Blacks rebelled against racism and their imposed poverty during the Civil Rights movements, with the radicals rallying around the slogan: Black Power! Black theology allied itself with this Black Power movement that was clearly calling for a new economic order. James Foreman, in his "Black Manifesto", a call for economic justice and for a beginning of reparations that was read at the Riverside church in NYC in 1969, saw clearly that liberation would not work within a capitalist system: Any black man or Negro who is advocating a perpetuation of capitalism inside the United States is in fact seeking not only his ultimate destruction and death but is contributing to the continuous exploitation of black people all around the world. (Foreman 27) He realized that there was a strong linkage between racism and capitalism, two forms of oppression that were both part of the same package that the black power and black theology movements were opposing. Unlike others who were more concerned with opposing the current system then creating a new vision, he explicitly called for a new socialist economic system as a crucial goal for the liberation of blacks: "Our fight is against racism, capitalism, and imperialism, and we are dedicated to building a socialist society inside the United Sates where the total means of production and distribution are in the hands of the State, and that must be led by black people, by revolutionary blacks who are concerned about the total humanity of this world."