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...Stokely and I didn't write that book to give neat, pat answers to problems centuries in the making. We have simply tried to create an ideological framework in which a number of different kinds of independent; black political activity are possible. The ultimate solutions to the problems of black people must come through political victories--black political victories. Political strategy -- programs, if you will-don't come from books. Our work may act as a catalyst to political strategizing. But the real answers must come from the indigenous political situations where programs take form. Black Power can't relate...
Stokely also puts forward the un-radical view that, given a little imagination and intelligence, the problems of the ghetto can be solved within the framework of present-day America. He cites the "ineptness of decision makers, the anachronistic institutions, the inability to think boldly, and above all the unwillingness to innovate" as the "match that will continue to ignite the dynamite in the ghettos...
...couldn't depend for my present security on status and money because I didn't have either. Doing work that was oriented toward training for the professional class was very threatening to me personally. I didn't want to train myself outside of class to work in that framework. So I didn't want to do a darn bit for school. But the Jesuits were rather disciplined and they didn't like that stuff...
...McCarthy would seem to be the logical rallying point for Young Dems to begin a reconsolidation of their far-flung membership. Most of the Executive Committee drop-outs left to work for McCarthy through other organizations. Their leaving is indicative of the failure of Young Dems to provide a framework for any kind of politically meaningful activity...
...second visit of the recruiters for Dow Chemical Company I should like to address some comments not to the students who have and presumably again will protest, but to those members of the Harvard community who chose to interpret the protests not symbolically, but literally within the legal framework of the community...