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  • Most people say, If you don't like it here, get out.

  • That's that's what spineless people, spineless bastards who don't want to fight for what they believe in.

  • Well, I'm staying here because I was born here and I am going to fight for my freedom.

  • And before I have kids, I am going to make sure that this damned United States deserves the existence of my kids.

  • Because I will not rest until this until every Sunday school is safe for my kids so they won't get killed or beaten up like those kids down in Miss Mississippi in 1966 that is going to stop.

  • What else?

  • I'll be dead.

  • I there one you white folks have have either one of two choices.

  • Give me my damn freedom or kill me because I am tired of sitting by being an Uncle Tom or a house.

  • Me grow like.

  • And Wilkins.

  • Those two guys are not Negroes.

  • They're white people with Mantan, that's all.

  • They don't speak for us.

  • They have have found their way in in into the white man's house, the white man's establishment, and they are not, uh, to make waves.

  • But I I am because I am not going to take seeing my kids walking to a newly integrated school and getting their heads within my grown men because of that happens to Mike is there are going to be a lot then didn't white folks And and and I mean a lot because I am not going to take this junk.

  • No.

  • No more deep days of stepping that you are dead.

  • The days of the Platte face big, wide eyed, gin drinking black men are dead.

  • Now we have what is called black consciousness.

Most people say, If you don't like it here, get out.

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