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RE: STOKELY CARMICHAEL | cone iyerta "twe work hard--the white man has us pick his cotton for $3 a day, wash his dishes, dig his ditches, be porters in his banks and run his elevators for hin--— and all we get is a hard way to go,’ Carmichael said. "*They oppress us because we're black and we're going to use our color to get out of the trick bag they put us in. You've got to be proud of being Hack.‘ “During his speech, some members of Carmichael's audience shouted, ‘Black power, black power.’ "Slogan Out Of the South. "Carmichael first used that slogan in Mississippi, and it has become widely~--and controversially--associated with Carmichael and the organization he heads, "Carmichael .called on Negroes 'to build a movement based on the color of our skins to free us from our oppressors .' Sc eee eee ne a, Ww "'ye-said, 'We've got to puild internal strength so that if they touch one black man, taking his pregnant wife to a hospital in Watts, touch one black man in Mississippi, or arrest one black man who rebels in the ghetto and charge him with treason, we're going to move to disrupt this country. t'what’s going on in the cities of the urban North is not rioting, it's rebellion. They keep talking. about extremists... the extremists are the white people who are forcing us to live the way we live. "twe don't have to obey any law we didn’t havea part in making, especially if it keeps us down. We have every right to break it.'” ete et *?Black Mercenaries' CONFIDENTIAL RT nec mpeg nee ppt OTT! COLLET OE HALA A ME cee