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He WFO 100-43503 SE T 'E. Open Letter to Stokely Carmichael and Other Comments re Subject's Resignation from BPP ‘The Black Panther" newspaper, issue of August 16, 1969, Page 5, contained an "Open Letter to Stokely Carmichael" from ELDRIDGE CLEAVER, Minister of Information, Black Panther Party, July, 1969. The letter indicates it is reprinted from Ramparts Magazine, and is as follows: “Your letter of resignation as the Prime Minister of the Black Panther Party came, I think, about one year too late. As a matter of fact, since the day of your appointment to that position---February 17, 1968---events have proven that you were not cut out for the job in the first place. Even then it was clear that your position on coalition with revolutionary white organizations was in conflict with that of the Black Panther Party. But we thought that, in time, even you would be able to shake the SNCS narannia about white control and get on with the business eh er er tek SOAS on br Wes | oe Se WEE ee be Eo tanal t — heel wae eh wks a of building the type of revolutionary machinery that we need in the United States in order to unite all the revolutionary forces in the country to overthrow the system of Capitalism, Imperialism, and Racism, "I know these terms are kicked around like lifeless bodies and that it is easy to allow the grisly realities behind them to become obscured by too frequent repitition. But when you see the squalor in which people live as a result of the policies of the’exploiters, when you see the effects“of exploitation on the emaciated bodies of little children, when ‘you see the hunger and desperation, then these terms come alive in a new way. Since you've made this trip yourself and seen it all with your own eyes, you should know that suffering is cokr-blind, that the victims of Imper- ialism, Racism, Colonialism and Neo-colonialism come in all colors, and that they need a unity based on revolutionary principles rather than skin color. : “The other charges you make in your “‘letter---about our new- found ideology, our dogmatism, our arm-twist ing, .4 gc7777seem to me to be of secondary importance, a with the ‘exception of the i