You talking about a white college kid joining hands with a black man in the ghetto, that college kid is fighting for the right to wear a beard and smoke pot, and fighting for our lives. I’m going to tell you what a white liberal is. Yeah I’m going to speak the truth tonight. We’ve got to examine our white liberal friends who come to Mississippi and march with us, and can afford to march because our mothers, who are their maids, are taking care of their house and their children we got to examine them. And I’m going to call names this time around. We have to examine our white liberal friends. You know what that’s all about? That says that black folks and their white liberal friends can get together and overcome. Now we’ve got to talk about this thing called the serious coalition. On July 31, 1966, Stokely Carmichael, the newly appointed Chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), describes black power to a mostly African American audience at Cobo Auditorium in Detroit.
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