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People’s History Podcast: "Free Breakfast" (S1E4)

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🗓️ 7 January 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Sisters Angie Irving and Linda Wade bring the Black Panthers to Columbia Point.

This is episode four of the first season of People's History Podcast! "The Point: Rebellion and Resistance in Boston Public Housing" traces a social history of Boston from the urban rebellions of the 1960s, through busing in the 70s, into the Clinton era.

We investigate these events from the lens of one community: Columbia Point, the largest public housing project in New England. Built on an isolated landfill site next to the Boston city dump, it was the site of major organizing, from welfare rights to a Free Breakfast for Children program. It was also the first public housing project to be sold off and redeveloped as private "mixed-income" development (and was a model for the federal policy "HOPE VI").

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Here in America, all of our religious training has been gotten by the preacher.

0:14.0

He has told us of a heaven way up in the sky

0:19.0

that we can't enjoy now but rather after we die. But all of the years that we are living for us is nothing but hell pain

0:29.4

torture and misgiving yet the speaks of a heaven filled with material luxury which the

0:37.0

white man and the preacher has right here so we see. So my friend, take it for what it's worth. Your heaven and your hell is right here

0:48.7

on this earth. So let's check back into history which rewards all research and tells us plainly.

1:00.0

That before the white man gained entry to the east, he was living in the caves of Europe,

1:06.9

a ravenous deep, eating juniper roots and eating flesh raw raw till God set Moses to civilize him and teach him the law.

1:17.0

Then following Marco Polo and explorer, he gained entry into Asia and Africa.

1:25.0

From China he took silk and gunpowder.

1:29.0

From India he took Jews, manganese, and rubber.

1:34.4

He raped Africa of her diamonds and her gold.

1:38.2

From the mid-east, he took barrels of oil

1:41.0

untold, raping, robbing and murdering everything in his past.

1:46.2

The whole black world has tasted of the white man's wrath.

1:50.5

So my friend, it's not hard to tell a white man's heaven is a black man's health. In 1968, the U.S. war in Vietnam was raging.

2:17.0

American troops had occupied the country for over 10 years, carrying on a French colonial project.

2:23.0

Now they were in the middle of an aggressive bombing and ground campaign.

2:27.0

Two million Vietnamese people were killed over the course of the war.

2:31.0

Independence must be achieved if there is to be peace. But the people of Vietnam,

2:38.0

under the leadership of Ho Chi Min, used guerrilla and conventional war tactics to successfully fight off the United States,

2:44.9

the biggest and most technologically advanced military in the world.

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