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For nearly a century, the South made itself believe that Negroes and white people were really communicating. So convinced of this were the white Southerners that they almost made the nation believe that they, and only they, knew the mind of the Southern Negro.

I grew up partially around Stone Mountain, Georgia, and in that part of the country, there was always this aura of mythology and palpable sense of otherness about being a Southerner.

I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented.

The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly militant for the time and place.

However the Southern man may have been master of the negro, there were compensatory processes whereby certain negroes were masters of their masters' children.

The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.

The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.

Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America when what black America needs isn't a leader, it is education.

So one of the things that happened with integration in the South is they found that the black teachers were much more educated than the white teachers.

Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.