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I ain't got no quarrel with the Vietcong. No Vietcong ever(HAAS, Jeffrey [2009]. The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther. LAWRENCE HILL BOOKS. p. 27. ISBN 1-556-52765-9.)
called me Nigger.
No, I am not going 10,000 miles to help murder kill and burn(African-American involvement in the Vietnam war |date=1967 |accessdate=2010-05-25.)
other people to simply help continue the domination of white slavemasters
over dark people the world over.
Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand(HAAS, Jeffrey [2009]. The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther. LAWRENCE HILL BOOKS. p. 27. ISBN 1-556-52765-9.)
miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam
while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and
denied simple human rights?
In 1841, Adams had the case of a lifetime, representing the defendants in United States v. The Amistad Africans in the Supreme Court of the United States. He successfully argued that the Africans, who had seized control of a Spanish ship on which they were being transported illegally as slaves, should not be extradited or deported to Cuba (a Spanish colony where slavery was legal) but should be considered free. Under President Martin Van Buren, the government argued the Africans should be deported for having mutinied and killed officers on the ship. Adams won their freedom, with the chance to stay in the United States or return to Africa. Adams made the argument because the U.S. had prohibited the international slave trade, although it allowed internal slavery. He never billed for his services in the Amistad case. The speech was directed not only at the justices of this Supreme Court hearing the case, but also to the broad national audience he instructed in the evils of slavery.
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