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This concludes my criticisms of the Bogg's paper, but there is one last
point here that I would add; the Boggs, while citing the many schemes which
ar,e being used by whites to block any attempts by Blacks to gain power in the
cities, have stated - and I sincerely question the revolutionary character of
this statement - that
"these scherles may definitely delay or even permanetly
exclude the black majority front taking over the reins
of city government ." 44 .
To this statement I must reply " n o th i n g ever remains the same, not
even in North America .
LONG LIVE MALCOLM X!
THE WORLD IS THE BLACK MAN'S LAND!
WE WILL WIN, BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY!
This problem of colored peoples regaining their dignity, a question
to which many still relegate to a position of minor importance( for
example, by subordinating it to a question of economic relationships),
was considered of such importance by delegates to the Tricontinental
Conference as to warrant special attention in the form of a resolution:
"The colonial system was not satisfied with dislocating
social structures deplacing entire populations~
imposing artificial frontiers upon territories
and languages and decimating our peoples by means of v
forced labor m mines and on plantations ; with an equal
violence it attacked the cultural heritage of our
countries . . .In the best of cases the cultures that
escaped pure and simple destruction were condemned to
vegetate in historic secrecy . The cultural dynamism
belonging to each people rapidly degenerated into a
totality of fragmented folkloric traditions into
clothing and culinary practices into groups of artists
incapar.;le of carrying .on the process of histor.icwl
continuity in the creation and genuine ef"ervescence
of both literature and science . Savage exploitation
misery famine s racial discri .~_ination~