Summary

Bruce Gordon 11:50 So now we're leaning away from the street demonstrations. Now we're starting to reach out and grasp the vote. He actually did us a favor the white power structure here. This is a term that's been misused, I realize that, but it's the best term I can think of at the moment, the white power structure actually did us a favor by forcing us out of the streets, back into our homes and back into our churches, thinking that we go back to this place, we can't go back. But we've had to use our minds. How else can we bring about the change, to vote, the vote, the prime thing and in this American life of the people, by the people for the people that vote. And we're doing it without demonstrating. We're doing it without mass arrests or head beating. We're doing it slowly day by day. Tryingto vote has also forced us to raise the intellectual standard to raise the literacy standard here because many of the people are illiterate, they haven't had the opportunities of good schools. And so we've been forced to educate them and train them so that they can get past the voter registration tests. And just a little taste of knowledge is so sweet to them that they want more They hunger and thirst for they want to know how to read and write. They want to know how to spell correctly. They want to know how to add and subtract. And so we're beginning to set up schools for them here. The white man is acting reacted very badly to all of this. So far, the people, the townspeople themselves, haven't reacted violently because they place the competence and trust in the police department. The police can hold them niggers in line. But we're slowly showing them that they can't hold us in line and we're going to come forward no matter what happens no matter what you do. This is going to come about. But most of them actually believe that the majority of the people here really want to see this come about. Inside way down inside they realize this is right. But they get to a conflict up here. This filter. This filter that reacts between the senses that bring in the world from the outside and it filters it down to the soul filters the soul reaction back up into the to the outside world again, this this little filter that's conditioned to environment, the eyes aren't conditioned to environment, they'll just see. I mean, all right, if you live in a cave and see you in the dark a little bit better, but the eyes still just see, then the soul is not conditioned to environment. The heart is not conditioned to environment. Only the mind that little thing in between that. The id I guess you'd call it. I'm not much of a psychiatrist or a psychologist, but it seems like this, this interpretive device sort of blocks them for too long. They've been taught and they know that well negros are lazy. Negros don't bathe too often. I'm one to talk about haircuts. I wish I got a magiacal moment for my nose I'd go after and get a haircut more than the other. But at any rate, these things are suddenly just proven. The intellect just doesn't quite know how to react, nothing has been really put in its place that they can accept all of a sudden they must accept this person as a, as an individual that is just as good and sometimes better than I am. And they really can't do that it's really not a human reaction, it takes a lot more, to love to hate. It takes so much more to react with kindness than to react with violence. It really calls are an exercise in the mind, the heart and the soul and the unison, and some biases, that gives rise to actual individual instead of just to a violent beef, that really doesn't mean much one way or the other.