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Abbie Hoffman — Part 5
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trevolution. No leaflets for the Tories. The girl
had ripped the Kodachrome in two. The eyes blinked
and one saw two pictures. Them - us3 us - them};
them - us. And then more. Musketa and Redcoats and
freedom rides and bella and blue noses and f---
and naked bodies in the pools and statues molding on
the hills and the State Capitol glowing in the sunset
on the hill. The childhood remembrances for Boston
was home. The girl and the two long-haired guys are
transformed. They are Crispus Attucks. They are
kmeeling, praying in a Birmingham church when a
‘bomb comes flying through the window. A heavy voice
behind me amirks up from the leaflet and drawls,
Hey boy you people better not start anything tonight.
We don't like your kind in Boston. Yes sir. There
was wonderful. hunting season all over again. The
United States and Mississippi had found themselves
another nigger. July 21, 1968.
"So there wa sit. Two, maybe three, maybe
more Americas. Headed to the future on a super trip
and the future? Well, it's up for grabs.
"Yeah. Well, I think .. wh... well,
two ideas .. one: that students obviously have to
play a role in deciding things that affect their own
life. Basically, that means not relating to this
place as an institution, but as a commnity and in a
commnity, the people that live in that comunity
--make the decisions that affect their lives. And che
-—~ second thing is breaking down of thse barriers between
this commmity when it is a commmity and the other
community that's in the towns so that students go out
on like more field trips md learn directly, first
hand, the problems of the people in the areas as they
are facing them and experience it more directly.
Those two ideas are the plans for the tnmiversities.
(More unintelligible remarks
from audience)
HOFFMAN: "Yeah. Well, everybody says that.
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