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LG: How did your mother feel about your activism?

MR: Activism? Oh, with Yellow Seeds? Oh, she thought it was, she came to some of the events also. She and her friend would come to the dinners and things of that sort, and she thought it was okay, she thought it was fun.

LG: Would she go demonstrate with you?

MR: No. She took care of Lucas. [Laughs] But she tended to sympathize with what we were doing, she thought it was, she always thought it was okay. I don't remember her going and demonstrating or anything like that.

LR: I don't think she cared too much for when you went off the deep end into your...

MR: No, I don't think so. [Laughs] What?

LR: When you got, when you guys got a lot of... you guys got all into the Maoism and things like that.

MR: Oh, yes.

LR: Things that she was [inaudible].

MR: No, no.

LR: That wouldn't have been her cup of tea.

MR: Yeah, I stopped with the Yellow Seeds when they started going off and studying, they got weapons and doing practice, target practice or something like that, it got a little bit more, a little bit too militant for me. I don't think they --

LR: Greensboro, you know, the Greensboro, it was the Greensboro [inaudible].

MR: What?

LR: Yeah, where the... it was when they were going down to sort of like fight the Klan.

MR: We were? They were?

LR: [Inaudible] workers were, people were going to...

MR: Oh, the Workers Viewpoint.

LR: That was when you stopped.

MR: That's when I...

LR: You started talking about...

MR: That wasn't Yellow Seeds. Well, Workers Viewpoint... oh, all right, all right, these things morphed into different --

LR: It started, I guess, getting a little crazy, and that's when you stopped going.

MR: Yes, that is true, that is true. I don't think there was a Yellow Seeds anymore. Is there still a Workers Viewpoint? I don't think so.

LR: Oh yes, there is.

MR: Still a Workers Viewpoint?

LR: Well, they changed the name.

MR: Oh, okay, okay.

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