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...goals of Black Power are not integration or acceptance in the white society, but rather a separate equality of living standards for the Black communities. Carmichael dispels the myth that Negroes want to go to school in the white suburbs--"we want good schools in the ghettos." Black Power does not aim at the conventional civil rights goal of integration, but rather aims to destroy white supremacy...
...Carmichael goes one step further in establishing the new goals for Black Power by saying that the Negro must deny the "system" which exploits non-whites all over the world. Carmichael calls the Negro fighting in Vietnam a "mercenary" who is fighting the racist wars of the American white. "The American whites are out to conquer the world; they think they are God, and we must show them that their play time is over," Carmichael said...
...means to achieve Black Power are revolutionary. The Negro is to use whatever tactics he is willing to take the consequences for, and this includes block voting, a general strike, or molotov cocktails. Carmichael is careful to dispel another myth--nonviolence, which he says the press attributed to SNCC. "We preach nonviolence among ourselves, but that's as far as it goes," Carmichael said. "They [the whites] don't tell you about the time we marched in Lawrence County with 900 armed men--they didn't mess with us," he added...
...Carmichael encourages the Negro ghettos to form para-government institutions if it becomes necessary. "If you can't get what you want from the Boston school board, from one of your own," he said. If the white shop-keepers are charging high prices for rotten meat, kick them out of the ghettos and form cooperatives. If the police force refuses to promote one of the Negro police men to captain, then only invite the Negro police into the ghettos. If the draft tries to take the most vital element out of the ghettos to fight their racist wars, then...
...Carmichael is quite explicit when he addresses the Northern, white liberals: "we don't want you working in our ghettos one summer and going to Europe the next summer, but if you really are sincere about helping Negroes in America, then try to reform some of the white supremacists in your own neighborhood." Carmichael explains that white civil rights workers must be expelled from work in Negro ghettos because they perpetuate the myth that the Negroes can't do anything for themselves...