Bevel then drew a triangle on the board and circled the apex.
He said that he, a minister, as a "Baptist pimp" represented the top of the triangle he had described, and that the "women in my choir" were at the triangle's base.
Bevel then compared this triangle to the situation in Africa.
He said African chieftains were at the apex of the triangle, and they wanted the women at the base of the triangle.
But their competition, Bevel said, was the other young men.
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"So what do you think he did? He sent the young men...and killed them," Bevel said. "That's how we got here."
"You've got to take the burden of your oppression and put it where it belongs," Bevel said.