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Roy Wilkins — Part 17
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led you to the defense of that black cop in Washington, D. C., |
who was being (obscene) over by the whites above him in the
Bol ice Department for whom he carried his gun’as he patrolled
the black. community. In short, your habit, f looking at the
world through black-colored glasses wouJd lead you on the
domestic level, to close rams with sxfch enemies of ck people
as James Farmer, Whitney’Youhg, Rey Wilkins and Ror’ Karenga; ,,
and on the interngtfonal level you would end up in zhe same bag © :
with Papa Doc alier, JosephMobutu, and Hai elassie. Yes,
we opposed at (obscene) then and we oppose it now even more
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strongly, especially since the Nixon MAMAN LStration 1809 OLUATI
your program from you and, I think, included you out.
“And now your going to liberate Africa! Where are you
going to start, Ghana? The Congo? Biafra? Angola? Mozambique?
South Africa? If you are not aware of it, I think you should know
that the brothers in Africa who are involved in armed struggle
against the colonialists would like nothing better than for you
to pick up your suitease full of African souvenirs and split
back for Babylon, They have never forgiven the fat-mouthing
you did in Dar-es-Salaam when you presumed to tell them how to
conduct their business. It seems to me that you are now trapped
between the extremes of your own rhetoric. On the one hand, you
have cut yourself off from the struggle in Babylon, and on the
other hand, you are not about to ‘become the Redeemer of Mother
Africa.
~ “The enemies of black people have learned something
from history even if you haven't, and they are discovering new
ways to unite. One thing they know, and we know, that seems to
escape you, is that there is not going to be any revolution or
black liberation in the United States as long as revolutionary
blacks, whites, and Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Indians, Chinese,
~. .and Eskimos are unwilling to, or unable to unite into some
$ >» “functional machinery that can cope with the situation, Your
7 Gea and your fears about premature coalition are absurd, be-
‘+S eause no coalition against oppression by forces possessing re-
volutionary integrity can ever be premature. If anything, it
is too late, because the forces of counterrevolution are sweeping
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