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Mile ee Since the huenty-two million of us were orginally Africans, who are now in America, not by choice but only by a cruel accident in our kistory, we strougiy believe that Afr.can problems are our problems and our problems are African =: YOUR EXCELLENCIES: We also believe that as Heads of the Inde at African States you are the Shepherd of all African peoples everywhere, whether they are still at home here on the Mother ' Continent or have been scattered abroad, Some African leaders at this Conference have implied that they have enough problems here on the Mother Continent without adding the A fro-American problem, With ali due respect to your esteemed positions, I nust remind all of you that The Good Shepherd will leave ninety-nine sheep who are safe at home to go to the aid of te auc who ts lost and has fallen into the clutches of the imperialist wolf, We, in An.erica, are your long lost Brothers and Sisters, and I am here only tn vawmensd - a that nase bvenkhi as at Fe eee Ao tha A fai nse _ Aon satin ow Friern POU Wee VS PYOOLETHS ave your problems. fae OG far Ff rues fa thee 7 ecares "awaken" today, we find ourselves in a Strange Land that has rejecied us, and, like the Prodiga! Son, we are turning to our Elder Brothers for help. We pray our pleas will not fall upon deaf ears. We were taken forcibly in chains from this Mother Continent and have now spent over 300 years in America, suffering the most inhuman forms of physical and psychological tortures imaginable, During the bast ten years the entire world has witnessed our men, women and children bei::g attacked and bitten by victous police dogs, brutally beaten by police clubs, ars! washed down the sewers by high-pressure water hoses that would vip the clothes j:01 our bodies and the flesh from our limbs, And, allo éii:se inluaan atrocilies have been inflicted upon us by the Anterican Cove. . cutal authorities, the police, themselves, for no reason olher than we seek Ue «. cognition and respect granted other luman' beings in America, YOUR EX( "LLENCIES: The Amer | Government is either unable or unwilling to protect the lives - and property of _ ::: - twenty-two million African-American brothers and sisters, We stand defens . es <S at the mercy of American racists who murder us at will a for no reason ot..:+ that we are black and of African descent, *, g 7 Two black ° xies were found in the Mississippi River this week; last week an unarmed Afri: 1:-American educator was murdered in cold blood in Georgia; a few days befor ti.at three civil rights workers disappeared completely, ae ‘murdered also, :) because they were fenang our people in Mississippé how~ to vote and how secure their political rights