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RE: COUNTERORIENTATION WEEK Okay, a second kind of thing had to do, and this, of course, is directly related to the whole integration ideology and which is definitely undergoing changes now, is the fact that we simply did not have a critical perspective on the American system. We had no way of really coming, finding h:. we could criticize the system. The best thing we could see is that that man, that white man, is a racist. And there are some Negro people who are not qualified, but when it came down to grappling with basic problems about the way that the structure, the political and social structure, in this country operates, we simply did not have the kind of critical positions that are absclutely necessary for groups who pretend to be standing for basic and fundamental change, or what we now call liberation. We had no critical perspective, and that had a lot of implications. HOWARD CRUSE (Phonetic) has pointed out a lot of them, I think, quite cogently. For one thing it leads to a sort of simple conformism by which black people or whatever other group is involved, we know this hus happened historically with black people, make an effort to in very minute detail conform to what it is that is expected of them from, or by, chief group itself, as they say the dominant group. NATHAN HAIR (phonetic) tells a little thing about a cocktail party he was at one time in Washington, D, C. And this cocktail party was populated by civil rights Negroes. And what had happened is that they had fergetton that there were no white folks there, but they were pretending that white folks were there anyway, 80 they had Beethoven on the box and champagne in their hands, being careful to hold out the smaller finger. So NATHAN HAIR, who you probakly know NATHAN HAIR, fron what I can understand, he has his difficulties thank goodness. So what he did was to go over to the box and slip RAY CHARLES on there . somewhere down the line. et oe te bem, . Aa ieee And after two or three records fell, everybody was standing there in those long tails with that little finger, sipping that champagne, thinking about their Thunderbird, I just might point out. And RAY CHARLES fell. And it was back in those days when RAY had that tune I called “What I Say." And ad ai i io. 7 .*! aren iy "nay RT REE RR 0 aE, cA Ae, 5 ce Nhs . ‘ eee Get ce aL ete i ak = i 4 1" FP ee F ee any eer a eer MyGen Sle o mh Sy oe oad *f b ¥ . te . : ces