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After being snubbed by Carmichael, the white liberal is disoriented--or as Stokely would say he is oriented. The white liberal pipe-dreams--integration and nonviolence--have been busted. The real world comes flooding in. The white liberals laugh when Carmichael laughs at them, they clap when he puts them down, they cheer when he slaps them in the face...
Probably because they are white and are ashamed of what other whites are doing and have done to Negroes; probably because they realize that many of Carmichael's pokes are well deserved; probably because they went to Europe last summer; probably because they rejoice to see the Negroes "get together and move together" even if it is at their expense...
...dare to criticize Carmichael because his eloquent tongue translates all white criticism into bigotry. Carmichael is right on so many issues that he would be able to admit where he is wrong. When talking to him, the temptation is to ask him if he really wants the separatist state- within-a-state that he advocates to come about...
...wonders what would happen if the Jews and the Irish, the Italians and Chinese all followed Carmichael's philosophy and set up para-governments which worked for their particular racial and ethnic interests. Isn't that exactly what the Democratic system tries to avoid with a system of cross-cutting pressure groups. Obviously the American system has failed with the Negro minority, but is an intensified ghetto the answer...
...Carmichael, and to the people who gathered to hear him speak with Louis X in Roxbury this last week, the answer has been a resounding YES. The solution has become as desperate as the problem...