"In this country in fifteen or twenty years' time the black man will have the whip hand over the white man." I can already hear the chorus of execration. How dare I say such a horrible thing? How dare I stir up trouble and inflame feelings by repeating such a conversation? The answer is that I do not have the right not to do so.


Note: the first sentence was Powell's own quotation from one of his constituents. - The 'Rivers of Blood' speech


In this country in fifteen or twenty years' time the black man will have the whip hand over the white man. I can already hear the chorus of...

In this country in fifteen or twenty years' time the black man will have the whip hand over the white man. I can already hear the chorus of...

In this country in fifteen or twenty years' time the black man will have the whip hand over the white man. I can already hear the chorus of...

In this country in fifteen or twenty years' time the black man will have the whip hand over the white man. I can already hear the chorus of...