Record

Ref NoMS 4000/6/1/58/20/C
TitleCD Rom listening copy
LevelItem
Date12 July 1968
DescriptionDick Days talk to Dilip Hiro.

Track 1: Dilip Hiro asks about differences between his youth and the experience of young people now. He says there are more opportunities for education and jobs now. He says that children today understand the world better, 3.13 mins
Track 2: Dilip Hiro asks whether his daughter understands white people differently from the way he did when he was young. He talks about images of white people and say that his children stopped going to church, 1.48 mins
Track 3: He discusses integrated communities, the ghetto in New York, and talks about sending his children to a middle-class integrated school, which was better than the schools in the black community, 2.36 mins
Track 4: Dilip Hiro asks about family structures in the black ghettos. He says that the black man has 'become the man in his own house' and gets respect from women and children. He talks about the effects of slavery on black families and the need to rebuild the concept of family. He talks about his three ex-wives and family. He talks about African ideas about sex and white men's ideas about sex. The end of this track is silent, 8.24 mins
Track 5: He talks about Jewish immigration to America and says that Jews were allowed to integrate in a way that black people were not because black people are visible. He talks about the need for equitable distribution of wealth and power, 2.39 mins
Track 6: He talks about white people's fear of black people and Chinese people 'getting together' and the co-operation beginning with Malcolm X, 4.02 mins
Track 7: He talks about middle-class white children hating their parents. He says that the white community looks up to personalities and leaders whereas the black community deals in concepts. He talks about the impact of Black Power on the white community. He says that the black community will take power for itself, 6.29 mins
Track 8: He talks about violence and the reaction to the death of Martin Luther King, 2.54 mins

Total: 32.11 mins

Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0666380
Extent1
FormatCd-rom
Access StatusOpen
LanguageEnglish
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