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RE: COUNTERORIENTATION WEEK But pretty soon it became apparent to black people that this was not the answer. That black power as we just defined it wasn't going to work and that influencing the decisions wasn't really the important thing. What's important, what's important is not influencing the decision but making the decision. And it’s toward making the decisions in black communities that the black movement fs now moving. USOT AG ORD, ERM Za Be f Rear “ Ne We hear talk of the movement now being described as a liberation struggle. And for people talking about making decisions it seems kind of weird to go into a thing of liberation. And I think what's happening now is that black } eople are recognizing that the nature of the problem merits black people defining the black community in terms of the black community being a colony. A colony within the white mother country which must be liberated if black people are to successfully make the decisions that have to be made. Black people are recognizing that the real problems, the real problems that are facing black pecple are poverty and racism, and that within the context ot a racist white America the chances of black people making, making their own decisions and governing their own destinies are pretty slim. It's also recognized that within the context of an economic system that places more emphasis on profit and property than it does on human life, then the chances of survival of poor black people or decreasing the number of poor black people in proportion to affluent people period, is very slim. And so the whole emphasis of the movement is being shifted toward liberatbn of an Oppressed colony and toward changing economic and cultural systems to make them directly relevant to the needs of black people. This, I hope, will serve as kind of a guide for later discussion. 10 peta OT Ta Pe een eaten oe Sey il tc TmapO., aoe tee Cee RE Eee eee Ne ae wel Wer 3 = rit * % F bei ed