John Williams Jr

The worst thing the white people have done to black people John Williams Jr

Our people in the Negro community are trapped in a vicious cycle of ignorance, poverty, disease, sickness, and death. There seems to be no way out. No way of escape. The wealthy, educated Black bourgeoisie, those uppity Negroes who do escape, never reach back and pull the rest of our people out with them. The Black masses remain trapped in the slums. And because there seems to be no hope or no other escape, we turn to wine, we turn to whiskey, and we turn to reefers, marijuana, and even to the dreadful needle - heroin, morphine, cocaine, opium - seeking an escape. Many of us turn to crime, stealing, gambling, and prostitution. And some of us are used by the white overlord's downtown to push dope in the Negro community among our own people.