Chapotraphouse

There's an interesting one [detail] that we saw very recently in a secret report from the State Department. I want to tell you about this one so you can reflect on it. That secret report made this point: That Grenada is different than Cuba and Nicaragua, and the Grenada revolution is, in one sense, “even worse,” using their language “than the Cuban and Nicaraguan revolutions, because the people of Grenada and the leadership of Grenada speak English, and therefore can communicate directly with the people of the United States.”

I can see from your applause, sisters and brothers, that you agree with the report, but I want to tell you what that same report also said. It said: “That [this] also makes us [Grenada] very dangerous. The people of Grenada and the leadership of Grenada are predominantly black.” They said that “95% of our [Grenada’s] population is black.” and they have correct statistics. And if we have 95% of predominantly African origin of our country, then “we can have a dangerous appeal to 30,000,000 black people in the United States.”

—Maurice Bishop Speaks, 29m30s