This means, in the case of an American Negro, born in that glittering republic,

and in the moment you are born, since you don't know any better, every stick and stone and every face is white,

and since you have not to get seen a mirror you suppose that you are too.

It comes as a great shock around the age of five or six or seven.

To discover the flag which you have pledged to legions along with everybody else

has not pledged allegiance to the Jew.

Okay, today we're going to be talking about Medgar Evers.

I'm sure a lot of our listeners have heard that name before, but Garen introduced us.

What do we need to know?

Yeah, Medgars was really involved in a lot of different aspects of the Civil Rights Movement. He showed up

in a lot of different stories. We've alluded or referenced him in the past in a few of our episodes,

and so we're going to try to pull together some of those threads by telling his story today. So he was

born in 1925 as one of seven children, and they grew up poor but never destitute. His father, James Evers,

was generally respected by the white community and he refused to cower before them. He was a man

who owned a couple businesses and had land. They had 12 acres. So he had some level of independence from relying on white people

for his income. And he also had a restaurant that white people would patronize. They enjoyed his food.

And with that, there was some level of independence and respect that he had where he could maybe get

away with a little bit more than a lot of people in the black community. Because one of the

main threats in the South that white people held that was commonly used to suppress black

voices and black empowerment was the threat of removing employment.

That was kind of like the first line of white supremacy was if black people showed independence,

showed initiative, they would lose their jobs and they would remove their employment.

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