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3 alo apeere AEE oe spon an etees WY 100-18676 “which the poll-taxers and feudal landowners, by dividing Negro sand wirtte, continue their oppression of the Negro people, They abhor the ideology of ‘white supremacy’ which flouts the basie tenets of our Constitution, as the counterpart of HITLER'S taryan supremacy.! They abhor any idca which holds out the perspective, not of full frecdom and equality, but of something less then these things. And the slogan of self-determination expresses precisely these aspirations in the most complete sense. "To argue thet the Negro people ‘don't want self- determination,' is unwittingly to give sanction to the poll-taxers and feudal Landowners in the South to continue exploiting the Negro people and poor whites on the basis that 'this is what the Negroes want'; it is to argue against a conscious fight by white Amcrican workers to help achieve the objective conditions in which the Negro people can frecly make their own choice. It ia to blunt the struggle for national liberation, to have at best, a bourgeois- liberal approach. "SLY -DETHRMINATION-- A GUIDING PRINCIPLE "It is my opinion that we again must raisc the right of self-determination for the Negro people in the Black Belt, not as a slogan of imacdiate action, but cssentially as & programmatic demand, It might perhaps be argued that, raised in this manner, the slogan is academic and should therefore not be raised at all. Such criticism fails to take into account the difference between a slogan advanced as an issue on the order of the day and a guiding principics." Exhibit #36 "Political Affairs" January, 1946 Witness to Introduce: Librarian Library of Congress RE A EY TL ee LR RETESET QI Men eter or Speer errr os reece