CIVIL RIGHTS AND COMMUNITY LEADERS 761

And:

Get yourselves some guns. The honky is your enemy. The
brothers are now calling Detroit destroyed. You did a good job
here. [This City's riot will] look like a picnic [after black people
unite] to take their due.

—Rap Brown: Detroit, August 27, 1967.
And:

Black people are being forced to become both judge and jury.
We must arm ourselves with rifles, shotguns, pistols, bow and
arrows (with poison arrows), BB guns (with poison BBs), gas,
rags, bottles and knives. The only way to get justice in this evil
land is to kill the white devil before he kills you.

—Willard Dixon in a publication, "The Black Dispatch,
a voice of the Black Ghetto. "

What possible hope is there for peace in our community if these
apostles of anarchy are allowed to spew hatred unchallenged?

If we are to learn from bitter experience, if we are to progress in
the battle for equal opportunity, we must plan together and execute
those plans together. To do this we must be able to communicate.
We cannot communicate and progress if the lunatic fringes are in-
cluded in the problem-solving team.

I publicly repudiate, condemn and reject all white racists. I call
upon you to publicly repudiate, condemn and reject all black racists.
This, so far, you have not been willing to do.

I call upon you as Americans to speak out now against the treason
and hate of Stokely Carmichael and Rap Brown. If our nation is not
to move toward two separate societies — one white and one black —
you have an obligation, too.

I submit to you that these men and others like them represent a
malignancy out of control; that they will lead us to a devastating racial
civil war. I submit to you that there can be no winner from such a
conflict and that the heaviest losers will be the Negro citizens of
America.

It is not too late to return to the true target of the crusade for
equality. The target is the elimination of all prejudice against Negroes
in America and the provision of an equal opportunity to reach the
top. That target will be realized when every man is judged on his
own individual merit and only on his merit. Divisiveness and the
doctrine of apartheid are impenetrable barriers between us and that
target. With your help they can be torn down.