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A clip from the documentary, "The Night James Brown Saved Boston", features Interviews from a clip from "The Night James Brown Saved Boston" discussing James Brown as a spokesperson for the black community. And the importance of being a man on the Mike Douglas Show.
Video transcript:
Narrator: Gone was the trademark of the Polydor, in was the afro.
James Brown: This is the idea of let's get in together an idea of giving money into the lack community. If we can keep a turnover going then we shall overcome only if we all come over.
Charles Bobbitt: He realized his power. He saw his power. He saw his influence. He discovered that he was somebody.
Rickey Vincent: By 1969, the majority of the black activist leaders had been eliminated, jailed, assassinated, and marginalized. One of the few spokespersons for the Black community was James Brown. When you see him on the Mike Douglas Show as a guest host, you realize that James Brown was one of the few authentic Black representatives that were given some national exposure at that time.
He would speak out as to how he felt by not taking a lot of time, you know a lot of people, I don't think he should've said that but that was what he said, what he really wanted to say.
James Brown: For a long time, I haven't been a man and I still don't, I still don't have the classification of a man. He is saying he is a man, he is a colored man. He's a Negro man. Why can't he be a man? Do you call yourself a man knowing that I pay taxes same as you, staying right here and use my sweat and blood to help build this country and I got to be a second class citizen. Do you call that a man?
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