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Another Great Myth of US History – Concerning Juneteenth
CONCERNING JUNETEENTH: The Great White Father, Union General, came to Texas and notified the slaves that they were now free, to their great jubilation. The fact is that the enslaved throughout the South had a great system of communication of news, called the “grapevine”. They often knew more about what was going on than the…
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Why Palestine?
TERROR! CHILDREN BY THE THOUSANDSMURDERED OR MAIMED! BOMBS FALLING LIKERAIN, SOAKING THE GROUND WITH BLOOD –NO PLACE TO RUN, NO PLACE TO HIDE! Yes, Israel is bombing everything so there is no electricity, nowater, no medicine – no mercy. But why should we shed tears for the Palestinians? Don’t we inKingsbridge have enough of our…
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Racism & it’s Centrality – Excerpt from “The Crime of Impunity – The Crime of Punishment”
ON THE CENTRALITY OF RACISM In a book devoted to crime and punishment, why has racism been so much its centerpiece? First, because racism is this country’s key crime. And second, because racism is at the heart of the criminal justice system. We need not revisit the horrors of the slave past. These are usually…
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Racism & the Criminal Justice System – Excerpt from “The Crime of Impunity – The Crime of Punishment”
CONCLUSION The penal system is but a replica — in more brutal form because hidden from public view — of the larger society outside the walls. Each day, correction officials commit untold numbers of crimes against inmates. And the perpetrators of such crimes are, from a moral standpoint, far inferior to those who are being…
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On “Black Capitalism”
I would like to take a moment to discuss the question of economics and the Black community. It has become a cliche now among militant nationalists, whether frankly capitalist-oriented or anti-imperialist, that Blacks must create their own economy, support Black enterprise, “keep the money in the family.” You and I have already run down what…
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The Centrality of Racism
Racism is not central because it is only central to people of color, which it obviously is, but because it is central to the entire population…
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On the Death Penalty
Why do we oppose the death penalty? Not for purely humanitarian reasons, not, because we are pacifists, not because we do not believe in taking life. We are prepared to fight for our liberation, including waging war. Naturally, we do not believe in taking life unnecessarily. We believe in a penal system that stresses rehabilitation…
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Life or Death: Taking Away Habeas Corpus
A barrage of laws and an avalanche of court rulings are stripping us of one right after another. Over one million people in prison and 3,000 on death row (the numbers mounting at unprecedented speed). No jobs for ghetto youth? “Lock ’em up.” Failing schools? “Lock ’em up.” No real drug prevention or treatment effort?…
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Racism as “Phenomenon” – Letter Excerpt, July 1989
That the elaborate and all-pervasive system of racism has been vital to the economic and political well-being of the masters of society is a truism in all progressive sectors of society, among all left groupings. That racism is of such strategic importance that no democratic movement of any kind can generate the necessary power to…
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Political Disenfranchisement – Letter Excerpt, March 1989
Sometimes one can find truths in ruling class literature entirely missed by the Left, or at least a good portion of it. In this quarter’s issue of Foreign Policy, a prestigious think tank publication of the Establishment, Charles William Maynes, editor of Foreign Policy magazine, the leading foreign policy publication in the United States, says…
