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Abbie Hoffman — Part 26

163 pages · May 12, 2026 · Document date: Apr 30, 1969 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Abbie Hoffman · 160 pages OCR'd
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Ho N\ealdeste esas 4 ’ a a Bee wer ee dee a twenty-fourth. Ah, I hear rumors there'll be three thousand Black Panthers in the streets, and ah, some other people; alot of people plan to come. [I ain't plannin‘’ on going. That's a bad town. No, it's not. I dig it. We're goin' to Chicago right after here. I love it. See, we walk around. You like read the Gallop Polls and your mind gets all screwed up, cause you like watch that meter and you say, ah, ninety-eight percent of the people are against ya; put you know you walk around in Chicago, and they really _ diggin’ aye: Hey man, you're back in town. + It 5 gonna be Sut of sight, Fou kaow? Even cops aig ya. One cop Rave me this shirt, I'm not kiddin.’ They like it. ¥ give them the book, you know, pass out the book at the police academy there. Say, hey, your name's in it. They're all lookin', egotrippers. So I don't know what'll happen there. Perfect mess. The medium is the mess. Marshal McClue. More answers? Oh, I can't do a thing with wy nbair. ATot of Delilahs in this country. I don't know where they got against long hair. I think back in history, all the groovy cats had long hair. THey, when you think about it.... “(Question, ‘were any of you guys interested in McCarthy at all, I mean, was he ah...'}) Go clean for Gene? What are you, kiddin'? We were givin' that, see, many of us had been to the Democratic Convention in 1964 with the Mississippi Free and Democratic Party challenge, you see, and we met liberals there. McCarthy-type people. When they come out they sing, we shali overcome, you know, and all this and give us money and say, we're with you. We don't agrec with your methods, but we dig your goais; all that kinda talk, see? Well sure, there're racists in Mississippi, yea, right. Yea, sure, these white racists oughta be kicked ovt. But we got inside the hall and we could see ali the liberals took their buttons off and they weren't singin’, we shall overcome. They were listenin' to LBJ when the calls were around from the ranch. Said, Hubie, settie it, or you ain't gonna be vice president. And then we learned that it just ain't gonna be that way. Terus like rational discussions and opening dialogues about the issues. That's baloney. Doesn't work that way, anyway. People don't get moved that way. You know that if you watch TV. "(Question, ‘where are you going when you leave here'?) Well, I was gonna go to Montraal and all of a = 22 = cee Meng TE ee ere ee eee oe ee
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