5:20 | |
You wasn't ready for that man. | 5:21 | |
He was too radical for you. | 5:23 | |
Now all y'all Christians hollerin' 'bout other people | 5:24 | |
who go to hell. | 5:27 | |
Hell, I don't care if you grow your hair | 5:28 | |
down to your feet. | 5:29 | |
All I wanna know is when this deal goes down | 5:31 | |
on Duke's campus, where you gonna be? | 5:32 | |
Where you gonna be? | 5:36 | |
I don't care how you talk. | 5:37 | |
I don't care if your accent is southern, | 5:38 | |
deep southern, or deep, deep southern. | 5:40 | |
I just wanna know where you gonna be. | 5:42 | |
Where you gonna be when the deal goes down? | 5:44 | |
And lemme tell you somethin'. | 5:46 | |
If it means that every black student | 5:48 | |
and me and everybody else we can get together | 5:50 | |
is gonna get wiped off of this place, | 5:53 | |
then that's how it's gonna be. | 5:55 | |
'Cause y'all-- | 5:56 | |
(applause) | 5:57 | |
If we're not gonna deal with black students, | 6:00 | |
beautiful as they are, enough of 'em | 6:02 | |
are ready to go home and let y'all have | 6:05 | |
y'all's white institution to yourself. | 6:07 | |
The time now is that y'all gonna have to deal with us. | 6:10 | |
And all we wanna know is, are you ready for it? | 6:14 | |
Are you ready for it? | 6:17 | |
And don't be ready on our account. | 6:19 | |
Understand this. | 6:21 | |
Don't be ready on our account. | 6:22 | |
Be ready on your account. | 6:24 | |
Be ready (applause) because this thing is you. | 6:28 | |
It's you! | 6:33 | |
It's time that you address yourself to all 'em | 6:34 | |
old white people who keep running your life. | 6:37 | |
Old white people on the draft board. | 6:40 | |
Old white people on the trustee board. | 6:42 | |
Old white people on the school board. | 6:44 | |
Old white people on the city council. | 6:46 | |
They got, down there in Orange County, | 6:48 | |
they're so old they have to wheel 'em in. | 6:49 | |
(laughter and applause) | 6:52 | |
You gotta start deciding, | 6:53 | |
are those people going to run your lives? | 6:55 | |
Or are you going to begin to have something | 6:57 | |
to say about it? | 6:58 | |
And I suggest to you that now is the time for you | 6:59 | |
to make that decision. | 7:03 | |
Because if there is no struggle, there is no progress. | 7:05 | |
And those of us who profess to savor freedom | 7:10 | |
but yet deprecate agitation are men who want the crops | 7:13 | |
without plowing up the ground. | 7:17 | |
We want the rain without the thunder and the lightning. | 7:19 | |
We want the ocean without the awful roar of its water. | 7:21 | |
This struggle may be a moral one, | 7:24 | |
or it may be a physical one. | 7:28 | |
Or it may be both a moral and a physical one. | 7:30 | |
But it must be a struggle. | 7:33 | |
Because power concedes nothin' without a demand. | 7:34 | |
It never did, and it never will. | 7:38 | |
And men may not get all that they pay for in this world, | 7:41 | |
but they most certainly must pay for all that they get. | 7:45 | |
And people are oppressed because they allow themselves | 7:48 | |
to being oppressed. | 7:53 | |
And until people meet this oppression | 7:54 | |
with words or blows or both, it will continue. | 7:57 | |
The limits of titles are prescribed | 8:01 | |
by the endurance of the people whom they oppress. | 8:04 | |
Right on. | 8:07 | |
(applause and cheers) | 8:08 | |
- | As our last speaker, we've invited somebody | 9:14 |
from the Free Academic Senate, Doctor Tom Rainey. | 9:16 | |
(applause) | 9:20 | |
- | It's a little like following Christ on the cross. | 9:36 |
(laughter) | 9:38 | |
I'd like to address a few words | 9:47 | |
to the academic delinquents on this campus, | 9:49 | |
the faculty of Duke University. | 9:51 | |
(applause and cheers) | 9:54 | |
I submit that the faculty of Duke University | 10:01 | |
is both intellectually and morally decrepit. | 10:03 | |
The faculty of this university, | 10:09 | |
while the action was over here on this campus, | 10:12 | |
was over on the other campus voting for | 10:15 | |
the indiscriminate use of force on this campus. | 10:17 | |
How in the hell can these people, | 10:23 | |
who live in segregated communities, | 10:27 | |
empathetically project themselves | 10:30 | |
into the lives of black men? | 10:31 | |
How in the hell can these people, | 10:35 | |
who's battle cries are update the bibliography, | 10:38 | |
(laughter and applause) | 10:41 | |
secure the grant, | 10:51 | |
and publish and perish, | 10:54 | |
that's the way it should be, | 10:57 | |
relate to students? | 11:01 | |
And what's more, how in the hell can they understand | 11:04 | |
what students want when they're reserving | 11:08 | |
their activism to the library and to the office? | 11:12 | |
You are out of their minds, baby! | 11:17 | |
All the time you are out of their minds. | 11:20 | |
(applause) | 11:23 | |
These people, | ||
two dimensional gray men, | 11:26 | |
ain't got the right to teach you. | 11:28 | |
And they ain't got the right to teach me. | 11:30 | |
(applause) | 11:33 | |
Lemme string it all out. | 11:40 | |
Lemme give you an example of | 11:46 | |
their academic irresponsibility. | 11:50 | |
Let's call 'em the Campus Five. | 11:56 | |
The five people who faced the Man down in Durham yesterday. | 12:01 | |
The five people who faced jail, | 12:10 | |
who faced fines, | 12:13 | |
who face years of appeals perhaps. | 12:15 | |
This could of happened to any of us. | 12:20 | |
We must support these people. | 12:23 | |
And we must demand and receive | 12:26 | |
explicit clarification on this. | 12:29 | |
We must demand that the administration of this university | 12:32 | |
intervene in their behalf now. | 12:36 | |
(applause) | 12:39 | |
There's a crisis on this campus, it seems to me. | 12:52 | |
I say no more vigils. | 12:59 | |
I say no more administrative bullshit. | 13:03 | |
(cries of approval and applause) | 13:06 | |
I say we can no longer negotiate with people who have | 13:09 | |
negotiated to the death the black demands | 13:14 | |
that have been made. | 13:17 | |
We cannot make demands with people who brought the police | 13:19 | |
and gassed down this campus. | 13:22 | |
And that's the faculty of the university | 13:24 | |
and the extension of that faculty, the administration. | 13:27 | |
(audience members shouting inaudibly) | 13:30 | |
One last word. One last word. | 14:01 | |
Brothers and sisters, this is an Augean stable. | 14:06 | |
And unless you help us clean it out, | 14:09 | |
it ain't gonna get cleaned out. | 14:11 | |
(applause and cheers) | 14:13 | |
- | All right, I'm only gonna make a couple of | 14:24 |
very brief remarks. | 14:25 | |
Angry Audience | Who are you? | 14:27 |
- | All right! You wanna find out, I'll tell you. | 14:30 |
I'm Nelson Libs, I'm an instructor in physics. | 14:32 | |
All right? | 14:34 | |
Now, A, I object to Mr. Rainey's general statement | 14:35 | |
that nobody works that is teaching, | 14:41 | |
one of the reasons it's not a particularly fine university. | 14:42 | |
This is, I assure you, one of the better | 14:44 | |
of the second-rate universities | 14:47 | |
because people here work | 14:48 | |
too god damn hard at their teaching. | 14:50 | |
I sit in a department, | 14:52 | |
I sit in a department with a reasonable number | 14:54 | |
of fairly competent people who break | 14:57 | |
their goddamned necks writing their lecture notes out | 14:59 | |
so that you can read them. | 15:02 | |
Who don't produce half as much as they do | 15:03 | |
in places like Chicago and Penn | 15:05 | |
and other places that I've been. | 15:07 | |
Because they're too goddamned concerned with the students. | 15:09 | |
Only one second point. | 15:11 | |
I was at the faculty meeting. | 15:13 | |
(scattered applause) | 15:16 | |
Your hair won't fall off, kid. It's all right. | 15:17 | |
I was at the faculty meeting, and I assure you | 15:19 | |
that the initial decision was made by President Knight | 15:23 | |
and the Chairman of the Board of Trustees. | 15:26 | |
A large number of people walked out of that faculty meeting | 15:29 | |
because any decision that was made | 15:31 | |
was made without the concurrence of the faculty. | 15:33 | |
It was made independently. | 15:36 | |
On the other hand, the great majority... | 15:37 | |
I'll tell you how I voted. | 15:39 | |
The great majority of the faculty, myself included, | 15:41 | |
voted to support President Knight | 15:44 | |
because I'll be goddamned if I'm gonna be associated with | 15:47 | |
a university that thinks that rational discourse | 15:50 | |
consists of barring yourself into | 15:53 | |
the administration building. | 15:55 | |
(jeers and boos) | 15:58 | |
That's all I have to say. | 16:04 | |
(loud jeering) | ||
- | Are there any other spokesman for the other side? | 16:17 |
(laughter) | 16:20 | |
(shouting) | 16:22 | |
It seems to me. | 16:37 | |
- | They don't even have the right to call a faculty meeting. | 16:38 |
Why on earth the university to date has nobody | 16:44 | |
in this system can even vote in the fact? | 16:47 | |
(raucous laughter and applause) | 16:50 | |
- | That is... | 16:57 |
That is very true. | 17:06 | |
I am a very small, part-time instructor at this university. | 17:07 | |
And I received a note in my box which read as follows, | 17:11 | |
there's a meeting of the faculty at 4 pm. | 17:15 | |
You are invited. | 17:18 | |
However, you may not vote. You may not speak. | 17:19 | |
That's the message I got as an instructor. | 17:23 | |
So if he's an instructor or below the rank | 17:26 | |
of an assistant professor, he had those same rights. | 17:27 | |
I could stand there and shuffle, I suppose. | 17:31 | |
(laughter and applause) | 17:33 | |
And I'm not so sure that preparing lectures is teaching. | 17:37 | |
(applause) | 17:41 | |
John? | 17:48 | |
(audience member mumbling inaudibly) | 17:50 | |
- | The faculty was informed beforehand | 17:55 |
and they could vote after that, alright? | 17:57 | |
And it wouldn't make any difference | 17:59 | |
and it might add his name to sedition | 18:00 | |
in the faculty and intellectually is | 18:03 | |
something the faculty won't even accomplish. | 18:05 | |
But they should've said that | 18:08 | |
and that's part of what the problem is. | 18:09 | |
(applause) | 18:13 | |
(all shouting inaudibly) | ||
- | I've been introduced in many ways. | 18:45 |
Mark says I'm a lackey, I think Tom, before | 18:48 | |
introduced me as bullshit because I represent | 18:52 | |
the administrative part of the university. | 18:56 | |
(applause) | 18:57 | |
And I'm sure there's many others who could | 19:02 | |
put other epitaphs on my name. | 19:03 | |
(cheering and applause) | 19:06 | |
I happen to be one and maybe it's one of the few in | 19:16 | |
this crowd that does not believe that the action | 19:18 | |
in this university or that the changes in this university, | 19:26 | |
many of which are certainly just as necessary, I think, | 19:30 | |
as some of you do but the action of taking over a building | 19:37 | |
and I want to make a section of the building and make | 19:42 | |
myself clear, I'm talking to what I hope were at one time | 19:44 | |
and I still think are, some friends and some people I have | 19:49 | |
great respect for in the black community, alright, | 19:53 | |
I know, oh Jesus, I know, I'm talking to you what I think | 19:57 | |
now and what I feel, I'm not talking to you as oh Jesus. | 20:00 | |
Now what I'm telling you is that what can happen on this | 20:09 | |
campus is a situation that can provide for us anarchy. | 20:15 | |
I believe this completely, it can lead to it. | 20:19 | |
It can bring other forces, other repressive forces on | 20:22 | |
this campus in which the university and the President | 20:25 | |
and you and I have no control over. | 20:32 | |
Now I think perhaps some of you would like this | 20:34 | |
and would desire this and would feel that this would | 20:38 | |
bring about the change in the institution that you | 20:40 | |
so ardently desire, this is where you and I have a definite | 20:43 | |
and I think an honest disagreement. | 20:50 | |
And that's not funny to have a disagreement. | 20:56 | |
That's part of the reason we have educational institutions, | 20:58 | |
to provide areas where disagreement can take place. | 21:01 | |
And this is not a repressive institution in this respect. | 21:06 | |
Wade Norris indicated to you some of the factors of | 21:11 | |
some of the studies that have been made. | 21:15 | |
In certain areas, he was talking about I didn't see | 21:17 | |
any of this repressive aspect here. | 21:20 | |
Now there's a hell of a distance we've got to go | 21:23 | |
but by God, we've got to go it together. | 21:26 | |
Now I wanna tell you a couple of things. | 21:29 | |
No, this is not a matter of joining. | 21:31 | |
This is not a matter of joining and polarizing. | 21:35 | |
(angry shouting from audience) | 21:38 | |
Alright, Knight isn't here, that's perfectly evident. | 21:45 | |
I ardently hope and will do in all in my power, | 21:53 | |
what little power that is to have Knight appear, alright. | 21:58 | |
To have Knight appear and it think he wants to appear. | 22:03 | |
Tonight, now wait a minute, alright, now just wait a minute. | 22:08 | |
All of you have had your opportunity here. | 22:11 | |
He will appear on WDBS tonight, alright, | 22:15 | |
to speak to the campus community, he will respond | 22:20 | |
I think to some hard questions, some same questions that | 22:24 | |
I have and I think I share some of the questions with you. | 22:27 | |
That, you ask me what is he going to do today as far | 22:33 | |
as communicating and talking with the student body. | 22:38 | |
That is what he is going to do today. | 22:41 | |
Now to many of you that's not sufficient, I recognize this. | 22:43 | |
But that's what he's going today, at 6:30 on WDBS. | 22:47 | |
I hope many of you will be listening on the radio. | 22:51 | |
Now there've been some questions raised, specific | 22:56 | |
questions and I'm not gonna take much time. | 22:59 | |
You heard me out at the forum and you're tired of | 23:01 | |
hearing me, most likely. | 23:04 | |
(jeering) | ||
That's right, I'm not surprised. | 23:06 | |
But I hope some of you aren't. | 23:09 | |
At any rate, there have been honest efforts made. | 23:12 | |
There have been things done in regard to our black students. | 23:16 | |
(angry jeering) | 23:20 | |
I don't think you really want me to go through the list. | 23:23 | |
There were 12 identifiable needs, all 12 of them being | 23:25 | |
in my way of being able to interpret it and I certainly | 23:31 | |
can interpret the needs as Michael McBride | 23:35 | |
and Howard Fuller, I couldn't pretend to. | 23:39 | |
And I don't pretend to, alright, I agree. | 23:41 | |
They do need to get all the input possible to have | 23:46 | |
a responsibility in this area, now I wanna tell one | 23:51 | |
of the problems here and that is, and this is a problem | 23:54 | |
for the university and that is the time of the black | 23:58 | |
student to be able to have input. | 24:00 | |
Our committee was immobilized from mid or early December | 24:03 | |
until the beginning of this semester because our black | 24:09 | |
students didn't have the where with all in time because | 24:12 | |
of the demands of academic pressure to work with this group. | 24:16 | |
Now am I wrong, Chuck, Chuck, am I wrong? | 24:20 | |
- | Yeah. | 24:26 |
- | Yeah. | |
- | Chuck, am I wrong? | 24:28 |
Alright, I can only say what I have been told by some | 24:34 | |
of the people in the Afro American Society. | 24:38 | |
(jeering) | 24:41 | |
I won't get into an argument from here. | 24:45 | |
I don't think that serves any purpose. | 24:47 | |
But Chuck, I think you know what I'm talking about. | 24:48 | |
(applause) | 24:51 | |
(angry jeering) | ||
Alright, now let me tell you, I don't think I'm gonna. | 24:54 | |
There's no reason to go over these 12 points. | 24:56 | |
But 10 of the 12 points have been resolved. | 24:59 | |
The most important of the two have not been resolved. | 25:03 | |
Namely we're talking about curriculum and areas like this. | 25:07 | |
Now there are other points that have been brought up | 25:10 | |
which are in addition and we're not gonna speak to | 25:12 | |
those because I don't know the answer to some of them. | 25:14 | |
(angry shouting inaudibly from audience) | 25:17 | |
May I go over the list then, if I might? | 25:24 | |
(applause) | 25:26 | |
And I'll go over them very quickly. | 25:28 | |
Alright, very quickly down the list. | 25:33 | |
Black newspapers and as I said out there, | 25:35 | |
some of these are going to seem strange to you at this | 25:37 | |
point and some of 'em are gonna seem funny to you | 25:40 | |
but these were the identifiable needs at that time. | 25:41 | |
That was on October the 15th, black newspapers, | 25:45 | |
journals and reference works requested by the Afro | 25:48 | |
American Society identified by that group all of | 25:51 | |
which have been added to the library and are there | 25:54 | |
for your perusal, white and black students. | 25:57 | |
And I advise that all of you make yourselves aware of them. | 26:00 | |
Recruiting in admissions, students have been used. | 26:06 | |
In the state of North Carolina, black students | 26:10 | |
in assisting in recruiting, they also are going to be | 26:12 | |
used outside of the state in the metropolitan areas | 26:17 | |
to assist in recruiting black students. | 26:21 | |
Dr Valentine, I think as you know has been trying | 26:25 | |
to work with you and get a schedule. | 26:27 | |
This has been a problem, I think you know that. | 26:30 | |
It's been a problem of getting your released time. | 26:31 | |
I have something I'd like to comment on | 26:33 | |
that as part of a resolution there. | 26:35 | |
Summer preparatory program and a continuing program | 26:38 | |
during the academic year, as all of you know, | 26:40 | |
that is not only desperately needed but will take place | 26:43 | |
this summer, the commitment is there, it's absolute. | 26:47 | |
(applause) | 26:51 | |
The black week program and the work of the administration | 26:59 | |
both in the support of that program, in secure | 27:04 | |
helping, assisting and securing funds as well as | 27:07 | |
speaking towards the program, that has been done. | 27:10 | |
(applause) | 27:13 | |
A situation regarding a black barber, a barber who | 27:15 | |
is able to cut black hair. | 27:19 | |
As you know the position is open. | 27:23 | |
There's a chair down there, it's my understanding | 27:25 | |
that three people, three black barbers have applied | 27:27 | |
for the position and we're about at a point that one | 27:30 | |
of them accepting that position, white and black. | 27:33 | |
Beg Pardon? | 27:40 | |
(audience member mumbles) | ||
Alright, white and black hair, right. | 27:43 | |
(angry jeering from audience) | 27:45 | |
Alright, let me tell you why, let me tell you why. | 27:47 | |
In the first place, I'd like to know how one can get | 27:50 | |
a barber to come into that barber shop where he's | 27:53 | |
dependent on his income, partially on the number of | 27:57 | |
heads of hair he cuts, how are you going to get a barber | 28:00 | |
who wants to make an adequate wage to restrict himself | 28:04 | |
to the cutting of black hair, I think this is | 28:08 | |
an practical impossibility. | 28:10 |
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