![]() ![]() Now I shall tell you quite precisely what I intend to do this evening. What I aim to do this evening is to make clear to all of us what this slogan Black Power means, what it does not mean, cannot mean and I say quite plainly, we must get rid, once and for all, of a vast amount of confusion which is arising, copiously, both from the right and also from the left. That is not the particular purpose of this meeting though, as you shall hear, there will be specific aims and concrete proposals. If you are not doing that already I don’t see that this meeting will help you to greater political activity. This evening I do not intend to tell you that it is your political duty to fight against racial consciousness in the British people or that you must seek ways and means to expose and put an end to the racialist policies of the present Labour government. Nevertheless, when we see how powerful an impact this slogan has made it is obvious that it touches very sensitive nerves in the political consciousness of the world today. Of course, only time itself can tell that. I believe that this slogan is destined to become one of the great political slogans of our time. Mr Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, Black Power. Source: Talk given by C L R James, London in 1967. ![]()
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