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Where did wokeness come from? In Part Four of Woke Army, we continue our journey by telling the story of how Herbert Marcuse’s dark alliance hits the streets and college campuses harder than ever before.
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Previously on Red Pilled America.
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The education system today is a weapon against black people.
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We must take all other fools by any means necessary.
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To strike.
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Then they unbelievably took the university's dean hostage for twenty
four hours.
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What it is is a training ground.
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According to the country's newspapers, the demonstrations were started because
of Herbert Marcuse's.
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Book Wherever the Radicals and this new left affair.
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MARCUSI some mers is in the background.
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Our program is going to be to come back on
the campus is this fall and hit them harder than
they've ever been hit before.
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Where did Wokenes come from?
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of episodes entitled Woke Army. You've probably heard the first three,
but if you haven't, stopped and go back and listen
from the beginning. We're looking for the answer to the
question where did Wokeness come from? By telling the story
of how an obscure group of German refugees started all
of this woke madness and what we need to do
to stop it.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
So in our last episode, we told the story of
how Herbert Marcusa inspired his student Angela Davis to put
his radical ideas into action. When Angela landed in California
to study under Marcusa at UC San Diego. She connected
with the Black Panthers and helped them set up a
rally to free their co founder.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Quey P.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Newton, who'd been charged with murdering a cop. At the event,
the Panthers expressed a desire to take over the educational
system by any means necessary, even violence. As a graduate
student working towards her doctorate, the message resonated with Angela Davis.
The energy of the new Marxist Alliance was building, but
needed a trigger to unleash it on the American public.
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That trigger would come with the killing of Martin Luther
King Junior. The Black Panther Stokely Carmichael warned that the
country was going to burn like never before, and he
was right. Violence erupted in cities all across America, some
estimating that it was the worst social unrest since the
Civil War. A few weeks later, Marxist revolutionaries staged a
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violent takeover of Columbia University, the same place that gave
refuge to the Frankfurt School. The student led insurrections spread
to Europe and then to the nineteen sixty eight Democratic
National Convention, and Herbert Marcusa was seen as the intellectual
ringleader of the violence.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Led by Governor Ronald Reagan, pressure began to build to
remove Marcusa from his teaching post at UC San Diego.
When the hammer finally dropped on the Frankfort School Intellectuals
teaching position, the gloves came off. Marcusa began inciting students
to continue the unrest, and Angela Davis put his words
into action. She let a student break in and take
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over of UC San Diego's registrar building. In parallel, violence
erupted at colleges throughout the country, including the birthplace of
student insurrection.
Speaker 10 (04:27):
U C.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Berkeley. Socialists violently commandeered a plot of land owned by
the university. Law enforcement pushed them out, and in the
end over one hundred students were hospitalized and one protester
was dead. By the summer of nineteen sixty nine, the
new proletariat that Herbert Marcusa highlighted in One Dimensional Man
just four years earlier had finally matured, and they were
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now publicly talking about open warfare on the streets and
college campuses of America.
Speaker 11 (04:58):
It is July twentieth, nineteen hundred and sixty nine, and
Man is about to land on the moon.
Speaker 12 (05:08):
For Lama.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
At one pull for lan.
Speaker 13 (05:15):
Pardon by a late.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
As the United States was putting up a quick win
in the Cold War, American Marxists were playing the long
game on college campuses, and they just made a move
that would eventually start a socialist revolution in America. With
the stated intention of increasing the number of black faculty
members on campus, UCLA's philosophy department hired Angela Davis as
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an associate professor in the summer of nineteen sixty nine.
She was just twenty five years old and had not
yet acquired her doctorate, but the radical faculty at UCLA
were looking to provoke Republican Governor Ronald Reagan. He'd successfully
pressured UC regents to creatively end Herbert Marcuse's teaching gig
at UC San Diego. He'd also blocked the militant Black
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pace Anthers from speaking on campus. So the UCLA faculty
decided to one up Reagan by hiring a Herbert marcusa
disciple who was an actual member of the Black Panthers.
Angela Davis before she even began teaching, an undercover FBI
agent Penndon article for UCLA student newspaper, The Daily Bruin,
revealing that the philosophy department had hired a member of
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the Communist Party, but the article did not name the
new hire. A week later, a writer for the San
Francisco Examiner published a skating story naming Angela Davis as
the unnamed professor. This created the intended conflict because UCLA
had an almost three decade policy forbidding the hiring of
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communist The faculty no doubt knew Angela was a Red
and were aware of the university rule. They just wanted
to challenge it.
Speaker 14 (06:57):
On September fifth, nineteen sixty nine, Angela Davis, after being
hired as a philosophy professor at UCLA, first admitted she
was a member of the Communist Party USA.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Angela Davis cited the university's policy on academic freedom, which
was the catchphrase of the time, and by invoking the phrase,
the Marxist used America system against itself. Governor Reagan saw
the whole affair like the nineteen sixty four u C.
Berkeley so called Free Speech protest. In his eyes, the
hiring of Angela Davis was a planned conflict to open
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up the university faculty to Marxist radicals.
Speaker 11 (07:32):
Well, my own personal opinion, and that's all it can be.
I have no evidence otherwise. My own personal opinion is
that this entire incident, starting with the hiring of miss Davis,
was a deliberate provocation.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
The radicals within the UC system were hell bent on
making politically minded leftist professors like Angela Davis the new
norm on college campuses. Ronald Reagan had been fighting communism
since his days in the Screen Actors Guild. He ran
for governor on a platform of law and order, but
the UC system was now sufficiently infiltrated by revolution utionaries,
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from the militant Black Panthers to the radical socialist students
to the openly Marxist academics like Herbert marcusa. In the
eyes of Ronald Reagan, the UC system was under siege,
and Angela Davis had come to represent all of these groups,
so he amped up the pressure on the UC regents
to fire the professor before she began in doctrinating college students.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
On September nineteenth, nineteen sixty nine, the UC Regents, of
which Reagan was a member, officially voted to fire Angela
Davis for her membership to the Communist Party and immediately
withheld her salary and benefits. Angela Davis responded to their decision.
Speaker 15 (08:45):
The regents seem intent on meeting out punishments which concur
with the fascist tendencies of the times. The sole reason
they give for their intention to fire me is my
membership in the Communist Party.
Speaker 16 (08:59):
Now, I think that the real reason that they are
firing me is not all because of my membership in
the Communist Party, but because I have tried to involve
myself as much as I could in the black liberation
struggle in this country. I worked with Snack, with the
Black Panthers, and with the BSU when I was a
student down in UCSC, the university campus at San.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Diego, California. Lieutenant Governor Edward Reinick responded to her allegations.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
The woman is an admitted member of the Communist Party.
She also, in her letter to Chancellor Young, indicated that
she felt that the only way we could bring about
the social change that's necessary today is through violence and militancy.
I don't think we need that on campus, and so
I'm for getting rid of her.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
In the eyes of the Ronald Reagan administration, Angela Davis
embodied the militant, activist and radical intellectual cancer that had
infected the American Institution of Academia. She had to be stopped.
That's when Bettina Apitheker re entered the picture. You may
remember that Bettina was the communist student that helped organize
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the u C. Berkeley protest that opened up college campuses
to political activity. Bettina was actually a childhood friend of
Angela Davis's. She recruited the black militant to a communist
organization when she was in high school. Bettina came to
Angela's aid to help rally the radical UCLA faculty and
students to her side, and like at u C. Berkeley,
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she was effective. The student Legislative Council pushed for legislation
at the college calling for professors to withhold grades from
students until Angelo was reinstated to her teaching position. Many
signed on to the plan. Governor Reagan was asked about
the effort.
Speaker 7 (10:44):
If the black professors at UCLI and others elsewhere in
assistant won't grade, what action will you recommend.
Speaker 11 (10:49):
To the regions. Well, I think they're guilty of insubordination.
I don't think they have any right to refuse to grade.
Students who were taking legitimate catalog courses and leading toward
a degree, and I think the students have a right
to demand their grades and demand their credits.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
UCLA faculty members applied pressure as well, raising money to
pay for Angela's miss benefits and salary. Angela joined a
group of radical professors to file a lawsuit against the
UC regents, demanding they reverse their decision, and the chancellor
of the school also pushed back, insisting that the UC
regents were violating the university's academic freedom policy and vowed
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to reappoint Angela Davis. In early October nineteen sixty nine,
even after being stripped of her professorship, Angela decided to
thumb or nose at the UC regents by teaching her
philosophy class anyway.
Speaker 10 (11:39):
Yesterday, it was the first day of the fall term
at UCLA and Philosophy Professor Angela Davis was on her
way to teach her first class. A mid controversy for
Miss Davis admitted that she is a member of the
Communist Party, and the regents who run the university decided
because of that she should not be allowed to teach.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
The school gave her Royce Hall a prestigious UCLA auditorium.
The UC regents announced that the force would not be
given any credit. Still, two thousand students showed up for
Angela Davis's lecture.
Speaker 9 (12:09):
She is currently completing her doctoral dissertation under the direction
of Herbert Marcusa and as an acting Assistant Professor of
Philosophy at UCLA. Last Friday, the regions of the University
of California voted to suspend miss Davis from her teaching duties,
and it is in this regard that she is here today.
I introduced to you, Professor Angela Davis.
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So Angela Davis was fired for being a member of
the Communist Party. Radical professors pushed back by filing a
lawsuit against the uc regents. Some faculty resisted as well,
helping to raise money to make up for her lost
wages and giving her the prestigious UCLA Royce Hall to
lecture to a crowd of two thousand students.
Speaker 15 (14:01):
The regent I mean because they say I'm a member
of the Communist Party. Now, those involved in the conspiracy
seem to be either ignorant or outright disdainful of the
very process of education.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
Now.
Speaker 15 (14:16):
I said not too long ago that their decision to
fire me pointed to the existence of racism in the society,
and they proved themselves. I think totally incapable of understanding
that there's more to racism than just psychological attitudes. I think,
you know, I've demonstrated that on one level, that there
is something that we can call institutional racism and that
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exists in the university.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
This was October nineteen sixty nine, over a half a
century ago. Any of that sound familiar. Angela went on
to parrot the words of Herbert Marcusa. She argued that
students needed to be awakened to the true reality of society.
In other words, they needed to go woke.
Speaker 15 (14:58):
The mind has to be liberated merely in order to
perceive the world, to see society, to understand what its
advantages are, what its disadvantages are. I've been asked over
and over again, how can you really be committed to
the struggle for liberation and leave your ideas outside of
the classroom, leave your political opinions outside of the classroom. Now,
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I maintain that political opinions should be brought into the classroom.
They belong in the classroom. Now, I suppose this was
why the regions fired me. They intend to keep the
knowledge developed in the university and the service of the
prevailing oppression, and I guess they were right from their
point of view. The fact that I'm a member of
the Communist Party, that I'm involved in the activities of
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the Chaila Mumba Club, which is an all black collective
of the Party committed to the struggle for black liberation,
says something about the kind of mind that I have.
I can't and I won't keep my political opinions out
of the classroom.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
I think they belie there.
Speaker 15 (16:04):
Now I've come to the conclusion that the elimination of
racism human suffering can only come about through socialism, since
knowledge should provide answers to these problems. I feel that
I have every right when the occasion presents itself, that is,
when it's relevant to what's at hand, to say to
my students. I have given these things a lot of thought.
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My conclusion is that only some form of communism is
going to solve our basic human problems.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
After her lecture, students were asked what they thought about
the Black panther professor's speech.
Speaker 13 (16:34):
What was your reaction to the lecture?
Speaker 12 (16:36):
I think he is a superb lecture. You can learn
so much as I are inferd from just what she
said to David.
Speaker 17 (16:42):
Story, well, I think she's trying to overthrow our system
of government, and she admits that. And while I think
it is bad to limit freedom of speech of any
group because it limits democracy, I think it is better
to have a limited democracy that will last for a
long long time than for the complete democracy, complete freedom
will lasts only a brief for a brief period.
Speaker 14 (17:00):
If I were able to deliver that coherent, that beautiful,
that intellectual electional my first time, how many thousand people
there were in that place, I feel like a superstar.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Angelus in your face campaign worked. Two weeks later, Superior
Court Judge Jerry Patch ruled that the UC regents decades
long policy prohibiting communists from being hired on campus was unconstitutional.
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Angela took a victory lap in front of a crowd
of a few thousand students.
Speaker 18 (17:33):
The twenty five year old philosophy professor, who was fired
from her UCLA teaching post by the regents because she
is a communist, said the controversy her case created had
its benefits. It exposed the governor and the regents as
unscrupulous demagogues, and she said it focused public attention on
the sorry state of education. A court decision last week
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declared the regent's action unconstitutional, and so she is now
teaching a credit course.
Speaker 15 (18:02):
You know, I'm going to present, you know, things from
a mars this perspective, but I'm going to say that
that's what it is. There are very many professors who
talk from the perspective of the capitalist system, but they
don't state that this is, you know, from that perspective.
They talk about it as if that were objective reality,
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and as if that were the only way of looking
at things.
Speaker 18 (18:29):
Angelo Davis said the regents want to indoctrinate students.
Speaker 19 (18:33):
She says education should provide tools with which to evaluate
ideas and liberate the mind. And she drew her largest
hand when she said, we have to create a revolution
in this society.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
A California state spokesman talk to a reporter about the
judge's decision.
Speaker 12 (18:49):
I think everybody anticipated this woul happened in the lawer courts.
The regions, if I read their attentions aright, are determined
on a long legal fight. It may take many months,
perhaps years, up through the ordinary channel of appeal part
of the United States Supreme Court. My own a hope
by the time the case reaches that latter High Tribunal,
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there will be many new faces on it. Judges is
appointed by our President, who will be willing, after a
decade of change, to interpret the Constitution the where it
was written, not the way they wanted it to be written.
If that happens, the reasons will win their case.
Speaker 18 (19:23):
Then you're advocating that the regions spend the public's money
in taking this case to the Supreme Court to keep
communism out of the university.
Speaker 12 (19:31):
I can't imagine any better way to spend the people's
money than by defending the people against communism.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
A few days later, on October twenty fourth, nineteen sixty nine,
Angela Davis and her teacher, Herbert MARCUSA attended an enormous
rally at the place it first opened up the college
system to the Frankfurt School's Marxist activism, one.
Speaker 9 (19:51):
Of the largest together at UC Berkeley this year.
Speaker 20 (19:55):
The speaker, new left philosopher Herbert Marcus and his student
avowed communists.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Angela Davis, Herbert Marcusa's stepped the microphone first.
Speaker 21 (20:04):
This is not a victory celebration. On the contrary, I
believe that the fight is just beginning to start the
fight against all those who want to make your university
a training school for the perpetuation of a society, the
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security of which and the prosperity of which is based
on the oppression and enslavement of other peoples within the
national frontiers and without. The fight against these powers must
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go on, because it is a fight for you. They
want to block your mind.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
You may not know it.
Speaker 21 (21:01):
You may still think you are nothing but a bunch
of intellectuals separated from the masses. The government knows far
better than you know, and they have a far more
realistic evaluation of the power you already represent. The full
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weight of repression is falling upon the schools and universities,
and on the black militants in the ghettos with whom
you have joined the fight. If there is anyone capable
of breaking the insanity which is daily reproduced, it is you,
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and it is only you, black, white, and brown, who
can break this insanity.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
MARKUSA then laid out the plan for a Marxist revolution
in America. It had to happen through the institution of education.
Speaker 21 (21:58):
Now, I admit all these suggestions are sent on the university,
and on the campus there are larger tasks, especially the
forming of the alliances with the large oppressed gropes in
this country, black and brown. A process of long range education.
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But don't minimize the university as your base. It is
in the universities, in the schools that the system trains
its new cadres whom they need for its reproduction. And
this is you. Far from being a bunch of intellectuals,
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you form one of the most important contingents important for
the reproduction of the system. You have to show that
you can resist, that you can refuse to be made
mere servants of the system. Again, it is up to you.
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You are fighting for yourselves. May I now come to
my most pleasant task. I have not yet told you
why Angela Davis was the ideal victim for this repression.
Speaker 22 (23:25):
There are many reasons.
Speaker 21 (23:27):
She is black, she is militant, she is a communist,
she is highly intelligent, and she is pretty. And this
combination is more than the system can tolerate. I would
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like to introduce to you now, not my student, but
my colleague on the faculty of the University of California,
Angela Davis.
Speaker 15 (24:04):
Now, I think what we have to do is while
demanding things like open admissions. We have to take their
advice too. We have to go to the streets. We
have to talk about a complete and total change in
the structures of this society, because that's the only way
that a concept like academic freedom is going to be
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made relevant. I feel that they are becoming increasingly afraid
of the people of the students. They are afraid of
Herbert marcusa and most of all, they are afraid of
the power the students are beginning to assert throughout the universities,
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and they have every right to be afraid of us,
because we are continually demonstrating to them that they have
every right to be afraid, and we have to do
this over and over again. They have every right to
be afraid. Now radicals are emerging on the campuses throughout
the whole university system, and our being attacked. This is
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just a reflection of the emergence of radical movements dedicated
to destroying the capitalist society all over the society. I
think that we have to view the court decision that
was made a few days ago as a victory. From
one point of view. It's a victory because it exposes
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to the people the increasingly fascist tendencies in this country.
We also have to consider the reason for the decision.
The decision came about only because of mass pressure, only
because of the fact that all over the state there
were demonstrations, there were indications that we would take over.
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And I think the judge who made the decision realized
this when he said that he wanted to affect this
decision within a few hours, because otherwise he knew it
was going to be decided in the streets. Was right,
and what we have to do at this point is
to use that decision because that decision gives us a
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little more flexibility, a little more movement in order to
escalate the struggle in the society, and.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
The struggle was definitely escalating.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Just a few weeks later, on an early December nineteen
sixty nine morning, the Los Angeles Police Department descended on
Angela Davis's comrades, the Black Panthers Los Angeles Chapter headquarters.
Speaker 8 (26:35):
The internettent warfare between the Black Panthers and police erupted
today in Los Angeles. There a group of them barricaded
themselves in their headquarters and fought police with automatic weapons
and hand grenades for five hours before surrendering.
Speaker 7 (26:51):
Early this morning, Los Angeles police moved on the local
Black Panther headquarters to serve arrest and search warrants. They
were met by gunfire. It turns out the Panther headquarters
was a small fortress, complete with a sandbag bunker and
automatic weapons. There were some escape patches, but they weren't
used today. The police said they've known for some time
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that the Panthers were storing illegal weapons, and they also
expected the Panthers to use them, so three hundred officers
were assigned to this morning's raid. The police began to
teargas the building and threaten to go in after the occupants. Finally,
a white flag emerged and eleven men and women filed out.
Speaker 13 (27:28):
It is apparent that the undeclared war between the police
and the Panthers has reached alarming proportions. Party members at
thirty chapters across the country of stockpiled arsenals of automatic weapons, shotguns, pistols,
and homemade bombs.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Angela Davis arrived on the scene shortly after the shootout ended.
She fielded questions from reporters.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Did you know that there was going to happen?
Speaker 15 (27:50):
How was I to know that the police were going
to break into the Candle office at four thirty year
the morn. They obviously did their autocaster.
Speaker 8 (27:59):
Yeah, how did you hear about it?
Speaker 15 (28:01):
We got a call from someone who was inside. He
said that the police had come and had attacked their office.
Speaker 8 (28:08):
What do you plan to do?
Speaker 11 (28:09):
Is there any if you planned actors, intermediary or in
any capacity like that.
Speaker 23 (28:14):
I'll do anything I can.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Angela Davis felt that the communist revolution was afoot and
Herbert Marcuse's new alliance had to do everything they could
to usher it in. The UCLA Associate Professor took to
the streets to rally the troops.
Speaker 16 (28:29):
I'm representing the Saylor mom the club of a Communist party.
Speaker 15 (28:35):
There is a conspiracy in the land.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
This despiracy to commit murder and genocide on our people,
funds to exercise our constitutional rights to.
Speaker 16 (28:49):
They are armed, and to.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Use those arms to defend our community. Out found is
not south hard.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Serious trouble was brewing. The radicals just needed an another
trigger to further the revolution, and that trigger would come
just a few months later.
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Angela Davis called for revolutionaries to take up arms to
protect their community. Serious trouble was brewing. The radicals just
needed another trigger to further their revolution, and that trigger
would come in April nineteen seventy.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
Good evening, my fellow Americans.
Speaker 23 (31:05):
Tonight, American and South Vietnamese units will attack the headquarters
for the entire Communist military operation in South Vietnam.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
The Vietnam War was expanding into Cambodia. It was just
the type of move that the radical agitators needed to
escalate their struggle. It brought in the anti war moderates
that were unaware that a socialist insurrection was underway At
Kent State, a university in Kent, Ohio. A chapter of
the Students for a Democratic Society or SDS, had been
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agitating the entire month leading up to Nixon's announcement. SDS
was the same militant socialist group that took over Columbia
University with radical black students a few years earlier. Another
radical student group spoke on campus, reportedly urging students to
kill their parents because they were the first oppressors. The
students were primed, so when Nixon announced the expansion of
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the war to Cambodia, it was just the trigger these
radicals needed to bring in the moderates. A student strike
was announced. The agitators used the black power fist on
promotional posters, but this time they colored the fist to
signify the alliance of oppressed revolutionaries. The night after Nixon's speech,
hundreds of thousands of students began taking to the streets
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and college campuses. A witness described how the situation escalated
at Kent State.
Speaker 24 (32:23):
A group of young people, mostly as far as we
can determine, the university students. We're milling around the downtown
area in ken where there is a collection of bars
and nightclubs where most of the younger crowd frequent. First
they were simply milling around, not really unruly or disorderly.
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The crowd got larger, and then the violence broke out
at about midnight.
Speaker 25 (32:50):
The four big main picture windows at the first federal
building here have been broken, and the glass you hear
now is the sound of its being knocked out for repair.
Service trucks downtown on North Water now helping with clean
up procedures. There's very a fifty five gallon barrels here
just filled with glass.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Students nationwide began targeting the primary military facilities they had
access to ROTC buildings. The Kent State radicals burned their
ROTC building to the ground.
Speaker 14 (33:22):
The students are now marching around the hub and onto
the commons.
Speaker 26 (33:28):
Now posing down what is left for the building.
Speaker 17 (33:31):
It's about a stack of five feet of rubble.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
After three nights of violence, the Ohio National Guard was
brought in to deal with the situation.
Speaker 22 (33:39):
The guardsmen had been ordered onto the campus after the
university's ROTC building had been burned to the ground.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Fearing further destruction of university property or worse from the
radical students, the National Guard moved into the Kent State
protesters in an attempt to break up the student strike rally.
Speaker 20 (34:00):
The National Guard was called in over the weekend. Ohio
Governor James Rhose today when fifteen hundred students started an
anti war rally on the university commons. The guardsmen surrounded them. Then,
when some students started throwing rocks, the guard moved in
with tear gas. The students were forced up a hill
by the tear gas. Some of them started throwing gas
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canisters back at the guardsmen.
Speaker 8 (34:23):
Others threw rocks.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
The student protesters were defiant, some were even laughing, not
taking seriously the bayonet wielding National guardsmen approaching them. The
situation turned deadly serious. A student protester described.
Speaker 8 (34:37):
The moment funnally.
Speaker 27 (34:38):
They turned around, got on her knees, as if they
were ordered to. They did it all together, aim and personally,
I was standing there and saying, they're not going to shoot.
They can't do that. You know, if they're going to shoot,
it's going to be blank.
Speaker 20 (34:56):
Assistant Adjutant General Frederick Winger said later the guardsmen did
not open fire until after they came under sniper fire themselves.
Speaker 27 (35:03):
The shots were definitely coming my way, because when a
bullet patches your head, it makes a crack. I hit
the ground behind the curb. Looking over, I saw a
student hit. He stumbled and felled to he was running
towards a car. Another student tried to pull him behind
the car. Bullets were coming through the windows of the car.
It was maybe twenty five thirty thirty five seconds of
sporadic firing. Firing stopped. I lay there maybe ten or
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fifteen seconds. I got up. I saw four or five
students lying around in the lot. By this time it
was like mass hysteria. Students were crying. They were screaming
for ambulances. I heard some girls screaming they didn't have blanks.
They didn't have blanks, No.
Speaker 7 (35:40):
They didn't.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
When the dust settled, four students lay dead on the
campus grounds.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
At Kent State University in Ohio. After the killing of
four students yesterday, the National Guard first said its men
open fire in response to sniper fire aimed at them.
Then today the guard's commanders backed away from that and
said there was a sniper fire, and then said later
they were not sure. They said no order was given
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to shoot the students. That apparently the guardsmen fought themselves,
threatened somehow and opened fire on their own initiative, firing
thirty odd rounds before their officers stumped them, but not
before four students were dead and ten others wounded three.
Speaker 5 (36:24):
Critically, I think that the guardsmen were provoked beyond reason.
I believe that we used every conceivable effort to get
the people to dispersten the move long before the information
moved uptail. And we regret as much as anyone that
people were killed and wounded. We even regret the factor
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was I sorry to be here.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
An estimated million plus students participated in the May nineteen
seventy national campus unrest. According to the National Strike Information Center,
protests and walkouts occurred on nearly nine hundred campuses across
the country. Violent clashes between law enforcement and students took
place at a reported twenty six college campuses. At Herbert
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Marcuse's UCSD campus, in the location that the Marxist professor
often led protests, one graduate student doused his body with
gasoline and self emilated himself. By the end of the
national student strike, a reported thirty ROTC buildings were either
burned down or bombed. The whole event felt like a
civil war a socialist revolution. The violence had escalated to
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a level that created a counter movement against the student protesters.
Speaker 22 (37:39):
Many who called themselves the Silent Majority rallied around President
Nixon to show their support for him and at the
same time to visually display their discust with atty war demonstrators.
In New York City, construction workers, some still wearing the
bright yellow hard hats of their trade, confronted a line
of ati war demonstrators. While the students shouted peace now,
the hard hats rallied with signs and slogans that said,
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all the way USA and America love it or leave it.
Speaker 28 (38:06):
We want to sagun the storms that maybe today we
can open the golf and discussion and saken the stones
all out problems where I wanted to work with you,
Where the fellows will build this country, where the fellows
will build a hospitals. Six We've built the budget of
calls for them to get around, and we build the
sholes that they want to find down and we all
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shall know all the other dat.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Time Americans had had enough. The socialists were using anti
war sentiment to incite insurrection on college campuses all across
the country. Many believed it was now time to take
serious action to end the conflict. In that same month,
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May nineteen seventy, you see, regents voted to take the
authority away from UCLA on the issue of rehiring Angela Davis.
Her firing again seemed imminent. President Nixon took action as well.
Speaker 22 (39:04):
Prompted by the Kent State deaths and the deaths of
two black students at Jackson State University in Mississippi, the
President named a nine member commission to explore Kappus violence
and to recommend ways of resolving student grievances peacefully.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
The FBI was also in the mints of a national
campaign to break up the violent Black panthers and students
for a democratic society. An enormous backlash was under way,
but Angela Davis decided to keep up the heat.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
In June nineteen seventy, the communist UCLA professor adopted a
new cause, one that could rally criminals to their alliance.
She'd befriended a young black panther named Jonathan Jackson. Jonathan's
older brother, George Jackson, was serving a prison sentence after
being incarcerated at San Quentin for armed robbery in nineteen
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sixty one. George Jackson began racking up disciplinary infractions that
extended his sentence. In the process, he befriended a man
named W. L. Nolan who introduced him to marx'sis. George
became a devout follower of the ideology. He later remarked,
I met Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels and Maw when I
entered prison, and they redeemed me. He began writing on
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socialism and became a revolutionary, advocating for a Marxist revolution
by any means necessary, including violence. He was eventually transferred
from San Quentin to Solodad prison with his friend Nolan. Then,
in early nineteen seventy, Nolan was killed by a guard
during a fight on the prison yard. George Jackson was
overheard talking about getting revenge for the killing of his friend,
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and a few days later he was accused, along with
two other prisoners of killing a Solodad prison guard. The
three became known as the Solidad Brothers, and they were
all facing the death penalty. George's young Black Panther brother,
Jonathan Jackson, had befriended Angela Davis, herself a member of
the Los Angeles chapter of the Black Panther Party. Angela
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learned about George Jackson and his Marxist revolutionary books, and
she became seduce used by his writing, eventually falling in
love with the prisoner, she decided to take up the
Solodad brother cause, hoping to free what she called political prisoners.
In late June nineteen seventy, just as her fate as
a UCLA professor was being determined by the UC regents,
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Angela joined black panther Jonathan Jackson to protest for the
release of his brother and the other Solidad brothers.
Speaker 16 (41:25):
I want to go on to the business that we
came here to do today.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
Famed actress and communist sympathizer Jane Fonda attended the protest
to support Angela. Davis Hollywood was getting connected to the
black militants.
Speaker 15 (41:44):
Jane Fonda ran down the fact that you really really
need is money, and.
Speaker 16 (41:49):
I really hope that you will give everything you can,
keeping in mind that you are defending yourself. You are
defending yourself, You're defending the struggle.
Speaker 15 (41:59):
You're defending the cause of liberation. Circulating the crowd, I'd
like to run down the demands that we the Solidad.
Speaker 16 (42:08):
Brother's Defense Committee.
Speaker 15 (42:09):
Of formulated which we think will be able to begin
to deal effectively with what's happening in the prison.
Speaker 1 (42:14):
As Angela, Jonathan Jackson, and Jane Fonda marched on the
Department of Corrections to demand they free George Jackson and
all so called political prisoners. The uc regents had decided
on Angela Davis's fate at UCLA.
Speaker 23 (42:27):
Today in a rare action, the Board of Regents voted
fifteen to six to overrule the university.
Speaker 27 (42:32):
And fire her.
Speaker 23 (42:33):
Governor Reagan voted with the majority. He said it wasn't
because she's a communist, but rather because she is unprofessional.
While the regions were voting, Miss Davis was a few
blocks away in a rally protesting the treatment of black
prisoners in Solidad State prison. She sees her dismissal as
a case of political repression, which she may or may
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not challenge.
Speaker 15 (42:55):
I suppose I just lost that job at UCLA as
a result of my political opinions and activities. I'm going
to keep. I'm struggling to free the Solidar brothers in
all political business, because I think that what has happened
to me is only a very tiny minute example of
what is happening to them.
Speaker 23 (43:13):
Some UCLA professors plan to raise money to pay her
salary so she can continue to teach. That the controversy
is not over.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
By the summer of nineteen seventy, Angela Davis was out
of her professor job. Herbert Marcusa was officially retired from
UC San Diego College. Unrest was being investigated by the
Nixon administration, and the FBI was going after the Black
Panthers nationwide. America had had enough of the violence associated
with this socialist uprising. Then in early August nineteen seventy,
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something shocking happened. How did it happen?
Speaker 29 (43:53):
That Superior Court Judge Harold Haley and three others were killed?
Speaker 2 (44:00):
On August seventh, nineteen seventy, Black panther Jonathan Jackson entered
a northern California courtroom with a rifle and several other weapons,
handed them to black inmates that were involved in a
trial that was in process, and took several hostages.
Speaker 29 (44:14):
Investigators for the Marine County Sheriff's Department still are not
sure of all the details, but they are piecing together
this story from witnesses and participants in the shocking crime
that took place here yesterday.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
A photographer that entered the scene to the hostage situation
witnessed panther Jonathan Jackson and the inmates leaving with the.
Speaker 30 (44:35):
Hostages and one of the men as they left in
the elevator after they told me that they didn't want
me as a hostage, did say we want the Sola
dead brothers freed. By twelve thirty today.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
Jonathan Jackson, the criminal escapees, and their hostages exited the
courtroom and made their way to an awaiting van.
Speaker 31 (44:52):
One of the witnesses in the van said they heard
a shot immediately the judge's head was blown off. The
assistant district attorney then grappled with the mats, procured a
gun in shot three of them.
Speaker 2 (45:06):
The judge, Jonathan Jackson, and two of the escaping inmates
were killed. Then, within a matter of a week, the
story took an unbelievable turn. Several of the guns used
in the escape attempt, including the rifle that blew off
the judge's head, were purchased by Angela Davis.
Speaker 4 (45:24):
What was she doing with those guns?
Speaker 11 (45:26):
I own the foggiest idea what she was doing with
the guns at that time.
Speaker 1 (45:30):
Next time and the conclusion of Red pilled America's woke Army.
Speaker 26 (45:33):
Supporters of the Blank Liberation movements are stepping up the
pressure in the campaign to free Angela Davis. The Blank philosophy,
elector and communist who is now facing a charge of
murder in California.
Speaker 2 (45:45):
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Previously on Red Pilled America.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
The education system today is a weapon against black people.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
We must take all other fools by any means necessary.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
To strike.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Then they unbelievably took the university's dean hostage for twenty
four hours.
Speaker 6 (01:04):
What it is is a training ground.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
According to the country's newspapers, the demonstrations were started because
of Herbert Marcuse's.
Speaker 7 (01:11):
Book Wherever the Radicals and this new left affair.
Speaker 8 (01:17):
MARCUSI some mers is in the background.
Speaker 9 (01:19):
Our program is going to be to come back on
the campus is this fall and hit them harder than
they've ever been hit before.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Where did Wokenes come from?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I'm Patrick Carelci and I'm Adriana Cortes.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
And this is Red Pilled America, a storytelling show.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
This is not another talk show covering the day's news.
We are all about telling stories.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Stories. Hollywood doesn't want you to hear stories.
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You could think of Red Pilled America as audio documentaries.
And we've promised only one thing, the truth. Welcome to
Red Pilled America. We're at part four of our series
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of episodes entitled Woke Army. You've probably heard the first three,
but if you haven't, stopped and go back and listen
from the beginning. We're looking for the answer to the
question where did Wokeness come from? By telling the story
of how an obscure group of German refugees started all
of this woke madness and what we need to do
to stop it.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
So in our last episode, we told the story of
how Herbert Marcusa inspired his student Angela Davis to put
his radical ideas into action. When Angela landed in California
to study under Marcusa at UC San Diego. She connected
with the Black Panthers and helped them set up a
rally to free their co founder.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Quey P.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Newton, who'd been charged with murdering a cop. At the event,
the Panthers expressed a desire to take over the educational
system by any means necessary, even violence. As a graduate
student working towards her doctorate, the message resonated with Angela Davis.
The energy of the new Marxist Alliance was building, but
needed a trigger to unleash it on the American public.
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That trigger would come with the killing of Martin Luther
King Junior. The Black Panther Stokely Carmichael warned that the
country was going to burn like never before, and he
was right. Violence erupted in cities all across America, some
estimating that it was the worst social unrest since the
Civil War. A few weeks later, Marxist revolutionaries staged a
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violent takeover of Columbia University, the same place that gave
refuge to the Frankfurt School. The student led insurrections spread
to Europe and then to the nineteen sixty eight Democratic
National Convention, and Herbert Marcusa was seen as the intellectual
ringleader of the violence.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Led by Governor Ronald Reagan, pressure began to build to
remove Marcusa from his teaching post at UC San Diego.
When the hammer finally dropped on the Frankfort School Intellectuals
teaching position, the gloves came off. Marcusa began inciting students
to continue the unrest, and Angela Davis put his words
into action. She let a student break in and take
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over of UC San Diego's registrar building. In parallel, violence
erupted at colleges throughout the country, including the birthplace of
student insurrection.
Speaker 10 (04:27):
U C.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Berkeley. Socialists violently commandeered a plot of land owned by
the university. Law enforcement pushed them out, and in the
end over one hundred students were hospitalized and one protester
was dead. By the summer of nineteen sixty nine, the
new proletariat that Herbert Marcusa highlighted in One Dimensional Man
just four years earlier had finally matured, and they were
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now publicly talking about open warfare on the streets and
college campuses of America.
Speaker 11 (04:58):
It is July twentieth, nineteen hundred and sixty nine, and
Man is about to land on the moon.
Speaker 12 (05:08):
For Lama.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
At one pull for lan.
Speaker 13 (05:15):
Pardon by a late.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
As the United States was putting up a quick win
in the Cold War, American Marxists were playing the long
game on college campuses, and they just made a move
that would eventually start a socialist revolution in America. With
the stated intention of increasing the number of black faculty
members on campus, UCLA's philosophy department hired Angela Davis as
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an associate professor in the summer of nineteen sixty nine.
She was just twenty five years old and had not
yet acquired her doctorate, but the radical faculty at UCLA
were looking to provoke Republican Governor Ronald Reagan. He'd successfully
pressured UC regents to creatively end Herbert Marcuse's teaching gig
at UC San Diego. He'd also blocked the militant Black
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pace Anthers from speaking on campus. So the UCLA faculty
decided to one up Reagan by hiring a Herbert marcusa
disciple who was an actual member of the Black Panthers.
Angela Davis before she even began teaching, an undercover FBI
agent Penndon article for UCLA student newspaper, The Daily Bruin,
revealing that the philosophy department had hired a member of
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the Communist Party, but the article did not name the
new hire. A week later, a writer for the San
Francisco Examiner published a skating story naming Angela Davis as
the unnamed professor. This created the intended conflict because UCLA
had an almost three decade policy forbidding the hiring of
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communist The faculty no doubt knew Angela was a Red
and were aware of the university rule. They just wanted
to challenge it.
Speaker 14 (06:57):
On September fifth, nineteen sixty nine, Angela Davis, after being
hired as a philosophy professor at UCLA, first admitted she
was a member of the Communist Party USA.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Angela Davis cited the university's policy on academic freedom, which
was the catchphrase of the time, and by invoking the phrase,
the Marxist used America system against itself. Governor Reagan saw
the whole affair like the nineteen sixty four u C.
Berkeley so called Free Speech protest. In his eyes, the
hiring of Angela Davis was a planned conflict to open
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up the university faculty to Marxist radicals.
Speaker 11 (07:32):
Well, my own personal opinion, and that's all it can be.
I have no evidence otherwise. My own personal opinion is
that this entire incident, starting with the hiring of miss Davis,
was a deliberate provocation.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
The radicals within the UC system were hell bent on
making politically minded leftist professors like Angela Davis the new
norm on college campuses. Ronald Reagan had been fighting communism
since his days in the Screen Actors Guild. He ran
for governor on a platform of law and order, but
the UC system was now sufficiently infiltrated by revolution utionaries,
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from the militant Black Panthers to the radical socialist students
to the openly Marxist academics like Herbert marcusa. In the
eyes of Ronald Reagan, the UC system was under siege,
and Angela Davis had come to represent all of these groups,
so he amped up the pressure on the UC regents
to fire the professor before she began in doctrinating college students.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
On September nineteenth, nineteen sixty nine, the UC Regents, of
which Reagan was a member, officially voted to fire Angela
Davis for her membership to the Communist Party and immediately
withheld her salary and benefits. Angela Davis responded to their decision.
Speaker 15 (08:45):
The regents seem intent on meeting out punishments which concur
with the fascist tendencies of the times. The sole reason
they give for their intention to fire me is my
membership in the Communist Party.
Speaker 16 (08:59):
Now, I think that the real reason that they are
firing me is not all because of my membership in
the Communist Party, but because I have tried to involve
myself as much as I could in the black liberation
struggle in this country. I worked with Snack, with the
Black Panthers, and with the BSU when I was a
student down in UCSC, the university campus at San.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Diego, California. Lieutenant Governor Edward Reinick responded to her allegations.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
The woman is an admitted member of the Communist Party.
She also, in her letter to Chancellor Young, indicated that
she felt that the only way we could bring about
the social change that's necessary today is through violence and militancy.
I don't think we need that on campus, and so
I'm for getting rid of her.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
In the eyes of the Ronald Reagan administration, Angela Davis
embodied the militant, activist and radical intellectual cancer that had
infected the American Institution of Academia. She had to be stopped.
That's when Bettina Apitheker re entered the picture. You may
remember that Bettina was the communist student that helped organize
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the u C. Berkeley protest that opened up college campuses
to political activity. Bettina was actually a childhood friend of
Angela Davis's. She recruited the black militant to a communist
organization when she was in high school. Bettina came to
Angela's aid to help rally the radical UCLA faculty and
students to her side, and like at u C. Berkeley,
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she was effective. The student Legislative Council pushed for legislation
at the college calling for professors to withhold grades from
students until Angelo was reinstated to her teaching position. Many
signed on to the plan. Governor Reagan was asked about
the effort.
Speaker 7 (10:44):
If the black professors at UCLI and others elsewhere in
assistant won't grade, what action will you recommend.
Speaker 11 (10:49):
To the regions. Well, I think they're guilty of insubordination.
I don't think they have any right to refuse to grade.
Students who were taking legitimate catalog courses and leading toward
a degree, and I think the students have a right
to demand their grades and demand their credits.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
UCLA faculty members applied pressure as well, raising money to
pay for Angela's miss benefits and salary. Angela joined a
group of radical professors to file a lawsuit against the
UC regents, demanding they reverse their decision, and the chancellor
of the school also pushed back, insisting that the UC
regents were violating the university's academic freedom policy and vowed
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to reappoint Angela Davis. In early October nineteen sixty nine,
even after being stripped of her professorship, Angela decided to
thumb or nose at the UC regents by teaching her
philosophy class anyway.
Speaker 10 (11:39):
Yesterday, it was the first day of the fall term
at UCLA and Philosophy Professor Angela Davis was on her
way to teach her first class. A mid controversy for
Miss Davis admitted that she is a member of the
Communist Party, and the regents who run the university decided
because of that she should not be allowed to teach.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
The school gave her Royce Hall a prestigious UCLA auditorium.
The UC regents announced that the force would not be
given any credit. Still, two thousand students showed up for
Angela Davis's lecture.
Speaker 9 (12:09):
She is currently completing her doctoral dissertation under the direction
of Herbert Marcusa and as an acting Assistant Professor of
Philosophy at UCLA. Last Friday, the regions of the University
of California voted to suspend miss Davis from her teaching duties,
and it is in this regard that she is here today.
I introduced to you, Professor Angela Davis.
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So Angela Davis was fired for being a member of
the Communist Party. Radical professors pushed back by filing a
lawsuit against the uc regents. Some faculty resisted as well,
helping to raise money to make up for her lost
wages and giving her the prestigious UCLA Royce Hall to
lecture to a crowd of two thousand students.
Speaker 15 (14:01):
The regent I mean because they say I'm a member
of the Communist Party. Now, those involved in the conspiracy
seem to be either ignorant or outright disdainful of the
very process of education.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
Now.
Speaker 15 (14:16):
I said not too long ago that their decision to
fire me pointed to the existence of racism in the society,
and they proved themselves. I think totally incapable of understanding
that there's more to racism than just psychological attitudes. I think,
you know, I've demonstrated that on one level, that there
is something that we can call institutional racism and that
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exists in the university.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
This was October nineteen sixty nine, over a half a
century ago. Any of that sound familiar. Angela went on
to parrot the words of Herbert Marcusa. She argued that
students needed to be awakened to the true reality of society.
In other words, they needed to go woke.
Speaker 15 (14:58):
The mind has to be liberated merely in order to
perceive the world, to see society, to understand what its
advantages are, what its disadvantages are. I've been asked over
and over again, how can you really be committed to
the struggle for liberation and leave your ideas outside of
the classroom, leave your political opinions outside of the classroom. Now,
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I maintain that political opinions should be brought into the classroom.
They belong in the classroom. Now, I suppose this was
why the regions fired me. They intend to keep the
knowledge developed in the university and the service of the
prevailing oppression, and I guess they were right from their
point of view. The fact that I'm a member of
the Communist Party, that I'm involved in the activities of
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the Chaila Mumba Club, which is an all black collective
of the Party committed to the struggle for black liberation,
says something about the kind of mind that I have.
I can't and I won't keep my political opinions out
of the classroom.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
I think they belie there.
Speaker 15 (16:04):
Now I've come to the conclusion that the elimination of
racism human suffering can only come about through socialism, since
knowledge should provide answers to these problems. I feel that
I have every right when the occasion presents itself, that is,
when it's relevant to what's at hand, to say to
my students. I have given these things a lot of thought.
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My conclusion is that only some form of communism is
going to solve our basic human problems.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
After her lecture, students were asked what they thought about
the Black panther professor's speech.
Speaker 13 (16:34):
What was your reaction to the lecture?
Speaker 12 (16:36):
I think he is a superb lecture. You can learn
so much as I are inferd from just what she
said to David.
Speaker 17 (16:42):
Story, well, I think she's trying to overthrow our system
of government, and she admits that. And while I think
it is bad to limit freedom of speech of any
group because it limits democracy, I think it is better
to have a limited democracy that will last for a
long long time than for the complete democracy, complete freedom
will lasts only a brief for a brief period.
Speaker 14 (17:00):
If I were able to deliver that coherent, that beautiful,
that intellectual electional my first time, how many thousand people
there were in that place, I feel like a superstar.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Angelus in your face campaign worked. Two weeks later, Superior
Court Judge Jerry Patch ruled that the UC regents decades
long policy prohibiting communists from being hired on campus was unconstitutional.
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Angela took a victory lap in front of a crowd
of a few thousand students.
Speaker 18 (17:33):
The twenty five year old philosophy professor, who was fired
from her UCLA teaching post by the regents because she
is a communist, said the controversy her case created had
its benefits. It exposed the governor and the regents as
unscrupulous demagogues, and she said it focused public attention on
the sorry state of education. A court decision last week
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declared the regent's action unconstitutional, and so she is now
teaching a credit course.
Speaker 15 (18:02):
You know, I'm going to present, you know, things from
a mars this perspective, but I'm going to say that
that's what it is. There are very many professors who
talk from the perspective of the capitalist system, but they
don't state that this is, you know, from that perspective.
They talk about it as if that were objective reality,
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and as if that were the only way of looking
at things.
Speaker 18 (18:29):
Angelo Davis said the regents want to indoctrinate students.
Speaker 19 (18:33):
She says education should provide tools with which to evaluate
ideas and liberate the mind. And she drew her largest
hand when she said, we have to create a revolution
in this society.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
A California state spokesman talk to a reporter about the
judge's decision.
Speaker 12 (18:49):
I think everybody anticipated this woul happened in the lawer courts.
The regions, if I read their attentions aright, are determined
on a long legal fight. It may take many months,
perhaps years, up through the ordinary channel of appeal part
of the United States Supreme Court. My own a hope
by the time the case reaches that latter High Tribunal,
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there will be many new faces on it. Judges is
appointed by our President, who will be willing, after a
decade of change, to interpret the Constitution the where it
was written, not the way they wanted it to be written.
If that happens, the reasons will win their case.
Speaker 18 (19:23):
Then you're advocating that the regions spend the public's money
in taking this case to the Supreme Court to keep
communism out of the university.
Speaker 12 (19:31):
I can't imagine any better way to spend the people's
money than by defending the people against communism.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
A few days later, on October twenty fourth, nineteen sixty nine,
Angela Davis and her teacher, Herbert MARCUSA attended an enormous
rally at the place it first opened up the college
system to the Frankfurt School's Marxist activism, one.
Speaker 9 (19:51):
Of the largest together at UC Berkeley this year.
Speaker 20 (19:55):
The speaker, new left philosopher Herbert Marcus and his student
avowed communists.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Angela Davis, Herbert Marcusa's stepped the microphone first.
Speaker 21 (20:04):
This is not a victory celebration. On the contrary, I
believe that the fight is just beginning to start the
fight against all those who want to make your university
a training school for the perpetuation of a society, the
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security of which and the prosperity of which is based
on the oppression and enslavement of other peoples within the
national frontiers and without. The fight against these powers must
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go on, because it is a fight for you. They
want to block your mind.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
You may not know it.
Speaker 21 (21:01):
You may still think you are nothing but a bunch
of intellectuals separated from the masses. The government knows far
better than you know, and they have a far more
realistic evaluation of the power you already represent. The full
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weight of repression is falling upon the schools and universities,
and on the black militants in the ghettos with whom
you have joined the fight. If there is anyone capable
of breaking the insanity which is daily reproduced, it is you,
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and it is only you, black, white, and brown, who
can break this insanity.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
MARKUSA then laid out the plan for a Marxist revolution
in America. It had to happen through the institution of education.
Speaker 21 (21:58):
Now, I admit all these suggestions are sent on the university,
and on the campus there are larger tasks, especially the
forming of the alliances with the large oppressed gropes in
this country, black and brown. A process of long range education.
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But don't minimize the university as your base. It is
in the universities, in the schools that the system trains
its new cadres whom they need for its reproduction. And
this is you. Far from being a bunch of intellectuals,
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you form one of the most important contingents important for
the reproduction of the system. You have to show that
you can resist, that you can refuse to be made
mere servants of the system. Again, it is up to you.
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You are fighting for yourselves. May I now come to
my most pleasant task. I have not yet told you
why Angela Davis was the ideal victim for this repression.
Speaker 22 (23:25):
There are many reasons.
Speaker 21 (23:27):
She is black, she is militant, she is a communist,
she is highly intelligent, and she is pretty. And this
combination is more than the system can tolerate. I would
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like to introduce to you now, not my student, but
my colleague on the faculty of the University of California,
Angela Davis.
Speaker 15 (24:04):
Now, I think what we have to do is while
demanding things like open admissions. We have to take their
advice too. We have to go to the streets. We
have to talk about a complete and total change in
the structures of this society, because that's the only way
that a concept like academic freedom is going to be
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made relevant. I feel that they are becoming increasingly afraid
of the people of the students. They are afraid of
Herbert marcusa and most of all, they are afraid of
the power the students are beginning to assert throughout the universities,
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and they have every right to be afraid of us,
because we are continually demonstrating to them that they have
every right to be afraid, and we have to do
this over and over again. They have every right to
be afraid. Now radicals are emerging on the campuses throughout
the whole university system, and our being attacked. This is
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just a reflection of the emergence of radical movements dedicated
to destroying the capitalist society all over the society. I
think that we have to view the court decision that
was made a few days ago as a victory. From
one point of view. It's a victory because it exposes
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to the people the increasingly fascist tendencies in this country.
We also have to consider the reason for the decision.
The decision came about only because of mass pressure, only
because of the fact that all over the state there
were demonstrations, there were indications that we would take over.
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And I think the judge who made the decision realized
this when he said that he wanted to affect this
decision within a few hours, because otherwise he knew it
was going to be decided in the streets. Was right,
and what we have to do at this point is
to use that decision because that decision gives us a
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little more flexibility, a little more movement in order to
escalate the struggle in the society, and.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
The struggle was definitely escalating.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Just a few weeks later, on an early December nineteen
sixty nine morning, the Los Angeles Police Department descended on
Angela Davis's comrades, the Black Panthers Los Angeles Chapter headquarters.
Speaker 8 (26:35):
The internettent warfare between the Black Panthers and police erupted
today in Los Angeles. There a group of them barricaded
themselves in their headquarters and fought police with automatic weapons
and hand grenades for five hours before surrendering.
Speaker 7 (26:51):
Early this morning, Los Angeles police moved on the local
Black Panther headquarters to serve arrest and search warrants. They
were met by gunfire. It turns out the Panther headquarters
was a small fortress, complete with a sandbag bunker and
automatic weapons. There were some escape patches, but they weren't
used today. The police said they've known for some time
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that the Panthers were storing illegal weapons, and they also
expected the Panthers to use them, so three hundred officers
were assigned to this morning's raid. The police began to
teargas the building and threaten to go in after the occupants. Finally,
a white flag emerged and eleven men and women filed out.
Speaker 13 (27:28):
It is apparent that the undeclared war between the police
and the Panthers has reached alarming proportions. Party members at
thirty chapters across the country of stockpiled arsenals of automatic weapons, shotguns, pistols,
and homemade bombs.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Angela Davis arrived on the scene shortly after the shootout ended.
She fielded questions from reporters.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Did you know that there was going to happen?
Speaker 15 (27:50):
How was I to know that the police were going
to break into the Candle office at four thirty year
the morn. They obviously did their autocaster.
Speaker 8 (27:59):
Yeah, how did you hear about it?
Speaker 15 (28:01):
We got a call from someone who was inside. He
said that the police had come and had attacked their office.
Speaker 8 (28:08):
What do you plan to do?
Speaker 11 (28:09):
Is there any if you planned actors, intermediary or in
any capacity like that.
Speaker 23 (28:14):
I'll do anything I can.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Angela Davis felt that the communist revolution was afoot and
Herbert Marcuse's new alliance had to do everything they could
to usher it in. The UCLA Associate Professor took to
the streets to rally the troops.
Speaker 16 (28:29):
I'm representing the Saylor mom the club of a Communist party.
Speaker 15 (28:35):
There is a conspiracy in the land.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
This despiracy to commit murder and genocide on our people,
funds to exercise our constitutional rights to.
Speaker 16 (28:49):
They are armed, and to.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Use those arms to defend our community. Out found is
not south hard.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Serious trouble was brewing. The radicals just needed an another
trigger to further the revolution, and that trigger would come
just a few months later.
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Angela Davis called for revolutionaries to take up arms to
protect their community. Serious trouble was brewing. The radicals just
needed another trigger to further their revolution, and that trigger
would come in April nineteen seventy.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
Good evening, my fellow Americans.
Speaker 23 (31:05):
Tonight, American and South Vietnamese units will attack the headquarters
for the entire Communist military operation in South Vietnam.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
The Vietnam War was expanding into Cambodia. It was just
the type of move that the radical agitators needed to
escalate their struggle. It brought in the anti war moderates
that were unaware that a socialist insurrection was underway At
Kent State, a university in Kent, Ohio. A chapter of
the Students for a Democratic Society or SDS, had been
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agitating the entire month leading up to Nixon's announcement. SDS
was the same militant socialist group that took over Columbia
University with radical black students a few years earlier. Another
radical student group spoke on campus, reportedly urging students to
kill their parents because they were the first oppressors. The
students were primed, so when Nixon announced the expansion of
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the war to Cambodia, it was just the trigger these
radicals needed to bring in the moderates. A student strike
was announced. The agitators used the black power fist on
promotional posters, but this time they colored the fist to
signify the alliance of oppressed revolutionaries. The night after Nixon's speech,
hundreds of thousands of students began taking to the streets
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and college campuses. A witness described how the situation escalated
at Kent State.
Speaker 24 (32:23):
A group of young people, mostly as far as we
can determine, the university students. We're milling around the downtown
area in ken where there is a collection of bars
and nightclubs where most of the younger crowd frequent. First
they were simply milling around, not really unruly or disorderly.
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The crowd got larger, and then the violence broke out
at about midnight.
Speaker 25 (32:50):
The four big main picture windows at the first federal
building here have been broken, and the glass you hear
now is the sound of its being knocked out for repair.
Service trucks downtown on North Water now helping with clean
up procedures. There's very a fifty five gallon barrels here
just filled with glass.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Students nationwide began targeting the primary military facilities they had
access to ROTC buildings. The Kent State radicals burned their
ROTC building to the ground.
Speaker 14 (33:22):
The students are now marching around the hub and onto
the commons.
Speaker 26 (33:28):
Now posing down what is left for the building.
Speaker 17 (33:31):
It's about a stack of five feet of rubble.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
After three nights of violence, the Ohio National Guard was
brought in to deal with the situation.
Speaker 22 (33:39):
The guardsmen had been ordered onto the campus after the
university's ROTC building had been burned to the ground.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Fearing further destruction of university property or worse from the
radical students, the National Guard moved into the Kent State
protesters in an attempt to break up the student strike rally.
Speaker 20 (34:00):
The National Guard was called in over the weekend. Ohio
Governor James Rhose today when fifteen hundred students started an
anti war rally on the university commons. The guardsmen surrounded them. Then,
when some students started throwing rocks, the guard moved in
with tear gas. The students were forced up a hill
by the tear gas. Some of them started throwing gas
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canisters back at the guardsmen.
Speaker 8 (34:23):
Others threw rocks.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
The student protesters were defiant, some were even laughing, not
taking seriously the bayonet wielding National guardsmen approaching them. The
situation turned deadly serious. A student protester described.
Speaker 8 (34:37):
The moment funnally.
Speaker 27 (34:38):
They turned around, got on her knees, as if they
were ordered to. They did it all together, aim and personally,
I was standing there and saying, they're not going to shoot.
They can't do that. You know, if they're going to shoot,
it's going to be blank.
Speaker 20 (34:56):
Assistant Adjutant General Frederick Winger said later the guardsmen did
not open fire until after they came under sniper fire themselves.
Speaker 27 (35:03):
The shots were definitely coming my way, because when a
bullet patches your head, it makes a crack. I hit
the ground behind the curb. Looking over, I saw a
student hit. He stumbled and felled to he was running
towards a car. Another student tried to pull him behind
the car. Bullets were coming through the windows of the car.
It was maybe twenty five thirty thirty five seconds of
sporadic firing. Firing stopped. I lay there maybe ten or
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fifteen seconds. I got up. I saw four or five
students lying around in the lot. By this time it
was like mass hysteria. Students were crying. They were screaming
for ambulances. I heard some girls screaming they didn't have blanks.
They didn't have blanks, No.
Speaker 7 (35:40):
They didn't.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
When the dust settled, four students lay dead on the
campus grounds.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
At Kent State University in Ohio. After the killing of
four students yesterday, the National Guard first said its men
open fire in response to sniper fire aimed at them.
Then today the guard's commanders backed away from that and
said there was a sniper fire, and then said later
they were not sure. They said no order was given
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to shoot the students. That apparently the guardsmen fought themselves,
threatened somehow and opened fire on their own initiative, firing
thirty odd rounds before their officers stumped them, but not
before four students were dead and ten others wounded three.
Speaker 5 (36:24):
Critically, I think that the guardsmen were provoked beyond reason.
I believe that we used every conceivable effort to get
the people to dispersten the move long before the information
moved uptail. And we regret as much as anyone that
people were killed and wounded. We even regret the factor
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was I sorry to be here.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
An estimated million plus students participated in the May nineteen
seventy national campus unrest. According to the National Strike Information Center,
protests and walkouts occurred on nearly nine hundred campuses across
the country. Violent clashes between law enforcement and students took
place at a reported twenty six college campuses. At Herbert
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Marcuse's UCSD campus, in the location that the Marxist professor
often led protests, one graduate student doused his body with
gasoline and self emilated himself. By the end of the
national student strike, a reported thirty ROTC buildings were either
burned down or bombed. The whole event felt like a
civil war a socialist revolution. The violence had escalated to
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a level that created a counter movement against the student protesters.
Speaker 22 (37:39):
Many who called themselves the Silent Majority rallied around President
Nixon to show their support for him and at the
same time to visually display their discust with atty war demonstrators.
In New York City, construction workers, some still wearing the
bright yellow hard hats of their trade, confronted a line
of ati war demonstrators. While the students shouted peace now,
the hard hats rallied with signs and slogans that said,
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all the way USA and America love it or leave it.
Speaker 28 (38:06):
We want to sagun the storms that maybe today we
can open the golf and discussion and saken the stones
all out problems where I wanted to work with you,
Where the fellows will build this country, where the fellows
will build a hospitals. Six We've built the budget of
calls for them to get around, and we build the
sholes that they want to find down and we all
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shall know all the other dat.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Time Americans had had enough. The socialists were using anti
war sentiment to incite insurrection on college campuses all across
the country. Many believed it was now time to take
serious action to end the conflict. In that same month,
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May nineteen seventy, you see, regents voted to take the
authority away from UCLA on the issue of rehiring Angela Davis.
Her firing again seemed imminent. President Nixon took action as well.
Speaker 22 (39:04):
Prompted by the Kent State deaths and the deaths of
two black students at Jackson State University in Mississippi, the
President named a nine member commission to explore Kappus violence
and to recommend ways of resolving student grievances peacefully.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
The FBI was also in the mints of a national
campaign to break up the violent Black panthers and students
for a democratic society. An enormous backlash was under way,
but Angela Davis decided to keep up the heat.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
In June nineteen seventy, the communist UCLA professor adopted a
new cause, one that could rally criminals to their alliance.
She'd befriended a young black panther named Jonathan Jackson. Jonathan's
older brother, George Jackson, was serving a prison sentence after
being incarcerated at San Quentin for armed robbery in nineteen
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sixty one. George Jackson began racking up disciplinary infractions that
extended his sentence. In the process, he befriended a man
named W. L. Nolan who introduced him to marx'sis. George
became a devout follower of the ideology. He later remarked,
I met Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels and Maw when I
entered prison, and they redeemed me. He began writing on
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socialism and became a revolutionary, advocating for a Marxist revolution
by any means necessary, including violence. He was eventually transferred
from San Quentin to Solodad prison with his friend Nolan. Then,
in early nineteen seventy, Nolan was killed by a guard
during a fight on the prison yard. George Jackson was
overheard talking about getting revenge for the killing of his friend,
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and a few days later he was accused, along with
two other prisoners of killing a Solodad prison guard. The
three became known as the Solidad Brothers, and they were
all facing the death penalty. George's young Black Panther brother,
Jonathan Jackson, had befriended Angela Davis, herself a member of
the Los Angeles chapter of the Black Panther Party. Angela
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learned about George Jackson and his Marxist revolutionary books, and
she became seduce used by his writing, eventually falling in
love with the prisoner, she decided to take up the
Solodad brother cause, hoping to free what she called political prisoners.
In late June nineteen seventy, just as her fate as
a UCLA professor was being determined by the UC regents,
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Angela joined black panther Jonathan Jackson to protest for the
release of his brother and the other Solidad brothers.
Speaker 16 (41:25):
I want to go on to the business that we
came here to do today.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
Famed actress and communist sympathizer Jane Fonda attended the protest
to support Angela. Davis Hollywood was getting connected to the
black militants.
Speaker 15 (41:44):
Jane Fonda ran down the fact that you really really
need is money, and.
Speaker 16 (41:49):
I really hope that you will give everything you can,
keeping in mind that you are defending yourself. You are
defending yourself, You're defending the struggle.
Speaker 15 (41:59):
You're defending the cause of liberation. Circulating the crowd, I'd
like to run down the demands that we the Solidad.
Speaker 16 (42:08):
Brother's Defense Committee.
Speaker 15 (42:09):
Of formulated which we think will be able to begin
to deal effectively with what's happening in the prison.
Speaker 1 (42:14):
As Angela, Jonathan Jackson, and Jane Fonda marched on the
Department of Corrections to demand they free George Jackson and
all so called political prisoners. The uc regents had decided
on Angela Davis's fate at UCLA.
Speaker 23 (42:27):
Today in a rare action, the Board of Regents voted
fifteen to six to overrule the university.
Speaker 27 (42:32):
And fire her.
Speaker 23 (42:33):
Governor Reagan voted with the majority. He said it wasn't
because she's a communist, but rather because she is unprofessional.
While the regions were voting, Miss Davis was a few
blocks away in a rally protesting the treatment of black
prisoners in Solidad State prison. She sees her dismissal as
a case of political repression, which she may or may
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not challenge.
Speaker 15 (42:55):
I suppose I just lost that job at UCLA as
a result of my political opinions and activities. I'm going
to keep. I'm struggling to free the Solidar brothers in
all political business, because I think that what has happened
to me is only a very tiny minute example of
what is happening to them.
Speaker 23 (43:13):
Some UCLA professors plan to raise money to pay her
salary so she can continue to teach. That the controversy
is not over.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
By the summer of nineteen seventy, Angela Davis was out
of her professor job. Herbert Marcusa was officially retired from
UC San Diego College. Unrest was being investigated by the
Nixon administration, and the FBI was going after the Black
Panthers nationwide. America had had enough of the violence associated
with this socialist uprising. Then in early August nineteen seventy,
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something shocking happened. How did it happen?
Speaker 29 (43:53):
That Superior Court Judge Harold Haley and three others were killed?
Speaker 2 (44:00):
On August seventh, nineteen seventy, Black panther Jonathan Jackson entered
a northern California courtroom with a rifle and several other weapons,
handed them to black inmates that were involved in a
trial that was in process, and took several hostages.
Speaker 29 (44:14):
Investigators for the Marine County Sheriff's Department still are not
sure of all the details, but they are piecing together
this story from witnesses and participants in the shocking crime
that took place here yesterday.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
A photographer that entered the scene to the hostage situation
witnessed panther Jonathan Jackson and the inmates leaving with the.
Speaker 30 (44:35):
Hostages and one of the men as they left in
the elevator after they told me that they didn't want
me as a hostage, did say we want the Sola
dead brothers freed. By twelve thirty today.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
Jonathan Jackson, the criminal escapees, and their hostages exited the
courtroom and made their way to an awaiting van.
Speaker 31 (44:52):
One of the witnesses in the van said they heard
a shot immediately the judge's head was blown off. The
assistant district attorney then grappled with the mats, procured a
gun in shot three of them.
Speaker 2 (45:06):
The judge, Jonathan Jackson, and two of the escaping inmates
were killed. Then, within a matter of a week, the
story took an unbelievable turn. Several of the guns used
in the escape attempt, including the rifle that blew off
the judge's head, were purchased by Angela Davis.
Speaker 4 (45:24):
What was she doing with those guns?
Speaker 11 (45:26):
I own the foggiest idea what she was doing with
the guns at that time.
Speaker 1 (45:30):
Next time and the conclusion of Red pilled America's woke Army.
Speaker 26 (45:33):
Supporters of the Blank Liberation movements are stepping up the
pressure in the campaign to free Angela Davis. The Blank philosophy,
elector and communist who is now facing a charge of
murder in California.
Speaker 2 (45:45):
Red Pilled America's an iHeartRadio original podcast. It's produced by
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Hosts And Creators
Adryana Cortez
Patrick Courrielche
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