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a: ‘ ' RE: COUNTERORIENTATION WEEK Pa 1 aa le you probably remember how that record started off, don-don-de-do, et cetera. And they lost their whole cool and went into their thing. Without ever recognizing what had happened here. And you know what you had here were all different p2ople repressing their own sort of thing all unable to raise, and in this context musically of course, but that’s you know, an example, But I'm able to raise on the basis of that sort of bland conformism, any kind of crucial or critical points about the kind of society in which they live. de it AR CBRE C5. cha ary Now I just might point out as far as I'm concerned the extent to which white liberals and white radicals spport any kind of crap like this is the extent to which they are contemptuous of what I cmsider to be quite important in critical thinking and they are ultimately contemptuous for black people as a thinking group of people. d 4 ¢ Okay, just let me make another point and it has to do I think with the limited commitment that black people, Afro- American people, have to other oppressed people. And I said that a few minutes ago and JIM quite correctly corrected me. He gaid during those days we didn’t have no commitment to other Oppressed people anywhere. And I think it is a warranting point and the kind of thing we have to consider. STOKLEY CARMICHAEL summed the thing up some time ago and it's a quite popular slogan now like many others, but by the holy notion that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. And, but the feeling that somehow or another we represented a sort Of America first, and that you know, we ‘had a certain culture, culture, gemini, that made you superior to American Indians or “‘ietnamese people and what have you. It's really a bunch of crap. I would argue, for example, that the problems that are faced by the black underclass in this country, by the street people in Hanoi, or the National Liberation Front, and by many, many, way too many poor people throughout this entire world, eminates, as SEAWRIGHT MEARS (phonetic) once pointed out, from the same places that ours do; namely, Wall Street, and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D. C. 16 0 nee.