OCR Text |
Show GORE Spokesman Analyzes Resistance At News Confab economy" not as a direct competition com-petition with white businessmen but as an expansion of the entire economy. "We need more Negro businesses, busi-nesses, credit unions and cooperatives," co-operatives," he urged. (Next: what African student leaders going to U.S. colleges think oi civil rights eilorts and U.S. press and government attitudes towards Africa. See page 2 In Tuesday's "Chronicle.") By MARCELLUS SNOW Chronicle Editor-in-Chief (Editor's note: Mr. Snow attended a Student News Editors Conference in Hampton, Va., March 25 through 27. The meet was sponsored by the New York-based American Society of African Culture. This articles is the first in a series of news and editorial edi-torial analyses of the conference.) HAMPTON, Va. -James Farmer, Far-mer, national director of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), said Saturday that passive pas-sive resistance is not the answer to the apartheid policies of the South African government. "PASSIVE resistance against the South African regime would be no more effective than it would have been against Nazi Germany," the outspoken Negro leader said. His comments came at a press conference with student newspaper news-paper editors and leaders of African student organizations in the United States at the Hampton Institute, a large Negro college in this Southeast Virginia city. on our toes "and to keep from becoming lazy," Farmer said. ASKED ABOUT the effectiveness effective-ness of the so-called Negro vote, Farmer claimed that Virginia, Vir-ginia, North Carolina, Florida, Arkansas and Tennessee had been won for President Johnson in the 1964 election by the Negro vote. In large cities with substantial Negro communities such as New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit and Cleveland, Farmer said, the Negro vote could "swing an election" if the white vote were diveded and the Negro vote were not THE A R T I C U L ATE CORE spokesman told of problems Negroes would face even after all rights of citizenship had been assured them by law. "The voting rights law won't solve voting problems unless it deals with threats of intimidation, intimida-tion, reprisals and violence," he said. FARMER CALLED for an 'economic 'eco-nomic upgrading of the Negro FARMER continued that change in the racist policies of South Africa could be brought about only by "outside force" such as trade embargoes and boycotts by major traders with South Africa such as the United States, France and West Germany, Ger-many, or by "bloodshed." The CORE national director spoke of his personal friendship with Malcolm X, the slain Black Nationalist leader. "Malcolm was undergoing a change of heart in his opinion about white people at the time of his assasin-ation," assasin-ation," Farmer said. HE STATED that Malcolm X had "played to his audiences" when he spoke and was a "demagogue, "dema-gogue, actor, showman and fire-eateer" fire-eateer" in public. In contrast, Farmer noted, Malcolm X was "calm, reasonable reason-able and soft-spoken" in private and was "moving toward the mainstream of civil rights though" at the time of his murder mur-der at a Harlem rally. FARMER rejected charges of conflict and hostility among civil rights groups as mainly an invention in-vention of the press." "The differences dif-ferences are in timing and tactics" tac-tics" and not in long-range goals," he said. He opposed a suggested merger of civil rights groups, however. "We need each other to keep |