stokely carmichael quotes black power

They went with the attitude that blacks were automatically inferior. We must question the values of this society, and I maintain that black people are the best people to do that because we have been excluded from that society. Stokely Carmichael saw the concept of "Black Power" as a means of solidarity between individuals within the movement. I don’t want any of your blood money. Dr. Peniel Joseph, professor at University of Texas at Austin and author of "Stokely: A Life", responds to Clinton’s comments and discusses Carmichael/Ture’s legacy as a black power revolutionary. Our own personal position politically is that we don’t think the Democratic Party represents the needs of black people.
We have developed a movement in the black community. At any time, any time, Lyndon Baines Johnson can head a party which has in it Bobby Kennedy, Wayne Morse, Eastland, Wallace, and all those other supposed-to-be-liberal cats, there’s something wrong with that party. The only ones who were able to stay alive were the ones who never admitted that they committed a crime against people–that is, the ones who rationalized that Jews were not human beings and deserved to be killed, or that they were only following orders. Let them find their own psychologists. It is all white. (applause) So the question, then, clearly is not whether or not one can work, it’s who has power? (applause) We have to say to ourselves that there is a higher law than the law of a racist named McNamara.

It served as a sort of buffer zone between that audience and angry young blacks.”10. There has been only a “civil rights” movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of middle-class whites. We are tired waiting; every time black people move in this country, they’re forced to defend their position before they move.

It is clear to me that that just points out America’s problem with sex and color, not our problem, not our problem. They’re afraid because they’d be “beat up,” “lynched,” “looted,” “cut up,” etcetera, etcetera. The first consists of overt acts by individuals, which cause death, injury or the violent destruction of property.

(applause) So that we have to use our bodies and our minds in the only way that we see fit.

Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.

It needs to be civilized. [14] And that runs on today, you see, because what we have today is we have what we call “modern-day Peace Corps missionaries,” and they come into our ghettos and they Head Start, Upward Lift, Bootstrap, and Upward Bound us into white society, ’cause they don’t want to face the real problem which is a man is poor for one reason and one reason only: ’cause he does not have money–period. We have ninety-four percent who still live in shacks. [6] Now, several people have been upset because we’ve said that integration was irrelevant when initiated by blacks, and that in fact it was a subterfuge, an insidious subterfuge, for the maintenance of white supremacy. We know, we’ve heard the theory several times, but few people are willing to go into there. It stands on the brink of becoming a nation of murderers. Lyndon Baines Johnson is busy bombing the hell of out Vietnam–don’t nobody talk about nonviolence. [16] Now we are now engaged in a psychological struggle in this country, and that is whether or not black people will have the right to use the words they want to use without white people giving their sanction to it. (applause)[58] So that in conclusion we want to say that number one, it is clear to me that we have to wage a psychological battle on the right for black people to define their own terms, define themselves as they see fit, and organize themselves as they see it. Are they here and are they willing to do that? Where it exists.

In South America our neighbors down below the border have one every twenty-four hours just to remind us that they’re politically aware. “Racism is both overt and covert. Now the gentlemen of the press, because they’re advertisers, and because most of them are white, and because they’re produced by that white institution, never called the Lowndes Country Freedom Organization by its name, but rather they call it the Black Panther Party. It’s obvious to me that if I were walking down the street, and a man had a gun on another man, and I was going to help, I’d help the man who didn’t have the gun, if the man who had the gun was just pulling the gun on the other man for no apparent reason – if he was just going to rob him or shoot him because he didn’t like him. (applause)STOKELY CARMICHAEL, “BLACK POWER” (29 OCTOBER 1966) How do we begin to raise them?

Poverty is well calculated in this country.
It means the creation of a society where human misery and poverty are repugnant to that society, not an indication of laziness or lack of initiative. We live in a country that’s geared that way. It needs to be civilized.

You’ve got to move politically to put ’em out of business. Now we maintain that in the past six years or so, this country has been feeding us a “thalidomide drug of integration,” and that some Negroes have been walking down a dream street talking about sitting next to white people; and that that does not begin to solve the problem. Let’s make that our major premise. So that we can start, then, to build a new world. “Reorientation means an emphasis on the dignity of man, not on the sanctity of property.

It is now, therefore, for black people to make our acts legitimate. “One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to this point there has been no national organization which could speak to the growing militancy of young black people in the urban ghettos and the black-belt South. (audience laughter) We wanted to do a couple of things before we started. We’d love your help.

And the question is, how do we raise those questions? S'il a le pouvoir de me lyncher, c'est mon problème. The assumptions of this country is that if someone is poor, they are poor because of their own individual blight, or they weren’t born on the right side of town; they had too many children; they went in the army too early; or their father was a drunk, or they didn’t care about school, or they made a mistake.

I happened to be one of that certain number. Let’s talk about that.

We call these individual racism and institutional racism.

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