Show 0 Capital Report 3 A Man Worth Listening To 1 f i By REP LAURENCE BURTON Note Former light heavyweight heavyweight heavyweight heavy heavy- weight boxing champion Archie Moore who made one of his title defenses In Ogden and Is well known to has spoken out against rioting and violence Like the vast majority of Ne Negroes Negroes Negroes Ne- Ne groes In America he supports law and order He believes that the practice of some old fash virtues is the real answer to many of our problems today Archie Moore Is a man worth listening to My report today is taken from a recent statement I by Mr Moore I believe readers readers readers read read- ers of this column will find it interesting and beneficial The devil is at work in America and it is up to us to drive him out Snipers and looters looters looters loot loot- ers white or black deserve no mercy Those who would profit prout from their brothers brother's misfortunes misfortunes misfortunes tunes deserve no mercy and those who would set fellow Americans upon each other de deserve deserve deserve de- de serve no mercy ILL I'LL FIGHT the man who calls me an Uncle Tom I have broken bread with heads of state chatted with presidents and traveled all over the world I was born In a ghetto but I refused to stay there I am a Negro and proud to be one I Iam Iam Iam am also an American and Im I'm proud of that The young people of today think they have a hard lot They should have been around In the when I was coming up In St. St Louis We had no way to go but a lot of us made It I be became became became be- be came light heavyweight champion champion champion cham cham- pion of the world A neighbor kid down the block Clark Terry o. o WH OJ n A A A oJ became one of the most famous jazz musicians in the world THERE WERE doctors lawyers lawyers lawyers law law- and chiefs who came out of that ghetto One of the top po policemen policemen policemen po- po in St. St Louis came from I our neighborhood We made It because we had a goal and we were willing to work for It Dont Don't talk to me of your guaranteed national In in- in come Any fool knows that this is Insanity Do we bring those who worked to lo get ahead down downto to the level of those who never never gave a damn The world owes NOBODY black or white a a living God helps the man who helps himself I INOW NOW THEN dont don't get the idea that I didn't grow up hating the injustices of this world I Iam Iam Iam am a staunch advocate of the Negro revolution for the good of mankind Ive I've seen almost unbelievable un unbelievable unbelievable un- un believable progress made in inthe the thelast thelast last handful of years Do we want to become wild beasts bent only on revenge looting and killing and laying A Arne America m e r i c a abare abare bare Hate is bait bait for the s1 simple mple Sure I despised the whites who cheated me but I used that feeling to make me push on If II you listen Usten to the professional rousers rabble-rousers adhere to this idea of giving up everything youve you've gained in order to re revenge revenge revenge re- re yourself for the wrongs that were done to you in the past then past then you'd better watch your neighbor because hell he'll be looting your house next Law Lawand Lawand Lawand and order is the only edge we have No man is an island GRANTED the Negro still has a long way to go to gain a fair shake with the white man manin in inU inthis this U s country But believe this If we resort to lawlessness the only thing we can hope for forIs forIs foris Is civil war untold bloodshed and the end of our dreams We have to have a meeting of qualified men of both races Mind you I said qualified men not some punk kid ranting the catch phrases put in his mouth by some paid hate I Ithe THERE ARE members of ot the black community who call for a separate nation within America Well I do not Intend to give up one square Inch of or America Im I'm not going to be told I must live in a restricted area Isn't that what weve we've all been fighting to overcome And then there is the element that calls for a return to Africa For my part Africa is a great place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there If I the Irishmen want to go back to the Emerald Isle let them If the Slavs want to return to the theIron theIron theIron Iron Curtain area OK by me But Im I'm not going to go to any part of Africa to live Im I'm proud of my ancestry and of the country country country coun coun- try that spawned my forefathers forefathers forefathers but Im I'm not giving up my country I fought all my life Ufe to give my children what Im I'm able to give them today a chance for development as citizens in the greatest country in the world X R I DO NOT for a moment think that any truly responsible Negro wants anarchy I dont don't think find lets let's you'll intelligent no intelligent no rephrase that that I running wild in the streets or sniping at total strangers God made the white whiteman man r as the black True we ha havEn we li U 4 s 1 ed as brothers in the a we are brothers brothers brothers' ast It If were we're to be 1 so and Abels that man I cant can't blame e God for It SOMETHING G m reach the o Negroes whites in g and the ghettos of J country and I prop propose something ose se to J do doAs As a matter of p plain have been doing tact l the past or several years year ort I ii been running a e t call the ABS ABC A Any ABC program nY Doy w I B teaching 1 our youth black yellow and red what what self sel respect is 1 is I have been able to I ate juvenile Inse eral ar areas as 1 X WOULD now e expand m Iny I program change scope if U a 1 boy can surely an any Y m man an call I want to take teams of I qu j s people top men In their to the troubled areas of t. t ies I know that the people peoples participated in the a who are participating and v will participate are d I rather than mad I If some bigot ca cathen can J 1 then I can guide Ive I've s spy pe too much of my life Ive I've got to put it to torch J jest to satisfy some ancient hatred of a man who beat my gra i ther Those men are long dead Do we have to choke what cold I Ibe be a beautiful garden of hate I say NOr NO And I staff s I ready to sta stat start t Operation Gar dr dener I invite the respected Negro leaders of our country to o Join me |