Pigs have seized upon [Black Power] and turned it into a rationale for Black Capitalism. With James Farmer [former head of CORE before becoming an assistant secretary in the Health, Education and Welfare Department] in the Nixon Administration to preside over the implementation of Black Capitalism under the slogan of “Black Power,” what value does that slogan now have to our people’s struggle for liberation? [. . .] Even though you were right when you said that LBJ would never stand up and call for Black Power, Nixon has done so and he’s bankrolling it with millions of dollars. Now [. . .] in
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Eldridge Cleaver to Stokely Carmichael
