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WITH Friday came the panel on Housing. It might have been more aptly titled "Why We Love Black Capitalists." Most prominent among the panelists was Floyd McKissick, activist turned capitalist, formerly president of the Congress on Racial Equality and now president of McKissick Enterprises, Inc. When someone in the audience suggested that the Caucus should push for the development of non-profit companies to build housing for blacks, McKissick flew into a rage. Jumping out of his chair and waving his hands, he yelled, "There is nothing wrong with making money, with making a profit. We as black people have...
...glad to be here at Harvard, the citadel of education, higher learning, and racism," McKissick told the crowd of 350 blacks and a few whites...
Addressing the students who participated in the recent takeovers, McKissick said, "What you did was a method of communication"- the only possible method to confront what he called the University's stubborn and racist stand...
...McKissick saluted the blacks at Harvard for being proud of their race and reminded them, "you cannot be given freedom; the black man must liberate himself, he must liberate his mind...
...McKissick was followed by Rev. Virgil Wood of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, who drew enthusiastic applause when he said, "We are here to say to Harvard that she is a liar, a damned liar...