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FREEDOMWAYS SECOND QUARTER 1973

But not only Blacks were upsetting Charlie's delicately balanced tranquility. Reds hadn't acted right either. In 1941 when Hitler unleashed his blitzkrieg against the Soviet Union, his generals anticipating Mohammad Ali, who was then in knee pants, boasted, "Three-no later than six." What they meant of course was three weeks. Six at the latest. Every military expert in the United States, from General George Marshall to Walter Winchell went along with this prediction with an eyebrow-raising amount of enthusiasm. Nothing of the sort happened. What did happen four years later was Stalingrad which obviously made the nazi generals very unhappy. But for some strange reason-at least to the ghetto mind it was strange-it made the top U.S. military and business brass unhappy too! And so the same sheriffs, judges, senators and at least one president screamed that not only the Blacks had to be put in their place-but the Reds too! "And that," observed the irrepressible Dabney, stirring up a mess of steamingly succulent hog maws, "is where the stuff hit the fan." This subversive statement was immediately but discreetly jotted down by a bar-fly known as Attorney W. Carver Thomas who was later unhappily exposed as Senator Joseph Mc-Carthy's cullud boy in Harlem.
Brother Dabney never connected this humble observation with the exasperating electronic disturbances which began to afflict his home telephone from that time on. In all fairness though, it should be established that the cacophonic disturbances were considerably modified after the senator was pulled off the job and the operation was inherited successively by the FBI, CIA, Army Intelligence, Navy Intelligence, Air Force Intelligence and most recently by the Republican Committee for the Re-Election of the President. 
There's an amazing amount of intuition in ghetto circles and something in the climate suggested that Dabney was a marked man. There were rumors to the effect that "the Man suspicioned" that poor old Dabney was not only Black but Red too. Which may account for the remark made by Speedy, the jitney driver who said, "Whitney aint only color conscious like they say. Man, that summbitch is color CRAZY!"
Looking back on those sorry times one sees clearly that Speedy was making more sense than all the think tanks spread across the country. But Sam didn't have to work up a sweat explaining why Blacks had to be put back in their places. All "freedom lovin"' Americans KNEW that. It was because they WERE Black. And it would be silly to forget that a lot of Blacks also fell for the swindle,

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