China's support for the "Freedom Now" States] of the American Negro people, was a sensation | in the United Co ates,
"Robert Williams was warmly greeted at the October 10 rally. After expressing his gratitude to Chairman Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese people for their unflagging support to the liberation struggle of the American Negroes, he told the audience how he felt while living in Cuba and visiting China, ‘'To be in China,t he said, 'with an open mind and eye, is to. be
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infected with admiration for a dauntless people with a warm love for human< ity and world peace.! China and Cuba were forbidden territories for his .. fellow countrymen, he continued, 'Yes, as a black man, I find in these two countries that for the first time in my life I enjoy the splendid feeling © of belonging tc the human race, I have experienced for the first time in ar my life the lifting of the horrible burden of racial tyranny and the — tress of being born black ina white-supremacy world. tr —_
"In his. 8,000-word-long speech, Williams brought forth a host -of facts to give. the lie. ‘to the so-called democracy and freedom in the United States and accused U.S. imperialism of its brutalities in racial persecution, '!The Government of the U.S.,! he said, tis the world's greatest hypocrite. It is. the world's greatest enslaver and dehumanizer of the human race,. It is a disgrace and a horrible shame to all mankind, It is a threat to the peace and security of the world,!
"williams assured his audience that 'the Ue S. is out to conquer the world. and to establish a new world order of "racist democracy," exemplified by Birmingham justice, Those who speak of peaceful coexistence with such’. savage beasts cannot sincerely have the best interest of all humanity at. heart, !
"Tn winding up his speech, Williams declared that the Government of the. United States was an-enemy to all the world, and freedom there was a farce. But,.'I take heart in the fact that our people, like the other . _oppressed peoples of the world, are fighting back, We are bound to-win “because we are part of the world struggle of all the oppressed peoples,! At ‘the end of his speech, he shouted, ‘Freedom! Freedom] Freedom now or. death} oo ee oS
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