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Before the crowd in the ballroom All formerly ('assius (’lav was a showman a |xot and finally a preacher He warned the crowd with jokes and renditions of the poetry that had made him famous .is a fighter He recounted his history as a fighter making it sound like a fast merrygo-round ride But halfway through his speech the tone of the lecture changed and Alt said I have come to preach And preach he did His argument was simple He wantsblack separatism, a country or state for black people And he thinks the I nited States government should pay for itWe have been working to build up this country for 400 years When we were in slavery they promised us 40 acres and a mule Now you think about it Forty acres times 25 million black people And 25 million mules That would te just enough to start a country, he declared And All does believe that the black man must have his own land lb* equates landwith equality and freedomAt one time there were signs on a public beach that said No dogs or .lews Allowed he said so you know what theUrnJews did They got together and bought the beach1 I'his is what the black man has to do,”He followed tfit* demand for land with an argument in favor of separatism I sing the analogy of animals he stated tfi.tt black and white cannot live togetherin peace.Now vou white people out there, fie said you know in vour white and right' '.flW . ■hearts that you don't want black people coming around and marrying your sons and daughters and raising brown skinned kinkvhaired Negro babiesAnd you black people out there Vouknow in vtmir black and right hearts tfi.it you don t want your sons and daughters marrying white, and taising blue-eyed blond haired little Negroes You know it’That's fact! That's truth’He continued fry say ing that eagles and jaybirds can't live in harmony, and that tigers and leopards don’t mixThe same applies to us Black and white are opposite They are 1(H) per cent different.'*One questionei asked Ali if bethought(Continued on Page 6 B)
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Morgantown Post
Morgantown, West Virginia, US
Thu, Nov 06, 1969
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