Blacks Under Control

It now appears as if the whites of the U.S., S.A. and other parts of the world are coming to Australia because there the black man knows his place. They are dead scared of the blackman in their own country and they come to a country where they think the blackman will always be under control. But I doubt that they are right for in the next ten years there will be a drastic change, for the students are now working with and standing in with us in our fight. The Aborigine will be a force to be reckoned with. Most of the work of the Panthers has been done in the cities and with the urban Black. But we are getting contacts with the nomadic and the semi nomadic people we pass it on to our contact and he tells the others, the aborigine has a very retentive mind and there is also the aboriginal telegraph... the bush telegraph and I'll back it against anything they have in the P.M.G. in any country. You can bet that if I speak in Brisbane then within three days the gulf of Carpentaria will know what I said, word for word. But anyone who speaks English is almost regarded as an agent of the white man. This will take a while to get over, but it will come. The young must also have a negotiator and to speak over their elders is a disrespectful thing to do. The Panthers need an older negotiator to work with them, to speak for them. I speak for them sometimes but they do not even accept me as a radical. To them I am a conservative and far to kind to the white man. It must be admitted that my generation has not achieved that much.

I dont trust the white politician even though I work to influence them, I don't believe on turning your back on the whiteman. To do that is to behave as the 5th generation Aussie... He turns his back on us and thinks that we will go away. We won't. We must come to an arrangement. The young people say no bargains no compromise. They want unconditional land rights, back to the people with as much land as we need to live an independent life.