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Tom Housh
SCLC
10/12/70

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As we approach the 1970 election black Americans feel intense confusion about the future of democracy in America.

Exsisting institutions are failing to respond to the realities of our lives. The social values implicit in governmental decisions are no longer in accord with the needs strongly felt by black people.

We are becoming conditioned that if we are to that neither talk nor deeds are responsive to our communities. Increasingly it appears we are first in war, last in peace, and seldom in the hearts of our countrymen.

One cannot discuss what life will be like in the seventies without discussing what appears to be the most prevalent factors in American life: Racism and War.

These factors are very much evident at the present time in the facimiltes of Nixon and Agnew; Twins of confusion and chaos, who have set up shop in Washington. One week one leaves the shop to go abroad, cruising in the Medittarean expousing peace, while observing a mighty nations seventh fleet gun displays. At the same time the other² roams the countryside enflaming an already extremly polarized homeland with the most pernicious kind of racist facist retoric.

While one soft talks and barely recognizes the publc exsistance of the other, the twins operate from the