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It there is to be a National Museum of
African-American History and Culture, and
here should be, it must be independent of state
control, diverse in its political and ideological
perspectives, and operated by African-
Americans . We must control our own
nstitutions . We must determine and develop
heir objectives and philosophies .
Knoetze Visa Exposes
U .S . Double Talk
The racist white boxer from South Africa,
Kallie Knoetze, came to the United States of
America through a visa issued to him by the State
Department and was allowed to fight, last
Saturday, under the same permit . Whatever else
he U .S . State Department tried to do to rescind
is initial decision to grant Knoetze the visa was
done under pressure of public protests and not in
observance of the United Nations resolution
alling for the cultural and business isolation of
apartheid South Africa . Therefore, the granting
of a visa to the South African racist boxer was in
violation of repeated resolutions of the United
Nations General Assembly, an act which has
exposed the U.S . double talk on the question of
apartheid colonialism and the violation of
Human Rights in South Africa .
As a consequence of U .S . double standards,
the apartheid regime and other racists in South
Africa have been afforded scarce publicity to
"boost" their morale in a world that is
tightening_ its isolation of the regime and its
supporters .
The Fan Africanist Congress outrightly
condemns U .S . policy on granting visas to South
African racists and demands that the Carter
Administration immediately take measures to
seal the legal loopholes through which supporters
of apartheid are allowed to visit the United
States . As the whole world knows, in the case of
Knoetze the violation of U .N . resolutions is
compounded by the crimes that this racist boxer
committed against the Azanian people during his
career as a policeman . The crimes include the
gunning down of a 15-year-old African school
child during the students' demonstrations against
the apartheid regime . The U.S . cannot absolve
itself of the violation of U.N . sanctions against
apartheid South Africa until it takes necessary
measures to join the majority of U .N . membe
states that prohibit cultural, economic, and any
other relations with apartheid South Africa .
David Maphumzana Sibeko
Director ofForeign Affairs & U.N. Rep .
of the Pan-Africanist Congres
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