Now the Kennedys built a system of purely Irish Catholic power with Irish Nationalism interwoven into it. When he talks about his Irish Catholic power that made him to the position where he is that he now uses black votes in New York City to run for the presidency in 1972, he ought to not say a word about Black Power.
And I’ve got news for our liberal friend Bobby Kennedy. When I talk about Black Power, it is presumptuous for any white man to talk about it, because I’m talking to black people. And for us to get it is going to mean tearing down their system, and they are not willing to work for their own destruction. College students are economically secure they’ve already got their wealth we fighting to get ours. You can’t form a coalition with people who are economically secure. That’s a white liberal, ladies and gentlemen. He was for everybody working hard by the sweat of their brow. Let all five of you make five thousand dollars a year. Take your twenty-five thousand dollars a year divide it up evenly. See they have to march you can afford to march.
They make three dollars a day picking cotton. I said, you make what, about twenty-five thousand dollars a year? He mumbled. Now I met some of those white liberals on the march, and I asked one man, I said, look here brother. Because while she was home taking care of them, she couldn’t take care of us. That missionary has a black mammy, and he stole our black mammy from us. That missionary comes to the ghetto one summer, and next summer he’s in Europe, and he’s our ally. You talking about a white college kid joining hands with a black man in the ghetto, that college kid is fighting for the right to wear a beard and smoke pot, and fighting for our lives.
I’m going to tell you what a white liberal is. Yeah I’m going to speak the truth tonight. We’ve got to examine our white liberal friends who come to Mississippi and march with us, and can afford to march because our mothers, who are their maids, are taking care of their house and their children we got to examine them. And I’m going to call names this time around. We have to examine our white liberal friends. You know what that’s all about? That says that black folks and their white liberal friends can get together and overcome. Now we’ve got to talk about this thing called the serious coalition. On July 31, 1966, Stokely Carmichael, the newly appointed Chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), describes black power to a mostly African American audience at Cobo Auditorium in Detroit.
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