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...STOKELY CARMICHAEL is considered by many people to be the leader of a genuinely revolutionary movement. Last spring, therefore, when he was invited to speak at a meeting of revolutionary solidarity in Havana few were surprised...
...uncomplicated egalitarian where race relations are concerned, Smith nevertheless writes in his farewell column that the "elevation of Stokely Carmichael into a real force in our nation" is an example of an irresponsible journalistic buildup. A few years back, Joe McCarthy was similarly elevated, says Smith, but he at least was a U.S. Senator. Carmichael is "basically a nobody, who, before the press took notice of him, had achieved nothing. He failed to win a following-except from us with our cameras and note pads-in the rural South and in the city ghettos." Thanks to the big play...
Just as exaggerated as Carmichael, thinks Smith, is "the credibility gap," which he calls "one of the most distorting oversimplifications of the time." The President, says Smith, has to make judgments on facts that may be only partially known. "Yet we tend to call it calculated deception if he does not instantly provide conclusive facts and admit failure. If he does not keep a frozen consistency, he is held to be lying. No government ever has been run that way and none ever will...
...best sequence is a short scene with Stokely Carmichael, whose cool is chilling as he smilingly maintains that mankind's only hope is for the colored races to smite the white devils like avenging angels. Later, a narrator weeps for Viet Nam-based U.S. soldiers, mostly of "Calvinistic background and Omaha upbringing," whose first sexual encounters are "almost certainly" homosexual in the fag bars of Saigon. (The U.S. has plenty of problems in Saigon, but the fag bar is not one of them...
Also arriving are Charles V. Hamilton, co-author with Stokely Carmichael of Black Power; Richard M. Scammon, election consultant to the National Broadcasting Company; and John E. Grenier, executive director of the Republican National Committee in the Goldwater campaign...