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Colonel Qaddafi, the leader of
Libya, recently urged black
American soldiers to leave the
military and join with him in a
war to destroy the United States.
"This country (The U.S.) must
be destroyed," Qaddafi told a Na-
tion if Islam convention in
Chicago via satellite from Libya.
Because the U.s. refused "to ac-
cept you as citizens . . . you are
obliged to create a separate and
independent state," he said.
Qaddafi's exhortation for
blacks to rise up in revolution is
bereft of reason and encourages
racism. His exhortation was un-
equivocally denounced by the
most dynamic black leader in the
nation today, the Rev. Jesse
Jackson, and is, no doubt, shrug-
ged off by the vast majority of
black Americans as the insane
ravings of a foreign lunatic. Col.
Qaddafi, it must be noted, is dis-
tinguished by his bizarre theories
and his advocacy and direct in-
volvement in heinous acts of in- .
ternational terrorism.
How should we react to Qadda-
fi's call for a black revolution to
"destroy" the United States, a
black revolution with an objective
of creating "a separate and inde-
pendent black state" within the
United-States?- - -
Over the years black
separatism has been discussed as
an alternative for Blacks in this
nation. Black separatism reached
its heyday in the 1920s when
Marcus Garvey led the "Back to
Africa" movement which, while
generating a great deal of support
among black Americans, also had
the support of the Klu Klux Klan
and other racist organizations
and individuals.
Black separation is viewed by
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White is commissioner of the New
York State Division of Human
Rights. This article first
appeared in the New York
Amsterdam News.
some as a means of empowering
black Americans. This view of
black separatism as empower-
ment is intriguing and within the
past 20 years has been endorsed
by others. I note, however, that
the idea as an alternative has not
been endorsed by any leaders of
major black organizations. I along
with the great majority of black
Americans reject the notion
black separatism and assert that
a program of economic and politi-
Black Americans
reject separatism and
seek a program of
economic and
political
empowerment.
cal empowerment for black
Americans is the only program
that is viable.
Black separatism is debated
and discussed among some in the
black community because of the
history of racism, slavery and op-
pression of black people. It is n
the answer. In the end, black
separatism -is—lacking—it _reality
and breeds the very racism all de-
cent people are trying to eradi-
cate.
Col. Qaddafi also argues force
and violence to destroy America.
If blacks were to take up arms
against America it would unleash
racial violence unprecedented i
human history. Col. Qaddafi does
not have any sense of the condi-
tions within America.
Blacks in the United States
must not look toward Qaddafi but
away from him. I wish that
foreign lunatics who run totalita-
rian regimes would not advise
black Americans how to achieve
economic and political empower-
ment. We have the tools and we
can do the job.
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