I'm Not So Much Against The War

I Dropped Out In '64. And I Came Back To Michigan, In '65. In 1965, When I Came Back I Had Never Heard Of Vietnam.

It's The Connection Between Schools And Communities That Creates Greatness In Schools.

In Cairo, These Young Men Hanging Around In The Street, We're Told These Guys Are Lazy, They're Uneducated, They Don't Care, They Don't Have Any Political Instincts - Just Like The Working Class In America, Apparently - And Then Suddenly What The Hell Happened? What Was That? They Changed The World By Changing Themselves. Now Is That Over? No. Is The Civil Rights Movement Over? No. These Movements Have Not Accomplished What They Set Out To Accomplish.

If You Read Martin Luther King Speeches And Sermons In The Last Two Years Of His Life - You Might Want To - –when I Read These To My Students, They Think It's Malcom X Because It's So Radical. And If You Read Nothing Else - If Your Viewers Read Nothing Else - Then The April 4, 1967, Speech At Riverside Church Called "beyond Vietnam," That's Where He Says The Greatest Purveyor Of Violence On Earth Is My Country. And He Connects The Triplets Of Evil, Racism, Militarism, And Materialism, And That Connection Makes Him A Radical.

There Were No Political Ideas. It Was An Apolitical Time. It Was The '50s And In The Privilege Of The Suburbs.