In his provocative 2021 book, The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto, New York Times opinion columnist Charles M. B | dG1fV0xKR3AtUjUzVUE
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00:02 I'm trying to find a way we can lift the burden
00:06 off the shoulders of black people of white supremacy.
00:08 What if we skip over all that hoping?
00:12 What if we skip over all of the pleading and the begging
00:15 and the marching and the shouting
00:18 and go straight to the power?
00:19 During the great migration,
00:20 about 6 million black people left the South
00:23 for cities in the North and West.
00:25 I suggest that black people return to the States
00:27 with the highest percentages already of black people
00:30 where they can gain political power.
00:32 If we're gonna make a go of it,
00:33 the South makes a lot of sense.
00:35 I was shaken and nervous,
00:40 maybe even afraid about leaving New York for Atlanta.
00:44 I've convinced myself that this is what we must do
00:47 as black people.
00:48 I don't know if you could convince that many people
00:51 to move that way.
00:52 The argument of like, "Hey, go South,"
00:54 is that much different from,
00:56 "Hey, up North, let's get this together."
00:58 You are encouraging black Chicago to stay here,
01:00 stay intact. I am.
01:01 This is our city.
01:02 I want for black boys to live in a world
01:08 where they do not have to think
01:09 about protecting their humanity.
01:12 Those who don't wanna see sharing of that power
01:16 will do all that they can to waylay that situation.
01:18 There is the X factor of these voter suppression bills.
01:21 Every freedom is at stake.
01:25 There's some things in life that are bigger than you.
01:28 It has to be about community success.
01:32 We are the cavalry we've been waiting on.
01:34 I have to figure out if I am being an apostle
01:38 of black power or am I chasing windmills?
01:42 We gotta get back and claim really what we built.
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