Jackson advocate., 1963-04-06
strength.
He told packedshouse at Met

III tnose organizations which are
owned, operated and controlled
by and for the Negro publicn
Mr. Powell clearly spelled out
what he meant. He said he wa.
Ia TX G about such all-colored
groups as businesses supported
totally by the colored community
fraternal and social organizations.
churches with exceptions). the
Press, the professionals - doctors
dentists and lawyers = and the
-coiored electorate
Declaring that "the white man
has given the Negro in America
just about as much as he intends
to-" Mr. Powell hit hard at what
he called the Uncle Tom phi
losophy
He claimed this philosophy was
frustrating the progress of col
ored citizens, and implied he had
nothing but scorn for the systems
under which some "all-colored'
national organizations find it nee
essary to recruit whites to help
raise funds.
The failure Of the Negro to con-
troll his national organizations, ne
asserted, is due to the fact that
he must include whites in order to
raise the funds necessary to pay
his staff. And the whites sit on
the boards to show how LIBERAL
they are, while at the same time
they keep watch over tn political
activity of the organizations"
Turning to the Southern Chris
tian Leadership Conference, the
Harlem politician-minister said he
recently attended a dinner where
national union gave the Rev.
Mr.. Martin Luther King s25, 900
for the work" Of the organization.
That union does not hire a
single Negro to work in the union
headquarters on it's administration
floor" Mr.. Powell said, although
a huge percentage of that union
is Negro and Puerto Rican.
| II do not agree with the Black
Muslin Movement, but I do agree
to a great extent with it's analysis
of the predicament of the Afro
American in the United States in
relation to his organizations.
ut is my firm belief based on
33 years of public life, with nearly
20 years in Congress, that there is
no future for the Negro except for
which he fights"
Mr.. Powell said that although
what he was saying sounded like
'racism and black nationalism."
hedid not Intend it" that way.
But he added: II do want to point
out how strange it is that racism
and black nationalism have be-
come dirty words only when they
are applied to the Negro"
Reversing his course, Mr.. Powell
asked: How many Negroes sit on
the Board Of Directors of the
American Jewish Congress or any
of the highly respected national
ethnic organizations in the United
States founded and entirely
controlled and maintained by Ital-
ians, Irish, Poles?
''The hard truth is that the Ne
gro is only completely integrated
in those areas where it is of the
interest of the white man to slow
him up, or to contain him. No
more, no less"
In Mr.. Powell's opinion. the col
ored colleges and universities are
gone. He recalled that he used
to be the commencement or bac-
calaureate speaker at several of
these colleges year.
"Thre Negro colleges (andl uni
versities have invited me in the
past 20 years. he added. They
have followed the pattern of the
national organizations in order to
secure financial support Yet in
the past IL months I have re-
ceived invitations or spoken at
WISCONSIN, Cornell. Syrac use,
Yale, Harvard, Swarthmore, and
many others
The Congressman said the pow
er of the Negro boycott has been
proven over the past 80 years.
and it was "now time for the
Negro mass to take a hard look
at its own leadership and institute
a boycott OF those groups and in
dividuals who are selling them
out ."
In New York following the
speech, Roy Wilkins, Executive
Secretary of the National As
sociation for the Advancement
Of Colored People, predicted that
the speech "will fall on deaf
ears.
The congressman he added
turned his back on the histori-
cal trend toward integration.
The text Of wilkins statement
issued Monday, March 25, fol-
lows:
CONGRESSMAN Adam CLAYTON