The speakers before me have told you that what the Americans are doing in Vietnam is a shame, And the speakers after me will tell you also that what the Americans are doing in Vietnem is a shame. Communists will tell you the same, Pacifists will tell you the same; Socialists will tell you the same; and Liberals will call it a shame. Of course, it is a shame. And, if it is a shame to them, you know what it is to us members of the BLACK POWER movement! If it is a shame to Western White liberals and pacifists, you can imagine what it means to us members of the Third World, the Third World people who constitute the bulk of the starving masses of this world, the Third-World people who are drinking the waters of capitalist affliction in Southern Africa, the Third-World peasants who are being castrated today in India for transistor radios, the Third-World have-nots who are languishing under the weight of neo-colonialism in West Africa, the Third-World militants of South America who are enraged today by the loss of Che Guevara, the Thirdworld Blacks of North America whose anger is becoming increasingly articulate in Detroit, Cleveland and elsewhere, and the Third-World Blacks of Great Britain who are today organising furiously under the banner of the U.C.P.A.
The WeekThe Week Vol. 8, No. 18, 2 November 1967
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