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of the economic gains black people have achieved through affirmative action
programs .
With the
1,500 elected black politicians, black politicians represent
less than one percent of elected political representatives in the United
States . In the last five years, there have been numerous cases of elected
black politicians being indicted for one charge or another . Howard Dodson,
executive director of the Institute of the Black World says, "Obviously
there is a conspiracy against black elected officials . It is part of the
overall genocidal plan of the capitalist state to crush black people's movement
for freedom ."
The KKK has been reemerging in the South as well as the North . Blacks
have organized mass marches against police brutality, and cutbacks in
Macon, Georgia, Los Angeles, California, Tupelo, Mississippi,
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania and New York City . The United League, a statewide armed mass
action organization in Mississippi has been in armed struggle against the
Ku Klux Klan for two years .
Black United Fronts have emerged in New York
and Philadelphia to organize the black community against repression there . 8
From the data released on the FBI's COINTELPRO Program and
the existing
political
and economic conditions, the author concludes that the RAM analysis
was the most applicable for developing a paradigm for black liberation .
Given that white workers have a low level of class consciousness, have
traditionally allied with the State against black people, a
paradigm for
liberation has to be developed independent of them . The conclusion the
7 1nterview with Howard D odson , Atlanta, Georgia, March 20, 1979 .
8 "Black Mass Movement Re-Emerges ." Black Star , Volume 4, Number 4,
p . 1 .