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Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 8:23pm On Mar 10, 2012

[b]The final great issue, then, involves the African race alone . The

dismal "View from the Bridge" was reached after a long journey

through the centuries . The outlook is distressing because somewhere

back down the line of time the effort to advance toward a higher order

of life, in something called Civilization, by ever widening the gap that

separates men from beasts-this effort failed . And it failed because in

his sudden and amazing successes in science and technology man

outsmarted himself, concentrating almost entirely on his mind power at

the expense of his humanizing spiritual power, becoming not the master

of his machines but their servant ; and, in the process of acquiring

seemingly limitless power, this segment of the human race became as

soulless as its machines and began to destroy or conquer other peoples,

seizing their lands and their wealth while reducing them as nearly as

possible to a state of perpetual dependency . In all this the black people

of the world still find themselves in the worst situation of all . The

question of today, now, is what are the black people themselves going to

do?

Those who make a pfofession, and money, by playing on the emotions,

screaming utterly futile invectives and denunciations, these will continue

to do so . And those who still preach "integration" and "brotherhood"

with the whites will keep on marching, singing and praying, not to God,

but to the white man, for they are still unable to understand that white

America had generally condemned and rejected this peace-loving,

brotherly approach of Martin Luther King long before it murdered

him.' This present course of a fragmented and unorganized people, if

followed, will find the succeeding generations of Blacks as weak,

leaderless and powerless as they are today .

For their present road is the easy road : mass meetings, big conventions,

protest resolutions, and splitting up to follow this or that "leader"

with the greatest "gift of gab," all leading exactly nowhere . But to get

down to the hard and persistent work of actually doing something- oh,

now we will come to the parting of ways-the mere talker may retreat .
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Notes

2 . It seems to be the general view throughout the black world that

polls and other data show that whites are hostile to any kind of

movement by Blacks for equality, peaceful, non-violent or otherwise ;

and that this hostile anti-King climate produced his murderer 'as its

representative.[/b]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 8:21pm On Mar 10, 2012

[b](6) The organization itself will be one vast union, and no outside

organization or union will be allowed to determine its policies,

programs or destiny, no matter under what guise or by what approach

the efforts are made .

(7) There should be a rigid policy to avoid the development of a

top-heavy bureaucracy of high salaried executives . The success of the

Movement is going to depend very heavily on the number of people

willing to sacrifice in giving some unpaid or not fully paid service . For

at least 'the first ten years this will be a sacrifice train . The big salary

boys should not get on board .

(8 The highest legislative body will be a House of Delegates,

representing the various major areas or states according to membership .

The House of Delegates would meet every five years, but subject to

special session call by the Chairman of the Council or Leaders, acting

under Council's instructions ; or it could be called by the people by a

referendum . (This latter emergency would never occur unless the

people lost control of their leaders on the Council) .

D . Every undertaking is to be preceded by study, training and careful

financial planning . There should be long-range and short-range

goals. Some goals can be achieved in a relatively short time ;; some of

a larger magnitude will require several years even after the first five

million membership goal is reached ; and still others can, like the

eternal pyramids, only have their foundations so solidly laid by this

generation that the Blacks who follow us can continue building on

those well laid foundations at the point where our own labors were

ended by time .

And something along this line must be the PLAN . This must be

the vision . It is obviously not for the "Overnight" "quick-up and

quick-down" boys. This is for black men, women and their children

who seek to find the lost path of their forefathers and start the

upward march once again .[/b]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 8:19pm On Mar 10, 2012

[b]C. Administration .

The organization will be based upon the traditional African

Constitutional System .

(1) There will be no authoritarian presidents or heads . As in

traditional Africa, the king or chief was the spokesman of the

previously expressed will of the people and the instrument for

carrying out that will ; the national head or heads of the organization

and the head of every unit thereof will function in like manner :

issuing no important orders or public statements on behalf of the

organization or the race it will represent without consent of the

Council.

(2) The Organization will modernize the ancient African Council

of Elders only to the extent of changing "Elders" to "Leaders" in

order to admit outstanding young people to membership . The

Council of Leaders, therefore, becomes the highest governing authority

on each level-local community, state and national-each leader

being the elected representative of a constituency to which he is

responsible for his actions on the Council . This means that on all

highly important matters the leader on the Council does not vote

independently according to his individual judgment, but must determine

in advance the collective will of the people .

(3) The "highest" officer on each level is the Chairman of the

Council . (In traditional Africa this would be the King or Chief, who

could neither vote nor actively participate in the discussions, since his

principal duty was to proclaim and execute the will of the people as it

had been determined by their representatives on the Council .)

Within this people-controlled framework he is still the chief executive

officer .

(4) To enable the people of the community to have an intelligent

or informed opinion about matters of importance, the principal role

of leaders is to study and to institute studies upon the basis of which

plans are developed and proposals are submitted to the general

membership . The leaders propose . They do not order or direct upon

their own authority. A direct medium of communication with the

people should be the "Community Newsletter ."

(5) All officers, even though elected for a specified term of years,

should be subject to removal for cause at any time by the people

(another African constitutional provision) .[/b]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 8:19pm On Mar 10, 2012

[b]because, unlike other peoples, they have been completely cut off from

their past history and, therefore, are ignorant of their own philosophy of

life, ancient religion, institutions which were borrowed by others . What

the need now, therefore, is neither "Black Capitalism" nor "Black

Communism"-both of which benefit those at the top and exploit the

masses-but what is needed is an ideology of "Black Africanism,"

operating within the framework of the traditional African Philosophy of

life and the best of its value system .

X .

GUIDELINES'

A. The Movement will seek to achieve the largest possible measure of

Unity in order (1) to form the power base as the organized voice of

the black people in a particular region or nation ; (2) to develop from

this "position of strength" the much needed economic enterprises

that will not only create employment opportunities but, being owned

directly by the people in the community, will lower the cost and raise

the standard of living for all .

B. Financing

There would be a general membership fee . Each community

enterprise would be financed initially by the purchase of shares of

participating owners . Each share would be at a purchase price in

reach of the poorest . Indeed, a special program for share-holding by

children should be an important part of the movement. Each share

draws a fixed interest as a loan . But, unlike capitalism, members do

not vote by shares . The member who may be able to buy 100 shares

has only one vote like the member who could buy only one share .

The objective is a mass membership and a mass patronage of their

own enterprises . The additional direct benefits are the patronage

dividends received according to the amount purchased in a given

period. In private enterprise or "black capitalism" this would be

profit that the owner makes . Under communism, it goes to the

"state." Under our Community Cooperative System, the "profit"

belongs to the people; for the reason for it all is to benefit the people

and not to enrich any one person or small group .
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Notes

1. For a "refresher" read Chapter VI again : The African Constitution :

Birth of Democracy .[/b]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 8:17pm On Mar 10, 2012

[b] VII.

DIVISION OF INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY

This Division would maintain highly trained intelligence agents to

(1) check internal subversion and activities of agents placed within the

organization by others, (2) secure complete records of all persons

employed by or connected with the organization, (3) promote formation

and training of self-protection units everywhere to defend the community

against unlawful and unjust raids and other forms of murderous attacks

should they occur . This simply means preparedness for defense against

attacks by well known and well organized "Citizen's" paramilitary
groups .

VIII .

THE COMMISSION FOR SPIRITUAL
LIFE AND ASSISTANCE

This should be the race's "Great Commission ." Its major tasks would be

(1) to determine the direction of civilization ; (2) to interpret the "spiritual"

as men and women working on the highest level of humane endeavors

to understand the meaning of life while trying to improve it ; (3) to enlist

the cooperation of white, brown, yellow, red and any and all other

peoples of goodwill in an all-out drive for a better world ; (4) to maintain

an emergency assistance program for families or communities in distress ;

(5) and to assume the initiative in seeking the active cooperation of any

and all religious faiths and all institutions which are concerned with

improving human relations and, therefore, life itself.

IX.

IDEOLOGY AND GUIDELINES

With the development of a movement of this magnitude, the black

people may begin to learn at last how utterly futile it is to grasp as their

own the ideologies developed by the white world for the people of this

white world . They, the black "leaders" of a still leaderless yet hopeful

people have been, and still are, expecting the solution of the race's

problems to be handed to them on the silver platters of either capitalism

or communism . Elements of both of these systems prevailed in Africa

several thousand years before either capitalism or Marxism was born in

the West . Black people generally could not be expected to know this[/b]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 8:15pm On Mar 10, 2012

[b] IV.

DIVISION OF COMMUNITY SERVICES

A. Department of Health and Sanitation

1. Council of Physicians, Dentists, Nurses, Medical Aides and laymen

and Home Visiting Nurse Service .

2. Community Clinics .

3 . Community clean block and alley program .

4. Better Home life Counseling Service .

5 . A "Home-Beautiful" Program

B. Legal Aid Services : All matters of injustice because of race, and the

legal work of the Movement .

V.

DIVISION OF YOUTH ACTIVITIES

To assume leadership roles in all areas and undertakings for which they

are capable . Students and non-students should join hands in the racebuilding

efforts . One of their precious responsibilities should be the

Department of Children Affairs (ages 5 to 12) which is in their division .

(The underlying idea here is to have specific and important roles for all

children and youth) .

VI.

DIVISION OF PAN AFRICAN AFFAIRS

This Division would maintain direct contacts and the closest relationship

with the people and states of Black Africa, the Caribbean and the other

black population centers around the world . The purposes would be

specific : (1) To keep them fully informed on what we are doing-and

how; (2) to learn from them what they are doing and how ; (3) to find

out what the obstacles are in each black area, including our own, and to

counsel together on ways and means of overcoming the seemingly

impossible ; (4) to explore for, and then actually determine definite ways

for mutual assistance . When this is done, we will have moved from the

case of Pan-African talk to the work of Pan-Africa in action ; (5) to trade

in the exchange of goods and services, scientific and technical knowledge[/b]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 8:13pm On Mar 10, 2012

[b]C . Committee of Visitors .

These should be in every community to (1) become acquainted with

teachers, students and the textbooks and other learning materials ;

(2) to determine to what extent, if any, the anti-African or anti-black

feeling on the part of many teachers of black youth may be a hidden

obstacle to their progress in school work .

Every Committee of School Visitors should be elected by the

people of the community and should report directly to them . But

"education" here means far more than "school" education . It means

spreading light through a comprehensive program into the deprived

areas of the community : New standards for better health ; better

homes and gardens ; neighborhood improvement activities ; and sponsoring

neighborhood conferences on questions of mutual community

and educational interest.

A Division of Education would justify its existence if it did nothing

more than conduct studies as a basis for proposing certain guidelines

for the race in the United States . The general confusion and mess-up

in the Black Studies Movement, for example, could have been

avoided if the young people had had somewhere to turn for help in

determining procedures and priorities . What united guiding voice

was there to advise them that all fields could not possibly or sensibly

be started at once ; that there were neither a fraction of the trained

teachers required nor suitable books or other needed teaching and

learning materials? Only three or four courses could have been

profitably started while research and training prepared the way for a

real educational experience in others to be started later . Even then,

common sense would have dictated that Black Studies can only be

carried on in certain schools by certain teachers . To force them into

white schools only because they are "integrating" and find it an

expedient policy for the moment is one of those black illusions of

achievement that still lead us astray . Equally ridiculous is the

assumption that unwilling and uncommitted white and Negro

teachers are going to now deal fairly with the very aspects of civilization

which they have systematically excluded from instruction all along . If

this were not the case, of course, there would be no such phenomenon

today as "Black Studies ."[/b]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 8:12pm On Mar 10, 2012

[b]Special Note : Without the farm lands we may as well forget about

canning and frozen food industries or reducing the cost of living for

our people by supplying their community stores with fresh vegetables,

meats, butter and eggs from their own farms . Vast land holding is the

cornerstone of the Master Plan .

F. Transport and Distribution Agency .

This department would be primarily concerned with long distance

shipping from farms, plants and other points, and maintaining the

trucks, shipping vans and required maintenance services .

G. Central Purchasing and Supply Agency .

In addition to its obvious functions this department would be

responsible for the proper location and supervision of the various

warehouses required as the community enterprises expand .

[All of the departments and agencies listed above would be in the

Division of Economic Planning and Development] .

11.

DIVISION OF POLITICAL ACTION

(1) Promote and assist voter registration ; (2) provide "profile" of candidates-

local, state and national ; (3) prepare bills and other measures

affecting the group for state legislatures and the U .S. Congress ; (4) liaison

with White House; and (5) all actions that can be taken through the

political process to protect and promote the welfare of Black Americans .

DIVISION OF PUBLIC EDUCATION

Purpose: To achieve a higher standard of teaching and student achievement

on every level involved in the education of Black children and

youth ; and to develop a better system of general adult education in all

Black communities . This Division would include :

A. Foundation for directed research, field studies and the training of

scholars for neglected areas in various aspects of African life and
history .

B. A General Publishing Board : (1) Textbooks and other works related

to progress of the race ; (2) newspapers and magazines, a professional

journal, community-action newsletters, etc .[/b]

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

[b]B . The Department of Finance, Banking, and Credit Unions .

(1) For promoting a consortium of banks operated by members of the

race and the expansion of financing and banking systems . These

would be branches of a Central National Bank of the organization .

(2) Credit Unions for individual assistance and building and loan

services . Primarily for communities without needed building and

loans services for Blacks .

C. The Institute of Technology and Personnel Training . This would be

a Key program of the movement . For while it would engage in the

training of expert technicians for the various fields of operation

under the PLAN, a principal objective would be the kind of creative

expertise required for large scale manufacturing operations-shoe

manufacturing; men, women and children's clothes, hats, underwear,

canning ; frozen foods, furniture ; mattress-making, and other

products .

The personnel training sections would have an importance for the

race beyond the ordinary . Blacks are generally still quicker and more

polite . when serving white people . Their attitude toward members of

their own race is one of indifference and often insulting . This is

known to be true both in Africa and America . Yet this crucial question

is not mentioned even in discussion of why "Negro" business

fails . This negative and essentially anti-black attitude of Blacks

towards Blacks, a left-over from slavery and our history, must be

uncompromisingly and even ruthlessly dealt with in both training

and day-to-day administration .

D. Central Office of Accounting and Finance Control

Here again is an area in which Blacks are weak : money management

and control . This Central Office of Accounting and Finance Control

would keep a rigorous check on all income and expenditures of the

National organization and provide similar auditing and accounting

units for the local community organizations and enterprises .

E. Department of Land Reclamation and Farming .

Principal Aim : To secure large tracts of land in various parts of the

country to (1) raise vegetables of all kinds for the various community

markets, (2) hogs, beef cattle, poultry and eggs, (3) farm homes for

persons who would work on the farm and (4) country camp centers

for rest and play .[/b]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 8:09pm On Mar 10, 2012

[b]The organizational structure of the Movement should be by major

divisions for the major activities, each divided into departments for

carrying on their respective programs . Special study and analysis should

be given to each Division and each department coming under it, for

there could be no better way to understand the scope and significance

of what is presented here . This should be easy for all, because I have not

been dealing with idealistic, unattainable dreams or mere academic

theories, but very practical, day-to-day problems . In so doing, I have

deliberately avoided the academic and often esoteric language of scholarship.

STRUCTURE BY DIVISIONS

I.

THE DIVISION OF ECONOMIC
PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT

The Division of Economic Planning and Development should be the

foundation of the organized efforts and a principal source of support

and promotion of the most important activities of the whole race . A

guiding principle should be that all promoted community enterprises

shall be cooperatively owned and controlled by the people of the

community and that each enterprise be under highly trained management

and competent service personnel .

DEPARTMENTS:

A. Department for Promotion of Community Cooperative enterprises.

(1) To conduct surveys to determine what the people want and need .

(2) Soundness of project .

(3) Ways and means of community financing and securing trained

personnel and management .

The community enterprises would be nationwide and, while

owned and operated by the people in the various towns and

cities, would operate as a nationwide chain of stores and markets

for mass buying power and distribution . This would be the

system whether the enterprises are food markets, shoe stores,

department stores or any other undertaking which can be

developed as a chain store system .[/b]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 8:06pm On Mar 10, 2012

[b]3. Determine the best general membership enrollment procedures,

such as moving state by state, setting a one-year membership goal for

each state, instead of attempting to organize throughout the nation all at
once .

4. Divide each state into districts, each with an organizing committee

with a chairman ; the same divisional scheme for towns and cities, each

section having a committee and chairman .

5. Draw heavily on young people, who really started the movement

and who should, therefore, be a most powerful force in carrying it on .

6 . Conduct in advance a nationwide poll to determine (a) how many

black people in America desire the proposed overall organization of the

race and (b) how many agree to participate in its activity .

7. Clarify the scheme of organization to emphasize the individuality of

membership, i.e ., an association or union, etc ., may join as such, but its

main role would be setting the example for its members who may or

may not wish to join ; the organization would have its own membership

card, and each of its members who joined would have his or her own

membership card. In the case of organization by families-the most

significant innovation-each family would have a family membership

card, and each member of the family from age 5 on would have his or

her own membership card .

8. Set the national membership goals as 2-year plans, 3-year plans, 5-

year plans, etc ., but always in terms of millions .

9. Determine time and place for the first general assembly for the

formal ratification and launching of action-program .

10 . Have an Information and Publicity Committee maintain various

media to keep constantly before the people the plans, purposes or goals

of the movement, who is doing what, and the progress being made .

11 . Propose annual awards to individuals and groups that have been

outstanding in their work for racial unity through organized action . (See

NOTE.)

Everything in this final chapter, then, is a guideline for thinking and

rethinking about how to deal with the situation in which we live . The

Plan itself is a proposal . Revisions and Amendments will be proposals,

all tentative until approved by the people .

The functioning organization would be under the overall administration

of a National Council of Leaders, headed by a National Chairman

(following traditional patterns of African Council of Elders) . Every state,

city or community division, would also be organized under councils of

leaders .[/b]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 8:05pm On Mar 10, 2012

[b]analyzing the problems that we are now near the end of our journey,

and must pass the undertaking to those more able to carry on .

This, like every great movement, will be initiated by just one individual.

No great gathering or crowd starts a movement . Quite the contrary,

when the many assemble it is because someone has already begun . One

person has already thought matters through and resolved that a

beginning must be made. He should not be the usual "leader" whose

fiery denunciations of wrongs against Blacks may be counted on to stir

emotions-and that is all . The one person needed is simply one who is

dedicated with a sense of mission for his race, seeking nothing but the

opportunity to serve it . There are doubtless countless thousands of such

sons and daughters of the race, willing and ready, but either not

knowing what to do or afraid of their own capabilities, and "leaving it to

somebody else ."

Yet all one person has to do is to ask five or six other people to study

THE PLAN, and then meet later to discuss it, just five or six persons, not

one of whom need to be a "big name ."

This small initial group of six could have each member become a

committee of one, each to nominate three other people to study The

Plan before the next meeting, at which time the 18 members could

become the nucleus for a general organizing committee . Further nominations

to the Organizing Committee should be representative of all

groups, students, laborers, clerks, etc ., as well as professionals. The

representatives on the Organizing Committee may be from national

organizations (all Black), or smaller organizations, lodges, clubs, etc .

This core committee, after a series of meetings during which The

Master Plan has been studied in detail and revisions or amendments

have been proposed for future action, could then proceed to develop

and carry out plans for the formation of a national organizing committee

composed of representatives from various sections of the country . (Note

that even at the outset of organizing, some funds will be required if

effective work is to be done .)

The work of the National Organizing Committee would be crucial : It

would have to :

1 . Summarize the main features of The Plan and outline them in the

simplest terms for publication, distribution and broadcasts to the black
world .

2 . Determine ways and means of funding the organizing procedures .[/b]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 8:04pm On Mar 10, 2012

[b]will give a new sense of worth and dignity . No longer will it be necessary

to shout in unison, "I am somebody!" For the children of janitors, trash

haulers, maids and parents in similar occupations will regard them with

pride and in a new light . We are great if we are an active part of a great
movement.

Up to now black children have been badly cheated . They have never

had the inspiring reasons to study and advance which are constantly

before the eyes of white children . And this central fact of difference has

led me to suppose that some Providential favor must have enabled the

black students of the world to do so well in the face of it all .

Finally, and obviously, none of the above can be achieved on a

nation-wide scale without a nation-wide movement of several million

members, organized as a race, working as a race for its interests as fullfledged

American citizens .

HOW TO BEGIN-AND BY WHOM?

In the- section titled "The Liberation of Our Minds," the various

factors which explain the generally dependent disposition of African

people today were outlined in some detail . They reveal the tragic extent

to which a dominant group can shape and control even the thinking of

the suppressed group . This meant that, unlike other peoples, the Blacks

voluntarily remained mentally enslaved even after their physical emancipation

. That Caucasianzation of the Blacks was so well done over so

many centuries that it is doubtful if real liberation of our minds will be

achieved in this generation . Yet the black youth in the 1960s brought

about the greatest reversal of the race's attitude toward itself that had

ever been achieved before . There is, therefore, no grounds for despair

and much ground for faith if we understand that total liberationn will be

slow even with the best efforts and that there will always be those who

have the white viewpoint on race and will never abandon it. These

cannot stop the onward march of the whole people to human equality

and dignity .

But who will begin to lay the first stone in the foundation of the

greatest movement,for racial unity and power ever undertaken? And

how might such -a task begin?

Some of us, who would otherwise be naturally expected to lead off,

have already spent so many years in studying the history of the crisis and[/b]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 8:03pm On Mar 10, 2012

[b]particular secret should be a matter of grave concern . It is also important

to know to what extent Negro physicians participate in such experiments .

For, of course, no one should be asked to believe that such experiments

could be carried out on Blacks in such large numbers, and over such a

long period without any black doctors knowing about them .

5. Such a race movement would be superficial indeed if it proceeded

without its principal foundation, which is the ownership of vast tracts of

farm and timber land in various parts of the country . The current ideological

cry of "We must have land!" is valid only if we answer the

question, "for what purpose?" or "to what end?" Our sloganeers rarely,

explain the slogans . But land is for production. And its ownership and

use will become more and more necessary for survival since even now

75 percent of the American population is concentrated on only 2

percent of the land in cities and towns .

Land should be for a more abundant life, carried on in large-scale

production programs such as cattle ranches for beef, hog farms for pork

products, turkey farms, poultry and eggs, vegetables of all kinds, corn,

rice, wheat, etc ., etc .

6. It can have, on behalf of the race it represents, a Central National

Bank, as the people's national depository and central financing . agency ;

a national auditing and accounting service ; a general insurance system

covering especially those categories where Blacks are arbitrarily denied

protection or charged much higher rates than those paid by whites ;

home improvement, building and small loans could all be handled by

community credit unions, organized on a somewhat different basis than

existing credit unions . For one thing, all community credit unions in

various sections of a city would be united as one to reinforce each

other's services when needed .

7. It can give new hope and a new sense of direction to the thousands

behind prison walls and, in time, practically empty the prisons of those

convicted of crimes for which the whites go free . The important thing,

however, is that the youths, men and women coming out of prisons,

would have something to come to: training and retraining for their

much needed service in helping to build and advance themselves as

they build and advance their race . They have never had such an
opportunity .

8. The great change in outlook and the new inspiration that would

come to black children and youth are immeasurable . Just to know that

their parents are engaged in, and actively a part of a great movement[/b]

Politics › Re: The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams by Tochi3(op): 8:03pm On Mar 10, 2012

[b]raising not just the hopes, but the level of life of those lower down,

equally important would be what this massive consolidation of unused

power can do in the following areas :

1. It can influence American foreign policy and actions in regard to

crucial matters affecting African nations just as effectively as American

Jews can influence this country's relations with Israel . And, as another

example, it could have stopped the use of millions of black taxpayers'

dollars to help Portugal suppress the Freedom Fighters in its African

empire . If a deaf ear is turned to such protests, several million Blacks

could pledge to withhold the payment of taxes until all armed assistance

for the war against Africans ceases-something a disunited people are

helpless to do now . This would be real Pan Africanism .

2 . An overall race organization can deal more effectively with some

important problems at home and more effectively than any smaller,

independent group can do nationwide . The higher rents and higher

prices paid for goods and services in "inner cities" than those paid in the

affluent white suburbs-this open yet silent war against the Blacks is

being accepted because we are helplessly disorganized . The studies

have already been made . The facts have been established . What the

people need is a national defender to further expose and attack this and

other fronts of the silent war that are quietly being carried on each day

against a now helpless people, many of whom are not really aware of its
extent.

3 . It can carry on a nationwide education program directly into the

homes, reversing the "poor and deprived homes" negative outlook to a

positive one . Heading the information agenda would be a focus on

those death-dealing diseases which impair both mind and body in the

diseased wombs of mothers . The widest information should be given on

the fact that ignorance or indifference to personal health can result in

children being born mentally and physically retarded, and thus handicapped

for life not by genetic preconditions but by the acts of their parents .

Home studies for the entire family can be promoted, and the Home

Beautiful can become a principal aim in every black community .

4 . It can oversee the welfare of the race by maintaining a check on the

extent Blacks are secretly used exclusively as guinea pigs in dangerous

experiments by various medical projects . Neither the Tuskegee experiments

nor the number of our people who needlessly suffered and died

from them must be passed over as an unusual and isolated incident .

The many years the government and the doctors were able to keep this[/b]

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[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]

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[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]

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[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]

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[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]

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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 .

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[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]

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[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]

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[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]

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[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]

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[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]

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[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]

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[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]

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[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]

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[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]

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