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...also said he liked a plan, first proposed by Carmichael, to ask white merchants to leave heavily Negro North Philadelphia, boycott those who don't, and then have Negroes take over the stores. That, of course, would require considerable capital at the beginning...
...served to unify the community: the entire Negro population of Los Angeles does not center around the radicals' "half-acre" and for every angry young man on 103rd calling King a bourgeois, there is a man of another, more resigned, generation or one from Baldwin Hills calling Carmichael an anarchist...
...Stokely Carmichael, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, brought a simple message with him when he visited Boston in mid-August: the leadership and support of the different organizations in the ghetto must be controlled by NegroesOver and over, he repeated the theme, "We must do it ourselves...
...both whites and Negroes. Some organizations could not survive without the "Green Power" supplied by white members; other groups insist that often the white members are better trained and have more leisure time to perform the tasks which they admit ideally should be held by Negroes. However much Carmichael dislikes discussing the split between various groups in "the movement" before a national (integrated) audience, the differences persist...
There are, of course, arguments on both sides. The groups which have followed Carmichael's advice insist that it is more important to have indigenous Negroes showing their brothers in the ghetto that they can fill the posts traditionally held by whites. To most of the advocates of this position, it is more important to establish an image of Negro competence and pride than it is to obtain white financial and technical support. "We'd rather do our own teaching than have some lilly white teacher talking about Snow White to our black children," Carmichael said to a Roxbury gathering...