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4 - Julian Bond - draft 2

before we submit to such . . . ?"

As usual, a redskinned moderate in the crowd
^{He was} answered the moderate [illegible] "Let us submit our grievances,
whatever they may be, to the Congress of the United State . . . . "

This debate took place in 1812.

Neither ^{tactic worked.}

^{And now after 350 years of white [illegible]
the} Indians, Blacks, Spanish-speaking - still ^{struggle to rid their
backs of the white mans burden.} The kind of hard alternative ^posed by Tecumseh
and ^debated by the ^{more moderate [illegible] in more} modern ghettos,
barrios and reservations. It rages because two hundred years
after the "Founding Fathers" proposed to ^dissolve Americas'
differences in a melting pot, only ^{we [illegible]}
unabsorbed. ^And now ^{many of us} no longer wish to
melt, to be absorbed, to fit in, to join up, to ^flow into the ^national
mainstream.

But black people - and Spanish-Americans ^and the original
Americans - do insist on sharing ^{in the abundance of the land [illegible] owned or worked.}

We ^simply wish ^an opportunity to live ^the decent life.

4 - Julian Bond - draft 2

before we submit to such . . . ?"

As usual, a redskinned moderate in the crowd
^{He was} answered the moderate [illegible] "Let us submit our grievances,
whatever they may be, to the Congress of the United State . . . . "

This debate took place in 1812.

Neither ^{tactic worked.}

^{And now after 350 years of white [illegible]
the} Indians, Blacks, Spanish-speaking - still ^{struggle to rid their
backs of the white mans burden.} The kind of hard alternative ^posed by Tecumseh
and ^debated by the ^{more moderate [illegible] in more} modern ghettos,
barrios and reservations. It rages because two hundred years
after the "Founding Fathers" proposed to ^dissolve Americas'
differences in a melting pot, only ^{we [illegible]}
unabsorbed. ^And now ^{many of us} no longer wish to
melt, to be absorbed, to fit in, to join up, to ^flow into the ^national
mainstream.

But black people - and Spanish-Americans ^and the original
Americans - do insist on sharing ^{in the abundance of the land [illegible] owned or worked.}

We ^simply wish ^an opportunity to live ^the decent life.