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The Struggle for Poor and Working People

Heshu: I've tried to have a consistency since we shut down the high school system in 1968 when Martin Luther King Jr. was shut down like a dog at Bobby Hutton. And that was always how do you keep alive the struggle for poor and working people. When Barack Obama called me up and he gave the speech,  I went on TV and said that this brother is going to have a Christopher Columbus experience and discovers nothing magical about America. He's talking about the middle class as the best he can do because of the constraints. No, no, we got to be free. You start with the 40% of black children in poverty. That's what came to talk

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