The Manson Family "You made your children what they are.... these children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up.... You can project it back at me, but I am only what lives inside each and every one of you. My father is your system... I am only what you made me. I am a reflection of you." …showed first 75 words of 1160 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1160 total…run the world because lack of experience, and the Family would then run it for them as a generous dictatorship with Manson at the head of this new world order. The war would be triggered by "some black people coming out of the ghetto and doing atrocious crimes... killings... writing things in blood." (Manson). By summer 1969, Manson heard that blacks did not know how to start the war, so he would have to show them.