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...privilege he should have had all the time. It is one he should use regardless." In Dallas County many Negroes are bent on ousting racist Sheriff Jim Clark and support his rival, Selma's relatively moderate Public Safety Director Wilson Baker. - The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee under Stokely Carmichael has mounted a door-to-door campaign to keep Negroes away from the primary polls, even if it means the defeat of Negro candidates or sympathetic whites. Carmichael argues that the Negro has no hope of power within either major party as they are now constituted and so must exert...
...When Carmichael read of the 1960 sit-ins that created Snick, he dismissed them: "Niggers are just like monkeys -one do, all do. I was distressed. You know, you don't want a revolution; you want to be intelligent." But he finally took part in a Virginia sit-in, which cured him of his economic dogmatism. Class warfare, he decided, did not sufficiently explain the sit-ins. "I realized that a lot of kids weren't talking about what I thought they would be talking about. They said, simply, 'We have the right to human dignity...
...Carmichael, who has no more use for black racism than for white, deplores civil rights opportunists. "I don't think the Reverend Milton Galamison* is a very intelligent leader. The trouble is that you get an opportunist and he becomes a rhetorician; he says things that are going to appease people; he's not going to really look for solutions...
Converting Enemies. Carmichael recalls his emotions during a sit-in one night in Parchman, Miss., one of the roughest of all Southern rural towns...
...that the struggle necessarily brings us closer together and makes us love each other," says Carmichael in answer to Martin Luther King's admonition to love the enemy. "But it does in certain cases; I'm not going to deny this." He cites the case of the white youth from Cambridge, Md., who beat him up during a sit-in, then came around to apologize and joined the movement. "Last summer he was the fellow a white restaurant owner was smashing eggs over and kicking-he was the same fellow...