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Responsible Negro leaders, in consequence, are beginning to speak out against the separatist and racist implications of the philosophy. " 'Black power' not only lacks any real value for the civil rights movement," writes Bayard Rustin, organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, in the current Commentary, "but its propagation is positively harmful. It diverts the movement from a meaningful debate over strategy and tactics, it isolates the Negro community, and it encourages the growth of anti-Negro forces...
Ambush in the Gorge. The activity stepped up two years ago, when, during the Malaysia-Indonesia confrontation, agents from Indonesia's now-decimated P.K.I. (Communist Party) were dropped into the area to foment a separatist movement among Moslems in southern Thailand and adjacent Malaysia. Though the confrontation has ended, the agitation in Thailand continues. Last year a native Thai Communist movement surfaced in five southern provinces, is today numbered at 300 armed guerrillas and 1,000 sympathizers. Though Thailand and Malaysia have arranged joint operations against Red guerrillas, things have simmered along pretty quietly until this year...
Recent events have also given a boost to the tactics of conservatives. The separatist tone of much of the "black power" talk, as well as statements by Stokely Carmichael that the open housing section of the civil rights bill is "useless" may lead many white independents to conclude that Negroes really don't want total integration -- and may reinforce the instinctive opposition of whites to what they consider "forced housing" laws. And as the escalation of the air war in North Vietnam forces the President to agonize over hair-splitting strategic moves -- like whether or not to bomb power plants...
...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...
...Separatist Sikhs. The flame was lit fortnight ago when the powerful Working Committee of the Congress Party caved in to the demands of India's 7,000,000 Sikhs for the creation...