Robert F. Williams

And that's my whole episode this week.

So what we're going to do then, and we can get into this, we're going to start off with a quote of the week from Robert F. Williams.

And you may not have heard that name, but if you haven't, you should.

And we're going to get a quote for him, something he said, something that got him suspended from his organization, but he was absolutely right.

After that, we'll be time for a bit of reflection and I'll present a call to action and then we'll close out the podcast for this week.

So what we are going to do then is take a break.

And when we come back, we'll hear from Robert F. Williams, who is going to deliver our quote of the week.

Welcome back.

71 total jurors vetted.

through seven days we only had three days last week because we had the federal holiday monday so three last week four days this week total of seven total of 71 jurors vetted during that time period and a total of 500 jurors to be vetted allegedly by the end of November even though I think that's going to be a little tight we will resume with all of that on Monday that said invest if you think all of this is constructive Gus T being deployed here in Western New York what looks like till the end of February messing up we'd have been doing neutralizing workplace racism if gusty was back in uh seattle but we are not messed that up and finishing the book club robert f williams finishing up that book in our uh compensator or counter racist weekly review guests and all the rest of it messing up the normal broadcast schedule to be out here in buffalo i would at least say my vote at this juncture on the temporary, certainly not permanent, but at least on a temporary basis, because of the magnitude and significance of this trial, I definitely think it is worthwhile, even though Gus thinks Buffalo is hell.

I think it is important for Gusty to personally endure this and do my best to report on this trial and the context, local system of white supremacy, racism that made all of this carnage possible.

And has a this is at this point, incidentally, last thing that I'll end with, I mentioned it later in the day.

Justifiable.

But before each one of them, there was one Robert Williams there.

South Carolina.

Of course, there were others, but Robert Williams became the most prominent.

Here's his book right here.

Negroes with Guns.

Particularly in the United States, offering itself as a place for political asylum.

Robert Williams and his wife, Mabel Williams of the NAACP in Monroe, North Carolina, had asylum there.

Honde Ovia Dune of the Black Panther Party had come through Cuba and they stood fast.

We have the right to give political asylum to people.

Anyway, uh, but they touched on so many great things.

You heard her talking at the beginning about, uh, Robert F's, uh, grandmother being a slave who was raped by a white man.

Heard that before, and that being a part of how she was able to read.

Also his grandfather being able to read, uh, as well.

Then all of a sudden, we got the news that four little black girls had been killed while in Sunday school in a Birmingham church.

The church had been blown up, the little girls killed, and others injured.

Given such a horrendous act, Robert feared that if some worldwide attention were not brought to bear, there would be a genocidal maneuver to crush our movement.

With that in mind, he fired off telegrams to leaders all over the world.