WAFR Recording of Ronald Dellums at Duke University, Nixon's Enemies List, 1972-1973

WAFR Recording of Ronald Dellums at Duke University, Nixon's Enemies List, 1972-1973

This is a recording from WAFR—a Black-owned community radio station in Durham, NC—of Ronald Dellums speaking at Duke University around 1972 to 1973. This clip is about the danger of the mentality that led to Nixon's Enemies List.

WAFR (Durham, NC); Dellums, Ronald V., 1935-2018

From WAFR: Ronald Dellums, Duke University, Audiotape T-70092/54 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.

1972-1973

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audio/mp4

English

Sound

https://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/70092/id/94

“Another danger of Watergate is the danger of the mentality that saw a need to establish an enemy list. Who are the enemies? To establish enemy means that you are establishing the parameters of war. In the fifth grade, did you mean it when you taught me that this was a democracy that can tolerate difference? And so, suddenly Ron Dellums and John Conyers end up on the top twenty priority list of the enemies of the Nixon administration. That’s insane. I know, clearly, that if you name the top two thousand people in this country with influence enough to harm Richard Nixon, I wouldn’t even be on the bottom of the two thousand list. But it’s a political game. You see, raise [?] him and save this afro-topped, bellbottomed, radical sheep from Berkeley is an enemy of the people. When all I’m about is saying if the Constitution is a living document, then make it work for living people.” *clapping*

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