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Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 8:02pm On Mar 10, 2012

[b]membership is mutually and individually involved in activities which

each feels is important and will be directly beneficial to him all in his

own lifetime . Direct membership by families may turn out to be more

important than one based on a federation of existing organizations .

Actual unity will be achieved, not by preaching, pleading or exhortations,

but almost unconsciously as people work together for mutual benefits to

each other and the advancement of the race as a whole . Meaningful,

practical activities which involve even children in attacking the problems

of their race will be the cement which we call unity.

The second great understanding should be that economic activities

are so fundamental in any truly upward movement, so clearly indispensable

at this stage in history, that it should be unnecessary to state it even . The

still existing slave mentality causes millions of us to shy away from this

basis of life itself because it requires more initiative, training and work,

and less talk than politics . Consequently, the overall picture we present

to the world is that of a race of dependent job seekers, ourselves unable

to engage in the large-scale production of any of the necessities of life,

whether they are the shoes and clothing we wear or the food we eat .

Hence, the billions of dollars we spend each year, just in these categories,

we eagerly give back to the whites to strengthen their power over us

while becoming richer and richer at the same time .

Economic development activities are direct survival activities, the

means of existence-helping to provide the means of existence . It is as

simple as that. The main goals of a great unity movement can never be

reached unless the Organization has its own self-generating financial

resources to protect, defend and promote the interests of the race .

Organizations which must be subsidized by government and foundation

grants to exist are not in an independent position .

The third understanding should be clear that all community enterprises,

contrary to capitalism, will be owned and operated by the people in the

community, that they will be the shareholders, that all the trained

personnel in each store, plant or any other enterprise will be shareholders

(and, therefore, part owners) of such establishments, that all profits will

belong to the people, but full responsibility for the first class service,

efficiency and general business management will be that of elected

managers, and not the general membership .

Finally, the scope and nature of the proposed Divisions in the last

section of this work will doubtless make even clearer the real significance

of a nationwide organization . For, in addition to the work involved in[/b]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 8:01pm On Mar 10, 2012

[b]such movements in sheer self-defense even if the whites withdrew and

turned over five Southern states for such a purpose .

Negro integrationists would oppose this, of course, but for an obviously

quite different reason . Their drive is to break up existing black

communities and scatter the people among hostile whites .

A great nationwide organizations of Blacks, therefore, would be in :he

only possible position to cooperate and work out common problems

with whites as equals, and this is from a position backed by organized

power, the only position respected at this stage of human development .

It was stated above that we would continue to push for equal employment

and political opportunities on all fronts . The sadly missing link,

however, is that we ourselves have done little to create employment

opportunities . If we say that, as a race, we are too poor to engage in

productive activities that would create thousands of jobs for our young

people, if we continue "traditional" pleas of poverty, our total spending

of nearly 200 billion dollars each year rises up to call us liars! We are
able .

Those who wish to engage in private enterprise for their own personal

benefit will always be free to do so ; and there will always be some pride

in pointing out this or that rich black capitalist . When we consider the

welfare of the whole community, however, we are getting back to a

basic African ideology, which is that of the individual . The Organization

will be a national community made up of the numerous black communities .

In demanding rights it will also assume the race's responsibility for

creating some of the opportunities itself . The, most crucial point to be

considered and remembered is the vast difference between what the

Blacks do as a race, from the viewpoint of world opinion, and what a

black individual does .

IV.

Not "unity just for unity," but unity for great achievements, not one of

which can be realized without it .

The first great understanding should be that the unity we seek cannot

be achieved by organization alone . Even an organization of several

million members will have no lasting basis for existence unless the total[/b]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 7:56pm On Mar 10, 2012

[b]attempted before, and what should be some of its guiding principles

and understandings are enumerated below . For emphasis, a few of the

most important propositions are necessary recapitulations of points

already presented in preceding pages .

The main focus here is on Blacks in the United States because,

whether they know it or not, they we in the very best situation to be the

lead-off example for the whole African world .

I.

"Race Organization" here mean; a nationwide organization of Blacks

only . But it means much more : theorganization should be so structured

through all elements of the black population, and on an active

membership so vast that it would ;o far beyond the accepted scientific

criteria for determining the wishe, of a whole people . In other words,

the first objective would be to have a representative scheme of organization

that would, beyond all doubt, be the voice of Black America ; and to

keep this an actual fact by periodic polls as crucial issues affecting the

race as a group arise . No such organization ever existed among us ;

hence, no real unity exists among us .

Far from being a "separatist" movement, as these terms are generally

understood, the organization woud be cooperative in the fullest and

most humane meaning of that word . For the black masses are not going

to give up their 400 years of investment in America-400 years of

investments in blood and labor to build up its present great wealth-they

are not about to "separate," migrate anywhere, leaving all those centuries

of toil as a free gift to the whites . This means that we shall continue to

battle for equal employment and advancement throughout the United

States and in every area of the nation's life, the expansion of voting and

elections to public office and, in gereral, the exercise without exceptions

of all the rights and duties of other citizens.

This also represents our convicti)n that the black masses will not be

seriously influenced by the pipe dream of a separate, independent

"Nation" or "Republic" within the territorial confines of the United

States . They have too much comrron sense for that, and would reject[/b]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 7:52pm On Mar 10, 2012

[b]The Shape of Things
To Come: A Master Plan

IT HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY STATED IN SUBSTANCE THAT

although the African people may continue their present course of

weakness on into the future with thousands of ununified organizations,

powerless and, therefore forever dependent like half-men and halfwomen

unable to use their own brains, although this tragic situation

may continue into an uncertain future, we say, it can never be said again

that such a hopeless situation persists because no member of the race or

any group has ever studied the principal problems and the obstacles to

their solutions based on history, and then offered an overall plan as one

of the possible lines of march out of the morass. For there have been a

number of plans . The weakness of some is that instead of being

presented as a proposal, a point of beginning for the express purpose of

making such revisions of amendments as the people think best, they are

too often presented authoritatively as fait accompli, a reflection of the

leader's ego, infallible wisdom and power .

In this section are the specifics of a MASTER PLAN. It is to be the

functioning framework of a unifying Race Organization of a kind never

presented to the black race before . To make all of this "crystal clear,"

what is meant by race organization, how it will differ from anything[/b]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 7:52pm On Mar 10, 2012

have a contradictory mental twist among Blacks . For while distrust of

one another is characteristic, when it comes to the thousands of do-good

organizations into which we pour millions of dollars, the idea is that one

should trust the brothers and sisters who collect, hold and control the

people's money . Re-education will be required for the two mandatory

changes in attitude : one toward each other in terms of mutual respect,

and the other, a change in attitude about efficiency, expertise in

business management and financial responsibility and administration .

Unless we begin to develop and expand these first, a great survival

movement will fail just as many other noble efforts failed because the

rush neglected the necessary foundation .

***

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 7:51pm On Mar 10, 2012

[b]noted in reference to the American Negro group, the "Lost Tribe of

Israel" which landed there only to be rejected, is that it illustrates

dramatically all that has been presented in these pages about those

groups within the African race who are trying hard to escape from it,

seeking their identity with a white people-any white people . And we

have said, "Let them go!" The only thing we object to, and will fight to

the end, is the attempt to program the whole race again on a march

away from itself or allow them to remain as leaders of the same people

from which they wish to flee .

8 . Finally, another major obstacle to unity and progress that is hardly

ever openly discussed must not only be discussed but attacked in a

nationwide program in the home . Obviously, only a massive nationwide

organization can deal successfully with any of our "massive" problems .

This one concerns an inheritance from slavery . It is the attitude of

indifference and disrespect of Blacks toward Blacks . To the average

Black, another Black is not as important as someone, anyone, of another

race . Therefore, black clerks or salespersons will serve whites more

quickly and politely than they will serve members of their own race .

This evil spirit from slavery pervades all "classes," whether lawyers,

carpenters, doctors, painters, nurses, shop owners, school heads, teachers,

repairmen, garbage amd trash men, paperhangers, taxi drivers, movers

and haulers, employees in homes, etal . The only thing you can count on

being first class are the charges-which are often higher than what the

whites pay for the services these same Blacks give at the highest level of

their competence . The exceptions to this general rule are not enough to

affect such a damaging situation . This is why, in proposing specific steps

in organizing a whole people, emphasis is placed on training at the very

outset for all persons involved directly in the work . For the great task of

developing real mutual respect must be undertaken by people who

have it themselves . We are no longer interested in the often hypocritical

rhetoric of "brothers and sisters ." Too often "brothers and sisters" are

mouthed by some with the biggest "Afro-bush" while mugging, raping

or killing these same "brothers and sisters ."

Out of this general attitude, which serves the white supremacy

position so well, develops an indifference to high standards of excellence

in all-black situations, and that strict business methods in the areas of

auditing, accounting, or strict financial procedures in the collection,

deposit and management of other people's money-these safeguards

are thought by many to have no place in the black community . Here we[/b]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 7:49pm On Mar 10, 2012

[b]group of American Negroes recently went to Israel, claiming that they

were the "original" Jews, the "Lost Tribe of Israel," and that, therefore,

the country belonged to them . Movements of this kind would not

deserve even a sentence here if they were not indicative of the frustrations

and confusion, and the frantic pulling in different directions which

further bind the race in chains difficult to break . They are mental chains

as well as blinders .

Now the-confusion about "Black Jews" derives from the same historic

developments which have been explained about white and black

Arabs, exactly the same . For we have shown that Jews were in Africa

from the earliest times and that Africans were in Palestine from the

earliest times . And just as the Jews ruled in African Egypt for several

centuries, so also the Africans ruled over Palestine for several centuries .

But, unlike the Arabs, the Jews never engaged in the general enslavement

of Blacks . In cases of warfare either side might capture segments of the

population to be marched off to work in the victorious nation, a notable

instance being the Jewish captivity in Egypt and their later emancipation

and return under the leadership of Moses . Not only did many coloured

Jews cross the Red Sea with Moses, but doubtless many converted jetblack

Jews, such as the wife of the Lawgiver himself . Furthermore, as in

the case of the Arabs, we often confuse race with religion . The people

we call "Jews" indiscriminately are Hebrews by race and Jews by

religion . Anyone can be a Jew, but not a Hebrew . The Hebrews and the

Arabs are both white Semitic peoples, and no number of offsprings by

non-Hebrews and non-Arabs, or adherents to either religion, will ever

change this absolute fact . After all those centuries of racial mixing,

there was nothing unusual about the appearance of great coloured

leaders in Palestine or anywhere else in Asia, including, from time to

time, their rise to kingship in Israel, Syria (Aram), Mesopotamia, etc .

But the white Jews (Hebrews) and white Arabs remain exactly what

they always were-white ; and this is why (and who pretends not to

kaow it?) that there is a racial crisis today in Israel between the ruling

white Jews and the coloured Jews who have migrated there from the

above mentioned lands . These are the coloured adherents of Judaism

from Arab countries, but who never became Muslims . It will be going

overboard to drown if we follow fanatics in attempting to "blackize"

everything and everybody that suits their fancy . It is quite useless and

unnecessary to try to make either Jesus Christ or the Prophet Mohammad

"black" or even "coloured ." However, the most important point to be[/b]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 7:47pm On Mar 10, 2012

[b]while resenting the indiscriminate grouping also, have accepted both

"Negro" and "Colored" as proper names (and "Black" tentatively for

strategic leadership reasonsl have sought a breakthrough by spearheading

drives for integraticn, forced busing for "racial balance," and

scatter-site housing in white suburbia . Most important, during the past

twenty years, increased trave . enabled them to learn with certainty that

Mulattoes are indeed conside ed "white," throughout the Muslim Middle

East and Muslim North Afri(a-Egypt, Algeria, Tunis, Morocco, Syria,

Jordan, Iraq and the Holy Laid of Islam, Saudi Arabia .

Now anyone who is even noderately acquainted with the history of

the Arab slave trade for the )ast two thousand years would know that,

as a result, there are not only millions of Mulattoes throughout the Arab

states, but countless thousands of jet-black Africans whose ancestors

were also born there . All peak Arabic, are Muslims, and consider

themselves Arabs for exactly the same reasons as emphasized before,

that Blacks born in the United States consider themselves Americans .

One can very readily understand why those Negroes who wish to escape

Black or African identity are pushing for an identity of color with their

kind in those countries when they are "white" and, therefore, in a class

distinctly superior to the still mslaved or subordinated Blacks still living

there . And they have every right, natural or otherwise, to follow their

own inclinations .

Indeed, the race would experience the joyful relief that comes with a

new birth of freedom if the particular group would stop trying to

operate in both the white and black worlds, stop straddling the fence

and get down decisively on de side of its choice . They will never do this,

of course, because they enjoy the same double advantage of a most

famous ancestor, Leo Africanus, who, when pressed in Rome to say

whether he considered himsdf African or white, replied that he shifted

to whatever side it was expedent to be on from time to time . "When the

African's are on top, I am an African," he said . This class of mixed

bloods will always be an emlarrassing threat-to the other millions who,

although also of mixed blow, are wholly African in spirit and pride .

These latter are the Adam Chyton Powells of the race who are not only

above suspicion, but are regarded by the black masses as inseparably

their own .

That a "little learning is a dangerous thing" is also indicated among

the relatively few who preach about the Jews being a "black people,"

Joseph and Mary being "Black" and Jesus Christ also "Black," etc . A[/b]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 7:45pm On Mar 10, 2012

[b]the history of this race, for if skipped over as it always has been, that

history will remain confused . Therefore, we have pointed out that when

the general enslavement of whites and Mulattoes ended and slavery was

confined to those with black skins, the color of black itself became the

trademark of slavery and, therefore, anathema, evil, and the worst that

could happen to a human being was to be born black . And this is why

we have drawn an African Circle of Honor around those of mixed

blood who, in spite of all this, even through the most frightful centuries

split Dff from their pro- white and anti-black brothers and sisters to

remain with the unfortunate Blacks .

Where the future of an entire race is the concern, the importance of

being fully aware of the great difference in racial attitude that has always

existed among those of mixed blood should be self-evident . The course

of that future will be determined by a growing mass of intelligence and

alertness which enables people to use quite different criteria in the

search for honest and reliable leaders . At present our mental laziness

permits any smooth and fast-talker to assume leadership . Just knowing

about anti-black mulattoes will not remove need to know what each

individual stands for . "Color" is no guide, for the blackest of the Blacks

may be an arch traitor . The best route emerges before the eyes in every

race-wide situation : a race-wide organization, in this case to provide

mass education in the homes, the kind of community-wide information

that will enable the people to choose dedicated and competent leaders

and other essential workers, and ferret out the exploiters who worm

their way into key offices which enable them, as representatives of the

white man, to defeat or check any organized, all-black efforts to
advance .

7. In view of the facts already set forth, it should not be surprising

why so many American Negroes are identifying themselves with the

Arabic Middle East or Asia rather than Africa . The fact that in the

United States all Africans and persons with any discernible African

blood were legally classified as Negroes made a most important difference,

and contrasted sharply with other parts of the world where Mulattoes are

either classified as white or given the legal status of a separate ethnic

group with a privileged status above those with dark or black complexion .

Even Mulattoes arriving from some of the West Indian islands are often

shocked to find the American practice of classifying all of them as

Negroes . They resent it, and many will not live in the United .States for

this reason . By contrast, the anti-black Mulattoes in the United States,[/b]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 7:44pm On Mar 10, 2012

[b]of total liberation developed from the way religion has been used to

capture, enslave and exploit the black people of the world for over a

thousand years . For the African people are, and always have been, a

very religious and high spiritual people . But we were also a religiously

gullible people, believing that the religion of the foreigners, with their

belief in one supreme God, though called by different names, was

essentially the same as our own . And this was right . What the Blacks did

not know, however, was that while both Christianity and Islam were in

themselves great and acceptable faiths, they were being used by men

whose main purposes were conquest and enslavement in pursuit of

economic and political power . The whole continent of Africa was taken

over, its wealth exploited, and its people dehumanized through enslavement,

all in the name of Jesus Christ, Allah, and Civilization . Their

success is always assured because, when the spotlights of history are

turned on and reveal that those conquest aims were for political domination

and economic exploitation under the cover of religion, they

scream that their religion itself is under attack, and their faithful

followers believe it! Thus the great religions of both Islam and Christianity

have been disgraced by evil men with bloodcurdling cries of

"Jihad!", or "Holy War" against black unbelievers ("pagans", or the

Christian missions of civilization that rationalized European conquests .

The future task before Black Muslims and black Christians is distinguishing

their true religion from how evil men have used it to serve their

own non-religious purposes . This writer, for example, is a devout Christian,

but that fact does not blind him to the chains of bondage

hammered on his race in the name of Christianity or cause him to try to

gloss over or soften the records of history when his own religion is

unfavorably exposed .

6. To escape at last from our mental house of bondage we must see

this color-crazy world in a clearer perspective, for "color-crazy" it is . We

should begin by drawing a vast African Circle of Honor around all those

millions of Africans of mixed blood often referred to as Mulattoes, who

from the earliest times to the present have stood steadfast and loyally

identified with the race of their originally black mothers . They deserve

special honor exactly because they did not have to do so when amalgamation

of the races spread over Egypt and the Arabic world, and they

had compelling reasons for not being identified with black-skinned

Africans . For they were classified as "white" and, therefore, not subject

to enslavement . This fact is of the greatest importance in understanding[/b]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 7:43pm On Mar 10, 2012

[b]work of the race-and without which we can only remain a pleading

and begging people . (c) Political Action : There is no question about

better race relations developing as more and more members of the race

register and vote, and the number of black officials elected to office

increases . The recent notable increase in the number of black elected

officials in the United States, be it remembered, resulted almost entirely

from the existence of predominantly black communities after the whites

had withdrawn to the suburbs . The bitter irony in this situation is that

thousands of Negro integrationists quickly took advantage of this concentration

of black political power to be elected to local, state and

national offices (Congress). If their program to break up all black communities

and "scatter-site" the people among the whites had succeeded

they would never have been elected to office . The few well known

exceptions do not change the picture . Yet the great focus of today's

black leaders, young and old, is on "Politics ." That is understandable,

for we are still in the talking stage, and politics is a profession of talkers .

The drive to increase the black vote should go on . The election of

Blacks to office should be accelerated . Still the central questions will

demand answers sooner or later : What kind of persons are we electing?

After the politicians are elected to the various offices, who, besides

themselves, actually benefit from all the campaigning and voting? How

much real difference would it make in the situation of Blacks in this

country if we elected 15 U .S. Senators, 100 Congressmen, 5,000 state

legislators, mayors, etc .? For what is well known is that some "black

officials," once elected to office, turn out to be as conservative and reactionary

as any Congressman from the backwoods of Mississippi . Yet

politics is too important to be left forever in present situations . Blacks

need more political education on how to choose whom, or evaluating

guidelines above the prevailing "gift of gab ." The respect of thee whites

(which was the point of departure) in the realm of politics may be very

superficial indeed and tentative . Here he is seeking the black vote,

seeking help in securing a better job and a better position of political

power. Black political power can support, but never replace an organized

economic power system within the race itself that gives it the resources

to do what has to be done, the only move that will command the respect

for Blacks as a people, throughout the world .

5. The fifth barrier to the liberation of our minds would have been set

forth first if we were proceeding in the order of importance of difficulty .

For it is, perhaps, the most tragic and formidable . That mental blockage[/b]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 7:43pm On Mar 10, 2012

[b]2 . Nobody is going to "destroy" the American system . And nobody is

going to "destroy" either capitalism or communism . There will be no

attempt here to go into detailed analysis to demonstrate why neither

capitalism or communism can be acceptable wholly by the African

people . Draw on any beneficial elements in each? YES . Accept either

one as our total system? NO . Those who have been so brainwashed into

ideological blindness that they cannot see that the actual political,

economic and social structures of capitalism and communism are substantially

the same, with the same upper ruling classes, same elite

classes, and the same controlled and exploited masses . Those unable to

see this operating over the world before their very eyes, will, of course,

be unable to see what is presented here .

3 . Since most Blacks live within what is essentially a capitalist system,

when they face up to the fact that neither they nor any other shouting

group are going to "destroy the system," then they will be in a position

to plan how -to deal with the system . They not only need wholly accept

it, but they should reject "black capitalism" as a solution of the economic

bondage problems of the masses ; for, it must certainly be clear by now

that my whole focus is on a system that directly benefits the, people

lower down, the great common people, and not just the further enrichment

of Blacks who are already well-off and far ahead . And Africans in

a capitalist state have the freedom to organize and do for themselves

things they would never be allowed to do in any communist state . This

all-important fact must be acknowledged even by bitter enemies of the

system simply because it is a fact . From this fact comes the opportunity

for Blacks to unite and develop a more humane economic system of a

new kind of community cooperatives, owned and controlled by the

people in each community .

4. The white man as an enemy of Blacks will become less and less a

fact and his hostile or contemptuous attitude will change to more and

more respect if and when this race begins to move forward on three

fronts : (a) The first is the kind of massive organization the very existence

of which means the presence of an organized POWER to be reckoned

with . (b) The second is a nationwide economic development program,

promoted by the unified "race organization" as enterprises of a united

people, as distinguished from those of private individuals and corporations .

The aims would be the creation of career and general employment

opportunities, a national foundation and central banking system to

maintain and safeguard the financial resources required to carry on the[/b]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 7:42pm On Mar 10, 2012

[b]mental aims and objectives . The concept here is Cooperation as the

humane law of life, total and actual unity, brotherhood and sisterhood

throughout the organization, and not just economic cooperatives, such

as stores, markets, housing, farms, etc ., important as these will be . And

we say this united movement toward a more humane economic system

in the midst of a dog-eat-dog, money-mad, competitive society will be a

movement in the direction of real civilization . The challenging question

is whether Blacks of the 20th century can recover enough of the vision,

strength and will of their forefathers who built the great pyramids to

undertake the tasks of this present .

THE LIBERATION OF OUR MINDS

This is Task Number One . It will not be easy, and will not be easily

achieved in a single generation . The reasons have already been rather

clearly set forth . The present-day confused outlook of the African

people -is the result of centuries of Caucasian acculturation, a quite

natural process wherever one people come under the economic, political

and social domination of another people . The ideologies and value

system of the oppressors quite unconsciously become those of the

oppressed, even when the result is demonstratively against themselves .

But all other oppressed peoples, whether Indian, Chinese or Japanese,

were able to hold on doggedly to their own racial pride and cultural

heritage as the last resource for survival as a people . Unlike the Blacks,

they were never completely cut off from this sustaining life-line of every

people .

In order to clear away some of the confusing cobwebs from our

minds, we may be helped by re-thinking through the following proposi=
tions :

1 . Black Americans en masse are not going to emigrate to Africa or

anywhere else . This is a fact equally true of all large black populations

elsewhere outside of Africa . The real spirit of racial identity with the

land of our forefathers, and a real Pan Africanism will emerge only in

those black population areas which, through their own unified

development programs, have reached the level of strength that enables

them to maintain a permanent system of exchange in visits, goods and

services with the motherland and other areas .[/b]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 7:41pm On Mar 10, 2012

[b]supported and financed by the tax-paying public with government

grants and subsidies, operate realistic socialism at the top . How was all

this power achieved? This is the important question here . Study their

steps to unity and be amazed, because no matter how diverse and

"competitive" the giant corporations were, they formed, step by step,

the most thoroughgoing system of overall unity in the world . At the

summit of world corporate power, it is neither "private" nor "free"

enterprise . Small business enterprises are indeed private, but they are

"free" only in imagination . They are the dependent satellites of the allpowerful

interlocking corporations and conglomerates . This quiet capitalistic

socialism is interesting to study and compare with the openly

proclaimed Marxist or state socialism . If we ignore the ideological "principles"

and slogans that influence the masses, all appear as actually antipeople

and, therefore, anti-civilization .

The main thrust of civilization, like religion itself, was toward a more

humane society, piloted and guided by the upward march of the human

spirit as man slowly advanced from beasthood to a higher and higher

level of mankind. Blessed with a mind that enabled him to think,

analyze, discover and invent, he could now evolve education and

promote the development of science and technology to further the

advance of the whole human species. The medium of exchange, which

in relatively recent times became money, was expanded to facilitate the

spread of necessities of life for the common welfare . But somewhere

back through the years the whole upward trend was reversed as

aggression inspired by greed led to the easy acquisition of both wealth

and political power by the daring few at the expense of the many . Mass

poverty, and the ignorance and disease which are its inseparable

companions, spread as the wealth belonging to all the people came to be

owned or controlled by the few in ever country, no matter what system

or ideology it claimed . This is not the direction civilization is supposed to

take . We have what should be its reflection : advances in science, technology,

great skyscraper cities, skies filled with aircraft, moon flightsimprovements

in everything but man himself, his murderous, greedy

soul being still ages back there in the caves of his ancestors .

For the Blacks, who are most victimized everywhere, their own

situation can be radically changed in a program that regards money only

as the means by which they can do the things that must be done

through cooperation . For the kind of NEW Cooperative organization we

have been discussing will be different from those now existing in funda-[/b]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 7:40pm On Mar 10, 2012

[b]To achieve the goal of survival and self-action progress the Blacks, do

not have to withdraw anywhere to form a separatist society, for the

whites themselves have created an even more completely black separatist

society in their mad flights to the suburbs . Here we have all that is

meant by symbiosis before our very eyes-living, concrete and almost

complete . For, having thus withdrawn to make their own separatist

community more complete, the whites must not be allowed to perpetuate

the lower status of Blacks by also controlling and dominating the black

community from which they fled .

But this will mean something far more than the black people's

fragmented programs of the 1960s-marching demonstrations, singing,

praying in public squares, shouting protests and slogans, or even the

frantic screams of "Burn, baby, burn!" Self-destroying, uncontrolled

emotional outbursts must be checked precisely because they becloud

the mind, make you just the easy targets the enemy is waiting for, and

thereby prevent the kind of deliberate and rational thinking and

planning that can not only defend and advance the life of the

community, but can help civilization itself to survive .

Now it may well be that perceptive whites will be quick to see,

probably even before Blacks, that my reference to them as the traditional

enemy of the race is not at all a call for increased hatred, tensions

and endless conflicts between the races . For those whites who have read

even the high points of the record presented in this work will see with

no trouble at all that I have singled out the exact routes to the kind of

organized power and influence which will engage a subordinated people

in self-improving activities that demonstrate visibly their equality as

men and women throughout the world .

The perceptive whites will also see quickly enough that reference to

them as enemies of the race will be a threat to their absolute supremacy

only if it causes the Blacks to wake up, begin to realize how fragile is the

basis for their present faith in the ultimate justice of the white man, and

begin to unite to plan a different course, something they have never

done before . Above all, they can see the great difference between the

powerful force of a massive body organized on such a scale that it will

actually represent the voice and will of Blacks in America and the

relative powerlessness of individual organizations and black capitalist

groups, important and desirable as each may be in itself. For they know

that both the real economic and political power in the United States is

silently exercised by the thoroughly organized giant corporations which,[/b]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 7:39pm On Mar 10, 2012

[b]empty pocketbooks . And, apparently, these countless thousands of

faithful followers like it . There are several big organizations, each

concerned with different aspects of the racial situation, which carry on

successful and much needed work in their respective fields . Some were

on the battlefront for the race when no one else was there . Without

them, the situation of Blacks in America would be far worse than it is . If

we henceforth advance at all, no matter in what direction or how

different, it will be from the foundations the best of these organizations

have already laid .

How long the black race will stand at the crossroads, uncertain what

to do, confused, and, in fact actually afraid, how long, only future

history will tell . But one thing is certain : There is a way out ; there is an

open, UNTRIED road . That untried road to actual unity and the actual

improvement of the lives of the black masses everywhere is exactly what

is proposed in these pages in clear, concrete, and specific terms .

THE DIRECTION OF CIVILIZATION

Since, by the actual nature of things, racism will never be wished

away, the human race could escape the predicted general war between

races and reach a real state of civilization at last through a symbiotic

society . There would be no pretense of "love and brotherhood" which

did not exist in fact . The fierce and increasing battles of the whites

against "integration" illustrate the point most clearly . And this is why

people of the African race will have to accept the harsh fact that they are

rejected by the whites, back up, and begin to reorganize for a position of

power that commands respect, not love, and one that will, therefore,

bring about the kind of cooperation and opportunities that eventuate in

real equality and equal justice . Equality simply means the removal of

every barrier that prevents a human being from realizing his fullest
potential .'
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Notes

1 . The doctrine of human equality has never meant the triump of

ignorance and incompetence over intelligence and industry . It never

meant forcing those at the bottom to the top regardless of inability or

lack of will . But it does mean that the ladder of opportunity should

always be there for everyone to rise as high as he is able to climb and

willing to go .[/b]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 7:37pm On Mar 10, 2012

[b]When they cry, "racism in reverse!" or "reverse discrimination" and

"reverse segregation," they are saying, in effect, that "Only we whites

may discriminate or segregate-but not you Blacks!" All-white organizations

that exclude Blacks everywhere are normal and proper from the

white perspective, but an all-Black organization excluding the whites?

Perish the thought! Whites flee en masse from cities throughout the

nation to avoid integrated schools and fair housing laws . These are the

real separatists, not the Blacks who never fled from the whites at all. Yet

those Blacks who said, "Let them go! Let us not pursue them . Let us stay

where we are, stand on our own feet as men and women, and begin to

build and improve our own schools and communities ." These, not the

whites, are denounced as "separatists" or "Black Nationalists ."

The question which Blacks must answer and act on, or remain forever

exactly where they are, is how can a minority group in a situation

distinctly different from that of any other minority, successfully live and

develop happily in an overwhelmingly white society? This is the question

that faces us squarely in the critical times at the Crossroads . And the

decision must be taken as a race, and by the race, rather than by selfappointed
leaders .

The term "crossroads" here must be taken more seriously than a mere

metaphor. For a people may reach that intersection in life where the

routes cross, leading in different directions . We only know the road over

which we have just come . So at the crossroads we must pause, uncertain.

Which way now? Which way should we go? The numerous movements,

led by charismatic leaders with catchy slogans to shout, are roads many

will take . The biggest crowd-drawing route will always be baited with

some kind of "religion," led by some prophet or mystic . For religion, any

kind of religion, has been the means by which hope was maintained by

a people without any basis for hope . And the search for real leaders has

always been so desperate that the people flock to this or that promoter's

movement, hoping that a true leader has been found at last .

The personal wealth amassed by these leaders is a matter of pride for

many of their followers-to the poor and ignorant who are being

fleeced, even the palatial mansion with colorfully uniformed servants

reflect the power and glory of their leader . Criticism is silenced . For

these leaders are shrewd, "natural" psychologists . They know exactly

what appeals to the deprived masses, what will give them a feeling of

being "somebody" and uplifted . Thousands will continue to be exploited

by the smarter ones who know all the tricks that stir the emotion and[/b]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 7:36pm On Mar 10, 2012

[b]Blacks?" Six thousand years of their history has answered : Unite or

perish . The tragedy that bloodied the pages in every period of their

history because of disunity should be warning enough for the Blacks of

Africa, the Caribbean, and elsewhere . But, being the one people who

are generally ignorant of their history, it may well be that many will not

see unity as a question of life or death . However, there has been so

much history during the time of those now living that the precarious

situation of the black race should be obvious to all . Only a largely united

people can successfully confront oppressors and, without praying on

bended knees, or even pleading, secure the removal of all shackling

chains. The choice is between unity of action in calm, careful thinking

and planning the courses of action through one vast organization of

millions-either this or ultimate damnation . If the race is incapable of

unity, it is incapable of survival as a free and equal people, and will

deserve all the iniquities imposed upon it, for it will have proved

beyond all question that it is indeed unfit to survive as a people free and

equal in every respect whatsoever with the other peoples of the earth .

What is proposed here is a moratorium on futile rhetoric and the

beginning of real racial unity through an action program never attempted

before . Therefore, black leadership obstacles will still be with us, and for

the same ancient reasons . A mass organization expressly planned to

enrich the lives of the people on all fronts, and directly through the

peoples' ownership of, and profit-sharing in all economic enterprisesthis

will be too much for many leaders to adopt, except "in principle ."

And any such all-Africa race movement in the United States will

certainly be bitterly opposed by all Negro integrationists because no

whites would be in it . This, in their skewed minds, means "black
separatism ."

BLACK SEPARATISTSWHO
ARE THEY?

The simple truth is that the African people in the United States and

throughout the world are not, and never have been, separatists in fact .

Perhaps this has been their weakness . They have never really hated the

whites, and they do not really hate whites now . What is taken for

"hatred," when applied to Blacks, is their reaction against being hated,

rejected and oppressed . And the thinking whites know this very well .[/b]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 7:35pm On Mar 10, 2012

[b]disunity and, therefore, the utter helplessness of a race whose liberation

from oppression can be achieved only by united initiatives of its own .

They, the so-called criminals and their youthful followers, expect nothing

beneficial from the white world, and see no reason for hope in their

own. Hence, like caged animals, they strike at what is nearest them-their

own people. They are actually trying to kill a situation they hate,

unaware that even in this, they are serving the white man well. For the

whites need not go all out for "genocide" schemes, for which they are

often charged, when Blacks are killing themselves off daily on such a

large scale .

This brings us directly to the second reason why most crimes by

Blacks are against Blacks and not, as even the whites would expect,

against whites . The unequal justice system of white America encourages

Blacks to commit crimes against Blacks, and even rewards them with

lighter sentences if convicted . Black life is cheap . Black womanhood is

not honored. One may destroy either with both ease and relative

protection . All this could be radically changed by a nation-wide

organization of the race with a new outlook program of a new kind of

educational system, training when needed and, above all, enterprises as

a job-creating system-the very first moves toward the creation of the

kind of society that will give both pride and inspiration to black youth,

and the kind of society that will have positive alternatives to crimes, and

one to which every prisoner can return with hope . In such a society the

very expression "ex con" or "ex" anything else would be rigorously

banned. This would be a part of the new education about which I have

spoken . All talk about "reform" and "rehabilitation" is just so much

nonsense until society itself is reformed, for you can never rehabilitate

men and women who have never been habilitated in the first place .

You can never re-form those who have never been allowed to be

formed. Black society still has the spiritual qualities for the task. What is

needed now is an honest, and unselfish collective leadership .

I have gone into some details in both outlining the most disturbing

spots cast by the darkening shadows of history and also trying to

pinpoint what the possible signs of promise are . For the black world,

history's Watchman could see no sign of promise, no sign of hope

outside of a position of strength which unity alone can provide . But

there will never be a real unity without a plan and a program to sustain

it. Petty power struggles, bickering and attacking each other are all signs

of a death wish as a race . "Which way, then, you still enshackled[/b]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 7:34pm On Mar 10, 2012

[b]These offenders do not know that they are enlisted in the white man's

army to slowly destroy the race. The War takes many unsuspecting

forms, including the big and increasingly widespread use of narcotics

among Blacks ; and an armed surrounding suburbia, trained by "Sportsmen"

gun and target "clubs" ; nation-wide "task forces," specially trained

for inner-city operations, the list goes on and on .

The community must be made safe for people to live and work,

happily and without fears for themselves or their children . Therefore,

the Blacks themselves must have a program . Here is where "community

control," about which we hear so much, should begin . First, anti-crime

steps might be widespread information (which is education) about the

true meaning of Blacks' crimes almost exclusively against Blacks, and

secondly, community development plans are designed to create more

opportunities for all . There are other possible programs that could

radically reduce crime, programs short of the final step . For, if all else

fails, the community, each community, should open an all-out war

along lines determined by the community . No such final course will be

necessary, however, if the black community becomes a truly functioning

community in fact . For then there would be so much work to be done in

an overall race movement that the so-called criminal, in jail or out,

would have a society not only to return to, but one that welcomes him

warmly and needs him (or her) urgently .

As things now stand all this talk about "returning to society" is sheer

idiocy . What society? The only society I know about is as criminal and

oppressive outside of the penal institutions as are its representatives

inside of them . The big difference is only in the bigness of society in

general, the bigness of crime "off the street" and up in high places, and

the bigness of the hostility to, and rejection of the men coming out of

prisons by the very same society to which they are expected to return

and adjust!

We are, whether we realize it or not, imprisoned inseparably with our

confined prisoners, ex-prisoners and those who are headed for places

behind walls . We are together. Who is going to be murdered, then?

Raped? Robbed? The whites? Of course not, and for several clear-cut
reasons.

The first may not seem obvious . But Blacks who so readily make

criminal attacks on their own people are, unconsciously, striking out

against the unbearable situation of what appears to be permanent[/b]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 7:33pm On Mar 10, 2012

[b]enterprise for just about everything, even in all-black neighborhoods

before the whites left their own exclusive sections . But the shock did not

affect their dependent mentality . In an all-black community of 100,000

people there were only 3 black-owned grocery stores-and very small

ones at that, compared with 75 white-operated stores . Not a single

black-owned hardware store (7 white) or laundry (15 white-owned

laundramats), etc . In a city of nearly a million Blacks there is not a single

black-owned department store or any other important enterprise . We

have left it all to the whites, just as though they alone can create jobs

and job opportunities .

The perpetual hat-in-hand cry of poverty must end . What we have

too much of is the poverty of spirit . Nor will the lack-of-finance alibi

stand, for in spite of our lower incomes, we waste millions in luxuries .

What we lack is the chain-store vision and the enterprising spirit that

organizes groups fully able to launch large-scale community-financed
undertakings.

The white withdrawal created city-wide black communities . Most of

the first class services went to the suburbs . The Blacks must now fill the

gaps on all fronts, must prove their worth . The time for big talking is

over . The time for big action is here . That is why a nation-wide

movement for unity in one vast organization of millions is the road to

constructive action through the various black communities of the
country .

WANTED: ALL
PRISONERS TO ENLIST!

Organizing the race for action must include a carefully developed

plan for tapping and drawing on some unused and rejected sources of

sources of strength . These are our prisoners and former prisoners . For

among the many problems which the Blacks themselves must solve is

crime, and primarily because almost all crimes committed by Blacks are

against Blacks, not whites . There must be some program of action in

sheer self-defense . Both crime and the fears for safety it breeds will

begin to disappear in the black community only when some such

programs for unity, for opportunities, and public education as outlined

in this work gets underway .[/b]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 7:31pm On Mar 10, 2012

[b]The obstacles to unity are so great that the outlook is both discouraging

and frightening to all but the strong with the will to both survive and

overcome . The very first major obstacle to be overcome involves a

mental revolution out of which Black America faces up to the stark

reality that white America as a whole is its enemy, that Blacks will be

recognized only in a subordinate role, that the scattering of black officeholders,

high and low, really means nothing to the race as a whole, that

there are actually two sets of laws as administered-one for whites and

one for Blacks, just as there are two sets of wages and prices ; and finally,

that the Blacks' loyalty and devotion to the whites, in spite of all they

have done and still do against them, mystifies the whites themselves and

confirms anew their belief that such humble-dog attitudes indicate

inferiority independently of everything else .

Until Afro-Americans are quite clear in their own minds about their

real situation in this country, all talk about unity and achieving equal

justice will be just that-useless talk. But with a clear understanding of

reality, the specific studies and planning for a broad program for

securing racial unity and progress can begin .

No one would propose that 35 million Blacks be brought under a

single umbrella of leadership . Nor is that necessary . But an organizing

national conference should develop a program designed to form

hundreds of organizations into one vast national body of millions, with

each society carrying on its own functions as before except in matters

concerning the whole race, or organize by families and individuals,

community by community and state by state . Where the matter concerns

the whole race, affiliated groups would speak in one voice through the

overall organization of the race.' But since the overall Race Organization

will be directly involved in promoting definite Action programs on all

fronts, the members of all affiliated groups will also be members of the

overall Race Organization .

The separatist movement of whites gave Negro integrationists another

shock, showing them how utterly dependent they had been on white
---------------------------------------------

Notes

1 . Examples might be nation-wide boycotts, U .S. support and supply

of arms and bomber planes to Portugal and South Africa, domestic and

international trade policies that affect the Black World, and similar

matters about which not a single existing black organization could have

any effect at all.[/b]

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[b]Organizing
A Race for Action

JUST AS IT IS IN THE CASE OF AFRICA AND BLACK PEOPLE

everywhere, the central problem of over 35 million Blacks in the

United States is unity . Nothing will ever be achieved by such a

minority group in white America, nothing that leads to real adjustment

for progress, until a powerful unity movement among Blacks develops

throughout the United States . This must be done to achieve full

recognition even as men and women, not to mention full citizenship .

As a larger and larger measure of nation-wide unity is achieved, the

next two steps should be in the direction of charting a practical line of

advance and of action, once the courses of action are carefully and

sensibly planned . The picture of several thousand black organizations,

each independent and vying for leadership, is substantially the same

picture of fragmentation and disunity in Africa that led to the downfall

of the whole race . We have also seen that even in earliest times very

often all that was involved was that somebody wanted to be the

"head," was not getting there fast enough and, therefore, organized his

own little state . Most of them perished, picked off' one by one . The

same thing will happen to any black organizations, standing alone, that

disturbs the white mind .[/b]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 7:30pm On Mar 10, 2012

[b]the white man has mingled his blood with non-white peoples from

times immemorial, in no other people was the outcome a hostile "race"

within a race . No other non-white people with Caucasian blood,

whether Indian, Japanese or Chinese, feel any compelling reason for

integration (a code word for amalgamation) with the whites . Quite the

contrary, they resist it as a policy or an acceptable general practice .

The only hope for the kind of racial unity that will really liberate the

Blacks in America and command the respect of the world will be a new

kind of mass organization on a scale with an action program never

before attempted . This will require a new kind of leadership, a leadership

with the single purpose of helping the masses up towards a better life .

We are noted for our countless organizations, large and small . Each is an

independent kingdom, struggling to become an empire under a Great

Chief. This is inevitable in the circumstances . But as the history of

Africa, not one of these, standing alone, can meet the mounting crisis of

the race . If they will not unite, the race need not continue in despair

because of the unyielding pride of individual leaders . A people's mass

organization movement can override all obstacles . But will this be done?

The subtitle of this book, Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B .C. to

2000 A.D., has puzzled some readers . 2000 A.D.? That is the end of this

century, and we are not there yet! This subtitle, however, not only

reflects the author's conviction that the main obstacles which confronted

us in the past and are with us today will still be with us in the year 2000

and after, but also that for the rest of this century it is very likely that the

Blacks will still be meeting, listening to and applauding fiery, soul-stirring

speeches, protesting and denouncing injustices or happily relying

on politics as the ultimate solution of our problems . The frustrations,

confusion of goals, and a sense of helplessness are likely to continue into

the next century . What black. youth began as the foundation for a new

and mighty advance may be, and, indeed is being, defeated .

But whether the task of what must be done is undertaken by this

generation or left to the next, one thing is certain : It can never be said

again that the black race does not know exactly what to do, or that not a

single member of the race ever carefully studied and then presented a

Comprehensive Plan as one way out . For the final pages of this work

offer such a PLAN . It is not THE PLAN, but A PLAN - a comprehensive

basis for beginning and improving -but beginning .[/b]

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[b]destroy even at its inception by forcing the black youth of America more

directly under white education, direction and control-a vengeful striking

back at black youth for starting a revolt against their mental enslavement

in the first place .

In a panel discussion with three other university presidents, the head

of one major white university said, "Integration is a very misleading

term. Our black students are as separate from the white students as they

are in the general society . And they know it. They come because of the

vast number of special scholarships offered to them . This is a wise

program from our point of view . It brings more of the future black

leaders into a more traditionally American environment . . . We are not

disturbed by their demand for black studies, for these, of course, will be

gradually phased out as their emotions cool . . . "

That same month (May, 1971), a Negro professor declared, "Black

studies are ridiculous in any university . I am not black, and I will not

join in this new hypocrisy . I am a Negro; yet outside the United States I

am considered white ."

On a recent TV program, the head of a "militant" "black" movement

went even further . In response to a question, he said, "Look at me! I am

neither Black, Negro, nor African . I am a Moor. My roots are in Asia!

(He was born in Mississippi .) "But," the moderator pressed, "you call

your movement a black movement?" "Ah!" the great "Moorish" leader

replied, "That's strategy," apparently satisfied that the black masses did

not hear him or, if they did, would not understand .

Quite relevant to all this, I have made several points above . One was

that, notwithstanding the white man's well developed system of maintaining

disunity within the African race, he is still disturbed by any signs

of a movement towards unity among Blacks, and goes into action in

many subtle ways to offset it . The important point is the most disheartening

. This is the fact that the white man really has nothing to fear from

any effective unity among Blacks for a long, long time because he

himself installs and backs most of the key leaders of the race, two of

which I have just quoted above, and the number is legion . We still have

in the closing years of the 20th century, therefore, exactly the same

unique problem that confronted Africans in Egypt over six thousand

years ago . And we challenge any student of history to point out any

other people who are or have been saddled with a perpetually

disunifying and progress-checking problem of this magnitude . For while[/b]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 7:27pm On Mar 10, 2012

[b]black organizational movement either as financially supporting members,

or as "advisors," observers or reporters . To bar them from any exclusively

all-black conference is regarded as something a little less than treason or

as some kind of black conspiracy in the making . On the other hand, no

Blacks are ever present at all-white conferences where the fate of Blacks

everywhere is discussed and decided .

Unity among the Blacks has been prevented for so many centuries

that the various mechanisms to keep Blacks disorganized have been

perfected in the Western system of race control . The white man is

keenly aware of the tremendous power of any well organized groups .

But an organization of Blacks on a scope that would represent the voice

of Black America would be a threat and a challenge not only to

continued white domination of Blacks in the United States, but also

foreign policies and practices that affect the lives of African people

elsewhere over the world .

But the apprehension of whites about the possibility of real black

unity appears to be quite as needless now as in the past . For we are still

in the "meeting and talking" stage of our history, and appear not to be

ready even to begin the attack on the obviously built-in obstacles . These

have been pointed out over and over again in this study . They had to be

emphasized and could not possibly be overemphasized, because, in

addition to the historic reasons for our own self-generated disunity, no

other non-white people on earth are in the dangerous situation of

having so many of their leaders selected, appointed, sponsored or

financed by the white ruling classes . In the case of Blacks in the United

States, and the same is true of Blacks elsewhere, these Negro heads of

important institutions and organizations represent the white man's

"indirect rule" over the black community . It is the voice of these

"leaders" that is accepted as the voice of the race . They do indeed have a

great following, drawn almost entirely from the traditional "Negro elite"

or "upper middle class" lawyers, government officials, doctors, professors,

school administrators, scientists, engineers, heads of integrationist

organizations, etc . They are essentially anti-black, anti-African and,

therefore, anti-black studies . Hence their frantic drive for "integration"

which of course, will effectively check the "alarming" development of

pride in race, a sense of cultural identity with one's own blood line, and

a growing knowledge of being members of a race with a record of

achievements unsurpassed by any other people, despite the conversion

of so much that was black to white . This the Negro leadership would[/b]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 7:26pm On Mar 10, 2012

[b]In this capitalism vs . communism connection, the immediate trouble

confronting the Blacks is that so many millions of them have been made

so wholly dependent on the white race for so many generations that

they have become mentally lazy . For these, dependence has become

comfortable ; it frees them from the initiative, responsibility and planning

required of independent free men and women . "Leave it to the white

folks" has become their unspoken creed . They have not yet come to

realize that this attitude of dependence by so many is responsible for the

whole race being characterized as "children," and men being called

"boys ." To be recognized as men, they seem not to know, they must

aggressively assume the real role of men . And this is why so many black

leaders expect the solution to the so-called "race problem" to be handed

to them on the silver platters of white ideologies . This excuses them

from both the mental tasks of working out their own, and the labor

required for actually carrying through a united action program, first

nation-wide and then world-wide .

It is needless to say what elementary common sense dictates, which is

that when the African people achieve enough unity to develop the

ideological guidelines for their own advancement, they will draw what is

best for them from any or all existing systems as a simple matter of

course. For whatever an African organized way of life might be, they

would not hesitate any more than Stalin and the Soviet leaders when

they brought in capitalists from the United States, Germany and

England-not to adopt capitalism-but to learn those capitalistic skills,

techniques and methods which would be useful in building a great

Soviet Union . The emerging communist states drew heavily on capitalism

when it served their purpose, openly and without apology . Hence,

they became equal with the greatest powers without changing their own

ideology . These observations are addressed only to those who seem not

to know that one may extract what he needs from capitalism and

communism without becoming capitalist or communist .

THE BLACK UNITY THREAT

No one seems to have noticed or understood the signals from the

white world, signals which tell how tremendously important the whites

regard any movement toward unity among the Blacks . Nothing racial

seems to upset them more . That is why they insist on being "in on" any[/b]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 7:25pm On Mar 10, 2012

[b]Soviet version of communism not only could not serve the interests and

aspirations of the black masses but they do not serve the interest of the

white masses-neither of them . Of course, there would be a much

larger class and a more powerful class of black commissars and black

"Central Committees" if communism should spread over the black

world and more black capitalists if capitalism becomes the prevailing

way of life . In each case we have not a theory or a speculation, but a

plain operating fact that even a fool can see : Both capitalism and

communism have ruling classes that suppress and exploit the people .

The masses of people, like so many masses of puppets, are fed and filled

with the "ideals and principles" of both systems . For these they fight and

die, screaming these ideals as though they were drugged . Voting creates

an illusion of power that does not exist in fact . It works wonderfully well

for the rulers, the real decision-makers, because the people in capitalistic

democracies actually believe they are deciding and running things . One

surprising difference between capitalistic and communistic countries is

that the people in the latter countries know they are powerless .

When the United States assumed the leadership role of holding the

line of white Western power throughout the world, Russia took over a

similar role for the white East European states . The Hammer and Sickle

flag is different than the Stars and Stripes, but each now represents the

same objective : communism seeks to bring the various peoples of the

world under the white supremacy of white communist states under

Russian domination ; our capitalistic democracy aims at doing the same

thing-white rule under American domination . Hence the "Cold War"-

which has nothing to do with Communism itself . The so-called "Cold

War" is, in fact, a contest between two of the strongest white powers for

world domination. Because communism is not the real issue (as capitalism

is not the real issue on the communist side), the United States will

form alliances and give all-out aid and support to a communist country

just as quickly (some say more quickly) as to a non-communist countryanything

to weaken, not communism, but Russia, the chief white challenge

for world rule .

As between these two giants the choice of the Blacks can only be a

choice between two groups of white masters, although the yoke and

shackles of one are attractively painted red . Nor will the Blacks find

their salvation in Mao's China or any "Third World" in which they will

still be in a subordinate position . To be equal they must first stand on

their own feet.[/b]

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[b]crats, but men and women leaders who will be more and more in the

field among the people, and less and less preoccupied in offices with

paperwork . These will be people on a mission to improve the lives of

the people, rather than enriching themselves . Meanwhile, a frustrated

people send up a silent prayer, often heavy with tears . "Please, 0 God!

Send us a few real leaders, just a few, Lord!"

WANTED: LEADERS
AND AN AFRICAN IDEOLOGY

The black people of the world have, therefore, come at last to

destiny's crossroads . They must make some fundamental decisions as a

single people. The one hopeful sign is that .they are slowly and painfully

coming to their hitherto beclouded senses, coming to realize that they

are one people with a common destiny and that, no matter how

scattered over the world, the treatment suffered by one black group is

suffered by all . But there is a terrible crisis of leadership at the crossroads.

There is no united leadership group or any real effort to create

one. The great difficulty is that black leaders, again, unlike the Jews, do

not know what their own heritage is . They are almost wholly ignorant of

their own cultural source from which independent, original thinking

springs and progress is inspired . The "Negro" leaders who spearhead

and carry on the campaigns for integration (amalgamation being the

aim) not only do not know the great heritage of the Blacks, they do not

want to know it . They wish to draw on the Caucasian heritage and

become identified with it . They are totally rejected by the whites, but no

matter; they keep on trying, because the white "liberals" do encourage

them to hope by mixing with them from time to time . Other leaders,

equally ignorant of their heritage, simply do not know which. way to

lead . They, too, feel compelled to adopt and follow Caucasian ideologies

because they do not feel free, equal and competent enough to develop

an ideology of their own, an African oriented ideology .

Hence, many, including some black youth leaders from whom so

much was expected, are jumping out of white capitalistic democracy's

frying pan straight into white communism's fire . Neither system was

designed for the black world, yet each is only too anxious to use the

Blacks as they have always been used : A numerical power base for

white rule . Moreover, the capitalistic version of democracy and the[/b]

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[b]The first line of action should center around the study and development

of nationwide, people-involved, self-help cooperative programs,

village by village, town by town and block by block . Each community

would do its own development planning, the government's principal

role being to provide advisors, training, technical assistance and loans

when and where these are needed . For people with little or no money,

barter and exchange are the first steps toward economic salvation, the

bases for capital formation . Increased food production should be seen as

for both wealth and health . The main emphasis would be intercommunity

relations between the various language groups in all development

programs . This means agreement plans for each area to specialize

in producing goods needed but not produced in the other regions . This

is the direct route to national unity through cooperation in order to

reach the goals desired in common by all language groups in each

African state . This calls for thinking, planning and hard work . Now it is

just here within the race where integration is not only needed, but it is

mandatory. We shall remain a weak people until we begin the drive for

integration of Blacks first of all, instead of battling to integrate with

other peoples .

The second great task of government calls for furthering the home

front economic development by aggressively working for African

economic unity on a scale never before attempted . Interstate trade and

other economic programs designed to deal with Asia and Europe must

begin with unity of action in Africa itself, region by region, and then

inter-regional or continental efforts, if Black Africa is ever to free itself

from the present economic, morass . Nor will we be able to cover our

failures by endlessly sweating and fumbling over South Africa . Black

Africa can never deal effectively with white-ruled areas until it deals

with Black Africa itself first . The foundation for everything we do or

wish to do is economic-a word that simply means wealth enough to be

really independent and having the means to do what must be done .

If we have not noticed that every one of the great black nations

studied rose as the result of a variety of wealth-producing activities

which enabled them to achieve set goals, if we missed this fact, then we

missed the most important lesson they left us in this book . Another significant

fact was the widespread trade between the early African states .

Somehow they overrode the "communications barriers" about which

we now hear so much . The crying first need throughout the African

world, however, is dedicated leaders, not just office-holding bureau-[/b]

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[b]other citizens, and without any exceptions whatsoever. This obviously

includes the right of every individual to attend the school or college of

his choice, rent or buy a home wherever he pleases, marry whom he

pleases, white or black, and to freely use all places of public accommodation-

all of which is a far, far cry from the doctrine that all of this

must necessarily include a white presence to be valid, or a mass

movement by the race toward amalgamation . The presence of whites in

any given situation should be incidental, if considered at all . What the

"Negroes" referred to above seem incapable of grasping is the difference

between a "good school" and a "white school," a "good community" in

which to live and a "white community ." To them they are necessarily

the same-continuing evidence of the Caucasian success in capturing

the minds of Blacks .

THE MOTHERLAND
AT THE CROSSROADS

The problem is essentially the same in our African homeland . There,

too, "white" is still the standard of excellence, of what is right, wise and

best . I personally know a number of African presidents and ministers

who will not dare to make important decisions without the guidance of

white advisors, men who often know far less about the questions at

hand than the presidents and their ministers . But they all feel the need

for a white seal of approval.

The Blacks, therefore, still have a long way to go in order to achieve

absolute equality as free men among free men . They have a long way to

go in the United States and the numerous other areas in which they live

all over the world .

In Africa, at this writing, Tanzania leads in the first hard-headed,

masses-oriented, socio-economic program that is expressly designed to

raise the level of life of the whole people, beginning with those lowest

down. It is a truly African program, drawing heavily on African cultural

traditions . It was, from its very inception, too much for those of the

"Elite" who think of independence as a mere transfer of power from a

white ruling class to a black ruling upper class, leaving the masses no

better off than they had been under colonialism . These are the kind of

smug and cocksure leaders who are preparing the ground not for

military coups, but mass uprisings such as Africa has not yet witnessed .[/b]

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[b]them that there can be no bigger farce than the "integration" of hated

and oppressed Blacks with the very white enemies who oppress them .

Both the farce of integration and the "everlasting" white enemy are

regularly highlighted in the world's press : race riots in integrated U .S.

armies in Europe and even at war in Indo-China; race riots in camps in

U.S.A . ; race riots on battle ships of integrated U .S . Navy and, in short,

open combat between Blacks and whites when they are forced together

as equals . There is peace and harmony, of course, when the Blacks

humbly "stay in their place"-their subordinate place .

Using the courts to force whites to accept Blacks as equals is quite

futile even when and if all the thousands of court battles are won . White

America is overwhelmingly against "integration ." And white Americans

are no different than other whites throughout the world . The only

instances in their history when integration was welcomed were when

the outcome would put them in a more dominating position, or one of

personal security, money and a prestige they could never otherwise

achieve . Hence, because of the high premium many Negroes give to a

white skin, the most ordinary whites will eagerly marry any black star or

any other Blacks, if they have money . But in no period in history, and

this point is important, have the masses of Blacks sought integration and

general amalgamation with the whites . During all of their travails, their

pride in race was steadfast. Much of the so-called "self-hatred" actually

reflects a sense of futility and despair over lack of leadership and unity

for action . They, the black masses, rejected general integration as a

movement to obliterate the black race as such . The black masses still

reject it . I have pointed out blind alleys into which we are being led by

leaders whose aims and objectives are quite personal and not those of

the black masses .' These black masses demand absolute equality on all

fronts, precisely the same rights, privileges and responsibilities as all
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Notes

1 . No one should presume to say what the attitude of any large group

of people is without learning what it is directly from the people

concerned . Our "study of viewpoints" began in 1955 . The survey

started at Tuskegee with 52 school supervisors, principals, teachers and

graduate students from 12 states. They were to conduct polls from time

to time in their respective states over a period of years .- No formalities .

No rush. Just two simple questions : "Do you want integration? (3) Why?

(for either "yes" or "no."[/b]

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