<P> Black men, thus deprived of the white women whom the political changes of the 1960s had made sexually available to them, would be without an outlet for their frustrations and would lash out in violent crimes against whites . A resultant murderous rampage against blacks by frightened whites would then be exploited by militant blacks to provoke an internecine war of near - extermination between racist and non-racist whites over blacks' treatment . Then the militant blacks would arise to sneakily finish off the few whites they would know to have survived; indeed, they would kill off all non-blacks . </P> <P> In this holocaust, the members of the enlarged Family would have little to fear; they would wait out the war in a secret city that was underneath Death Valley that they would reach through a hole in the ground . As the only actual remaining whites upon the race war's true conclusion, they would emerge from underground to rule the now - satisfied blacks, who, as the vision went, would be incapable of running the world . At that point, Manson "would scratch (the black man's) fuzzy head and kick him in the butt and tell him to go pick the cotton and go be a good nigger". </P> <P> The term "Helter Skelter" was from the Beatles song of that name, which referred to the British amusement - park ride of that name but was interpreted by Manson as concerned with the war . The song was on the Beatles' White Album, first heard by Manson within a month or so of its November 1968 release: </P> <P> Former Manson follower Catherine Share, in a 2009 documentary called Manson, for Cineflix Productions et al., claimed: </P>

Where did the term helter skelter come from