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PL ec, ed foey : on RE: COUNTERORIENTATION WEEK And right now I know there are many movements or many people in the white left who are pretty much opposed to black nationalism because they view it as counter-revolutionary or whatever the hell else they view it as, and frankly, that. just doesn't have anything to do with the real world. See, black nationalism has to be just as legitimate as Vietnam nationalism, and as Cuban nationalism, as Chinese nationalism and as Russian nationalism. Because this is the tool that black people have to, to liberate themselves. You know, superficial things, such as the tendency among many black people to view white institutions as being somehow ipso facto better than black institutions. This is the kind of thing that black nationalism fights off. The only way that there can be any equality between black people and white people in this country is through cur rooting ourselves in our own cultural traditions, in our own culture: values, in our own language, music, and Beltan Shan (phonetic), if I can use Max Favor's terminvlogy. We've got to stick with our unique way of perceiving the world if we are to be liberated. {The following speech was made by ALEX WILLINGHAM.) I just want to make some quick remarks here regarding what seems to me to be some of the fundamental, underlying changes that have been going on that show the kinds of things that JIM and ADOLPH have been talking about. But let me just start off by clearing myself too, regarding the most aggressive, repressive forces in this country. And I'll do that by simply relating to you my own change of view regarding my own position on the list of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. I was very proud when they came and checked me out back in January, because I knew then that whatever else that meant, it meant that I was going to be on their list, and as always, I'm very proud to be with my people. As luck would have it, however, I was in my Fascist hometown the last couple of dayr ago, and this friend of mine, a Negro fellow who is now working on the police force down there, 12