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As black people gather together today
in quest of ways and means to achieveing
economic stability in a largely white
male dominated business world; we find
ourself groping with many questions
which will directly affect our people and
communities in the 1970's.
The question that most effect our lives
are the ones that have been created from the
day the first white man set foot on what
he called America. From that day to this
we have been treated as if we were only
living and surviving at his pleasure and
discretion. We have never been allowed
to fully enjoy the comforts that we
built for him.
#1 Housing, Employment, and education
all the ingredients necessary
to make our communities whole have
been nearly non-existant for us in the kind of directions
which he thrust himself into when he
defeated the British in 1776 and freed himself
from taxation without representations.
#2 Not only have we had to build the railroads,
houses and schools but we have had to serve
him his food, nurse his children and fight
his wars.
Indeed the last 300 years for black people
have been no crystal stair. Our sweat
and toil in America has been one that I
seriously doubt any other ethnic group has
experienced and unequivocally we have been
under more undue strain and pressure than
any other American to pull ourselves up, but
without the base which other white ethnic