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both have white members, but want black leadership. Some black nationalist organisations do not allow any white members. But this too is not "raoitsm in reverse") ‘The negro struggle is after.all, the struggle of black people. ‘What is wrong with black people leading their own battles ? And the negro people have had experience with white support, especially from rich liberals who "support" the struggle with their money as long as they can control it. This kind of support has almost always been a conservatising influence on the negro movement. The advertisement also says: "We repudiate any strategies of violence, reprisal or vigilantism, and we condemn both rioting and the demagoguery that feeds it." This "principle" amounts to nothings more than joining the racist smear attack on black power as meaning lust for violence. CORE and SNCC do not advocate violence. They advocate negro self-defence against violent racist attacks. The final principle in the ad is commitment to "the attainment of racial justice by the democratic process". They spell out what they mean: "The force of law and its fulfillment in the courts, legislative halls and implementing agencies, the appeal to conscience. and the exercise of the rights of peaceful assembly and petition are the instruments of our choice." Conspicuous by its absence is any desire for gaining political power. One of the most promising features of the black power movement is the possibility of the development of independent hlack political action to win some real power to begin to change the conditions in the ghettoes. While SNCC and CORE do not have an unambiguous stand on this question, we have the example of the Black Panther Party, which is a big step in the direction of winning such power. But all of these leaders are the conscious vote-hustlers for the Democratic Party.