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men of Georgia (and let me say it to the colored men of Cincinnati) The Black man cannot protect a country if the country doesn't protect him; and if tomorrow a war should arise, I would not raise afinger t musket to defend a country where my manhood is denied. I will say this much to the colored men of Georgia. Never lift a finger or raise a hand in defense of Georgia, unless Georgia ackowledges that you are men and invests you with the right pertainng to manhood."

And the responsibility of the black college students today is to reject the Lyndon Johnson notion of America and adopt, instead, the Frederick Douglass vision. Douglass was asked over 100 years ago what American holidays meant to American Negroes and he answered:

What to the American slave is your fourth of July. I answer, a day that reveals to him more than all the other days of the year the grand gross injustice and cruelty to which he is constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, and unholy liscence, your national greatness, swelling vanity, your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless, your denunciation of tyrants, brass fronted impudence, your prayers and hymns sermons and thanksgivings with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him mere bombast, fraud, deception impiety and hypocrisy - a thin velie to cover up crimes that would disgrace a nation of savages. There is anot a nation of earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than arent are the people of the United States at this very hour."