◆ SpookStack

' RE: COUNTERORIENTATION WEEK that you probably already know and sort of maybe lead into some reasons why these things that you already know have happened. You know, it's become obvious in the past few months to some, and in the past few days to others, and in the past few years to still others, that black people have changed their view of what the liberation struggle is, and that black people have changed the emphasis of the liberation struggle. And so what I want to do is kind of look at where things started out and the erronious analysis that led to things starting out at that particular point and and see what sorts of things have happened to make the changes that have taken place. ce eS Set eee a fat lay obec Oe, WP a eS ek The initial thrust. if you want to hegin 20, 15 years ago, the initial thrust of the black movement was toward integration. Integration without much concern about what was integrated or why it was integrated, Just the initial thrust was integration. And this thrust came about as a result of black people looking at the condition ef black people and saying something's wrong. We don't know exactly what it is, hut something's wrong and let's Look around and see what's wrong. We know we are pocr, we know we are uneducated, we know we can't get jobs, we know we can't buy hot dogs at Kress. We know this and we know that, but why is it? And the answer that came out at that time was the answer that said the reason that this is true is because we're separate, We're separate. What we need to be doing is trying to integrate and become part of the system and once this happens everything is going to be all right. And s9 all sorts of things.were tried. People got locked up. People sat down, swam in, knelt in, did all kinds of things to try to get into the system. And the upshot of all that was that the people got into the system to a certain extent. You can go and buy a hot dog at Kress now, and even sit down at the lunch counter. You don't have to go in the back door. You can try on clothes at downtown stores. You don't sit upstairs at the movies any more. You even managed to get some civil rights laws passed and suéd a couple of white folks because they didn't obey those laws. Ss, Ee eR Dy eee Mp ge