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WEEN telking about joung Negroes in
the Brooklyn Bedford Stuyvesant area. He stated that on several
occasions in a local park near Tompkins and Lafayette Avenues,
many young Negroes would gather and openly discuss the tense
racial si ao throughout Bedford Stuyvesant and the rest of
the 03, GPM on sioned thaton two occasions a young Negro
approxinffvely 19 years of age who calls himself ALLAH, who stands
approximately 511i" and weighs 170 pounds, dark brown skin and
wears his hair in an Afro, has spokeqabout the fact that the ~
devils, mesning white man, will not allow young Negroes to have
anything and that you are supposed to beat them up when they come
around. ALLAH mentioned the fact that-these young Negroes were
brothers and sisters since ALLAH was their father (wy
These typs of gatherings in the park are not necessarily
planned but take place at any given hour when someone decides to
ss anything at the park. The audience, which is composed of
SSE 80 teenagers, may simply be sitting in the park awaiting a
turn on the basketball court, a deal at cards or simply a game of
softball. At these various gatheringsno individual is considered
the floor chairman and that an oy who desires to discuss anything
simply stands and can be heard\us
iver
At fer ss receiving actual instructions from_an:
organization indicated that this we i
white youngsvers in the aror tuyvesant area were not safe while
walking the streets at night ngr were young Negroes safe while walki-
the white.sections of Brooklyn! vw)
mentioned many
things whicn inaicace av SOMre 0. aeas and statements mace
at the various gatherings were actually things which could hsve been
hesrd at Black Muslim Meetings but that no black muslims nor anyone
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