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black. We're all shades of colors, from the whiteness of an Adam Powell, Walter White, through the majority who are brown, various shades of brown -- and only a very small percentage are black, in the literal sense of the term black, such as the color of that case of your machine.
It's really quite rare to see any person whose color could be described as being really black.
Who is black -- black. Very rare. And sometimes quite beautiful, when you see it. I mean, I think Naomi Sims is black, and she -- you know, not only her features are beautiful, but they're -- her complexion. But that's rare. Vernon Jordan seems to me to be one of the few Americans of African descent who is black.
In fact, when I was in South Africa, I saw very few South Africans who were black in the literal sense of black.
And of course, there you're looking at a society where there hasn't been --
-- as much-- that's right -- intermixture.
Intermixture, I stand corrected.
Well, anyway, I meant, it was taken up by the militants of the sixties, the separatist movement. It really got its roots and “credibility” in the Black Separatist Movement, and I think that's been its major contribution. A semantic contribution. Black Militants, Black Separatism has contributed the general
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