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Transcription: [00:08:41]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
The Negros are not part of the European consensus, it's not true that we can be that the analogy to the Negro getting his freedom is the same as the analogy to the immigrant from Europe getting his freedom in this country.
[00:09:00]
The problem runs deeper than that, because the immigrants from Europe eventually will all seen to be part of the European community and it was in the context of all being part of a larger European community that they were able as they came to the United States to gain larger and larger doses of freedom 'til finally the Italians and those from Southern Europe were able to be recognised in the country.
[00:09:29]
The Negro is not part of that community he is part of the African community in his heritage and this country and the world has yet to come to grips with making a community large enough to encompass the Africans and the Negros.
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[00:09:55]
And it's because of that kind of problem, that we're in the difficulty that we're in now. Now [[?]] goes on to talk about freedom now and integration, and integration he pinpoints schooling and housing and i'd like to skip over that to his next point about the power structure,
[00:10:21]
because he says some very interesting things in connection with this discussion of the power structure which I think are very relevant to us and the problems we have to discuss.
[00:10:33]
He says, first of all, and we said this yesterday, that what we count as a power structure is not only government which is what he says is what white politicians considers a power structure, but the banks the people who control the means of public [[?]].