WAFR Recording of Bobby Seale at UNC-Chapel Hill, King Richard the First of America, February 21, 1974

WAFR Recording of Bobby Seale at UNC-Chapel Hill, King Richard the First of America, February 21, 1974

This is a recording from WAFR—a Black-owned community radio station in Durham, NC—of Bobby Seale speaking at UNC-Chapel Hill on February 21, 1974. This clip is about King Richard the First of America—likening Nixon to King George III.

WAFR (Durham, NC); Seale, Bobby, 1936-

From WAFR: Bobby Seale, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, N.C., 21 February 1974, Audiotape T-70092/114 in the Media and the Movement Project Collection of Black-Owned Radio Station Broadcasts #70092, Southern Historical Collection, Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

February 21, 1974

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“I mean brother Martin Luther King and Malcolm X was trying to tell us something. Martin said ‘I’ve been to the mountaintop. I’ve been to the mountaintop.’ And while he was trying to tell you he had been to the mountaintop, some young brothers and sisters and young human beings went down near the base of the mountain at the babbling brook where the stream of water came down to try to get a cool drink of freedom water. And looked down and saw the stream was polluted. Polluted with the king. I’m saying that Richard M. Nixon has opted to be king—King Richard the First of America. That’s what he tried to do like King George.” *clapping* “I am saying that this man: a wholesale cutback in fundamental human rights. I’m saying a cutback in services, etcetera, capitalistic profit, high cost of living, etcetera, etcetera, right down the line. I’ve even heard in Congress make reference to the fact, make reference to the fact that Richard M. Nixon could possibly pull a coup d'état and say, ‘Ain’t going to be no elections.’ What I’m getting down to is that the most monstrous elective office, not only in America but in the world, is the office of president and vice president of these United States, in America. It’s a monstrous office.”

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