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Roy Wilkins — Part 17
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of Black Power, what value does that slogan now have to our
people's struggle for liberation? Is denouncing the Black
Panther Party the best you can do to combat this evil? I
would think that your responsibility goes a little further
than that. Even though you were right when you said that LBJ
would never stand up and call for Black Power, Nixon has done
so and he's bankrolling it with millions of dollars. So now
your old Black Power buddies are cashing in on your slogan, in
effect, your cry for Black Power has become the grease to ease
the black bourgeoisie into the power structure.
“By giving you the position of Prime Minister of the
Black Panther Party, we were trying to rescue you from the black
bourgeoisie that had latched on to your coattails and was riding
you like a mule. Now they have stolen your football and run
away for a touchdown: six points for Richard Milhouse Nixon.
"In February, 1968, at the Free Huey Birthday Rally
in Oakland, California, where you made your first public speech
after returning to the United States from your triumphant tour
of the revolutionary countries of the Third World, you took the
occasion to denounce the coalition that the Black Panther Party
had made with the white Peace and Freedom Party. What you called
for instead was a Black United Front and would unite all the
_forces;in the black community from left to right, close ranks
be i ‘ake -yan the whites, and all go skipping off to freedom, Within
ne Eanes of your Black United Front you wanted to include the
tural Nationalists, the Black Capitalists, and the Professional
“we Toms, even though it was precisely these three groups who
ere working to murder your (obscene) even’ before it broke wind. :
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