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and one of the things that's going to help to bring this about is
again is the independence of africa one of the only reasons in the uh
that we in the west have never arise we have hated our image and our african image and because africa
has been in the hands of people who have created an image of africa that's negative and hateful
and uh out of of africa and we become proud of our african blood our african heritage and this
is what is beginning to make the africans in the western hemisphere today had developed more race
pride and as as this race pride develops then it has a tendency to make us want to unite together
and work together and your western imperialists and colonialists uh consider this to be a grave
threat more threat than uh communism or marxism or socialism or anything else the africanism
is what they consider to be the real threat the organization of afro-american unity sees the only
hope for the black man in america uh in a strong africa and and the necessity of the afro-american
becoming uh inseparably linked with the uh overall program that's existing on the african continent
the two problems moscow must be solved together and the two forces must go forward together
and so the organization of afro-american unity has a program to link the afro-americans with the
africans and the africans with the afro-americans when i say afro-americans i mean those throughout
the entire western hemisphere this is our only hope our hope is in a strong africa and when
africa is strong opposition in america will be one of respect but if africa is weak we will never be
in a position of respect in america they used to have a saying that one doesn't have a chinaman's
chance but they don't say that anymore they use that expression back when china was weak
but now since uh mao zedong has been successful in making china a strong country uh uh the chinese
have more chance than anybody else so this thing has become outdated well just as it took a strong
china to give a chinese person respect wherever that chinese person is found on this earth
when we get a strong africa uh the person of african origin or african ancestry will
be respected any place on this earth even in america but he will not be respected in
america until africa is strong just as the [ __ ] wasn't respected abroad until china became strong
and in all of these uh many of these countries in south america and central america
and even in canada uh they are heavily populated with people whose ancestors came from africa so
when you total up the number of afro-americans real afro-americans uh in the western hemisphere
there are perhaps a hundred million and if these people ever unite among themselves not only is it
necessary for the afro-americans in the united states to be organized but it's also necessary
for the afro-americans in the caribbean or the the afro-cubans uh the afro-brazilians it's
it's necessary for all of them to be organized and then once they are organized in each place
we have to organize among ourselves so that the afro-american in the united states will be uh
working uh in conjunction in a coordinated program with those who are in cuba and those in brazil
and those in venezuela and those throughout the caribbean in haiti and in the west indian islands
and in this way we actually get strength and it's not an accident that there's no organization
existing in the western hemisphere that's designed toward that end it would be the one that would
be a direct threat to imperialism as it really exists into colonialism as it exists in the west
today for the first time the black people of the west are beginning to look homeward they're
beginning to look back toward the mother continent of africa and they're gaining uh spiritual
strength from these roots the african continent is on the rise the motherland is on the rise and our
people all over the western hemisphere are looking back at this rising continent and the unity of
that continent and it's giving us strength and hope for the future and for the first time not
only is the black man on the african continent uh fighting and seeking and fighting for his place in
the sun but his fight is putting the same spirit in the black people in the west and we are also
seeking and fighting for our place in the sun and we will not rest until that place has been secured
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