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f explo1 tztion. I think that we find ourselves occasionally ca ar +
we have to say to negro merhants that this practice we abhor. I would' t
imressed rimply because he l2vorl in the Negro oonwunity -if he's imor'L,
2t's itoral, regardless as to'era he lives. I think it entirely po ibic
that the white rchant iht very well become clavge enough to build in th
'earo co.mnwity, but this will not eausc us to cease cadn 'oest i i ti
ts cdischief.
S ro Stok Iy, before we throw a pan
, ,stion: Yci talk about lack power, and yt, round t;0 cou itty 'n p1az
..U:e Chico "i th Mr. Dy'son, and Nev York with Mr. tokell, and L's nc:ez1
Mr. t k ( {, and Detroit, now, we do sed 1 .r'o IositipAL .; fPt i ,
re not the people you mean when you say 'black power".
ichl: iBlack po ' ctdoe not mean blach faec3 to S O, nd ai:: s. no au Y.
that. If the press eamr asks us for a definition, wi thout attachin the f arM
o white America to it, we could clarify it in one fell st;oop. BI ~
the ovdlngtogcthox of blac; eopl =0ndletting r centatfv oand forcin^
t e fCo rrfntatives to speakto th ir ncc, t's all ck torer eves
to p N ~ , + ~ m.wr f uy.I n"iat ji' ' o a. nT +i ., 4 ng . !'., t.,..}.a. is ~ concerned.
,, ..,: . yt ....t 1"9/plitcoa n ogrsmnaWdt'% the a 'd of the
A r ic m polities. lack power 3s going to fradljjCt American po1i ti c DScaus@
black pO'2c? iS going to man that the representative is going to speak to the
needs of the people. And, that it seem to ae that black people in this country
have two dilemnas: number I, they're black; number 2, they're in a state of
poverty. The solutions toward the black people in the past have been integration,
which speaks very despicably to the question of their blackeass; it never speaks
to the state of poverty that black people find "themselves in. So when you talk
bout integration you talk about zonehouse students who graduate, you doa't talk
about a black person in Vin: City who drinks wine. You don't talk about a cotton
picker who makes $2.00 a day. They're not going to integrate; because integration
is like the hiblo says, "Only through me". (laughter). *"Only through my
neighborhood will you have better education; only through my neighborhood will
you have better housing; never through your own". And it seems to te that it
haa nothing to do wi th the question of poverty. And black people will force
those politicians to speak to the question of poverty. And, that's vhy bloc::
power ust be distorted by the Americai press it has to be, because people
;re moreiinterested in building better schools than a Obing the hell out of
Vietnam. I'm willing to wager that across the country, even if they're whi t .
t-ed gatherbuild better schools than bomb Vietnam
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[A discussion between Stokely Carmichael and Randolph Blackwell], text, July 25, 1966; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1884474/m1/11/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.