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ay YOR OR Aw ‘ Pars RF: COUNTERORIGNTA. (ON WEEK its so-called finding, we kind of conclude here that the great principle in this country has, in fact, been racism. It is suggested to us that we should deal with some attitude of sex on the part of white people which is somehow or another related to our own kind of principle. And, @ course, that was a crucial integrationist notion. ‘he principle was that white folks just didn't understand and they had this hang-up. They thought we descended from the monkeys and I kind of hope that we were. And that sort of thing, and we should, therefore, work to change our kinds of institutions, to improve their own attitudes, to civilize white folks a8 STOKL™Y ‘ ‘RMICHAEL put it three or four years ago. Theve was, therefore, this interest in white attitudes which you see directed our attention away from the attitudes of black people, the opinions cf black people, and what have you. What really mattexed was white folk. This meant, @: course, On the other hand, a sort of de-erphasis o:: black attitudes as I've just said and a generalized de-emphasis, as ADOLPH was saying, on black institutions perird and what they could do. Black institutions, black organizations were assumed to be way stations. These way stations were temporarily there until white America was sufficiently civilized, in which case they would fade away as the case may be, wither away to make this thing look more proper here, wither away. And we would all then jet into the great American mainstream. Well, of course, we now know, all of us admit, there is no American mainstream. HOWARD CRUSE (phonetic) listed a crucial point. He said okay, let's assume I'm going to integrate. Name the group that I'm going to integrate with. Would it be the wops, would it be the Catholics, would it be the Jews, the American Indians? Which is the American group with whom I'm supposed to integrate? Specify that, corporation executives or eastern professors? Okay, sO we came to see then that this wasn't in many ways a sort of multi-racial system, multi-ethnic society, as they say. And the problem was not that it wasn't multi-racial, but the fact that rather limited groups of people were running the whole show for everybody else, including black people. The point then is to identify those people who took back all these power positions and to remove their feet from our backs, as the case may be. 14