White liberals are always saying, "What can we do? I mean, theyre always coming to help black people. I thought of an analogy. If you were walking down the street and a man had a gun on another man lets say both of them were white and you had to help somebody, whom would you help? Its obvious to me that if I were walking down the street, and a man had a gun on another man, and I was going to help, Id help the man who didnt have the gun, if the man who had the fun was just pulling the gun on the other man for no apparent reason if he was just going to rob him or shoot him because he didnt like him. The only way I could help is either to get a gun and shoot the man with the gun, or take the gun away from him join the fellow who doesnt have a gun and both of us gang up on the man with the gun. But white liberals never do that. When the man has the gun, they walk around him and they come to the victim, and they say Let me help you, and what they mean is help you adjust to the situation with the man who has the gun on you."If indeed white liberals are going to help, their only job is to get the gun from the man and talk to him, because he is a sick man. The black man is not the sick man, it is the white man who is sick, hes the one who picked up the gun.
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Stokely Carmichael was a 20th-century American trinbagonian-american activist. Kwame Ture was a Trinidadian-American activist who played a major role in the civil rights movement in the United States and the global pan-African movement. Born in the Crown Colony of Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean, he grew up in the United States from age 11 and became an activist while attending the Bronx High School of Science. Read more on Wikipedia →