August 12, 2026 • 49 mins
Where did wokeness come from? In Part Three, we continue our journey with the story of a movement born in academia, shaped by the teachings of the Frankfurt School - and determined to bring its revolution into the heart of America.
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Previously on Red Pilled America and the.
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Time when the operation of the machine becomes so audience.
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Several thousand students have gathered for what has been billed
as a victory is celebration.
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You see this as an issue that will be affecting
other campuses or is this a specific problem.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
In your own school?
Speaker 6 (01:00):
No, I think that this will in the near future
begin to other campuses.
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They were Marxists that were intellectually fueled by the ideas
of the Frankfurt School.
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Would always be necessary.
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The gallant can and must be prepa.
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Mark who taught me that it was possible to be
a scholar and a revolutionist.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Where did Wokeness come from?
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I'm Patrick Carelci and I'm Adriana Cortez.
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And this is Red Pilled America, a storytelling show.
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This is not another talk show covering the day's news.
We are all about telling stories.
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Stories. Hollywood doesn't want you to hear stories.
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The media marks stories about everyday Americans of the globalist ignore.
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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 the third part of our
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series of episodes entitled Wolk Army. You've probably heard Part
one and two, but if you haven't, stop and go
back and listen from the beginning. We're looking for the
answer to the question where did wokeness come from? By
telling this 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 part one, we told the story of how
German Marxist intellectuals started the Frankfurt School in nineteen twenty three,
then fled to the United States, ten years later to
develop a new brand of Marxism that could potentially ignite
a socialist revolution in the West.
Speaker 8 (02:47):
By the late.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Nineteen fifties, these radicals coalesced around a consensus that capitalism
was making the working class too comfortable, draining the revolutionary
energy out of their proletariat. As a result, they'd need
a new oppressed group to spark a socialist revolution.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
In Part two, we learned how a dark alliance began
forming in the early nineteen sixties that was fueled by
the ideas of the Frankfort School. This alliance first revealed
itself in a nineteen sixty four protests at UC Berkeley.
A radical group wanted to end the university's policy prohibiting
political activity on campus, so they challenged the rule by
setting up political informational tables on the university premises. The
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school took debate, and campus police arrested one of the
table attendants, but as they tried to haul them off,
students surrounded the squad car and refused to let it leave.
One of the protest instigators, Mario Savio, demanded their comrade
be released and the school terminate all campus political speech restrictions.
A thirty two hour stand off ensued until the university
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agreed to review the rule, but after a few weeks,
school officials re emerged with their verdict, deciding to suspend
the protest leader, Mario Savio, and eight other students. That's
when the protesters went ballistic, occupying the school administration building.
They shut down the entire school. Hundreds were arrested, and
after two months of constant protest, the university completely capitulated,
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dropping all charges against the protesters and terminating all restrictions
on political activity. The protest was branded as the free
speech movement, but it was a charade. A participant would
later admit that it was really about clearing barriers to
using the campus as a base for radical political activity.
It was orchestrated by a group of Marxists that had
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been trained by both the Communist Party USA and a
radical black student protest organization called SNICK, led by Stokely Carmichael, a.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Relative unknown in nineteen sixty four. Stokely was a Howard
University grad that grew impatient with Martin Luther King Junior's
non violent approach to protest. He was instead becoming inspired
by the aggressive posture of black nationalist Malcolm X. So
when Malcolm X was killed in nineteen sixty five, Stokely
Carmichael picked up where he left off and would quickly
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become the ring leader of the new Black power movement.
He'd eventually be christened the Honorary Prime Minister of the
Black Panthers, a militant black power political organization born in Oakland.
In nineteen sixty seven, Stokely connected with Herbert Marcusa at
a conference in London to address rising violence in the world.
In America, riots had erupted all across the country in
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urban cities like Detroit. Stokely and Marcusa were invited to
the London conference to represent the New Left's rationale for
violent revolution in the United States. Marcusa was the guest
of honor at the gathering, heralded as a genius for
his writings, including a new concept he developed called repressive tolerance,
where he argued that for the new left to start
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a socialist revolution, it needed to censor all movements coming
from the right and tolerate any movement coming from the left,
even if they were violent. In the crowd at the
conference was a student of Marcusa's that wanted to follow
in his footsteps. Her name was Angela Davis, a young
Alabama born black radical who'd grown up around communists. Angela
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studied philosophy under Marcusa at Brandeis College. After graduating in
nineteen sixty five, she went to Germany to study under
Marcusa's Frankfurt School colleagues, Max Horkheimer and Theodora Dorno. When
the Black Panthers exploded onto the scene in nineteen sixty seven,
she wanted to join their movement, so after a brief
stop at the London Conference to meet the Black Panther
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Stokely Carmichael and her teacher, she headed back to America,
where she was set to study under Herbert Marcusa at
the University of California at San Diego.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
When Angela Davis arrived in California in nineteen sixty seven,
the stage was set for Herbert Marcusa's new proletariat to
erupt into action. The Black Power movement was attracting new
members like flies to a heaping pile of shap The
sexual revolution was underway, The feminist movement was growing. Socialist
radicals had made inroads into universities like UC Berkeley, and
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now even colleges had opened Marxist professors like Herbert marcusa.
If each of these factions could come together, they could
produce a woke army with the kind of energy necessary
to start a socialist revolution in America.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
As the nineteen sixty seven nineteen sixty eight school year began, ANGELA.
Davis wanted to connect with the growing Black Panthers in California.
It was a strange desire for an academic of all
people to want to be connected with the Black Power organization.
After just a year of existence, they'd already shown an
insatiable pension for violence. In October nineteen sixty seven, one
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of the Panthers' founders, Hughey Newton, was accused of murdering
a police officer. After his arrest, a representative of the
Panthers issued a warning to the American people.
Speaker 10 (07:54):
The Black Panther Party demand that he if he knewton't
be set free, and we wish to make it very
clear that if he has not set free, the little
hope of avoiding open armed war in the streets of California.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Sweeping across this nation, the Black Panthers were becoming more
and more militant, threatening all out warfare. It was the
kind of revolutionary organization that almost no respectable intellectual prior
to the nineteen sixties would have wanted to be associated with.
Yet Angela Davis, an academic, was looking to join the group.
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Why well, simply put, she wanted to bring Frankfurt School
Marxism into the Black power movement. Within a matter of
weeks after landing in California, Angela was working with the
Los Angeles chapter of the Black Panther organization, setting up
a rally in Los Angeles to demand the release of
the Black Panther founder Huey Newton. The campaign became known
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as the Free Hueye Campaign. She helped secure the Los
Angeles Sports Arena for the leaders of Black Panthers. It
was the largest indoor venue in Los Angeles at the time,
and on the day of the rally, the main floor
of the arena was packed.
Speaker 11 (09:11):
This is our country was built on our back by
our labor. We built the country up. We'll burn it
down if you don't hurry up and come ride.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Attendees of the February nineteen sixty eight gathering would receive
a heaping dose of vitriolic speeches from Stokely Carmichael and
h Rap Brown, each calling for a revolution by any
means necessary, including violence.
Speaker 12 (09:38):
There's a new alliance that brother James Foreman talked about.
Speaker 11 (09:42):
My players were introduced to you the Minister of Justice
for the Black Panther Party of Self Defense, Chairman of Snith,
Brother Rap Brown. If Newton is now confined in jail
because of our lack of action, we accuse ourselves of
being revolutionary. A white cops have died since you ain't
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Unwton has been in jail none none. He killed the
last honky had died from a bullet or a black gun.
The only thing that he and Newton is guilty us,
perhaps is that he didn't tell me he was going
down on the honkers that day.
Speaker 7 (10:23):
That's the only thing.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Hrap Brown began to see the new revolutionary alliance that
Herbert marcusa identified in his book One Dimensional Man.
Speaker 11 (10:32):
The revolution that this country is facing would be a
revolution of This was just people. That means Mexican Americans,
Puerto Ricans, Blacks, American Indians, and heavy This was just
class in this country.
Speaker 7 (10:46):
He's of our allies.
Speaker 11 (10:47):
Black people, if they are going to be free, must
begin to sieze power. Sherman Miles says, power comes from
the rail of a gun. You better get you a gun, brother,
I don't care if it ain't nothing but a BB
gun with poison. BB's America has shown us that she
does not respect anything. But counter course, you must begin
to prise in your concept. You got to get beyond
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the racist pig cop. You see, because he is a
tomb of the man who really controls his system. We
not only talking about destroying a power structure. We talking
about ruination of a system black people cannot afford to
become capitalists.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
But what was perhaps most interesting was the Black Panthers
position on the American institution of education.
Speaker 11 (11:42):
Black people must begin to understand everything that you don't
control becomes a weapon against you. The education system today
is a weapon against black people. It expounds and teaches
white nationalism.
Speaker 12 (11:57):
I really don't need to call his name by the
stock La Carmichael, my brother rap ran it down very nicely.
I'll just add to it. Education don't help us in
this country. It cripples us.
Speaker 7 (12:15):
That is a fact.
Speaker 13 (12:16):
Our communities are filled with hustlers, pimps, dope addicts, prostitutes,
number men racketeers, preachers, teachers, maids, barterers, and some factory workers.
Not one black school in the country has a curriculum
geared to teach us how to be a good pimp,
good hustler, good preacher, good teacher, good an offense, not one,
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not one. If the education is to teach us how
to live in our community, then it must do one
of two things. Prepare us to live in that community
by teachers how to be good prostitutes, good maids, good preachers.
By teaching us how to change our community so we
can live like human beings.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
So we can live like human beaties.
Speaker 13 (13:03):
Our school system does neither. And when our young people,
who are very intelligent, drop out of school because they
recognize the game the honkey is running on them, they
have us fighting them, saying.
Speaker 14 (13:17):
Get back in school, get back to what white nationalism.
If we want our children to go to school, we
have to educate them. We have to ed you.
Speaker 15 (13:30):
Take them, We have to ed you take them.
Speaker 16 (13:34):
Nobody else.
Speaker 17 (13:37):
There is no race in history.
Speaker 13 (13:39):
That give their young to another race to educate, no.
Speaker 7 (13:43):
Race at all, no race at all.
Speaker 13 (13:47):
We are the only race that allow our enemy to
educate our youth against us we must educate our people.
In order to educate our people, it means that we
must take over the schools, nothing less, take them home
will by any means necessary.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
This message resonated with Angela Davis. It was early nineteen
sixty eight and she was studying for her masters under
Herbert Marcusa. It may have looked nearly impossible at the time,
but a takeover of education, one of the most important
institutions that defines what it means to be American, was
the kind of win that could slowly spread Marxism throughout
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the country. It was an ambitious goal, but what they
needed was a new trigger to unleash the pent up
energy that was building within this new growing alliance. That
trigger would come on April fourth, nineteen sixty eight.
Speaker 18 (14:40):
Place have issued in all points bulletin for a well
rushed young white man seen running from the scene.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Welcome back to red pilled America. So in early nineteen
sixty eight, Herbert Marcuse's disciple, Angela Davis, organized a rally
to demand the release of Black Panther's founder You Knew Luton,
who was arrested for murdering a cop. At the rally,
leaders of the Black Panthers argued that their new alliance
must take over the schools by any means necessary. A
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takeover of education, one of the most important institutions, was
the kind of win that could slowly spread Marxism throughout
the country. It was an ambitious goal, but what they
needed was a new trigger to unleash the pent up
energy that was building within the new growing alliance. That
trigger would come. On April fourth, nineteen sixty.
Speaker 18 (15:32):
Eight, doctor Martin Luther King, the apostle of non violence
in the civil rights movement, has been shot to death
in Memphis, Tennessee. Place have issued an all points bulletin
for a well dressed young white man seen running from
the scene. Governor Bufort Ellington has called out four thousand
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National Guardsmen. Police report that the murder has touched off
sporadic acts of violence in a Negro section of the city.
In a nationwide television address, President Johnson expressed the nation's shock.
Speaker 15 (16:04):
America is shocked and saddened by the brutal, slang tonight
of doctor Martin Luther King. I asked every citizen to
reject the blind violence that has struck doctor King, who
lived by non violence.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
In the hours that followed, violence erupted again in America.
Speaker 19 (16:25):
Washington, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, New York. These are just a
few of the cities in which the Negro anguish over
doctor King's murder, presumably by a white man, expressed herself
in violent destruction.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
The tragic event was just the kind of news that
Herbert Marcuse's new formed alliance needed to incite a revolution
the Black Panthers. Stokely Carmichael stepped to the microphone and
warned of the coming violence.
Speaker 20 (16:50):
A lot of America killed doctor King last night. She
opened the eyes for every black man in this country.
A lot of America got rid of Marcus Godviy. She
did it, and she said he was an extremist, he
was crazy. When they got rid of brother Malcolm X,
they said he was preaching hate, he deserved what he got.
But when they got rid of brother Martin Luther King,
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they had absolutely no reason to do so. He was
the one man in our race who was trying to
teach our people to have love, compassion, and mercy for
what white people had done. When white America killed doctor
King last night, she declared.
Speaker 21 (17:24):
War on us.
Speaker 20 (17:25):
There will be no crying. There will be no funerals.
The rebellions that have been occurring around the cities of
this country is just light stuff to what is about
to happen. We have to retaliate for the death of
our leaders. The execution of those deaths will not be
in the courtrooms. They're going to be in the streets
of the United States of America. The light America killed
doctor King last night. She made a whole lot easier
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for a whole lot of Black people today. They no
longer needs to be intellectual discussions. Black people know that
they have to get done. Wright America will live to
cry and that she killed doctor King last night.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Stokely Carmichael was right. For the next week, riots, looting,
and arson swept through Washington, d C, Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit,
New York City, Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Cincinnati, Trenton, Louisville, and Wilmington, Delaware.
The Black Panthers tried to murder and ambush police officers
in Oakland. Their first member, Bobby Hutton, was killed in
the process. The unrest came to be known as the
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Holy Week Uprising. Some historians called it the worst wave
of American social unrest since the Civil war, and the
Marxist agitators took advantage of the situation to further their
socialist revolution.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
We now do that we no longer have I say
and decisions that affect our lives.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
On April twenty third, nineteen sixty eight, just a few
weeks after MLK juniors killed, two groups of radical students
began an unprecedented protest at Columbia University in New York City,
the same American campus at first housed the Frankfurt School.
It took over Hamilton Hall, which housed the university's administration offices,
and school officials tried to get them to disperse.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
There where are the building, giving further instructions of the
building as not clear enough in.
Speaker 7 (19:28):
The next time minus if they're not about building, where new?
But we have no alternative, but they're calling points at easterns.
Speaker 15 (19:43):
We immediately spend that.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
One of the occupying groups was called the Students for
a Democratic Society or SDS, a Marxist organization that looked
to replace America's capitalist system with communism.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
We called our students faculty stop workers of the university
to support us strike. We asked that all students at
faculty not meet or half classes inside buildings. We have
taken the power away from an irresponsible, an illegitimate administration.
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We have taken power away from a board, a self
perpetuating businessman who call themselves trustees of this university. We're
demanding an end to the construction of the gymnasium. Gymnasium
being built against the will of the people of the
community of harm. We're no longer asking, but demanding an
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end to all affiliation and ties with the Institute for
Defense Analysis.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
The other group of radicals that took over the school
was the Society of Afro American Students or SaaS, a
group connected to the Black Power movement. The Black Panthers
Stokely Carmichael and h Rap Brown joined the group at
Columbia to make their demands.
Speaker 16 (21:03):
Black students of Columbia University, joined by a few members
of the black community, have been in Hamilton.
Speaker 7 (21:08):
Hall for fifty six dollars. Now of brother's in.
Speaker 16 (21:11):
Here maintain that they will stay here until university willing
to talk on that turn.
Speaker 19 (21:16):
And we are going in the community.
Speaker 16 (21:18):
Of Hallam and both the support down there, So we're
gonna let Columbia know that if they don't want to
deal with the brothers India. They're gonna deal with the
Brothers on the streets.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
The students set up barricades to keep the police out.
Then they unbelievably took the university's dean hostage for twenty
four hours, and in just the first two days they
took over five school buildings. The radical protesters completely shut
down campus operations. The occupation lasted over a week. The
agitators claimed that their protest was over the university's involvement
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in weapons development and the unwanted construction of a gymnasium
in Harlem. But just like UC Berkeley, it was all
a charade. They had a different goal in mind. The
leader of one of the agitator groups, Mark Rudd, of STS,
later admitted that they'd manufactured them issues.
Speaker 21 (22:03):
And why is STS Mark really interested in Colombia or
is it just a stepping zone? Are you concerned with
something much bigger than Columbia? Why did you use Columbia
or did you use Columbia?
Speaker 4 (22:18):
I say that neither is true, for both are true. Son,
What it is is a a training ground.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
As former Congressman doctor Walter H. Judd said in the
aftermath the takeover, of Columbia University was a training exercise
with the ultimate goal being a violent socialist takeover of
the United States. And it wasn't just America that was
putting the Frankfurt School's ideas into practice. Herbert Marcusa was
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becoming an icon in Europe as well.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Beginning on May second, nineteen sixty eight, just hours after
the Columbia University violence ended, France experienced one of its
largest civil unrest in modern times. It was sparked by
a group of Marxist students protesting against capitalism and American imperialism.
Speaker 7 (23:07):
The Universite et la bourgeois v.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
The protests grew when trade unions called sympathy strikes to
align with the radical students. An estimated eleven million workers
joined in the protest, over twenty percent of the population
of France at the time. The French economy grinded to
a halt. The situation got so dire that the national
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government briefly ceased functioning. Fearing an all out civil war,
the country's president secretly fled to Germany. The surprising twist
was the person that the French media was blaming for
the unrest. According to the country's newspapers. The demonstrations were
started because of Herbert Marcuse's book One Dimensional Man.
Speaker 22 (23:54):
His writings about the frustrations of modern man and contemporary
Western society have been especially popular in Europe.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
ANGELA. Davis later we were reminisced about the massive French protest.
Speaker 23 (24:05):
Herbert Marcuza was committed to an immediate political activism in
speaking at rallys. Of course, in nineteen sixty eight in France,
with the great student uprisings there, Marcuza's name was envoked
and he spoke.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
The rallying call for the French protesters was mal Marx Marcusa,
a former student of Marcus's was in Paris at the
time and witnessed first hand the situation his professor found
himself in.
Speaker 17 (24:41):
Students were demonstrating outside at the university teert gas was flying.
Marcusa arrived at the conference hall and was suddenly surrounded
by reporters. And of course what this was all about
was a newspaper stories that had been published in the
preceding weeks saying that Marcusa was the thinker who had
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inspired the student revolt that going on outside.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
The French protest went on for seven weeks, but the
violence was just getting started. A few months later, violent
student protests erupted at the nineteen sixty eight Democratic National
Convention in Chicago. Word began to spread in America that
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Herbert Marcuse's writings were igniting these student uprisings.
Speaker 24 (25:30):
Recently. Wherever they had a riot in Europe, they had
the riots.
Speaker 7 (25:34):
In Rome and MARCUSI showed up.
Speaker 24 (25:36):
They had the riots in Paris when the French had
to bring out the troops and the tanks, MARCUSI was there.
When they had the riots with the students in Berlin,
MARCUSI was there. It seems to be that wherever the
radicals and this new left, so.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
Called New Left a pair.
Speaker 24 (25:52):
MARCUSI, some wers, is in the background. We are convinced
that he has to convey some of his ideas and
thoughts directly to the students. And in this lies the
danger of MARCUSI to the University of California, Mark.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Who's his popularity with students, began sparking the interest of
the media, who wanted to know if he actually endorsed
the violence.
Speaker 22 (26:13):
I gather you are a bit ambivalent about the use
of violence.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
What do you mean by that? You have mixed failings.
Speaker 22 (26:21):
You sometimes think it is good and other times think it's.
Speaker 8 (26:26):
Think that anyone who loves violence for the sake of
violence is a fatally sick human being.
Speaker 22 (26:34):
Well, there are certainly violence against people in the Paris riots.
Speaker 8 (26:38):
Counter violence that I have seen. The students were perfectly peaceful.
The police got orders first to clear the cord of
the Sorbonne and then to clear the streets. And you
know that they don't do that exactly in the way
of a nursemate singing the baby.
Speaker 22 (27:01):
To counter violence as are okay in your view.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
It's not a question whether I were wanting to pay you.
Speaker 8 (27:07):
There's a question when and where that is necessary necessary
in order to keep alive yourself and.
Speaker 11 (27:13):
What you stand for.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
In the summer of nineteen sixty eight, San Diego's American Legion,
a powerful political group at the time, began putting pressure
on UCSD's new chancellor, William McGill, to fire the Marxist professor.
Speaker 6 (27:26):
Earlier this week, a group of one thousand outraged citizens
took out an ad in a local newspaper demanding that
McGill's inauguration be called off. They also demanded that philosophy
Professor Herbert Marcuse will be fired.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
The new chancellor responded.
Speaker 25 (27:41):
The legion proposes to offer twenty thousand dollars to buy
up a Professor Marcus's contract. You don't buy up a
professor's contract. You can't even do this with a professional
football player. And the university is a far more responsible
place in our society.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
By the end of nineteen sixty eight, pressure was building
to fire marcusa and it was being amped up by
no other than the new governor of California, Ronald Reagan.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
At the time, Ronald Reagan had already had a long
history of fighting communist infiltration in American institutions. In nineteen
forty four, he joined Hollywood heavy hitters John Wayne, Whialt, Disney, Clark, Gable,
Ginger Rogers, Cecilby de Mille, and many others to form
the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals,
a Hollywood industry group created to defend the film industry
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from communist and fascist infiltration. In nineteen forty six, as
a member of the Screen Actors Guild Board, Reagan was
asked to mediate a labor dispute with the union leader
Herbert Serell Sorell was a Communist that benefited from violent
confrontation at the Hollywood Studios. Reagan personally witnessed Cerel and
Cite Union members to commit violence at the studio's gates.
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They overturned buses, smashed windows, and left people bloodied. So
Reagan took on Sorell by crossing the picket lines. Sorel
then labeled Reagan a fascist and called on union members
to boycott his movies. Some agitators went as far as
sending Reagan anonymous threats that his face would be mutilated
to ruin his acting career. The actor had an awakening moment.
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He decided he wouldn't let the communists gain control of
the storytelling industry that helped define the American ideal. He
began carrying a gun when he became the president of
the Screen Actors Guild. Reagan was determined to flush communists
out of the industry. In nineteen forty seven, he testified
before the House on American Activities Committee as a friendly witness,
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I will be.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Frank with either as a citizen, I would hesitate or
I would not like to see any political party outlawed
on the basis of its political ideology, because we've spent
one hundred and seventy years in this country on the
basis that democracy is strong enough to stand up and
fight for itself against the inroads of any ideology, no
matter how much we may disagree with it. However, if
it has proven that this organization is the agent of
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a foreign power, or is in any way not a
legitimate political party, and I.
Speaker 18 (30:12):
Think the government is capable of doing that.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
If the proof is there, then that is another matter.
We have done a pretty good job in our business
of keeping those people's activities curtailed. After all, we must
legally recognize them as the presidents of political party. On
that basis, we have exposed their lives when we came
across them. We have been eminently successful in preventing them
from their usual tactic of trying to run a majority
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of an organization with a well organized minority.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
So, when Reagan saw radicals like Herbert Marcusea creating chaos
at universities in his home state, Reagan ran for governor
of California on a platform of law and order, and
he mints no words about what should be done when
students put their radical professor's ideas into action.
Speaker 26 (31:01):
They're a small minority of peatni's radicals and filthy speech
advocates have brought shame on a great university.
Speaker 15 (31:08):
Applications for enrollment have dropped.
Speaker 26 (31:10):
Twenty one percent, and there's evidence they'll continue to drop
even more. Now we're all ready to press reportings of
the report that was handed in by the Senate subcommittee
in its charges that the campus has become a rallying
point the communists and a center for sexual misconduct. And
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it began a year ago when the so called free
speech advocates, who in truth have no appreciation for freedom.
We're allowed to assault and humiliate the symbol of law
and order, a policeman on the campus. And that was
the moment when the ringleaders should have been taken to
the streff of the neck and thrown out of the
university once and for.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Reagan became governor in nineteen sixty seven, and when it
became clear that Herbert Marcusa and the Black Panthers had
been the primary instigators in citing students towards violence, he
began to apply pressure on the University of California regents
to fire Marcusa and prohibit the Black panthers from speaking
on California college campuses. In November nineteen sixty eight, Reagan
traveled to San Diego to attend a uc regents meeting
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on the topic. When he arrived, Herbert Marcusa joined students
to stage a protest of Reagan's visit, and this time
they tried a different tactic. In front of the media.
They chose a silent protest.
Speaker 21 (32:39):
On Gollner.
Speaker 25 (32:40):
What do you think of this well discipline, quiet demonstration
Compared to some of the disturbances you've encountered in the past.
Speaker 15 (32:45):
This has purposely done this way well, and.
Speaker 21 (32:48):
I'm very appreciative of it.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
I think it's a little more adult than some of
the things we've seen in the past.
Speaker 6 (32:52):
They hope that this will have an effect on the
regions in their decisions today.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Wow, it would be fine if they really understood what
was going on, But they don't.
Speaker 15 (33:02):
You don't think they understand what's going on.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
No, The uc regents decided to shift the decision of
whether to fire Marcusa over to the university that was
employing him, and in February nineteen sixty nine, UCSD's chancellor
announced a creative workaround.
Speaker 25 (33:16):
The University of California, San Diego today announced its intention
to reappoint doctor Herbert Marcusa as professor of Philosophy for
the academic year nineteen sixty nine seventy. But accordingly, we
have decided to terminate all existing commitments to overage professors
as of June nineteen seventy and to replace these with
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a policy of expected retirement at a specified age.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
UCSD didn't want the appearance that the governor or community
outrage was forcing their hand, so it decided to change
its policy to force his retirement.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Doctor McGill, Would you say that this new policy you've
just inaugurated was a direct result of your problem concerning
doctor marcus No.
Speaker 13 (33:58):
Was not.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Marcusa called into a local radio station to issue a
statement about the decision.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
It is not my reappointment that is at stake. I
have quite a few offers to teach in spite of
my biological age. What if at stake is the right
and the duty of the stella and educato to teach
the tools and to expose the lions It serves or
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ought to serves over generations of human beings, regardless of race, color, religion,
and business requirements.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Marcusa would be forced to retire in a year. With
his fate now sealed at UCSD, the gloves could come off.
He just issued Angela Davis her master's in philosophy and
began working with her towards her doctorate. And this was
important because the Frankfurt School Marxist wanted the young black
power intellectual to take their baton and run with it
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within the hallowed halls of American academia.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
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pressured UCSD to come up with the creative way to
retire Herbert Marcusa in the coming year. With his fate
now sealed at UCSD, the gloves could come off. Marcusa
had just issued Angela Davis her master's in philosophy and
began working with her towards her doctorate. And this was
important because the Frankfurt School Marxist wanted the young Black
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power intellectual to take their baton and run with it
within the hallowed halls of American academia. As the end
of the nineteen sixty nine school year approached, Marcusa began
arguing in the pages of The New York Times that
the violent student protests could be considered non violand when
compared to the capitalist society that oppressed them. Just days later,
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Angela Davis put his writings into action. She organized an
occupation of a UCSD building.
Speaker 23 (36:15):
We were demanding a college.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
We wanted a college.
Speaker 9 (36:19):
They were about to construct the third college.
Speaker 27 (36:22):
We said, the name of this college is going to
be La Mumba's Apata College.
Speaker 7 (36:26):
Oh yes.
Speaker 9 (36:31):
And we developed a curriculum.
Speaker 27 (36:33):
We developed the idea of creating a college that would
reflect the needs of the academic as well as community
needs of people of African descent, Latinos and working class
white people's.
Speaker 9 (36:47):
We wanted to demonstrate the extent of which we were serious.
We decided to occupy the registrar's office. So I went
to Markuza and told him about our plan, and I
asked h him whether he would come with us. No
question about it, of course, And as a matter of fact,
when we took over the building. We had We had
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to kick in the door, break the glass, and the
first person to occupi the building. The first person to
set foot into the building with Hervi Marcuza.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
The following day, the occupiers took to the school campus.
Speaker 6 (37:24):
In the wake of yesterday evening's takeover of the Registrar's office,
the Black Student Council and the Mexican American Youth Association
held a rally in the Free speech area of the
campus at noon today, They issued the following statement, the
taking of the Registrar's office was the only course of
action because the Academic Senate had not met the demands
of the supporters of the La Mumba Zapata College.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
In parallel, violent student protests bubbled up in other parts
of the country as well. City College of New York
had to close down because of outbreaks of fights. Black
radicals seized six Howard University buildings and barricaded two traffic
gates leading into campus. State troopers had to the our
protesters who'd taken over Dartmouth College's administration building. Indiana College
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students marched on the Indianapolis State House per Due. University
students began a one day boycott embarking on a sit
in in one of their campus buildings, and unrest erupted
at Uppsala College and Saint Peter's College in New Jersey,
but nothing to date compared to the violence that broke
out on May fifteenth, nineteen sixty nine, at the birthplace
of radical student insurrection. By early May nineteen sixty nine,
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students and area socialists commandeered a plot of land owned
by U C. Berkeley that was set to be made
into an athletic field. The agitators quickly converted the land
into what they called the People's Park. Governor Reagan, who'd
run on a platform of law and order, wasn't having it.
He believed that it was going to be used for
radical political activity. The socialist instigators that created the park
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warned the school that if they moved ahead with the
construction plan on the plot of land, then they'd physically
destroy the university. So in the early hours of May fifteenth,
nineteen sixty nine, Governor Reagan sent law enforcement to the
plot of land to clear it out.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
Partner who are not crack practic and for Mark hand Lane,
you will be erected.
Speaker 10 (39:26):
For crack practic.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Law enforcement erected a fence around it. Governor Reagan anticipated
a confrontation.
Speaker 7 (39:34):
He was right.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
Mario Savio, one of the primary Marxist instigators of the
so called free speech protests at UC Berkeley, began rallying
people on campus to retake the so called People's Park.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
So what do we do with all of our free time?
Speaker 28 (39:50):
As I see it the great hope and puts it
in the People's Park, is that in our leisure time,
so to speak, we will make the social revolution.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
Other socialist instigators joined him to incite the.
Speaker 7 (40:06):
The People's Park.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
An estimated three thousand rally attendees began marching from UC
Berkeley towards the fenced off property, chanting we want the park.
The crowd was hostile. They attempted to overturn and burn
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police vehicles. They threw rocks and bottles at law enforcement.
Some were on top of buildings hurling objects at them.
Under attack, police fired teargas, bird shot, and then buckshot
at the attackers. Over one hundred and twenty five rioters
were hospitalized. One was killed in the melee. That night,
Reagan called a state of emergency and moved over two
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thy five hundred national guardsmen into the area. In the
days that followed, uc Berkeley protesters took to the streets
to rally students to continue to occupy the park.
Speaker 7 (41:03):
Nawful and in the name of the people.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
Of Angela Davis, an other UCSD student activists, called for
an end to Ronald Reagan's efforts to end the conflict.
Reagan wouldn't give in. He pushed law enforcement to continue
to clear the streets.
Speaker 18 (41:31):
I'm jee Beale of the Berkeley Police Department.
Speaker 24 (41:34):
At five minutes of nine, we declared there's to be
an unlawful assembly.
Speaker 7 (41:38):
There is no permit for this meeting. No one ever
attempted to obtain one. This is an ill legal meeting.
Speaker 18 (41:48):
Now you have time to move out of here slowly
and in a dignified manner, and there won't be any
necessity for a confrontation.
Speaker 7 (41:56):
But we are going to clean the street.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
As the conflict continued over the next two weeks, Ronald
Reagan held a press car conference where radical faculty members
began to chastise the governor for his actions.
Speaker 7 (42:12):
Who are you?
Speaker 3 (42:13):
I would like to hear who you are?
Speaker 7 (42:14):
This okay?
Speaker 3 (42:18):
You bet, I'm happy, and you bet you won't say
anything that will surprise me, and I'd love to.
Speaker 28 (42:22):
See you discussed this openly before the people of California.
Speaker 6 (42:25):
I am discussing it openly and will know that you
can't run a university by bannet.
Speaker 10 (42:32):
You cannot do it that way.
Speaker 28 (42:34):
If you would allow yourself to listen, you would have
a lot of people who would be showing some compassion,
some interest in non violence, some interest in order. If
you would speak out against the use of firearms and
buckshot and say, if you will that that that this
the people responsible, that that should be removed. If you
would says example of cutting down the escalation, you can
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bet we'd have a lot.
Speaker 3 (42:58):
Mister Wapshee, when were any of you, When did any
of you appear before the students? When did any of
you stand up at Sprowl Hall on Thursday and beg
them not to go down there?
Speaker 28 (43:07):
Over one hundred people have been shot down, one hundred
people that I'm sure the record will show.
Speaker 19 (43:13):
Guess people guess that has been classified as.
Speaker 11 (43:16):
Far as I know, is being used.
Speaker 3 (43:19):
Once the dogs of war are unleashed, you must expect
that things will happen, and people, being human, will make
mistakes on both sides.
Speaker 7 (43:27):
But this violence.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
Some of the radical faculty members argued that Reagan should
have negotiated with the rioters.
Speaker 3 (43:36):
Those people told you for days in advance that if
the university sought to go ahead with that construction, they
were going to physically destroy the university.
Speaker 19 (43:47):
Now, why did you negotiate many times?
Speaker 21 (43:49):
Negotiate what is to negotiate?
Speaker 3 (43:52):
What is a minute on that issue? Don't you simply
explain to these students that the university as a piece
of property that it bought for future construction of the campus,
and it was now going ahead with the plan that people,
what do you mean negotiating?
Speaker 7 (44:09):
Reagan?
Speaker 3 (44:09):
The time has passed when the university can just ride
rough shot over the desires of the majority of its
student body.
Speaker 27 (44:17):
University is a public institution, that's right. But the university
is its.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
Own community and for the community of Berkeley that live around.
Speaker 3 (44:24):
All of it began the first time, some of you
who know better and are old enough to know better,
let young people think that they had the right to
choose the laws they would obey as long as they
were doing it in the name of social protest.
Speaker 2 (44:36):
Mark Whosa took to the media to make a justification
for the student violence.
Speaker 4 (44:41):
The violence is certainly note with the students.
Speaker 8 (44:43):
The violence is on the part of those against whom
the student's protest.
Speaker 28 (44:49):
Nevertheless, is in this a disruptive activity which harms the university.
Speaker 8 (44:53):
If this disoptive activity contributes at least a little in
stopping the insanity, I think it is more than justified.
Speaker 1 (45:02):
By the summer of Night teen sixty nine, the new
proletariat that Herbert Marcusa highlighted in One Dimensional Man just
four years earlier had finally matured. They came together in
July nineteen sixty nine for a National Revolutionary Conference in Oakland, California,
and the group revealed to the world their new alliance
that was ready to come out from the shadows.
Speaker 29 (45:23):
We're going to be on the streets and.
Speaker 16 (45:24):
In every institution's country from now or what was before,
to replace capitalism with socialism.
Speaker 1 (45:29):
Black Panthers, Students for a Democratic Society, and the Communist
Party USA each took the stage and boldly spoke of
the violent revolution they were about to bring to the
campuses and the streets of the United States. And they
all sounded like Herbert Marcusa disciples.
Speaker 16 (45:44):
We're going to fight some capitalism with some basic socialistic
programs real fighting perialism with proletarian internationalism.
Speaker 7 (45:54):
We need socialism in practice.
Speaker 9 (45:56):
We need an understanding of Marxist Leninist principles so that
we may put our knowledge into revolutionary practice.
Speaker 30 (46:03):
The struggle that is going to ultimately defeat United States
imperialism is going to be an international struggle. It's going
to be an armed struggle. It's going to be a
struggle that's going to have to take place in the
Third World against US imperialism and in the mother country
against US imperialism. We must be clear on how the
final struggle would be waged, and we must be a
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part of that struggle.
Speaker 16 (46:26):
Students, students must be.
Speaker 30 (46:28):
Opening up the campuses to the working class, must be
going into the working class community, is becoming part of
the proletariat, and must be getting ready for armed struggle.
Speaker 1 (46:45):
For the summer of nineteen sixty nine, the Frankfurt School
Marxists had a plan.
Speaker 30 (46:52):
Our program is going to be to come back on
the campuses this fall and hit them harder than they've
ever been hit before.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
And boy would they ever. The nineteen sixty nine nineteen
seventy academic school year produced the bloodiest on campus conflicts
and perhaps the history of American higher education. When the
socialist revolutionaries emerged from the conflicts, they had a plan
and they would follow in the footsteps of Angela Davis
to bring their brand of woke Marxism into the mainstream.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
Coming up on Red Pilled America.
Speaker 31 (47:22):
One of the largest together at UC Berkeley this year,
the speaker new left philosopher Herbert Marcuse and his student,
avowed communists, Angela Davis.
Speaker 29 (47:32):
Now, I think that the real reason that they're finding
me is not only 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.
Speaker 24 (47:45):
The Guard, under the pressure of a rock throwing attack,
panicked and fired its weapons indiscriminately, killing four people.
Speaker 18 (47:52):
And the two of the guns used in the court
room were bought by Angela Davis. He was the teacher
fired from the University of California at Los Angeles.
Speaker 22 (48:02):
I think that the actions of the FBI and apprehending
Angela Davis a.
Speaker 21 (48:07):
Rather remarkable story.
Speaker 15 (48:10):
Again, in the long history.
Speaker 4 (48:12):
Of remarkable stories of apprehensions by the FBI.
Speaker 32 (48:15):
If there's anyone capable of breakings. The insanity. We're just
daily reproduced. It is you, and it is only you, Black, White.
Speaker 7 (48:29):
And brown.
Speaker 2 (48:35):
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Previously on Red Pilled America and the.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Time when the operation of the machine becomes so audience.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Several thousand students have gathered for what has been billed
as a victory is celebration.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
You see this as an issue that will be affecting
other campuses or is this a specific problem.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
In your own school?
Speaker 6 (01:00):
No, I think that this will in the near future
begin to other campuses.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
They were Marxists that were intellectually fueled by the ideas
of the Frankfurt School.
Speaker 7 (01:11):
Would always be necessary.
Speaker 8 (01:13):
The gallant can and must be prepa.
Speaker 9 (01:18):
Mark who taught me that it was possible to be
a scholar and a revolutionist.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Where did Wokeness come from?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I'm Patrick Carelci and I'm Adriana Cortez.
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.
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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 the third part of our
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series of episodes entitled Wolk Army. You've probably heard Part
one and two, but if you haven't, stop and go
back and listen from the beginning. We're looking for the
answer to the question where did wokeness come from? By
telling this 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 part one, we told the story of how
German Marxist intellectuals started the Frankfurt School in nineteen twenty three,
then fled to the United States, ten years later to
develop a new brand of Marxism that could potentially ignite
a socialist revolution in the West.
Speaker 8 (02:47):
By the late.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Nineteen fifties, these radicals coalesced around a consensus that capitalism
was making the working class too comfortable, draining the revolutionary
energy out of their proletariat. As a result, they'd need
a new oppressed group to spark a socialist revolution.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
In Part two, we learned how a dark alliance began
forming in the early nineteen sixties that was fueled by
the ideas of the Frankfort School. This alliance first revealed
itself in a nineteen sixty four protests at UC Berkeley.
A radical group wanted to end the university's policy prohibiting
political activity on campus, so they challenged the rule by
setting up political informational tables on the university premises. The
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school took debate, and campus police arrested one of the
table attendants, but as they tried to haul them off,
students surrounded the squad car and refused to let it leave.
One of the protest instigators, Mario Savio, demanded their comrade
be released and the school terminate all campus political speech restrictions.
A thirty two hour stand off ensued until the university
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agreed to review the rule, but after a few weeks,
school officials re emerged with their verdict, deciding to suspend
the protest leader, Mario Savio, and eight other students. That's
when the protesters went ballistic, occupying the school administration building.
They shut down the entire school. Hundreds were arrested, and
after two months of constant protest, the university completely capitulated,
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dropping all charges against the protesters and terminating all restrictions
on political activity. The protest was branded as the free
speech movement, but it was a charade. A participant would
later admit that it was really about clearing barriers to
using the campus as a base for radical political activity.
It was orchestrated by a group of Marxists that had
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been trained by both the Communist Party USA and a
radical black student protest organization called SNICK, led by Stokely Carmichael, a.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Relative unknown in nineteen sixty four. Stokely was a Howard
University grad that grew impatient with Martin Luther King Junior's
non violent approach to protest. He was instead becoming inspired
by the aggressive posture of black nationalist Malcolm X. So
when Malcolm X was killed in nineteen sixty five, Stokely
Carmichael picked up where he left off and would quickly
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become the ring leader of the new Black power movement.
He'd eventually be christened the Honorary Prime Minister of the
Black Panthers, a militant black power political organization born in Oakland.
In nineteen sixty seven, Stokely connected with Herbert Marcusa at
a conference in London to address rising violence in the world.
In America, riots had erupted all across the country in
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urban cities like Detroit. Stokely and Marcusa were invited to
the London conference to represent the New Left's rationale for
violent revolution in the United States. Marcusa was the guest
of honor at the gathering, heralded as a genius for
his writings, including a new concept he developed called repressive tolerance,
where he argued that for the new left to start
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a socialist revolution, it needed to censor all movements coming
from the right and tolerate any movement coming from the left,
even if they were violent. In the crowd at the
conference was a student of Marcusa's that wanted to follow
in his footsteps. Her name was Angela Davis, a young
Alabama born black radical who'd grown up around communists. Angela
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studied philosophy under Marcusa at Brandeis College. After graduating in
nineteen sixty five, she went to Germany to study under
Marcusa's Frankfurt School colleagues, Max Horkheimer and Theodora Dorno. When
the Black Panthers exploded onto the scene in nineteen sixty seven,
she wanted to join their movement, so after a brief
stop at the London Conference to meet the Black Panther
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Stokely Carmichael and her teacher, she headed back to America,
where she was set to study under Herbert Marcusa at
the University of California at San Diego.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
When Angela Davis arrived in California in nineteen sixty seven,
the stage was set for Herbert Marcusa's new proletariat to
erupt into action. The Black Power movement was attracting new
members like flies to a heaping pile of shap The
sexual revolution was underway, The feminist movement was growing. Socialist
radicals had made inroads into universities like UC Berkeley, and
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now even colleges had opened Marxist professors like Herbert marcusa.
If each of these factions could come together, they could
produce a woke army with the kind of energy necessary
to start a socialist revolution in America.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
As the nineteen sixty seven nineteen sixty eight school year began, ANGELA.
Davis wanted to connect with the growing Black Panthers in California.
It was a strange desire for an academic of all
people to want to be connected with the Black Power organization.
After just a year of existence, they'd already shown an
insatiable pension for violence. In October nineteen sixty seven, one
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of the Panthers' founders, Hughey Newton, was accused of murdering
a police officer. After his arrest, a representative of the
Panthers issued a warning to the American people.
Speaker 10 (07:54):
The Black Panther Party demand that he if he knewton't
be set free, and we wish to make it very
clear that if he has not set free, the little
hope of avoiding open armed war in the streets of California.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Sweeping across this nation, the Black Panthers were becoming more
and more militant, threatening all out warfare. It was the
kind of revolutionary organization that almost no respectable intellectual prior
to the nineteen sixties would have wanted to be associated with.
Yet Angela Davis, an academic, was looking to join the group.
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Why well, simply put, she wanted to bring Frankfurt School
Marxism into the Black power movement. Within a matter of
weeks after landing in California, Angela was working with the
Los Angeles chapter of the Black Panther organization, setting up
a rally in Los Angeles to demand the release of
the Black Panther founder Huey Newton. The campaign became known
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as the Free Hueye Campaign. She helped secure the Los
Angeles Sports Arena for the leaders of Black Panthers. It
was the largest indoor venue in Los Angeles at the time,
and on the day of the rally, the main floor
of the arena was packed.
Speaker 11 (09:11):
This is our country was built on our back by
our labor. We built the country up. We'll burn it
down if you don't hurry up and come ride.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Attendees of the February nineteen sixty eight gathering would receive
a heaping dose of vitriolic speeches from Stokely Carmichael and
h Rap Brown, each calling for a revolution by any
means necessary, including violence.
Speaker 12 (09:38):
There's a new alliance that brother James Foreman talked about.
Speaker 11 (09:42):
My players were introduced to you the Minister of Justice
for the Black Panther Party of Self Defense, Chairman of Snith,
Brother Rap Brown. If Newton is now confined in jail
because of our lack of action, we accuse ourselves of
being revolutionary. A white cops have died since you ain't
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Unwton has been in jail none none. He killed the
last honky had died from a bullet or a black gun.
The only thing that he and Newton is guilty us,
perhaps is that he didn't tell me he was going
down on the honkers that day.
Speaker 7 (10:23):
That's the only thing.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Hrap Brown began to see the new revolutionary alliance that
Herbert marcusa identified in his book One Dimensional Man.
Speaker 11 (10:32):
The revolution that this country is facing would be a
revolution of This was just people. That means Mexican Americans,
Puerto Ricans, Blacks, American Indians, and heavy This was just
class in this country.
Speaker 7 (10:46):
He's of our allies.
Speaker 11 (10:47):
Black people, if they are going to be free, must
begin to sieze power. Sherman Miles says, power comes from
the rail of a gun. You better get you a gun, brother,
I don't care if it ain't nothing but a BB
gun with poison. BB's America has shown us that she
does not respect anything. But counter course, you must begin
to prise in your concept. You got to get beyond
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the racist pig cop. You see, because he is a
tomb of the man who really controls his system. We
not only talking about destroying a power structure. We talking
about ruination of a system black people cannot afford to
become capitalists.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
But what was perhaps most interesting was the Black Panthers
position on the American institution of education.
Speaker 11 (11:42):
Black people must begin to understand everything that you don't
control becomes a weapon against you. The education system today
is a weapon against black people. It expounds and teaches
white nationalism.
Speaker 12 (11:57):
I really don't need to call his name by the
stock La Carmichael, my brother rap ran it down very nicely.
I'll just add to it. Education don't help us in
this country. It cripples us.
Speaker 7 (12:15):
That is a fact.
Speaker 13 (12:16):
Our communities are filled with hustlers, pimps, dope addicts, prostitutes,
number men racketeers, preachers, teachers, maids, barterers, and some factory workers.
Not one black school in the country has a curriculum
geared to teach us how to be a good pimp,
good hustler, good preacher, good teacher, good an offense, not one,
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not one. If the education is to teach us how
to live in our community, then it must do one
of two things. Prepare us to live in that community
by teachers how to be good prostitutes, good maids, good preachers.
By teaching us how to change our community so we
can live like human beings.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
So we can live like human beaties.
Speaker 13 (13:03):
Our school system does neither. And when our young people,
who are very intelligent, drop out of school because they
recognize the game the honkey is running on them, they
have us fighting them, saying.
Speaker 14 (13:17):
Get back in school, get back to what white nationalism.
If we want our children to go to school, we
have to educate them. We have to ed you.
Speaker 15 (13:30):
Take them, We have to ed you take them.
Speaker 16 (13:34):
Nobody else.
Speaker 17 (13:37):
There is no race in history.
Speaker 13 (13:39):
That give their young to another race to educate, no.
Speaker 7 (13:43):
Race at all, no race at all.
Speaker 13 (13:47):
We are the only race that allow our enemy to
educate our youth against us we must educate our people.
In order to educate our people, it means that we
must take over the schools, nothing less, take them home
will by any means necessary.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
This message resonated with Angela Davis. It was early nineteen
sixty eight and she was studying for her masters under
Herbert Marcusa. It may have looked nearly impossible at the time,
but a takeover of education, one of the most important
institutions that defines what it means to be American, was
the kind of win that could slowly spread Marxism throughout
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the country. It was an ambitious goal, but what they
needed was a new trigger to unleash the pent up
energy that was building within this new growing alliance. That
trigger would come on April fourth, nineteen sixty eight.
Speaker 18 (14:40):
Place have issued in all points bulletin for a well
rushed young white man seen running from the scene.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Welcome back to red pilled America. So in early nineteen
sixty eight, Herbert Marcuse's disciple, Angela Davis, organized a rally
to demand the release of Black Panther's founder You Knew Luton,
who was arrested for murdering a cop. At the rally,
leaders of the Black Panthers argued that their new alliance
must take over the schools by any means necessary. A
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takeover of education, one of the most important institutions, was
the kind of win that could slowly spread Marxism throughout
the country. It was an ambitious goal, but what they
needed was a new trigger to unleash the pent up
energy that was building within the new growing alliance. That
trigger would come. On April fourth, nineteen sixty.
Speaker 18 (15:32):
Eight, doctor Martin Luther King, the apostle of non violence
in the civil rights movement, has been shot to death
in Memphis, Tennessee. Place have issued an all points bulletin
for a well dressed young white man seen running from
the scene. Governor Bufort Ellington has called out four thousand
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National Guardsmen. Police report that the murder has touched off
sporadic acts of violence in a Negro section of the city.
In a nationwide television address, President Johnson expressed the nation's shock.
Speaker 15 (16:04):
America is shocked and saddened by the brutal, slang tonight
of doctor Martin Luther King. I asked every citizen to
reject the blind violence that has struck doctor King, who
lived by non violence.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
In the hours that followed, violence erupted again in America.
Speaker 19 (16:25):
Washington, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, New York. These are just a
few of the cities in which the Negro anguish over
doctor King's murder, presumably by a white man, expressed herself
in violent destruction.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
The tragic event was just the kind of news that
Herbert Marcuse's new formed alliance needed to incite a revolution
the Black Panthers. Stokely Carmichael stepped to the microphone and
warned of the coming violence.
Speaker 20 (16:50):
A lot of America killed doctor King last night. She
opened the eyes for every black man in this country.
A lot of America got rid of Marcus Godviy. She
did it, and she said he was an extremist, he
was crazy. When they got rid of brother Malcolm X,
they said he was preaching hate, he deserved what he got.
But when they got rid of brother Martin Luther King,
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they had absolutely no reason to do so. He was
the one man in our race who was trying to
teach our people to have love, compassion, and mercy for
what white people had done. When white America killed doctor
King last night, she declared.
Speaker 21 (17:24):
War on us.
Speaker 20 (17:25):
There will be no crying. There will be no funerals.
The rebellions that have been occurring around the cities of
this country is just light stuff to what is about
to happen. We have to retaliate for the death of
our leaders. The execution of those deaths will not be
in the courtrooms. They're going to be in the streets
of the United States of America. The light America killed
doctor King last night. She made a whole lot easier
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for a whole lot of Black people today. They no
longer needs to be intellectual discussions. Black people know that
they have to get done. Wright America will live to
cry and that she killed doctor King last night.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Stokely Carmichael was right. For the next week, riots, looting,
and arson swept through Washington, d C, Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit,
New York City, Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Cincinnati, Trenton, Louisville, and Wilmington, Delaware.
The Black Panthers tried to murder and ambush police officers
in Oakland. Their first member, Bobby Hutton, was killed in
the process. The unrest came to be known as the
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Holy Week Uprising. Some historians called it the worst wave
of American social unrest since the Civil war, and the
Marxist agitators took advantage of the situation to further their
socialist revolution.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
We now do that we no longer have I say
and decisions that affect our lives.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
On April twenty third, nineteen sixty eight, just a few
weeks after MLK juniors killed, two groups of radical students
began an unprecedented protest at Columbia University in New York City,
the same American campus at first housed the Frankfurt School.
It took over Hamilton Hall, which housed the university's administration offices,
and school officials tried to get them to disperse.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
There where are the building, giving further instructions of the
building as not clear enough in.
Speaker 7 (19:28):
The next time minus if they're not about building, where new?
But we have no alternative, but they're calling points at easterns.
Speaker 15 (19:43):
We immediately spend that.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
One of the occupying groups was called the Students for
a Democratic Society or SDS, a Marxist organization that looked
to replace America's capitalist system with communism.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
We called our students faculty stop workers of the university
to support us strike. We asked that all students at
faculty not meet or half classes inside buildings. We have
taken the power away from an irresponsible, an illegitimate administration.
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We have taken power away from a board, a self
perpetuating businessman who call themselves trustees of this university. We're
demanding an end to the construction of the gymnasium. Gymnasium
being built against the will of the people of the
community of harm. We're no longer asking, but demanding an
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end to all affiliation and ties with the Institute for
Defense Analysis.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
The other group of radicals that took over the school
was the Society of Afro American Students or SaaS, a
group connected to the Black Power movement. The Black Panthers
Stokely Carmichael and h Rap Brown joined the group at
Columbia to make their demands.
Speaker 16 (21:03):
Black students of Columbia University, joined by a few members
of the black community, have been in Hamilton.
Speaker 7 (21:08):
Hall for fifty six dollars. Now of brother's in.
Speaker 16 (21:11):
Here maintain that they will stay here until university willing
to talk on that turn.
Speaker 19 (21:16):
And we are going in the community.
Speaker 16 (21:18):
Of Hallam and both the support down there, So we're
gonna let Columbia know that if they don't want to
deal with the brothers India. They're gonna deal with the
Brothers on the streets.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
The students set up barricades to keep the police out.
Then they unbelievably took the university's dean hostage for twenty
four hours, and in just the first two days they
took over five school buildings. The radical protesters completely shut
down campus operations. The occupation lasted over a week. The
agitators claimed that their protest was over the university's involvement
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in weapons development and the unwanted construction of a gymnasium
in Harlem. But just like UC Berkeley, it was all
a charade. They had a different goal in mind. The
leader of one of the agitator groups, Mark Rudd, of STS,
later admitted that they'd manufactured them issues.
Speaker 21 (22:03):
And why is STS Mark really interested in Colombia or
is it just a stepping zone? Are you concerned with
something much bigger than Columbia? Why did you use Columbia
or did you use Columbia?
Speaker 4 (22:18):
I say that neither is true, for both are true. Son,
What it is is a a training ground.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
As former Congressman doctor Walter H. Judd said in the
aftermath the takeover, of Columbia University was a training exercise
with the ultimate goal being a violent socialist takeover of
the United States. And it wasn't just America that was
putting the Frankfurt School's ideas into practice. Herbert Marcusa was
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becoming an icon in Europe as well.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Beginning on May second, nineteen sixty eight, just hours after
the Columbia University violence ended, France experienced one of its
largest civil unrest in modern times. It was sparked by
a group of Marxist students protesting against capitalism and American imperialism.
Speaker 7 (23:07):
The Universite et la bourgeois v.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
The protests grew when trade unions called sympathy strikes to
align with the radical students. An estimated eleven million workers
joined in the protest, over twenty percent of the population
of France at the time. The French economy grinded to
a halt. The situation got so dire that the national
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government briefly ceased functioning. Fearing an all out civil war,
the country's president secretly fled to Germany. The surprising twist
was the person that the French media was blaming for
the unrest. According to the country's newspapers. The demonstrations were
started because of Herbert Marcuse's book One Dimensional Man.
Speaker 22 (23:54):
His writings about the frustrations of modern man and contemporary
Western society have been especially popular in Europe.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
ANGELA. Davis later we were reminisced about the massive French protest.
Speaker 23 (24:05):
Herbert Marcuza was committed to an immediate political activism in
speaking at rallys. Of course, in nineteen sixty eight in France,
with the great student uprisings there, Marcuza's name was envoked
and he spoke.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
The rallying call for the French protesters was mal Marx Marcusa,
a former student of Marcus's was in Paris at the
time and witnessed first hand the situation his professor found
himself in.
Speaker 17 (24:41):
Students were demonstrating outside at the university teert gas was flying.
Marcusa arrived at the conference hall and was suddenly surrounded
by reporters. And of course what this was all about
was a newspaper stories that had been published in the
preceding weeks saying that Marcusa was the thinker who had
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inspired the student revolt that going on outside.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
The French protest went on for seven weeks, but the
violence was just getting started. A few months later, violent
student protests erupted at the nineteen sixty eight Democratic National
Convention in Chicago. Word began to spread in America that
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Herbert Marcuse's writings were igniting these student uprisings.
Speaker 24 (25:30):
Recently. Wherever they had a riot in Europe, they had
the riots.
Speaker 7 (25:34):
In Rome and MARCUSI showed up.
Speaker 24 (25:36):
They had the riots in Paris when the French had
to bring out the troops and the tanks, MARCUSI was there.
When they had the riots with the students in Berlin,
MARCUSI was there. It seems to be that wherever the
radicals and this new left, so.
Speaker 6 (25:50):
Called New Left a pair.
Speaker 24 (25:52):
MARCUSI, some wers, is in the background. We are convinced
that he has to convey some of his ideas and
thoughts directly to the students. And in this lies the
danger of MARCUSI to the University of California, Mark.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Who's his popularity with students, began sparking the interest of
the media, who wanted to know if he actually endorsed
the violence.
Speaker 22 (26:13):
I gather you are a bit ambivalent about the use
of violence.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
What do you mean by that? You have mixed failings.
Speaker 22 (26:21):
You sometimes think it is good and other times think it's.
Speaker 8 (26:26):
Think that anyone who loves violence for the sake of
violence is a fatally sick human being.
Speaker 22 (26:34):
Well, there are certainly violence against people in the Paris riots.
Speaker 8 (26:38):
Counter violence that I have seen. The students were perfectly peaceful.
The police got orders first to clear the cord of
the Sorbonne and then to clear the streets. And you
know that they don't do that exactly in the way
of a nursemate singing the baby.
Speaker 22 (27:01):
To counter violence as are okay in your view.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
It's not a question whether I were wanting to pay you.
Speaker 8 (27:07):
There's a question when and where that is necessary necessary
in order to keep alive yourself and.
Speaker 11 (27:13):
What you stand for.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
In the summer of nineteen sixty eight, San Diego's American Legion,
a powerful political group at the time, began putting pressure
on UCSD's new chancellor, William McGill, to fire the Marxist professor.
Speaker 6 (27:26):
Earlier this week, a group of one thousand outraged citizens
took out an ad in a local newspaper demanding that
McGill's inauguration be called off. They also demanded that philosophy
Professor Herbert Marcuse will be fired.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
The new chancellor responded.
Speaker 25 (27:41):
The legion proposes to offer twenty thousand dollars to buy
up a Professor Marcus's contract. You don't buy up a
professor's contract. You can't even do this with a professional
football player. And the university is a far more responsible
place in our society.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
By the end of nineteen sixty eight, pressure was building
to fire marcusa and it was being amped up by
no other than the new governor of California, Ronald Reagan.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
At the time, Ronald Reagan had already had a long
history of fighting communist infiltration in American institutions. In nineteen
forty four, he joined Hollywood heavy hitters John Wayne, Whialt, Disney, Clark, Gable,
Ginger Rogers, Cecilby de Mille, and many others to form
the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals,
a Hollywood industry group created to defend the film industry
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from communist and fascist infiltration. In nineteen forty six, as
a member of the Screen Actors Guild Board, Reagan was
asked to mediate a labor dispute with the union leader
Herbert Serell Sorell was a Communist that benefited from violent
confrontation at the Hollywood Studios. Reagan personally witnessed Cerel and
Cite Union members to commit violence at the studio's gates.
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They overturned buses, smashed windows, and left people bloodied. So
Reagan took on Sorell by crossing the picket lines. Sorel
then labeled Reagan a fascist and called on union members
to boycott his movies. Some agitators went as far as
sending Reagan anonymous threats that his face would be mutilated
to ruin his acting career. The actor had an awakening moment.
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He decided he wouldn't let the communists gain control of
the storytelling industry that helped define the American ideal. He
began carrying a gun when he became the president of
the Screen Actors Guild. Reagan was determined to flush communists
out of the industry. In nineteen forty seven, he testified
before the House on American Activities Committee as a friendly witness,
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I will be.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Frank with either as a citizen, I would hesitate or
I would not like to see any political party outlawed
on the basis of its political ideology, because we've spent
one hundred and seventy years in this country on the
basis that democracy is strong enough to stand up and
fight for itself against the inroads of any ideology, no
matter how much we may disagree with it. However, if
it has proven that this organization is the agent of
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a foreign power, or is in any way not a
legitimate political party, and I.
Speaker 18 (30:12):
Think the government is capable of doing that.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
If the proof is there, then that is another matter.
We have done a pretty good job in our business
of keeping those people's activities curtailed. After all, we must
legally recognize them as the presidents of political party. On
that basis, we have exposed their lives when we came
across them. We have been eminently successful in preventing them
from their usual tactic of trying to run a majority
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of an organization with a well organized minority.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
So, when Reagan saw radicals like Herbert Marcusea creating chaos
at universities in his home state, Reagan ran for governor
of California on a platform of law and order, and
he mints no words about what should be done when
students put their radical professor's ideas into action.
Speaker 26 (31:01):
They're a small minority of peatni's radicals and filthy speech
advocates have brought shame on a great university.
Speaker 15 (31:08):
Applications for enrollment have dropped.
Speaker 26 (31:10):
Twenty one percent, and there's evidence they'll continue to drop
even more. Now we're all ready to press reportings of
the report that was handed in by the Senate subcommittee
in its charges that the campus has become a rallying
point the communists and a center for sexual misconduct. And
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it began a year ago when the so called free
speech advocates, who in truth have no appreciation for freedom.
We're allowed to assault and humiliate the symbol of law
and order, a policeman on the campus. And that was
the moment when the ringleaders should have been taken to
the streff of the neck and thrown out of the
university once and for.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Reagan became governor in nineteen sixty seven, and when it
became clear that Herbert Marcusa and the Black Panthers had
been the primary instigators in citing students towards violence, he
began to apply pressure on the University of California regents
to fire Marcusa and prohibit the Black panthers from speaking
on California college campuses. In November nineteen sixty eight, Reagan
traveled to San Diego to attend a uc regents meeting
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on the topic. When he arrived, Herbert Marcusa joined students
to stage a protest of Reagan's visit, and this time
they tried a different tactic. In front of the media.
They chose a silent protest.
Speaker 21 (32:39):
On Gollner.
Speaker 25 (32:40):
What do you think of this well discipline, quiet demonstration
Compared to some of the disturbances you've encountered in the past.
Speaker 15 (32:45):
This has purposely done this way well, and.
Speaker 21 (32:48):
I'm very appreciative of it.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
I think it's a little more adult than some of
the things we've seen in the past.
Speaker 6 (32:52):
They hope that this will have an effect on the
regions in their decisions today.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Wow, it would be fine if they really understood what
was going on, But they don't.
Speaker 15 (33:02):
You don't think they understand what's going on.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
No, The uc regents decided to shift the decision of
whether to fire Marcusa over to the university that was
employing him, and in February nineteen sixty nine, UCSD's chancellor
announced a creative workaround.
Speaker 25 (33:16):
The University of California, San Diego today announced its intention
to reappoint doctor Herbert Marcusa as professor of Philosophy for
the academic year nineteen sixty nine seventy. But accordingly, we
have decided to terminate all existing commitments to overage professors
as of June nineteen seventy and to replace these with
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a policy of expected retirement at a specified age.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
UCSD didn't want the appearance that the governor or community
outrage was forcing their hand, so it decided to change
its policy to force his retirement.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Doctor McGill, Would you say that this new policy you've
just inaugurated was a direct result of your problem concerning
doctor marcus No.
Speaker 13 (33:58):
Was not.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Marcusa called into a local radio station to issue a
statement about the decision.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
It is not my reappointment that is at stake. I
have quite a few offers to teach in spite of
my biological age. What if at stake is the right
and the duty of the stella and educato to teach
the tools and to expose the lions It serves or
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ought to serves over generations of human beings, regardless of race, color, religion,
and business requirements.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Marcusa would be forced to retire in a year. With
his fate now sealed at UCSD, the gloves could come off.
He just issued Angela Davis her master's in philosophy and
began working with her towards her doctorate. And this was
important because the Frankfurt School Marxist wanted the young black
power intellectual to take their baton and run with it
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within the hallowed halls of American academia.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
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pressured UCSD to come up with the creative way to
retire Herbert Marcusa in the coming year. With his fate
now sealed at UCSD, the gloves could come off. Marcusa
had just issued Angela Davis her master's in philosophy and
began working with her towards her doctorate. And this was
important because the Frankfurt School Marxist wanted the young Black
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power intellectual to take their baton and run with it
within the hallowed halls of American academia. As the end
of the nineteen sixty nine school year approached, Marcusa began
arguing in the pages of The New York Times that
the violent student protests could be considered non violand when
compared to the capitalist society that oppressed them. Just days later,
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Angela Davis put his writings into action. She organized an
occupation of a UCSD building.
Speaker 23 (36:15):
We were demanding a college.
Speaker 3 (36:18):
We wanted a college.
Speaker 9 (36:19):
They were about to construct the third college.
Speaker 27 (36:22):
We said, the name of this college is going to
be La Mumba's Apata College.
Speaker 7 (36:26):
Oh yes.
Speaker 9 (36:31):
And we developed a curriculum.
Speaker 27 (36:33):
We developed the idea of creating a college that would
reflect the needs of the academic as well as community
needs of people of African descent, Latinos and working class
white people's.
Speaker 9 (36:47):
We wanted to demonstrate the extent of which we were serious.
We decided to occupy the registrar's office. So I went
to Markuza and told him about our plan, and I
asked h him whether he would come with us. No
question about it, of course, And as a matter of fact,
when we took over the building. We had We had
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to kick in the door, break the glass, and the
first person to occupi the building. The first person to
set foot into the building with Hervi Marcuza.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
The following day, the occupiers took to the school campus.
Speaker 6 (37:24):
In the wake of yesterday evening's takeover of the Registrar's office,
the Black Student Council and the Mexican American Youth Association
held a rally in the Free speech area of the
campus at noon today, They issued the following statement, the
taking of the Registrar's office was the only course of
action because the Academic Senate had not met the demands
of the supporters of the La Mumba Zapata College.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
In parallel, violent student protests bubbled up in other parts
of the country as well. City College of New York
had to close down because of outbreaks of fights. Black
radicals seized six Howard University buildings and barricaded two traffic
gates leading into campus. State troopers had to the our
protesters who'd taken over Dartmouth College's administration building. Indiana College
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students marched on the Indianapolis State House per Due. University
students began a one day boycott embarking on a sit
in in one of their campus buildings, and unrest erupted
at Uppsala College and Saint Peter's College in New Jersey,
but nothing to date compared to the violence that broke
out on May fifteenth, nineteen sixty nine, at the birthplace
of radical student insurrection. By early May nineteen sixty nine,
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students and area socialists commandeered a plot of land owned
by U C. Berkeley that was set to be made
into an athletic field. The agitators quickly converted the land
into what they called the People's Park. Governor Reagan, who'd
run on a platform of law and order, wasn't having it.
He believed that it was going to be used for
radical political activity. The socialist instigators that created the park
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warned the school that if they moved ahead with the
construction plan on the plot of land, then they'd physically
destroy the university. So in the early hours of May fifteenth,
nineteen sixty nine, Governor Reagan sent law enforcement to the
plot of land to clear it out.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
Partner who are not crack practic and for Mark hand Lane,
you will be erected.
Speaker 10 (39:26):
For crack practic.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Law enforcement erected a fence around it. Governor Reagan anticipated
a confrontation.
Speaker 7 (39:34):
He was right.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
Mario Savio, one of the primary Marxist instigators of the
so called free speech protests at UC Berkeley, began rallying
people on campus to retake the so called People's Park.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
So what do we do with all of our free time?
Speaker 28 (39:50):
As I see it the great hope and puts it
in the People's Park, is that in our leisure time,
so to speak, we will make the social revolution.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
Other socialist instigators joined him to incite the.
Speaker 7 (40:06):
The People's Park.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
An estimated three thousand rally attendees began marching from UC
Berkeley towards the fenced off property, chanting we want the park.
The crowd was hostile. They attempted to overturn and burn
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police vehicles. They threw rocks and bottles at law enforcement.
Some were on top of buildings hurling objects at them.
Under attack, police fired teargas, bird shot, and then buckshot
at the attackers. Over one hundred and twenty five rioters
were hospitalized. One was killed in the melee. That night,
Reagan called a state of emergency and moved over two
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thy five hundred national guardsmen into the area. In the
days that followed, uc Berkeley protesters took to the streets
to rally students to continue to occupy the park.
Speaker 7 (41:03):
Nawful and in the name of the people.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
Of Angela Davis, an other UCSD student activists, called for
an end to Ronald Reagan's efforts to end the conflict.
Reagan wouldn't give in. He pushed law enforcement to continue
to clear the streets.
Speaker 18 (41:31):
I'm jee Beale of the Berkeley Police Department.
Speaker 24 (41:34):
At five minutes of nine, we declared there's to be
an unlawful assembly.
Speaker 7 (41:38):
There is no permit for this meeting. No one ever
attempted to obtain one. This is an ill legal meeting.
Speaker 18 (41:48):
Now you have time to move out of here slowly
and in a dignified manner, and there won't be any
necessity for a confrontation.
Speaker 7 (41:56):
But we are going to clean the street.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
As the conflict continued over the next two weeks, Ronald
Reagan held a press car conference where radical faculty members
began to chastise the governor for his actions.
Speaker 7 (42:12):
Who are you?
Speaker 3 (42:13):
I would like to hear who you are?
Speaker 7 (42:14):
This okay?
Speaker 3 (42:18):
You bet, I'm happy, and you bet you won't say
anything that will surprise me, and I'd love to.
Speaker 28 (42:22):
See you discussed this openly before the people of California.
Speaker 6 (42:25):
I am discussing it openly and will know that you
can't run a university by bannet.
Speaker 10 (42:32):
You cannot do it that way.
Speaker 28 (42:34):
If you would allow yourself to listen, you would have
a lot of people who would be showing some compassion,
some interest in non violence, some interest in order. If
you would speak out against the use of firearms and
buckshot and say, if you will that that that this
the people responsible, that that should be removed. If you
would says example of cutting down the escalation, you can
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bet we'd have a lot.
Speaker 3 (42:58):
Mister Wapshee, when were any of you, When did any
of you appear before the students? When did any of
you stand up at Sprowl Hall on Thursday and beg
them not to go down there?
Speaker 28 (43:07):
Over one hundred people have been shot down, one hundred
people that I'm sure the record will show.
Speaker 19 (43:13):
Guess people guess that has been classified as.
Speaker 11 (43:16):
Far as I know, is being used.
Speaker 3 (43:19):
Once the dogs of war are unleashed, you must expect
that things will happen, and people, being human, will make
mistakes on both sides.
Speaker 7 (43:27):
But this violence.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
Some of the radical faculty members argued that Reagan should
have negotiated with the rioters.
Speaker 3 (43:36):
Those people told you for days in advance that if
the university sought to go ahead with that construction, they
were going to physically destroy the university.
Speaker 19 (43:47):
Now, why did you negotiate many times?
Speaker 21 (43:49):
Negotiate what is to negotiate?
Speaker 3 (43:52):
What is a minute on that issue? Don't you simply
explain to these students that the university as a piece
of property that it bought for future construction of the campus,
and it was now going ahead with the plan that people,
what do you mean negotiating?
Speaker 7 (44:09):
Reagan?
Speaker 3 (44:09):
The time has passed when the university can just ride
rough shot over the desires of the majority of its
student body.
Speaker 27 (44:17):
University is a public institution, that's right. But the university
is its.
Speaker 1 (44:21):
Own community and for the community of Berkeley that live around.
Speaker 3 (44:24):
All of it began the first time, some of you
who know better and are old enough to know better,
let young people think that they had the right to
choose the laws they would obey as long as they
were doing it in the name of social protest.
Speaker 2 (44:36):
Mark Whosa took to the media to make a justification
for the student violence.
Speaker 4 (44:41):
The violence is certainly note with the students.
Speaker 8 (44:43):
The violence is on the part of those against whom
the student's protest.
Speaker 28 (44:49):
Nevertheless, is in this a disruptive activity which harms the university.
Speaker 8 (44:53):
If this disoptive activity contributes at least a little in
stopping the insanity, I think it is more than justified.
Speaker 1 (45:02):
By the summer of Night teen sixty nine, the new
proletariat that Herbert Marcusa highlighted in One Dimensional Man just
four years earlier had finally matured. They came together in
July nineteen sixty nine for a National Revolutionary Conference in Oakland, California,
and the group revealed to the world their new alliance
that was ready to come out from the shadows.
Speaker 29 (45:23):
We're going to be on the streets and.
Speaker 16 (45:24):
In every institution's country from now or what was before,
to replace capitalism with socialism.
Speaker 1 (45:29):
Black Panthers, Students for a Democratic Society, and the Communist
Party USA each took the stage and boldly spoke of
the violent revolution they were about to bring to the
campuses and the streets of the United States. And they
all sounded like Herbert Marcusa disciples.
Speaker 16 (45:44):
We're going to fight some capitalism with some basic socialistic
programs real fighting perialism with proletarian internationalism.
Speaker 7 (45:54):
We need socialism in practice.
Speaker 9 (45:56):
We need an understanding of Marxist Leninist principles so that
we may put our knowledge into revolutionary practice.
Speaker 30 (46:03):
The struggle that is going to ultimately defeat United States
imperialism is going to be an international struggle. It's going
to be an armed struggle. It's going to be a
struggle that's going to have to take place in the
Third World against US imperialism and in the mother country
against US imperialism. We must be clear on how the
final struggle would be waged, and we must be a
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part of that struggle.
Speaker 16 (46:26):
Students, students must be.
Speaker 30 (46:28):
Opening up the campuses to the working class, must be
going into the working class community, is becoming part of
the proletariat, and must be getting ready for armed struggle.
Speaker 1 (46:45):
For the summer of nineteen sixty nine, the Frankfurt School
Marxists had a plan.
Speaker 30 (46:52):
Our program is going to be to come back on
the campuses this fall and hit them harder than they've
ever been hit before.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
And boy would they ever. The nineteen sixty nine nineteen
seventy academic school year produced the bloodiest on campus conflicts
and perhaps the history of American higher education. When the
socialist revolutionaries emerged from the conflicts, they had a plan
and they would follow in the footsteps of Angela Davis
to bring their brand of woke Marxism into the mainstream.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
Coming up on Red Pilled America.
Speaker 31 (47:22):
One of the largest together at UC Berkeley this year,
the speaker new left philosopher Herbert Marcuse and his student,
avowed communists, Angela Davis.
Speaker 29 (47:32):
Now, I think that the real reason that they're finding
me is not only 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.
Speaker 24 (47:45):
The Guard, under the pressure of a rock throwing attack,
panicked and fired its weapons indiscriminately, killing four people.
Speaker 18 (47:52):
And the two of the guns used in the court
room were bought by Angela Davis. He was the teacher
fired from the University of California at Los Angeles.
Speaker 22 (48:02):
I think that the actions of the FBI and apprehending
Angela Davis a.
Speaker 21 (48:07):
Rather remarkable story.
Speaker 15 (48:10):
Again, in the long history.
Speaker 4 (48:12):
Of remarkable stories of apprehensions by the FBI.
Speaker 32 (48:15):
If there's anyone capable of breakings. The insanity. We're just
daily reproduced. It is you, and it is only you, Black, White.
Speaker 7 (48:29):
And brown.
Speaker 2 (48:35):
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