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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.

Q:

It's really quite rare to see any person whose color could be described as being really black.

Clark:

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.

Q:

And of course, there you're looking at a society where there hasn't been --

Clark:

-- as much-- that's right -- intermixture.

Q:

Intermixture, I stand corrected.

Clark:

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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