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could demonstrate a different will or challenge to power, a different political position of a major order, unless he agreed with it in some way. Serrette said he came to believe the promise - that the organization would eventually be turned over to Black people was a lie, and he challenged Newman on the point: ; And I stated to him, “tamed over” means, you know, resources, it means making policy, it means running person- nel...that’s Black control to me. I don't understand it as just having @ Black face in a high place. That's nothing more than racism and nothing more than win- dow dressing. It’s no different from the system we seem to fight in this case. So / raised those questions to Fred and we had...@ very heated meeting. It was a meeting in which many of the Black leadership was there. It was very intense. We had Lenora [Fulani] making criticisms...Emily [Caner] making criticisms, there was a lot of folks making criticisms of some of pitas | x the racism that they heretofore hadn't nS Ss mentioned to Fred, but had told me and told other Blacks in a whisper type kind of way, the times that we were together...and they came. forward. Shortly after that meeting, according to Ser- rette, his stature and treatment by other NAP leaders changed dramatically. Serrette said he was not opposed to therapy on principle since he believed many people are helped by other forms of therapy. But therapy played a different role in- side NAP according to Serrette: to not only operate in an organizational way, but also a way of controlling every aspect of their lives...you certainly —_ couldn't straighten anybody out. But it Pr hing a lot of peopie tO ao the kinds c things that were asked of them.-.they would do anything, just about, that he 44 - Political Research Associates would ask them to do. I wouldn't even be surprised if they'd tum from a so-called left organization to ~~ a right-wing organization with a blink of an eye. I think that the ideological ques- tion that is supposedly the thrust of who they call themselves, International Workers’ Party, there’s nothing more than a front itself. I certainly believe that [of] the New Alliance Party, and when I say “front,” I just mean it’s the cover to cover, possibly the ego of Fred Newman and the control of so many individuals in terms of power. Serrette also said the therapy was aot voluntary and that one Newman associate made this clear: She said that it was an orderthat if you wanted to be part of this organiza- tion, you will have to take therapy be- cause it is Ute backbone of our tendency...she says that comes as an order...from the governing body. Support for Minister Farrakhan | When Minister Louis Farrakhan addressed a New York City rally of his supporters in 1985, he was greeted with a telegram of support from the then NAP mayoral candidate Dr. Lenora Fulani: It is with deep respect and the most profound commitment to the liberation of our people that I welcome you to New York City, hopeful that your visit will bring us, as Black people, the leadership of all this country’s oppressed, a step closer to our freedom. NAP at the time was seeking “a working relationship with Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam,” the controversial nature of some of Farrakhan’s remarks regarding Jewish people and other groups. “I remain concerned that Minister | be interpreted as anti- friends and nothing to fear from the Nation of Islam.”