LET'S FLIP TABLES

ERNIE CHAMBERS: The problem exists because White people think they're better than Black people and they want to oppress us and they want us to allow ourselves to be oppressed.

PASTOR YOUNGDAHL: Well, this is a big... I agree with you perfectly. This is the basic problem.

ERNIE: Then what are you even talking about?

PASTOR YOUNGDAHL: That White people think they're better than others.

ERNIE: What is it that I can do? I can't solve the problem. You guys pull the strings that close schools. You guys draw the boundaries that keep our kids restricted to the ghetto. You guys write up the restrictive covenants that keep us out of houses. So, it's up to you to talk to your brothers and your sisters and persuade them that they have a responsibility. 

...you did not take over this country by singing, "We Shall Overcome." You did not gain control of the world like you have it now by dealing fairly with a man and keeping your word. You're treaty-breakers, you're liars, you're thieves. You rape entire continents, of races, of people, then you wonder why these very people don't have any confidence or trust in you.

Your religion means nothing. Your law is a farce and we see it every day. You demonstrated it in Alabama, and I can say you because you're part of the whole system.You profit from it.

PASTOR YOUNGDAHL: Mm-hmm. I know. That's right.

ERNIE: In fact, you make your living from it. You couldn't walk around and talk to people, stand up in your pulpit on Sunday and preach nice little songs and say, "Now we're gonna give thanks to the Lord for he is good and O Jesus, be among us." As far as we're concerned, your Jesus is contaminated just like everything else you tried to force upon us is contaminated....

PASTOR YOUNGDAHL: Mm-hmm. Well, uh...

ERNIE: So you can have him. And here's what I'll say. I wish you would follow Jesus like we follow Him 'cause if you did that, then we'd be in charge tomorrow.

-- Ernie Chambers, "A Time For Burning", 1966