to understand this you have to go back to what young brother here referred to as the house negro and the field negro back during slavery there was two kind of slaves there was the house negro in the field negro the house negro they lived in the house with master they dressed pretty good they ate good because they eat his food what he left they lived in the attic or the basement but still they live near their master and they love their master more than the master loved himself they would they would give their life to save their master's house quicker than the master would the house negro if the master said we got a good house here the house negro said yeah we got a good house here whenever the master said we he said we that's how you can tell a house negro if the masters if the master's house caught on fire the house negro would fight harder to put the blaze out then the master would if the master got sick the house negro would say what's the matter boss we think breathed it [Music] he identified himself with his master more than his master identified with himself and if you came to the house negro and said let's run away let's escape let's separate that house negro would look at you and say man you crazy what you mean separate where is there a better house than this where can i wear better clothes than this where can i eat better food than this that was that house negro in those days he was called a house [ __ ] and that's what we call him today because we still got some house [ __ ] running around here this modern house negro loves his master he wants to live near him he'll pay three times as much as the house is worth just to live [ __ ] master and then brag about i'm the only negro out here i'm the only one on my job i'm the only one in this school you nothing but a house negro and if someone come to you right now and say let's separate you say the same thing that the house negro said on the plantation what you mean separate from america this good white man where are you going to get a better job than you get here i mean this is what you say i ain't left nothing in africa that's what you say why you left your mind in africa on that same plantation there was the field negro the field negro those were the masses there was always more negroes in the field than there was negroes in the house the negro in the field caught hell he ate leftovers in the house they ate high up on the hull the negro in the field didn't get nothing but what was left of the insides of the hog they call them shetlands nowadays in those days they call them what they were guts that's what you were a gut eater and some of you are all still gut eaters [Applause] the field negro was beaten from one until night he lived in a shack in a hut he wore cast off clothes and he hated his master i say he hated his master he was intelligent that house negro loved his master but that field negro remember they were in the majority and they hated the master when the house caught on fire he didn't try and put it out that field negro prayed for a win for a breeze when the master got sick to feel negro prayed that he died if someone come to the field negro and said let's separate let's run he didn't say where are we going he said any place is better than him [Applause] you got field negroes in america today i'm a field negro the masses are the field negroes when they see this man's house on fire you don't hear these little negroes talking about our government is in trouble they say the government is in trouble imagine a negro our government i even heard one say our astronauts they won't even let him near the plant and our astronauts our navy that's a negro that's out of his mind that's a negro that's out of his mind just as the slave master in that day used tom the house negro to keep the field negroes in check the same old slave master today has negroes who are nothing but modern uncle toms 20th century uncle times to keep you and me in check keep us under control keep us passive and peaceful and non-violent that's tom making you non-violent it's like when you go to the dentist and the man is gonna take your tooth you're gonna fight him when he start pulling so they squirt some stuff in your jaw called novoking to make you think they're not doing anything to you so you sit there and curse you got all that novocaine in your jaw you suffer peacefully blood running all down your jaw and you don't know what's happening because someone has taught you to suffer peacefully the white man do the same thing to you in the street when he want to put knots on your head and take advantage of you and don't have to be afraid of your fighting back to keep you from fighting back you get these old religious uncle toms to teach you and me they're just like novacaine suffer peacefully don't stop suffering just suffer peacefully as reverend clique pointed out let your blood flow in the streets this is a shame and you know he's a christian preacher if it's a shame to him you know what it is to me because nothing in our book the quran as you call it quran teaches us to suffer peacefully our religion teaches us to be intelligent be peaceful be courteous obey the law respect everyone but if someone puts his hand on you send them to the cemetery that's a good religion in fact that's not all old-time religion [Applause] that's the one that ma and paul used to talk about an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth and a head for a head and a length for a life that's a good religion and then anybody no one resents that kind of religion being taught but a wolf who intends to make you his meal this is the way it is with the white man in america he's a wolf and you're a sheep anytime a shepherd a pastor teach you and me not to run from the white man and at the same time teachers don't fight a white man he's a traitor to you and me don't lay down our life all by itself no preserve your life it's the best thing you got and if you got to give it up let it be even stephen the slave master took tom and dressed him well and fed him well and even gave him a little education a little education gave him a long coat and a top hat and made all the other slaves look up to him then he used tom to control them the same strategy that was used in those days is used today by the same white man he take a negro so-called negro and make him prominent build him up publicize him make him a celebrity and then he becomes a spokesman for negro and a negro leader [Music] [Applause] i would like to just mention one thing else quickly and that is the the uh method that the white man uses how the white man uses these big guns or negro leaders against the black revolution they're not a part of the black revolution they're used against the black revolution when martin luther king failed to desegregate albany georgia the civil rights struggle in america reached its low point king became bankrupt almost as a leader plus even financially the southern christian leadership conference was in financial trouble plus it was in trouble period with the people when they failed to uh desegregate albany georgia other negro civil rights leaders of so-called national stature became fallen idols as they became fallen idols began to lose their prestige and influence local negro leaders begin to stir up the masses in cambridge maryland gloria richardson in danville major uh danville virginia and other parts of the country local leaders begin to stir up our people at the grassroots level this was never done by these negroes whom you recognize of national statute they controlled you but they never incited you or excited you they controlled you they contained you they kept you on the plantation as soon as king failed in birmingham negros took to the streets king got out and went out to california to a big rally and raise about i don't know how many thousands of dollars come to detroit and had a march and raised some more thousands of dollars and recall right after that wilkins attack king accused king in the core of starting trouble everywhere and then making the naacp get him out of jail and spend a lot of money and then he accused king and core of raising all the money and not paying it back this happened i got it in documented evidence in the newspaper roy started attacking king and king started attacking roy and farmers started attacking both of them and as these negroes of national stature began to attack each other they began to lose their control of the negro masses and negros was out there in the streets they was talking about we gonna march on washington by the way and right at that time birmingham had exploded and the negroes in birmingham remember they also exploded they began to stab the crackers in the back and bust them upside the head yes they did that's when kennedy sent in the truth down in birmingham so and right after that kennedy got on the television and said this is a moral issue that's when he said he's going to put out a civil rights bill and when he mentioned civil rights bill and the southern crackers started talking about they were going to boycott it or filibustered in the negro start talking about what we're going to march on washington march on the senate march on the white house march on the congress and tie it up bring it to a halt don't let the government proceed they even said they were going to go out to the airport and lay down on the runaway and don't let no airplanes land i'm telling you what they said that was revolution there was revolution that was the black revolution it was the grass roots out there in the street scared the white man to death scared the white power structure in washington dc to death i was there when they found out that this black steamroller was going to come down on the capitol they called in wilkins they called in randolph they called in these national negro leaders as you respect and told them call it off kennedy said look you're all letting this thing go too far an old tom said boss i can't stop it because i didn't start it i'm telling you what they said they said i'm not even in it much less at the head of it they said these negroes are doing things on their own they're running ahead of us and that old shrewd fox he said well if you all aren't in it i'll put you in it i'll put you at the head of it i'll endorse it i'll welcome it i'll help it i'll join it the very a matter of hours went by they had a meeting at the carlisle hotel in new york city the carlisle hotel is owned by the kennedy family that's the hotel kennedy spent the night at two nights ago belongs to his family a philanthropic society headed by a white man named steven courier called all the top civil rights leaders together at the carlisle hotel and told them that by you all fighting each other you're destroying the civil rights movement and since you're fighting over money from white liberals let us set up what's known as the council for united civil rights leadership this form this council and all the civil rights organizations will belong to it and we'll use it for fundraising purposes let me show you how tricky the white man is and as soon as they got it formed they elected uh uh whitney young as the chairman and who you think became the co-chairman stephen courier the white man a millionaire powell was talking about it down at the cobo today this is what he was talking about powell knows what happened randolph knows it happened wilkins knows what happened king knows it happened every one of that so-called big six they know what happened once they formed it with the white man over it he promised them and gave them 800 000 to split up between the big six and told them that after the march was over they'd give them seven hundred thousand more a million and a half dollars split up between leaders that you've been following going to jail for crying crocodile tears for and ain't nothing but frank james and jesse james and what you call it brothers soon as they they got the setup organized the white men made available to them top public relations experts open the news media across the country at their disposal and then they begin to project these big six as the leaders of the march originally they weren't even in the march you was talking this much talk on haston street is hasting street still here on hasten street you were talking to march talk on linux avenue and down on uh what you call it filler mall street in central avenue and 32nd street and 63rd street that's where the march talk was being talked but the white men put the big six ahead of it made them the march they became the march they took it over and the first move they made after they took it over they invited walter ruther a white man they invited a priest uh a rabbi and an old white preacher yes a whole white preacher the same white element that put kennedy in power labor the catholics the jews in liberal protestants same clique that put kennedy in power joined the march on washington it's just like when you got some coffee it is too black which means it's too strong what you do you integrate it with cream you make it weak if you pour too much cream in you won't even know you ever had coffee it used to be hot it becomes cool it used to be strong it becomes weak it used to wake you up now it'll put you to sleep this is what they did with the march on washington they joined it they didn't integrate it they infiltrated it they joined it became a part of it took it over and as they took it over it lost its militancy they ceased to be angry they ceased to be hot they ceased to be uncompromising why it even ceased to be a march it became a picnic a circus nothing but a circus with clowns and all you had one right here in detroit i saw it on television with clowns leading it white clowns and black clowns i know you don't like what i'm saying but i'm gonna tell you anyway because i can prove what i'm saying if you think i'm telling you wrong you bring me martin luther king and eight philip randolph and james farmer and those other three and see if they'll deny it over a microphone no it was a sellout it was a takeover when james baldwin came in from paris they wouldn't let him talk because they couldn't make him go by the script brought lancaster where this beast and baldwin were supposed to make they wouldn't let baldwin get out there because they know baldwin liable to say anything they controlled it so tight they told those negroes what time to hit town how to come where to stop what sign to carry what song to sing what speech they could make and what speech they couldn't make and then told them to get out of town by sundown and every one of those times we're out of town by sundown now i know you don't like mine saying this but i can back it up it was a circus a performance that beat anything hollywood could ever do the performance of the year ruther and those other three devils should get a uh academy award for the best actors because they acted like they really loved negroes and fooled a whole lot of negro and the six negro leaders should get a an award too for the best supporting cast