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NY 105-8999 "your problems will never be fully solved until ard unless ours are solved. You will never be fully reanected until and unless we are also resnected, Vera vee vee Toh be ly ne oe ele 6 ale er er vw. ew 0 ole te Liens pitentinnd wurw @ aww will never be recognized as free human beings until and unless we are also recognized and treated as human beings. "Our problem is your probles. It is not a Negro problem, nor an American problem. This is a world problem; @ problem for humanity. It is not a problem of civil rights, but a problem of humen rights.... "Je pray that our African brothe ve not freed themselves of Zuropean colonialism only to vercome and held in check now by American dollarism. Don't let American racism be ‘legalized' by American dollariem. "America is worse than South Africa, because not only is America racist, but she is also deceitful and hypocritical. South Africa preaches segregation and practices segregation. She, at least, practices what she preaches, America preaches integration and practices segregation. She preaches one thing while deceitfully practicing another.... "tf South Africa is guilty of violating. the human rights of Africans here on the Mother Continent, then America is guilty of worse violations of the twenty-two million Africans on the American continent. And, if South African racism is not a domestic issue, then American racism also is not a domestic issue, “Many of you have been led to believe that the much publicized, recently passed Civil Rights Bill is @ sign that America is making a sincere effort to correct the injustices we have suffered there. This propaganda is part of her deceit and trickery to keep the African Nations from condemning her racist practices before the United Nations, as you are now doing as regards the same practices of South Africa.... ; "The Organization of Afro-American Unity, in . cooperation with a coalition of other Negro leaders and: organizations, have decided to elevate our freedom struggle above the domestic level of civil rights. We intend to ‘internationalize' it by placing it at the level of human rights. Our freedom struggle for human dignity 1s no longer confined to the domestic jurisdiction of the United States Government. ~39- r