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murdered by a white . racist who fired a shotgun into the car in which
Penn was riding? What good did "honor grades" do for him? Being "good
old_derkies" did not save Afroamericans from being brutally extirpated
during slavery, and acting as "good Negroes" today does not
keep Afronmerio.ahs from being "whipped" by either racist thug-caps in
the North or the Ku Klux Klan in the South . As before, our position
on'e'duaatlon is that it forms .a necessary but not sufficient condition
for liberation of Afroamericans . It is absurd to speak of education
far Afroamerloans when survival is becoming one of the most basic
problems .
_ Now that we have "wasted" the reactionary program of bourgeois
"nationalists," let us discuss their opprobrious connection with the
American right wing faction . First, let us note that the "self-help"
program for Afroamericans plays right into the hip-pocket of the "white-wing"
conservatives .31 As long as "'T(hitey" can keep Black people
running after a non-existent "free-enterprise" he can keep the real
issue "under the covers," that is, the issue of economic and politi-
-cal power ; hence "Whitey" hopes to avoid the eventual and imminent
clash with the "have-nots" of the U .S . (and, in fact, the "have-nots"
of the rest of the world) . For this reason "eullud" opportunism (with
its false and misleading "philosophy") is necessary for 'Whiteyrsn'
purposes, and also'for this reason it is necessary -shat groups of
this sort be crushed . those "nationalists" involved are not important
enough to rFnntion in' this pcper32 , horovor, irany of tho " illusions
which thav 'havo spro,%d in the 1froamorican community arc misconooptions
ir~ortnnt enough to got 'wnst(-,d" in tho above text, In
oonclusicn, we say to these opportunists with regard to accusations
made in this paper : "=if the- drrXars fit, wear semil"
l . The most-significant p6rCdZdeTbetween'finshingtonts program of
"race uplifting" and that of modern-day Booker T .'s lies in the fact
that both received support from-whites-who had become alienated to
Afroamericans possessing more militant programs, programs which placod
the burden of the "Negro problem" on "Whitey" for its solution .
Just, as Washington urged . black peoplo to "cast down their buckets . . . . .
. .4 "~ modern-day Booker T . , s exhort black people to demonstrate "responsibility,"
practice "self-help," and not to ask "Whitey" for jobs,
but to develop their own industries, "r.-hitey" is delighted to hear
talk of "free enterprise" from "responsible Negro leaders," and rew
wards his lackeys well .
2 . This movement formerly went under the name of "Civil Rights ." . How"
_ever, as this movement in the past few years has been-led for the most
past by Masochistic Mystics, Ghandi Hunohers, and other lackeys of the