Re-posted by Nicholas Stix
I thank the great French researcher of black supremacist terror in America, Bruno Gheerbrant, who sent me this and many other files from France several years ago.
I was a token white in just such a program for subsidizing muggers (though I was never a mugger), the federally-funded Youth Justice Program, which was run by the Community Action Program, the Nassau County Economic Opportunity Commission, which was in turn run by poverty pimp and alleged extortionist, the late John Kearse. According to black women who worked for Kearse as Head Start teachers, Kearse forced them to kick back a chunk of their pay to him. White, Republican, Nassau County DA Denis Dillon made the matter go away for Kearse.
Virtually all “anti-poverty” programs exist to subsidize muggers, and to support an easy, middle-and upper-middle-class lifestyle for the poverty pimps.
William F. Buckley Jr.
Five Percenters Are Terrorists
The Newark Advocate And American Tribune
Oct. 21, 1965
[Drawing of WFB]
Rumors in New York have seethed for weeks, and now the story, or at least part of it, is out. The political implications are not clear, but details are slowly emerging which seem to suggest that a group of ideological thugs mostly in the Harlem area have been blackmailing the city and federal government. Their terms: Continue to pour money into us through the so-called HARYOU-ACT, or else we will bring bloody revolution to the streets of New York.
HARYOU-Act was designed as one of the anti-poverty programs, and mostly it has been caught up in factional struggles based on the forlorn hope of a few idealists that it could be decolonized from the empire of Rep. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., whose favor is greatly needed to finance the poverty program because of his important committee chairmanship. Powell, of course, won out, causing the resignation of Dr. Kenneth Clark, and the sigh of resignation that HARYOU—ACT [mistake in original] would simply become another of Mr. Powell’s expensive hobbies.
It has apparently turned into something more than that. The executive director of the program, Mr. Livingston Wingate, has announced that he lives in fear of his own life. The reason is that a group of young Negroes, aged between 13 and 21, have banded together swearing eternal and bloody hostility not only towards the white race, but towards most Negroes too.
They call themselves the Five Percenters.
By that they mean to say that only five percent of the Negro race truly understands, and is truly dedicated to the revolutionary struggle. Eighty-five percent of the Negroes, they inform themselves, are dogs—exploited, and glad to be exploited. Ten percent of the Negroes are exploiters, e.g. Ralph Bunche Jackie Robinson.
That leaves the Five Percenters.
They are schooled in the “theology” of the Black Muslims, and in the disciplines of judo and karate. They appear to gravitate towards violence for the sheer exhilaration of it, although there is an incapacitated attempt at intellectual justification of the kind that Black Muslimism furnishes.
The Five Percenters have a leader who, providentially, is in jail. He is Allah, and Allah cannot at the moment get his hands on $9,500 to bail himself out for inciting riots, resisting arrest and possessing marihuana.
This is more than a routine story about a mischievous sect, for several reasons. The first is that the Five Percenters have apparently terrorized large parts of Harlem. Certainly they have terrorized Mr. Livingston Wingate. “I’ve talked to police. They’re scared, they know the facts. If I tell too much, I’ll be the late Wingate.”
The police are apparently scared because a realistic estimate of the capabilities of the young fanatics, who number between 200 and 1,000, suggests that they could indeed succeed in spilling a great deal of blood. They are apparently fearless, intoxicated by the mad belief that as servants of Alla (who, by the way, before his transfiguration was known as Puddin’ Smith), they are immune to such mundane weapons as police bullets or clubs. They are already linked to two murders, to innumerable muggings, theft and vandalism; there are tie between their organization and the plot last spring against the Statue of Liberty.
They are said to have prepared an integrated death roster in which prominent Negroes and whites appear. And now the police reveal that Allah (Puddin’) Smith has declared, “We’re going to kill the cops and all the white people—women and children, too. We’re going to start a blood bath now and, if we don’t get our share of poverty funds, blood will flow.”
The scandal in the making is the rumor that important politicians, state, city and federal, have known about the blackmail, but for fear of igniting a riot, have gone along with it. The notion of paying great sums of money into the hands of a young group of junked-up fanatics, rather than face the messy problem of rounding them up and putting them away somewhere until Allah sees the glory of the coming of the Lord, is a matter of considerable public interest, and may well become among the first orders of business in Congress. Among other things to be considered is this, that the funds for the poverty program have been spent so rampantly, without any idea where they ultimately land up, that the program has bred farce, along with, for instance, such dangerous stepchildren as the Five Percenters.
