[News] Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) on Colin Powell

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  Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) on Colin Powell

1995
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Interviewer Colin Powell has said that, "the military is an excellent 
way for a Black person to advance."

Kwame Ture(Stokely Carmichael) I cannot see how anyone can tell me that 
the best way for one to advance is by being a hired killer. You mean to 
tell me that the only way we can advance is by being killers and being 
killers of the enemies of American Imperialism? Because who do we kill? 
We don't kill our enemies! Do we go to Azania, South Africa, and kill 
the clerk? Do we kill the Ku Klux Klan? Do we kill racist policemen? No, 
we go and we kill Arabs who ain't doing nothing against us. We don't 
even know them; they've never done anything against us. So, it is clear 
here that Mr. Powell is a liar. Mr. Powell is a traitor to his people, 
and Mr. Powell is a traitor to humanity, and Mr. Powell accepts that 
position. That position was made again, and don't you ever forget it, 
because of Dr. Martin Luther King. If you love King you can never love 
Powell.

Interviewer If you were in a position to advise someone who had attained 
the position of general in the U.S. Army, and was offered the Chair of 
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, what would you have said?

Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) Blow it up.

Interviewer Hahaha, the Pentagon?!?

Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) Blow it up.
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