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RE: COUNTERORIENTATION WEEK (The following speech was made by ADOLPH REED.) Well now, Brother LEE has just defined the problem of black people in colonial terms, which I think makes the concept of black Pational ism more important, because as a colonized group black people do represent a distinct nation within a nation in the United States, and as a matter of fact, in the whole of Western society, but particularly here in the United States. Tee a ee © any Ve ett Foe de ' and also I'd like to say this is not a new way of looking at this problem. I think black nationalism has been in existence or positive feelings toward black nationalism have been present within the black community since the first slave ships got here. BENJAMIN BANACA (phonetic), for example, argued for some sort of generalized black nationalism when he conferred with THOMAS JEFFERSON, And, God I hate to say that man's name, and MARTIN DELANEY was one of the foremost black nationalists this country has ever seen. MALCOLM X, scores of others, t+ tev fcaaan dimainiee Mali And well, in terms of the liberation of black people, black nationalism creatinga sense of national unity for our black people in the United States, is of utmost importance. Because we can't begin to discuss liberating ourselves unless we are rooted firmly in our own ethnic, cultural, national circumstances, which is half American at best. Probably not American at all, And the civil rights movement failed because, as JIMMY pointed out, there was not this consciousness of the black nation and.of how to deal with the black nation. They are civil rights leaders to the extent that they let anybody. We're concerned primarily with being integrated into a burning house, into a, into the prevailing economic, social, and political system in the United States during the late 50's and the early 1960's, because they somehow thought that we didn't have to conceive of ourselves as a distinct nation of people and a distinct cultural group to get ourselves over in the struggle. They didn’t conceive of it as a liberation struggle; it was an integration struggle. =) - pacts! cries opie ree e~ y " - ee va,% pea pe ot bone . tS bee sees