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ao. ie RE: COUNTEROR_ N1ACTON WEEK - Now, first of all, let's talk about North Carolina off the campus. Now just for the purpose of our analysis tonight, I'm going to make a distinction between like black people who are students and like black people who are non-students. Now, I hope that black students have at least «:me along to understand that just because yu happen to be a tar heel, and that has a whole connotation in it of itself, you know, just because you happen to be here at UNC and are going to be sheltered for the next number of years that you will be here, that does not, you know, you cannot tear up your membership card for black people, you know, out here. You're still black and you best not forget that while you're here. So we're only making these distinctions just for a purpose of analysis. Now, the past few years the primary effort of people like myself has been to organize poor black people to confront the local racists involved. And I want to be very clear and make no mistake about it, and don't misquote me, that I'm talking about racist white folks in this state. Racist white folks who sit on city councils, racist white folks who are in the police departments, racist white folks who are governors, racist white folks who are mayors, and so therefore, the past four years we've been trying to confront these folks. But now I think we have to be honest and say that the confrontation has been mostly non-violent and mostly reform. Now, we have really been essentially goal niggers. Now, every now and then one or two of us has stepped out of line. But basically we've been playing the game by thexrvles that white folks set up. By that I mean our efforts have been to work through organizations Like Community Action Programs, North Carolina Fund, Foundation for Community Development, and we've been using the tool of community organization. And even though, iike our efforts through FCD, North Carolina Fund, and CAPS, even though we moved away from the standard civil rights thing of equal toilets, of equal seats at the space shot, we moved, you know, away from some of those kinds of things. Basically we were still talking about what we need is the opportunity. 26 rns bg Nag = ‘aig me ae She? at Re eee EERE Te