Quote:In response to these failures and to offer a way forward, Carmichael discussed the concept of coalition with regard to the Civil Rights Movement. The leadership of the movement had affirmed that anyone who truly believed in their cause was welcome to join and march. Carmichael offered a different vision. Influenced by the ideas of Franz Fanon in Wretched of the Earth, wherein two groups were not "complementary" (could have no overlap) until they were mutually exclusive (were on an equal power footing economically, socially, politically, etc.), Carmichael said that blacks in the United States had to unite and build their power independent of the white structure. Otherwise they would never be able to build a coalition that would function for both parties, not just the dominant one. He said that "we want to establish the grounds on which we feel political coalitions can be viable."[63] For this to happen, Carmichael argued that blacks had to address three myths regarding coalition. First, "that the interests of black people are identical with the interests of certain liberal, labor, or other reform groups." Second, that a viable coalition can be created between "the politically and economically secure and the politically and economically insecure." And third, that a coalition can be "sustained on a moral, friendly, sentimental basis; by appeals to conscience." He believed that each of these myths showed the need for two groups to be mutually exclusive, and on relatively equal footing, for them to be in a viable coalition.

monday post=382775 Wrote:a lot of my POV can be found in here poster ketchim...look and listen closely