: 4U l 'AV- V / "The makeshift plans put togeth mer by city administrators to at in the ghettos are merely buying t Brous for the society to think the measures can long contain the t oppressed people.,' r...CStokely r Char le BLACK I POLITICS IN I THE KWESKIN JUG BAND PETE SEEGER A PHOTOGRAPHER THEODORE BIKEL A HIPPIE their own worth and influence as human beings so they'll be better equipped to make the most of what chances they have. There are small victories, one has to be satisfied with them, the big ones don't come. Because of a picket- line one of the buildings on my block is finally getting fixed-up. As usual, the most noticeable repairs are the cheapest to make (paint, plaster; clean-up of the halls and cellar). I hope that the landlord doesn't succeed in satisfying the people with that easy job. If they're, happy with the work, if they think that he's caring about them now, their' anger will go and with it any possibility of making that hole de- cent. I met a guy in a bar recently who works for a real estate office. He talked about all the cool deals he's ,made . . . and money too. Payoffs, not only the usual ones to cops, inspectors, loan companies for phony mortgages but even to judges. And behind all this, people have to, live in hell-holes. Maybe we're all still duped by the words of Thomas Jefferson. Every- thing I see down here, I can't make its rawness seem real in words, but it just is not just. You can talk about how all men are created equal, but man, in the ghetto there just are not any such things as 'in- alienable rights.' Poor Jefferson, he might be more heartbroken than I am if he could be here. And you begin to wonder . . . just what, is America all about? What does democracy mean? Do we have the right to allow ourselves to be part of it anymore? Words like sed- ition and treason no longer sound like crimes, because the allegedly seditious act would really be in the interests of America if we genuinely believe in our rhetoric. The select few who run the sys- tem, the machine, have left out the masses while promising to include them. But now the masses, the Black masses, are getting hip to the sit- uation and they're getting mad. Their discontent is the beginning of a real social rebellion and the the extent to which it must be vio- lent depends upon the white man, the 'hunkie.' All the, black revolution says is this: the ideals and beauties and possible growth of America have been horribly perverted by the hun- kie. The democracy has been wreck- ed because the white man has con- sistently failed to make the right decisions. He hasn't only lynched and robbed and milked and hated and killed, but he has also violated every honest strain in his existence. It is very obvious that he can no longer be trusted with anything. What will be the white reaction? Already there are new anti-riots bills and much stricter local ordin- ances concerning disorderly con- duct, inciting riots, even loitering. Many poverty programs are now un- der investigation and many good people have been suspended - the FBI and CIA must have really done a job on that. If these preliminary moves don't work, if the nigger doesn't stay quiet, I suppose the hunkie will have to resort to the concentration camp scare. But relatively few people are much concerned with what happens. White America its ability to 1 Some peopl marriage is tl That way the destroyed. A at miscegenat generations, manently ren from the facet Perhaps the perience thine esty and justic kie only talks a JIM KWESKIN BASS PLAYER HIPPIE PHOTOGRAPHER GRANPA JONES and, in Ann Arbor . DAVID CHAMBERLAIN spent two years studying at Wesle- yan University and The Sorbonne in Paris before dropping out of school. He is now doing community organization work in the Bronx and says "the biggest problem in writing about the ghetto is that your sense of justice becomes so enraged that it is almost impossible to impose enough self-restraint to be objective." FARM WORKER WITH DAVE DUDLEY. WITH MUDDY WATERS JOAN BAEZ PAGE TWE~NE OCTOBER '67 THE DAILY MAGAZINE OCTOBER '67 THE DAILY MAGAZINE PAGE TWELVE OCTOBER '67 THE DAILY MAGAZINE OCTOBER '67 THE DAILY MAGAZINE ,;'