Any of the Nazi prisoners who, after he was caught and incarcerated, admitted that he committed crimes, that he killed all the many people he killed, had to commit suicide. If he did, he would then have to inflict punishment upon himself. We in SNCC tend to agree with Fanon–a man cannot condemn himself. Camus and Sartre don’t answer the question. The black existentialist philosopher who is pragmatic, Frantz Fanon, answered the question. The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question of whether or not a man can condemn himself. He says, “All criticism is an autobiography.” Dig yourself. Bernard Shaw two days ago, and I came across a very important quote that I think is most apropos to you. Incidentally, for my friends and members of the press, my self-appointed white critics, I was reading Mr. That’s the function of the people who are advertisers but call themselves reporters. This is a student conference, as it should be, held on a campus, and we’ll never be caught up in intellectual masturbation on the question of Black Power. It’s a privilege and an honor to be in the white intellectual ghetto of the West. In the speech below he explains Black Power to an audience at the University of California, Berkeley. Soon after he was named chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Stokely Carmichael began to tout the slogan and philosophy of Black Power.
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