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ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ABOUT VIOLENCE
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come up with tiie answer. So I’ll
give you my answer, Mr.'Presi
dent ,
Remember when the greatest
mail in these UnifedStates tried
to make a speech at the opening
of the United States building at
the World’s Flair in New York
City? That was some years back.
"That man was you, Mr. Presi
dent. By the vote of the people,
by the tradition of the country,
you wore what we all looked up
to. You were the one who merit
ed respect. It was then that I
found out something that my old
dad used to tell mO. “You get
the 'respect you . demand. You
get the respect you are entitled
to. No more, no less,” he used
to say. YoUididn’t get the respect
you were entitled to remember?
And that was simply because
you didn’t demand it. You start
ed your speech, and then this
group of people, a minority
group for whom you done more
than any other living man, start
ed jamming it. They made such
a noise that you couldn’t be
heard. Remember what you did?
You stopped. And did you re
prove them? No, Sir, you didn’t.
You said that you had compas
sion on them because they had
been mistreated down the years.
You felt sorry for them. And
you weren’t going to punish
them. You weren’t going to cor
rect them. So you waited until
they were through, and then
you tried it a couple of more
times, and at last you got said
what you wanted to say. Or gave
up. I don’t remember what.
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That was the birth of the
boos. That was the beginning of
violence in this country, because
this group of people saw that
they could hold the heek of the
mighty to the fire and from then
on violence was theirs. You ex
cused these people, Mr. Presi
dent, knowing they were violat
ing the very principals of democ
racy, the rules of good conduct,
the laws of decency. The seed
you planted there became the
tinderbox of burned cities with
out one inch of stature gained
for the minority group.
One of your questions to the
new commission is this one: “Has
permissiveness toward extreme
behavior in our society toeoc
aged an increase in violence?”
Isn’t your World Fair “com
passion” the answer? You were
permissive toward the most ex
treme bad behavior, you know.
Another question:
“Are the seeds of violence nur
tured through the public’s air
waves, the screens of neighbor
hood theatre’s, the news media,
ant}, other forms of communica
tion that reach the family and
our young.”
Whll, let's see, Mr. President.
Did you see this hour-long, or
maybe two-hour television show
on racism? Do you remember a
street scene of two black cffl
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several
Places- Then the man
a threat,
them, or... But
made a threat. TOeywould^n
President. He
a T>vat/»h and toss
ed it menacingly at the business'
Translated from sav
tliat meant, “We will get
what -we want in America or
well Bum the place down.”
That’s television, Mr. Johnson.
What kind of American permit
ted a thing Bke that to go out
to millions of other Americans?
And newspapers, too, Mr. Presi
dent have lined up, some of
them, on the side of violence.
What would you make of this
item from the Village Voice?
It’s
what
anybody’s guess
will happen this Saturday
from 1 to 2 p.m. when the
Yippies turn their love and
energy toward “liberating”
Many’s. Touted as an anti
property demonstration in
their leaflets and press re
leases, suggested activities
include exchangin^your old
clothes for new ones, build
ing sculptures of merchan
dise in the aisles, switching
items to different counters,
and establishing free stores
at the -entrances. Yippie
leaders, acknowledging the
likely prospect that Macy’s
and the police will not fully
understand, caption, “Cops
Ipve property and probably
will be fierce. Teeny-bob
bers probably should stay
home.” Immediately follow
ing these experiments in
modern merchandising
methods, the Yipipies will
move to Central Park’s
Sheep Meadow for a “New
Nation Celebration.”
Isn’t that a pretty dish to set
before the children?
“Is violence a contagious
phenomenon?” asks the PresP
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dent.
It is indeed. And “when a Pres
ident tried to play footsie with a
Governor while a city burped,
violence became an epidemic.
“What is the relationship be
tween mass disruption of public
order and individual acts of vio
lence?”
One is father to the man, that’s
all Mr. Humphrey praised the
younger generation for becom
ing involved, and said that when
they demonstrated on campus
es and disturbed speakers that
they were exercising their Amer
ican right. And remember, Mr.
(President, when they, demon
strated against Dead Rusk? They
had a large poster which said
something like this, “Get the
troops but of Vietnam, Mr. Rusk,
and you can haVe your daughter
back.” A violent thing to say,
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