I love Paul Robeson....he was the greatest personification of integrity that ever existed. He is a beautiful man. Also, I want to blog these ten principles that were drawn up at the Bandung Conference( that Robeson was not able to attend, due to the US denying him a passport-bastards). These points are most crucial and relevant today--they should be rules for the world.

1, Respect for fundamental human rights and for the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations.
2. Respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all nations.
3. Recognition of the equality of all races and of the equality of all nations large and small.
4. Abstention from intervention or interference in the internal affairs of another country. (CRUCIAL)
5. Respect for the right of each nation to defend itself singly or collectively, in conformity with the Charter of the United Nations.
6. (a)Abstention from the use of arrangements of collective defense to serve the particular interests of any of the big powers.
(b) Abstention by any country from exerting pressures on other countries.
7. Refraining from acts or threats of aggression or the use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any country. (CRUCIAL)
8. Settlement of all international disputes by peaceful means, such as negotiations, conciliation, arbitration, or judicial settlement as well as othere peaceful means of the parties' own choice, in conformity with the Charter of the United Nations.
9. Promotion of mutual interests and cooperation.
10. Respect for justice and international obligations.

These principles I wholeheartedly support. On this platform I take my stand.

Alas, I think these principles are sooo very crucial now and need to be brought to the forefront. I would love to see another Bandung Conference- as well as a Pan-African conference (where is DuBois?). Paul Robeson's most wonderful assessment of the Bandung Conference is only the second account of this conference that I have read. The other is that of Malcolm X. It is interesting that both of these men hail the success of this conference, and indeed it was successful-- as immediately after it-- in 1957 (the conference was in '55)Ghana gained its independence, and then African and Asian countries by the DOZENS started to fight and demand and WIN their independence from Colonialism--- and sociaism became the sentiment of the day. We need it to happen again. We need the dialogue between the colored peoples of the world to rise to the forefront again so that we may strategize ways to ward off the evils of Globalism and Imperialism. This is a most immediate need.