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![Tialey farks pacisa, Imorancs, Lovelcssness and “Nadacss” b Tisley Used to be & saall, old lows, opulated ty the progeny of sostly Gersan drmigrinta” oo from the Lokl torgeaiale the bowes vere sodent dsiling: oo Janis vers GLorified pestage siavpa: Fhose Flaces vere LIV 1n to death by Ths exploston of children in the late forties, ifties and early aixties. Baby BN indeed. I arcived 1n this suffocating, 70t aurreal tavironnant, in the atddle of this birthing phensaenen, 1953, Tolitically, sost of the adulta vere cerlective rusctionaries, Sbioebing. soctatal desans v1th superficial obsequiousaess: A ssall percentage of the Lomapeopis are 1ibersl, Jounding out the ploture vers the usual atnute musber of ataral sutsiders - the crsckyots, selcases, crininais, (hrill seckers, deviaats, lovers 54 TR en. A large nental inotitution as ite sain clain to-fore. Vith & dtn bulb of cosprebension, the tranalation of secial vlues (schlsophrente 10 begin vith) lost all tieo Lo cantty, shen theoe parente stteaptd to force feed this it e e e T et T e g bl warne | and attention, baslcally sa thetr o, With the tasest raciat snd sexist aindlessness Lo fortiy thea for the future. But 1t vasn’t Juat & racist, sexlet "education.” Igmorance of any usefsl informtion of eniightening dexd vas Tauned on, elther through gross istnformstion or the fearful “{thbolding of facta, The “facts of 1ife" were avelded ike the plaguo for fear the Shildren veuid be uncoatroliably iroalsceous. The wedgs forced Deteemn the sexes bred Terr, Frostration, alienstion sxd self-Loathing, ssong those uneasy ¥ith the sirveture of ruality. ¥ho berumeaeyl Wt ag’ U it of having the smes og1- “1ly meparated sad any dovidtios from the U:A.5.F. den) piitieanly Fhdicul conatart. The towm s 1ilyuhite, so.the objects of such venon vers rarely visiied, toums suay. Blacks were sonsidorsd fike dungeroua Lepors, o bo swoided 2Fex 1ads ere fizated on Hitler and the mastixa, short-streulting thete braine vith intellectuaily orippling anti-idens. T vaa six vhen.the sixties began, oine shen ve wers alsost vaporised into radio- sctive duat (Cuban Kissile Bgo Oriate) and ten when Kennedy’s chickins cano homs & ‘Vhen the Chicao Blve Shiris vent on thel savage, nightly raapege during the v, T vas almost fifteen. Tou msic idylite childhood: ‘Anybody with glasses, left.hasded, curly hair, braces, birth wrks, scara, the wrong colorod eyes, & furny nase, swall, largs, skifny, fat or “bromsed= at all, vs Subject to endless taanting. 1 shert, bject ta beliitiing cruelty’ Secause arter all, wo wers 411 igse "Aping our parenta’ ke o0 hov 1o Tive on hate, For-ahasel This polacoed atasephere was prested over ly obliviows parents, aicroscoploally sinded schoo] sdalnistratore and wderpaid, hogtisd teschers, iiled’vith purpesofully wntrse ourrioala, Rany of the sdulls vers aticklers for moronic ules, yet unsware of the teva-side pechological holocsaat in the making. It Tt the Tolled doun esence of shite sulture. 8 ’What 434 children do *ith theix tiae? Very few tried fo’sike compeehdosive oense of tholr surroundings or resd sch, ssorph conic books. Ve did vaich fons of television 2nd grovp togather often, io play,’ Tinley vas atill a beckuater fom, hardly comected Lo cRicago. The Rock Talasd 1ine stopped in town, s0 you sould soxsate downtom, or the other vay to Joilet, The sasll fom ataosphere was intaot and furas buffoted 1t fron surrounting comsunitiss, 4a well as forest peeourves. Our sister tow vas Oak “Stroke" Toreat. ‘mich of these pospie wmiil ve got 10 high ocheol. They ere siatlarly ‘soparated fron thesselves. Ve played outside s lot, rode our dikesy Tassball a0d toresred sniasie, ‘Spiders,acd enakes, lisards, insects, brds, crajfish, squirrels - you sane it, pture and aake suffer. Ne’d stlck firecrackers in frogs. One friend of mine bullt a torture chanber/guillotine for cats, I reacaber oue tiss, some of us ditched achool, vent 1o the sos and got throwa oat. Some of the e couldat resist throwing Tocks at the sonkeys. Ve saved our aeanest treataent for esthother, concsatrating our Mind hateod inuard, This evil behavior was veated fully when the flood of depresseant druga (becbitustes, alcohol and herotn) becans commnplace, Vespone (vehicles and guns) added thelx terror- ieing iamediscy. “Misd expanding,” pecho-sctive érugs, such as arijuass ond 15D, vers the druga most hysteriéally 11ed about by the adulte, but 18 vas the “domers” that were the rosl scourge of the young.](Thought Bombs 1 - Anthony Rayson 4.png)
![ok, D, ete., often tarned sany tato sosiea. Some vers gung-preseed tato prizn. g et i kocat Fesched anbiafabie seeta. Like ckals Froving on ihe bskest e uinceebls youns aen snd wonen ers sucked nto th pophotecical il ooy Sueh) peanings bl in, Tt vas Mo (king your ofck or dndured dog to the vet Ravs ten el dostro thon - and get BLLOL for 1. Tiriey Pk ) “uinklizg Farta® my oLf friend Jerry Schaldt used o call 1% - he overdoses on horse.) had ite L ot or rhciTbiy. ook Loot oula vere Kidmapbedy drugaids snd eocessety and sint 1o 20 escapdsis Inattuticna. TrCEtoees b4d, nasel BLLLy SO, couldn’s ake it sryeore snd et o v st eindors T ihnk a Momael Theses o dled: Sulcide vas imThrgs. Sios g ouk of tovad dearal, One uhe ook over % mper route When et aate Geecgs Aves ook this opbler, e she & sonstive gy, tho cnce cared o ambarof orpane Faceosan, M vis sngged o bo sarried. 1 venk held at the house he was staying at. Befors the sun rose again, he fired u sholgwn e e AL Yttoriny Ma.wrain, sane h bitreon all; A friend of aiseat ooty Hesd’s skeL Ints b bas, 1 th shovec. She 1ived & vecy loveless 111 Wer sister, however, nanaged to break avay. She married & Mlack sas, sgainst e fuatiyte Fastet wiibaes ot the el ovt and experienced love sad hmen decency. DL i ¥ her e raky. v ovardosh vare suoideg o wirtaral Who Knowar? Vino. a Slaraing mimbee of Tirleys street ete Towmd dos. Soncedy ran than-shor V1th 3 our o they vors fousd. Fouen Tonaes "Bty Satod for society’s brege. - Bdien vero Toud 1oThe oot o shey vere diepoect of the lstest desth. “How ya deinT* ’*I’s still 52 it meve Tamponed. Tnler’s bekone spscal Tt nymane., Bres hing 1s on the coanarcial p ad. up Expnsivs eion Tine up i’ accist the pissence ané sons of édie savagurs: “Life in karchinging e e Te i e oo Sevat et That’a the defimitiye slon of mking 1t ot Senened Teon- o siatikes in Tistoan, toor Bon’s oLl ‘en ortors! et only Drougy. Eralmessned porsmmel Oo A4 gve yuick (hypur whe] and gt the T el S’ hink wbamtho are s sy peoducta. 1o gorge wpRTT? e hocons of Ui, specires from e sixiien tad evenciest Ry bave scattored 1. she 4ind Ko sthe siates - Worth Caroline, Tosse, Arisons, Vecomeln, et oter Toaybre ragetya 1f aver, bard fron sgain. ’Seme vaco ovo stap shed 2t o -anyaag, - Sthars satiisd nesry d Fashioned soss SoEt of Lewrestad 1. She’of the e SuiTioLn socialyteny v o Hellyuood and bocaan & Vg “amecess” et oot astsid secoms Jiore snd sorntc situstion comedies. Sone efs ovbistence ehent e, etin measged 1o wst & e, 8 vifo tod Kidec A1) oo often, sttemple e peiathamy woted in siactable fatbice tod may) 1a. ihels fortiss, eill ive e eeed wate Ji1, Tisey Turk, turmed inko. so2s tr13tsd version o o e 1 0 fot i o 13 the ack ghetiosTT? The gt o i oa SocH 9 k- Ahey stazs with netking. sl 1gerasce, oty o e ness o Mg werpeises A 7ea 10ok a1 1. K s el misber of thess peple pike op Sho cyanids Sapeule prerided so Lorngly ey Bt ieiog heaselve i seliing out 12 the Mimlghty tallec et OLT Ul They survived, sosehon They rotacted thelc twsing and murtared hemat1 on alorer Tn tha sidvrnece sroe found 1ove a7d weze able 10 becons A e that 4115 ongn onty o coudd do 88 all " the onen et 117 e finger 1 only ve ver againd Vith sur conpater tobhmoloms, e could be s0 mich more tharoughl Iafeaticidel AR ALT ATV AT L sseodasessssssssssasesssessenssagsssnsssssssssssasssssses areinen’s Lungiogs secebd Sutlesiiah an visLent Tob WAk b ¥rote s ferek concrn or agars and i he Felr-sintad shoerver soday, reseabering the villary Vst Ao 36 festribed ek th 15k TFerenos 4 o overcose, 11 appescs spprofeiste tnd etosaiey.*Touta Ruchantas T aa svare that nany oblect 4o the severty of = lesguage) but 1s thers ot cause for sevarity? 1 will be aa harah as truth and so uncoaproniaing me Jotie 2 Viilien Loyd Garrloon. “Our reckless couras, our eaply rant, ow fassticiss, has sade Abolittoniste of 508 of the beat and sblest aen 1n the lasd. - Vendell Phillips.](Thought Bombs 1 - Anthony Rayson 6.png)
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![£ the "Soat Feople,” vanteriog the oceans, acceptable to 10 one, welcose | everyuhere. i ifier o pertod of retreat 1n the ald-70’s, the United States begaa to rovise tators and dotive "lessons” fron tae var. Ronald Resgan satd, e will never again ok Soiag men o Tignt and posaitly dlo i & vaz our govermsent 1a afraid o win.” p. W63, This protéctsd the folitictass froa the flasco, soothed military peofessionals wbo ZOAMARC: wnderstand’ their fatlure fo “wis" and roclaiued that Aserica’s “special Soral Standing had not been tarmished, Any Guilt vas shaken off. lethargy to ast 1n Tha world vould not be 8 problea. The var vas lost, not by Asericen waidity, Wt by Viatrasbee tanacity and the legitisey of thelr striggle. e Joason taught the U.5: Ailitary vas not 1o let Asericans suffer even modecate casudles, sa the U.S, peosle WAL not take i¢, An all-vslunteer aray vas inatituted o batiar tontrol the foroas. Massive ee of air ower vould be even Jore exionsively Sorbiyed; kesping grousd trospe b6 & ainisin, snd thase vould be hesvily armored. Faaatvd‘ansuy" camalies are nothing compared to one U.S. death (Smartekopt.) Panaca had Triq vere masively bosbod. froa the safely of supersenic airplases or off-qhate destioyera. <O mother method of dostoying your eaomy L o create and train local Killing wnits - (Vidtaanieatton.”) This was done in Argeatise, Gustondls, Joasbigus, Agola, Citle, 2 Salvador, Niciragus, oto. The School of the Americas 1 fo thelr peoples, The Schadl of Abeasein, Tt Fhosmix progres vhich targetod alleged "Vistcong” for torture anddaath, provided s training ground for aury future Anerican “advisars.” This kaope [tho Aaarican puilic shislded fron beltoving in anything but Asericats Maflcence: Going srouwst the vorld killing people, destroying the savizonzent, fastalling rutiless Vo (013, poopls) 4o not suffer directly and are inforsed owr sromota “himan rights." Grestly lixiting attleficld Teportage 12" anfokend o slisinata the uapleasant 1sages and screass of tmse vo lavo murdered, z . xriting in his sesoira, the anti-var protesters (asd Congroos iame for Anorida‘s defaat. Anti-var protosters were portrayed as aati-U.S. Soidioc’and the effusive "Support Our Boye® caspaign in lraq served 4o aldetrack sy toousation or Frotost of this vile Moodletting by sainstresn Aserisa. “iaatngor shaclved hiaself of any eulpability by saying, e should aever bave Soen thore ot all. But now it’a Mstory.® 7. 485. Gailty of ver crisos o Tunk ith Thono g at Nurealurg, he ia & Nobel Frise winaer, rosected gueet oo Mightline and Qdux lstatossan of the Ropibiican Farty. Tha North Viotnsesa japor nevspaper Nian Dan characterised Nizon 3 “an ectraasly bel142a48 ageressor, 4n intermatiosal pirste, & Toatnsoss Moodthirsty an aad dangeroun Fotier. p. 20, Bseantly buried, bo vas acolaised by the .5, sress 88 & Zoreign poliey gesius. Ab China asd Russia 1eft Vistaan 1n the Jurch in 1572, couying 40 idon, North Vietnas had thia prosclent apprateal of the welalist canps ‘For 8. Countey 1o care for ita iasadiate and narror iaterests while shirking ite lofty Sntarstioealist duties not saly 1a dotrisental to the revolutionsrt moveasat in the Sorid Wt vil] Alao tring unfatbomsble hara to 1toelf n tho end." p. 21, Vitness Bussia todsy. It’a people are satiag out of gurbage cans, ita sconowy 18 1a & free Tali, ‘st usting to 8 ssacket sconomy:* Tha Anerican ublio ot atressed out fros having neshovs snd cousine, nolghbors . and sona retarn fros thelx one-yess stint in Vietaaa horribly sltered. Suly, shell- Shocked, drug-addiotod, doesly Lrsuastised, hoacless spectres, injured or desd lnside 2 box - they snomyaously Tespoaced. Thetr localities wero going Urough o nattoavids Sadacia ey TVioto eing the ptuce. e vaz 1 1o sy, e Asican peesle crted "Unclel” . 2 Upon Satgon boing ronased Ho Cht Ninh City, & alow return to huan weloty ocourred The legacy of death remined and continues o baunt Vistoea. Moro Vistnasess Citizens have died aftar the var froa wierploded U.S, bosbs than ell Aserican deatha duriag the var, Dioxin and country-vide ecocide his’seared into the quality of 1ife. Their birth-raiss renain lov, tholr cancer rates are high and hideous birth dofects aro comon. A 1n Irag, 1% the children ¥ho today still suffer grestly fron the Tewslt of manive Auerican tarrorisa, Bxcuse so, I seant o eay, “Asarica’s defenae of rvoden sad zespect for huasa righta: "o bad to destrey the village o save 1¢.” - 3 soldier 1a Vietaaa,](Thought Bombs 1 - Anthony Rayson 15.png)
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![) 30 268z Tony ot Uh Lakest abu - you are i’ e as - sa oppsed o st oxt theze uho are Gbi1] oot Kein --." 1 doav gor Seriin met seek ok fo somtn sty froa cola Chicago - o o renew 1y Buropea comtacts - un b st s be dov o 2eLp the franchlass e the vrid. A warge i svry Sebvoon Peboilirs sace more lcas sathod of rarecring i slase vacTarer Bae - sorkeofomite . prctreiget o elase werrare, Bae s gt The Abolitionista vero o g2 - dom eoen and Vonde FALLLE ve 70 o pecton, the due fro: canservative hsoriuas, Brom Siot vy be the SFekt Amerions ot o sinalo-tandedly elge precipiiats the nebices Chvl Jv.” Tess sers JorLe wh sond for sonething.” 1 s Thiak Aserica telioves in bravery - 41 1o Fin & oawe T o et e i o e a7 vt Loaing dumy.dowm aati cocyorste headquarters, 2018 v, Sloontngisls, Chicaess Ty 60817, Aatrony, . Thank 7ou for the ackage, poetaarkod Asguat 29, I’n glad that there 13 soze Stanrt Going oa asongst white Yorkers touscda culturel ‘renent and poliHiesl shoeation {0 8, Fogresetve yerapestive (1 haotitats 1o wan he sogd “Lertys 50000 g mth of the uhtte left are 1n Tact Left-ving white,aupcesicisios mth . thoosy ok R s o, et "hrprentv” e gk of s Wt o) ave.ro lustons, Wit 1’s oplisisti sbous Son proapectse The stugsls aghin Leficring white s ot 8 vexy well done conferenco. Once 1 fintah, I’I1 sand cousente. Feace, Grog Jackson, Mack Autanoay Intermational, 32 Beoaduay Avo. EI91S, Seattle, 98102, e Anthony. he Jast couple-3 wesks worth oo you can see wiat ue do. Detueen e-atl & frechies around tom wd subs, we’ze up to shout 2000 resders & wesk on virtaslly no 3 » “ran .18 an astng Foney. Kind of amaing. Velooss ek 44 tho vorld of canting) ‘Dous s msiag 9% Goor acriah, Bat The State, Seitle, ¥a 145 2 Deas Anthory, ‘Thaaka’for your letter ast the 2oant by “abolition of the of Pysical way tnetesd of in 41 you Linet up everyons African, you could not gosat It’s an’unbeoken continga, government have thi huge affors I-9 forns, college sdsisatons, ste., eter) T 0 Atbory - Toan fox sasles of your sk sleng x/ the bck, Eaclesed 10 Ut 3 Kgor, Wy despeat gratitude Tor saring FALAMCRL 1o pereelt suet ou ST SRATATION Sincerely, Susan Joren, JOB 243961, Anchorage, Alaska, 99526-3961. Do Antheny, Thanks for the lettor. It raises so many questions, I can’t hope o answer all of then. Essentially, I would says 1. Anarchiss as & political progran offers no o e e, ke o Mt Tt il o e Tou 559 Juaping together Dolabevin (Loin) ¥ith rovistonisn (1a1in) when they are profoundly difformt. I’s sundiag you & fov of our Jourals, vhich desl ¥th toth of e it T ke it e ol i ol on i oy ettt seainst xacten and tho ractet capttallat eystenl Reveluiionasy grootlnge, s 01,00](Thought Bombs 1 - Anthony Rayson 28.png)
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![A ¥hite g says, “I’a Margiret’s husband.” Ho gets & laugh. "You’d better sy o ©aU® hia baity chiaes in. Ten’t sexual reality Just the st vonderful thingT Mo says they 1tve 1n & 90-953 black nelghborbood. The jrobles i3 Umt whites xen’t nove T, Nia friends ask Nia “ihy aze you atill therer?" Tt’s bocause they love 1t Ke Suggesta that only shites o allowed o Sove Inia hs are, Shouts of ~RYI" “Because wa’ons sver doas 11 ‘Another Wack 3an s & sult says ve dave o oach our children wbout right and rong 8 £ Facian. Fa nertioss that on August 2374 acd 2005, there 1a fo ba 8 Jsconet1iation oriahop sbout actss, sponsared ty church grougs at the Joliot Job Corp Center at 1101 Hills osd, Jolist, Tlltnots. For ore inforaation ve could call Hia’at hose. ‘Tooul prescher i Fatteson. Mo sald Fiyera stout the verkahop T e e s, Y sl e ke Lt 0 0 o Sutata. Sa neok sge ogrs For apperian i Tor seneiiiviey Snining ok i snderstandingcr % Saci an, siiousiy s soholsx on the mubject, sxplatns that xactsn fa & octal conntrut- T5 S Lo eaethne SUELERt oot of Bors Brestors s e sncoms N ] o e oinh 3 Lok Sratght o 2 shTe T taed, oa o oo IOt o atar 1o Fearin saer. 01 Il 1 ba a¢ Jength datr, T oo £ I 2T ST TG e e S Ly w1th st Tomd 2 B3, ot o need o ntersat and Jbd sciens dhscunaiona,” Gua’ar ihe Settsiaie rise 1o vrap ihinee ope abiesch 18 on She cutting odge. Tou niat seesn e manti. Jon st sl 15 4 positive aye ThumRron.” I ohder hite gentiuian spprosched ne and a1k, -Tov sre FLgh on ha soney ith your casaanta: " You v, o peve s eltes snslyels 1o wedersiand o sivation Feopesty. T e eatiants 45 e Sive 1 Bgland o Lon. tan snd sasocia ith i Saciatiota. B s sointy St brow sy ihsert ~Tonirs i, -Heople 1 thia Snntey ety sttt Sy, Sntanly e Py, T8 2 Lot ] Govermmats, st aoet o Iocen o imt’a vile, ‘T goverenent 13 the 200t R Somie 13 Toios o igsranees Tclen ik vielmes: T perke o shoroughly Edriaibes’tat o sovcaaent 1o painebeally arch o she silie d sees Mind Coron shanaves o sospetiad vithout 1egitisatn opporition snehers in he world, It%a e Uitune e T tae anvions 1o ik to the txo spectfic Sack sen wha’d ssde o goint 40 refer 101y amacks duin e, 1 tiked o sho Fronohr st Sh oy ML B Dattare I etd s other oy taLkis SIS 1o sevecel pevrle and panded ok B ags I’ve eceutly e tbets e ot Teioh 1€ Sope 1o peet 1 d1da’t gut @ chance o talk to. e vaa talking 1o sessome 21t and T 410a"s wARt 3 culely Lntrus on hia somversation. T ‘Tosbehell. The folioning day the doacons called on Brows o adaontah hia sad Lator v1th hin for vhat he had done, But Brown defied thes a1l and that night with the 201d sudaclty of & san vho Joovs he 1 Tight, Jroun took his black brothers stratght 40 his pov.” p. &3 of To Aurgs Thia Land ¥3ih Hood, by Stephen 3. Ontes. Jotn 3rom vas exgelled fron Ut ahirch, sever 1o refoin caother. Tha only sam0rtality 1s that vhich lingers 1n tho hearts and alade of those Who respect s Job . done.](Thought Bombs 1 - Anthony Rayson 46.png)
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![€1 Even sose blacks ate deluded by the myth of the clvil rights siree of the ’€0’c. Just because some words were ehln!ld in the racist lll’l. Goes ot sean Inatitutional, uneelenting raciet propogand, no 1 Pa any sfect. 1o an slaraine derrec. “xhte: ’people stil]. thy o ack in self-crioplIng anti<binck patterna. Raciem 1o powerfully intcsnned and aalsy rediniorced Tn cCntices vays. "There’Se ton much Soney ’ pover " stake to hanestly wipese racien us e ajor ool ST clpliaiTat doniration’that 13 has slzaya been ang"continues to e, Shcough the more Towrlting of “lava:" The justice “syeten iteelf is 3 Shofouhly Factot - inatitution: One of the groving maney-makers foday:T3*the priaon induetry, " whers blacks Srehorged 1ike cutile The lomaprople, Vlack wid “Wnite” (ot ogeiner to rewuita-the church. Retirabiy: the “Lord had his ning la“tnle effort " T gue FORSEAC amyening “good” by whesvers gefinivion s W 11 the a8 wturt” 13 the handivork of the SDevid.s 1t The ;nhltd‘ u’»l m,‘l-vu’ughmg Clavs, too!) are made up vy ‘the rgs 57 people * nothing o winal; :»1{ om bustne eopLd sorenipping o ui‘lmn” Mui that. 1 it vhat we’ve e 10ve o stencing. 010 o7 i saintaining of mueh of the 1 sort of agree wi " et rear y Ienorance ind the inartia to act effect! .n,. bleo ve & experlencing” are eyotens of epprension being Hent i c TohSactn ane capiia1jon: Ehat the held 1o Chrlsti onts? Peuti if people don’t belleve some form of e tortuous]: f dogms, they are shamed and foro nfora through fear racios, fear of helll m.u..r people iy, Yetiover wmy of thle "Sork oF et many Teel ‘to e Song’ i 14; "Pne only snes sho truly Sbellsve’ are B etea1 ohyoters, bocksioring up. snoracus wade o caah for then- 6 Christianitfes® “messengers.” It’s quite vile all-in-all, and_conveniently, tax-freel They are pleaséd with the outcoze of this raciet arsen God. “If you want to be something, you’ve got to look up. They munt have Torgot the word "dininished” betwsan something and you’ve. e ‘Truth interviews an electsd official, W.1. “Bud Doherty, who 15 the Pike County (Wisalsoippl) Chamber of Commerce Executive Director, He says "We have recognized that when b0 percent of your population is Dlack; and aimost 11 of thea are 11ving below the Poverty line. then dconoaieally. that maxes ne senas. st 1a’telling us what to do, and th race relations have /6 been important to me.” p. 16: It starts off oane, but he’s (frg-into Giecemnectss ireomprahension. Later, recatiing s Viston “They wore put with pecple they had never “once sgal here sone skepticlen in the black cormmity sbout en a5, white business sfforter- 1oL, bug: say: nang sther things. “Tho enly way we are §9ing %o solve the provien](Thought Bombs 1 - Anthony Rayson 57.png)
![b2 but one G at o (Penn’s) and they, once again, cono in peace. They ty. “The tribesnen sereed to always obey the lawe of Pemn’s 2 and to be Toyal to the British Crown. In return, the white man proaised to protect them fron trade abus and "assure that thelr hunting grounds would be preserved. They would Rever injure or defraud one another. as. long as the river should run.’p. 29. Accoraing to mo loss than Voltaire: this vas the “only treaty betwsen those nationa’and the Chrlstians Which mever vas svorn to and ne broken.” ibid. This treaty was nade in 1683, Ungor tunately, Voltaire died. Alas, by 1737, the colonists bro) this treaty; 106. A Delaware indian crator said, -1 adait that there e g00d white Dan, but they bear no proportion to the badi the bad Ruat be the strongest for they rule. They do what they ploase. They Cnslave those who are not of their 04 by the Game Great Spirit who created them. I8 tney"cound] but "a They cametdo 1t eney ki2) ve. faith to be placed in the Procisely.” There 1a mo fal in thelr wordsi! Then cones the faith vords. ’Its the “Yord of Godi . *1 will eive you heart and put & now spirit within yous T will take the heart of Stone out of, £ yeur Tleoh and’glue you n heart of flean.- p; X0, of cour "the Americen Indlans wore genocidally marginalize: the n.m enalave itelien la stil] enslaving most of the wor1ds® economically, as they destroy all 1ife on our planet. T natret Loy "B ‘make the® beautiful dream of Shackasaxon o reality.” 1 mean we don’t - have to study. etugels and die Tigheing’this mendecue soolal besat? Nopel You Just. have to prostrate yourself and rself to Chrlst, yhatover the held Shug agunal *hing will be hunky dory, in an nesnoly nebuicus eyl Sov even tornal 11 i Jave s ‘There 18 no of Artor‘aill overything b © huzan ""hf e, ust ple o’ control ‘over- thia wor) s 1o SRiinad biine. as "ong sa they’oor Nandeurt and Blindfold ourseives and try EIneTagt b "oams o e Taet eneptorr. Hefbaludent- Unti) Justice Rolls Dowh Like Waters,- They bention that the flrst slaves arrived in Virginia in 1619, “The eine of the fathers have been visited on us Doyonaeven the bivileally alleteed third and fourih generation.” p. 3t Rol""6uruty the Bible cans be wrongl? Ii’a the mcteal Werd of Godi® Souna” Gogthans crersa lpTTr WALL. yeu know, 3o gy ave 1o aeRinister SHTHerE et "t yturs Sy amaclovt " Sreck of oor ! neienizigant oni o yoars iy and lost srac naignifigen Bt Ty g T en choven b sent he gAY son herei 1 T guess he didn’t haye any daughters! They l-n ‘made - from. some PR X “Tlalniet. God 1o poti, Mo must dove to and‘sassacie Inalans: Ho’s very: plessed with greedy snity sl sl tnd anio e ot w’sifinely £ rant. People orshlp is jokeifi Insaned 22514k vese he "Chureh of Jagus Chtiot 1p a slin of bope. a sign of the.Kinggon of Goa i our T% Barches to & ¢1#forent drusmer.” §;, 21532 “Tomi | 1t varches 1o & poychopathically self-deluding. ix gxempt drvmert Unfortunately; 11 o"clock on Sunday mornings is oftan the soct 0 hour {n America.” p. 32. Heyl It’s a rare bit of trutht s Church, in spite of slubering,‘sine and hesitatione, has Steelf’at tines to be salt and 1ight in the world.~ ibj](Thought Bombs 1 - Anthony Rayson 58.png)
![Hayte dater, wion T mave a Jitile T an energized - energized =, Beliglon 1s clst capttatien doesn’t co o the trowble of Bt 15 tae backs, they do herd brust of the evil that 1o Ve’re all black, sone are just. Tar oters. 1f jou can feel yourself as the sodrest and veatest biack foels, your wironesn seyrostets. 10 alel your Nriienees Lt 1o Libkeate your desires and flover S {11 T betog, To i your woteera asd sisters s an equal describes frosdon. It can enatle you lo traracend the sundane aad Soin the struggle with expouered dlgnity. I sluays enoy your very tiougit-provoitag letters. THLI Iater, buldy. tings, Antiony! Soiry for the delay n gatting Mck o you. I’ve finally fiatahed Lesue 43 and cnclose 11 for you. Fope you Find soaething of interest in it.’ I’ve continued 2y chil faing advice ¥ith an Arilele on caring for tables. Fow children are treated in this sorld §a & get subject of nine, considecing so sy chiliren are 1iving thetr ives under (yranny, supprecsion and a1l e of sbuce. F1n Clad to know you agree with a6 on how to trest Mids. Sleeping vith your children s one of ke 305t nurturing, loving things you can do. Ay dsighter and 1 slept together or yenrs, uatil tho uanted her ovs bod. She ia uat An wwaaing young voman, Loving, osttive, ful1 of gef-csteen, snd 8 friat fribta o 3 “weirét notione of child-resring. Thask you for the Sace Traltar femue e concept of uhiteneas as 1t 1z addcessed in Tace Traitor 1s one 1 v1ll addres PSPEATOT] It’a 30 true that as & “white persen 1 have been privileged a1l ay life, in iays Arat sre ien for granted and nover considered. It 14 8 subject very mach ority ) dseusston. . Greotings to your fastly. Keop hugping thase teys and 1) thea you love thes, wvery @yl Hate, g 515 - ca0, Givbons, 32 VON TV0, CKUADA. Here 15 a Letter T urote that vas printed In SEIU Aetion, the sonthly rejort to I Stevards, organisers, sctivists and Leaders throsghont the couatey. 1’n ot a aester-organtser, but T an 8 long-tize plugged-tn stoard, T take v esponsibilities very serlowsly, wrlting full explanations o seetiags, griemnces, s inion conpary dealings, azd distribsting thes Lo ay co-vorkers. You should refirect sone of your snergy iy froa the marrov focus of the union and xpand the sagazing to Include elucstioral saterial. What are organisations doing acound he ountry to o7pose the corjorats Juggernast? Mo sbout & requisr feature exploring %0 aspect of abor history? Tet’s xadical ze our aesbors. Teole are fod up With thie decades-long pendulun £ ceaction, and are looking for visble altematives. Unclowied anslycls 1 & race, yot Aehly vital, necessity iadsy. Son’tbe afratd 1o appear "tso radlcal” to your aesbers. If you lay the truth on be Line 10 Platn Eaghion, poorle Festomds - orony Bayeone e Tony. Thope £t by this Line you’ve recetved the tuo packages, one containing the book, AW NORL, and the other vith the back-issses of The Kateh. It took 20 a uhilie to put ogether thoso tack-aaiies, 45 mary Tandiord-forced soves over the years have Juabled the 14 tablotds together and 1¢’s rard to f1nd anything T cne of your dettars lately you nentioned hov your brother wae shackled, drugged, rd clestrosock *treated® by peyeriatrista. T fate pyeniatoyl! T Tegard it s the (orat. jaeuto-octence -- Yoras even than lying caueer nitvitisa, becauae paychiatry has e ear of tho Lav, Soze yeacs ago T ran into & forser good friend of aine, and T asked s Vbt he vas doings e caid o vorked 1n & peychiatric vard, and 1t vag his b to drvg cosle up the naent they vere taken 1a, whether they wanted 1t or not. 1 tald Ma he s a taai, and turned around and walked avay without another vord. Hevr talied to hia @tn.... Best wishes, Fred Noodsorth. s veual, e sate. ey . Tive read 18 al1 and fousd 14 very interenting. i](Thought Bombs 1 - Anthony Rayson 60.png)
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4y nane 10 Anthony Bayson. T'a 80 yere old, have & beilliant aod loving wife X
140 vorSertal seosy o rice Tietle Somd houss 1n the oods ana X've bees & el collector
fon 3 yextas T live in the south fubmb of Chicago, - Fanes. Toe wiate bms been
o e un wicport o0 s 1am o sy Jaaca, T'a s loog tiae mien atewsrd
G e T ity 2 ot teonis and oMt Ti'a your taele. braln dend WLl
Kovaver, 1 1o happen 15 be 41 marchtat, an AbolLtiontet and an Athoist, T
10 hontty Lice e prigue, Tesd and MERte Corataatly and 1isten to boseande csssotics.
Tie T tnink would be interested in hopes
egative)"to help ne bost P
177 Sen sending out nuserous eseayd 1o
o getting Tesdtmck of & critical mature (pusitive or
55 Eilting ovsession, I's gratersd (dead) to 11 those vho've written back
i, renatng tone of e on milings, printing and buping sines, T sov feel
resty Ao provitgate ay o sine, Using the Taiest techaology (sn slectric ypevritert)
A na aE1e aesietante of a7 nine 7o 014 son, Stanton, will ov, Micking aid
A eiting, put v Tavinge 1nio the Whrligi of the papernet. Stanios vill do xhet
1ithle graphica yourll ses.
Erara sort of 110136 rod hen deel, as Ll of ay old friends are either alresdy
dend, on ihe 1as oF somehor adtuated to 1iving the e, The vary fow frimds 1 do
R’ are not Intersoted 1 pariicipatiog 1o thie insan venture, altbough they do endor
Petiume1te Lockily, ay sife ia a refefence ibracian and. heipa 2o Jrocure Kritie:
O IELa a1 thosgh the doed 50 ses the Toiat of a7 purmuite: Ve aré Planning on
eeiing Flenty, To by o stupid coupiar for Christaa: Staaton W11 fesch ne how
et 50 T can bug people who refuse 4o comunicate azy othes vay (uhich in x
Rageasefialy Wigh miscer of peopies). Tin sure T will still use pen and sotetook.
S AL have s sanil, seLf-cerving lotier section of people uno 1ike ae sad Jerks
uho hate ae (4hich hould'sake a0 1ook good, too.) You my reprint, slagiarise,
vates o ke out of context saythin You 1ike - even clain 1t's yours - Jusk don't
Sonnas The vorde around: T will TI11 the laft cver parte of pages vith qutes T ke,
£y oven. (ot ready to Wrf) slip sone "poetry” in thers, So be foramamed.
S Eerested tn-the Adess of Tevolt, T craft ay pioces lo jackruamer thiosgh
the calettication of the nerican xind, T dontt thiak I'vo aisoed the existantinl
donthof suppersace parties and foottall guats, Thero's & better may to eojond 1o
ol reeral Tuah tovknis exteratpation than by toasting your television
Ty Fightl Suuiy, Loun, Tead, write, andiyse aad advocate your fosition,
sayvhore and. everyvheces. Make 1ife alierable for the nauely accepting throgh the
T welTvordch Tatiomality. Tho courageoun Tovelutionaries, peot od pressat,
neosihot. ihe globe. didn't reavide vs thels hard wen inaight Tor ua to igrorel
Sy in o s et . et vt e T 12 2 e Tk vt sy
o cover wrd stzuesle aguinsts Ya're Anericans! s bave the singilar riviless of
e ety o ke ey of w11 Tifer "Let's got off our ase and do o Jobs!
Lucy Fazsonst by & hoyon
Kivert Fazsone! Prors i
Auguat S, i T a0k
Sob Bromt
obie Toffasst Lets ot
T i e sigs (00 (0 sty chmati) i s s
b e ke AP e R
RO L
e R A e L
T e s e e
Dt e el e e e L S
S I e
“Thts 12 not fumay.” - Mayor Achard M. Daley.
e LIt e o et ot e,
Tialey farks pacisa, Imorancs, Lovelcssness and “Nadacss” b
Tisley Used to be & saall, old lows, opulated ty the progeny of sostly Gersan
drmigrinta” oo from the Lokl torgeaiale the bowes vere sodent dsiling: oo
Janis vers GLorified pestage siavpa: Fhose Flaces vere LIV 1n to death by Ths exploston
of children in the late forties, ifties and early aixties. Baby BN indeed.
I arcived 1n this suffocating, 70t aurreal tavironnant, in the atddle of this
birthing phensaenen, 1953, Tolitically, sost of the adulta vere cerlective rusctionaries,
Sbioebing. soctatal desans v1th superficial obsequiousaess: A ssall percentage of the
Lomapeopis are 1ibersl, Jounding out the ploture vers the usual atnute musber of
ataral sutsiders - the crsckyots, selcases, crininais, (hrill seckers, deviaats, lovers
54 TR en. A large nental inotitution as ite sain clain to-fore.
Vith & dtn bulb of cosprebension, the tranalation of secial vlues (schlsophrente
10 begin vith) lost all tieo Lo cantty, shen theoe parente stteaptd to force feed this
it e e e T et T e g bl warne |
and attention, baslcally sa thetr o, With the tasest raciat snd sexist aindlessness
Lo fortiy thea for the future.
But 1t vasn't Juat & racist, sexlet "education.” Igmorance of any usefsl informtion
of eniightening dexd vas Tauned on, elther through gross istnformstion or the fearful
“{thbolding of facta, The “facts of 1ife" were avelded ike the plaguo for fear the
Shildren veuid be uncoatroliably iroalsceous. The wedgs forced Deteemn the sexes bred
Terr, Frostration, alienstion sxd self-Loathing, ssong those uneasy ¥ith the sirveture
of ruality. ¥ho berumeaeyl Wt ag' U it of having the smes og1-
“1ly meparated sad any dovidtios from the U:A.5.F. den) piitieanly Fhdicul
conatart. The towm s 1ilyuhite, so.the objects of such venon vers
rarely visiied, toums suay. Blacks were sonsidorsd fike dungeroua Lepors, o bo swoided
2Fex 1ads ere fizated on Hitler and the mastixa, short-streulting
thete braine vith intellectuaily orippling anti-idens.
T vaa six vhen.the sixties began, oine shen ve wers alsost vaporised into radio-
sctive duat (Cuban Kissile Bgo Oriate) and ten when Kennedy's chickins cano homs &
‘Vhen the Chicao Blve Shiris vent on thel savage, nightly raapege during the
v, T vas almost fifteen. Tou msic idylite childhood:
‘Anybody with glasses, left.hasded, curly hair, braces, birth wrks, scara, the
wrong colorod eyes, & furny nase, swall, largs, skifny, fat or “bromsed= at all, vs
Subject to endless taanting. 1 shert, bject ta beliitiing cruelty’
Secause arter all, wo wers 411 igse "Aping our parenta’ ke o0 hov 1o
Tive on hate, For-ahasel This polacoed atasephere was prested over ly obliviows
parents, aicroscoploally sinded schoo] sdalnistratore and wderpaid, hogtisd teschers,
iiled'vith purpesofully wntrse ourrioala, Rany of the sdulls vers aticklers for
moronic ules, yet unsware of the teva-side pechological holocsaat in the making. It
Tt the Tolled doun esence of shite sulture. 8
'What 434 children do *ith theix tiae? Very few tried fo'sike compeehdosive oense
of tholr surroundings or resd sch, ssorph conic books. Ve did vaich fons of television
2nd grovp togather often, io play,’ Tinley vas atill a beckuater fom, hardly comected
Lo cRicago. The Rock Talasd 1ine stopped in town, s0 you sould soxsate downtom, or
the other vay to Joilet, The sasll fom ataosphere was intaot and furas buffoted 1t
fron surrounting comsunitiss, 4a well as forest peeourves. Our sister tow vas Oak
“Stroke" Toreat. ‘mich of these pospie wmiil ve got 10 high ocheol. They
ere siatlarly ‘soparated fron thesselves. Ve played outside s lot, rode
our dikesy Tassball a0d toresred sniasie,
‘Spiders,acd enakes, lisards, insects, brds, crajfish, squirrels - you sane it,
pture and aake suffer. Ne'd stlck firecrackers in frogs. One friend of mine
bullt a torture chanber/guillotine for cats, I reacaber oue tiss, some of us ditched
achool, vent 1o the sos and got throwa oat. Some of the e couldat resist throwing
Tocks at the sonkeys. Ve saved our aeanest treataent for esthother, concsatrating our
Mind hateod inuard,
This evil behavior was veated fully when the flood of depresseant druga (becbitustes,
alcohol and herotn) becans commnplace, Vespone (vehicles and guns) added thelx terror-
ieing iamediscy. “Misd expanding,” pecho-sctive érugs, such as arijuass ond 15D, vers
the druga most hysteriéally 11ed about by the adulte, but 18 vas the “domers” that
were the rosl scourge of the young.
alsughter.
Dead-end 1ate teeas setually sulisted, Sane pareats reslly vers the firet ones on thalr
Block to have thetr buy coss hoas 1 & boxl The Tich got cat of 1t vLth “defersents,”
Juat 11ke during the Civil Var.
Ve hated those counle gosks and Vietooos and loved t oee piles of charred corposs
of thea on T, Of AI” The fact vo went, thers o comit
Saali 6im elapistonst Te polltical cactogss festared Ohinens “cousunts
Soaring Tonta dooning, Sotain g ooy saiees b shels ks AFir A1,
15y e boind this shels Vistasn thing, you knowt
ke Sk, ek v ot et v s & moatrons s,
ves 3are 1. reve dange, Pty ani1y? Ty sook drvgn
et sone one, Pot aads ....ur.:........:z rcelia. " Soms of s gressers,
Uitcariok ki airesty u secoss vy shy o onog & macken 1o e
‘Sictapaned aginet & dalydoss of slasghter fron Vielaas, there were Lnklings
iviag o2 dove,” Mate Docuse Aeanisgrul.
mostly in the veods. Vhen the cope invaded. our
Gnsally scatter fron our boafire without ca
the fire for their arcival.
Peopie were wnder selge, bt
41d, tended 1o steer cloar of the ssoctal
£ 1atit Tand of dotmers, thotgh. Vhen roder oz “iusies’
Josk outt After ity youtve g o vaah fen dows wlin chusp wine. Prvstration fron
Aguacance, Popelesenios, lovelssaaees and viotiatostion, Fhgsts G crashes, viciois
£lentas e-afie s tigurmace e aeui. Oacdoes, sicines nd deapi s
“Those frightened 1nia viten conforatty, whlked o Hght rope of scors sod vigtlance
sgninat tonpation. e ure e “socaities+ Thay believl L parate Lt ol
271 Juana wia the guteway 9 ruination. . Ty saw . srouad then Ghasclve and
Btartad. vith the.evid vend, Suly hay ¥are young, iee, Aed couldars aveid
Suapod in ¥ith the Feet of s, Thay had ayen and sars, 0o, 'ises and lesa of thes
Vantad 4 o o Viotnss, sspecially after sesing & nelghbor, {riend or loved ces sone
Vack dead G voundd, peyehotosically destroyeds T+ seeasd the whale. tave xas
Perehalogieally destroycd, “Dessthing io nok Fight, but shats ihay thought
ety of these eona; sapecially’ the fallows, vowd up expertacating wiih jot,
anpeay Toeg eveey sk GOB 4 ekt 10 sntly P back 1ot Soal stgned
Vorker slots, provided ty cpltalinnst conpaniss. The pot dida’t aclt thels alads.
Bilag gratefid, they settled for 1ife-long omservative o-thisk. Obviously, 14 dida‘
xpand shetr mioda, sthar,
'aa Tor she icorrigible ssss, they'd float acousd Lo the muats foatimls, making
« netoance of easeiven vith shelt vilent, doped-out, igrerant behevior. Atirition
et tn. Overdose by tarbituntes and Ml becane someen, “Fick, “Angel Dust," IE7,
ok, D, ete., often tarned sany tato sosiea. Some vers gung-preseed tato prizn. g
et i kocat Fesched anbiafabie seeta. Like ckals Froving on ihe bskest
e uinceebls youns aen snd wonen ers sucked nto th pophotecical il
ooy Sueh) peanings bl in, Tt vas Mo (king your ofck or dndured dog to the vet
Ravs ten el dostro thon - and get BLLOL for 1. Tiriey Pk ) “uinklizg
Farta® my oLf friend Jerry Schaldt used o call 1% - he overdoses on horse.) had ite
L ot or rhciTbiy. ook Loot oula vere Kidmapbedy drugaids snd
eocessety and sint 1o 20 escapdsis Inattuticna.
TrCEtoees b4d, nasel BLLLy SO, couldn's ake it sryeore snd
et o v st eindors T ihnk a Momael Theses o dled: Sulcide vas
imThrgs. Sios g ouk of tovad dearal, One uhe ook over % mper route When
et aate Geecgs Aves ook this opbler, e she & sonstive gy, tho cnce cared
o ambarof orpane Faceosan, M vis sngged o bo sarried. 1 venk
held at the house he was staying at. Befors the sun rose again, he fired u sholgwn
e e AL Yttoriny Ma.wrain, sane h bitreon all; A friend of aiseat
ooty Hesd's skeL Ints b bas, 1 th shovec. She 1ived & vecy loveless
111 Wer sister, however, nanaged to break avay. She married & Mlack sas, sgainst
e fuatiyte Fastet wiibaes ot the el ovt and experienced love sad hmen decency.
DL i ¥ her e raky. v ovardosh vare suoideg o wirtaral Who Knowar?
Vino. a Slaraing mimbee of Tirleys street ete Towmd dos. Soncedy
ran than-shor V1th 3 our o they vors fousd. Fouen
Tonaes "Bty Satod for society's brege. - Bdien vero Toud
1oThe oot o shey vere diepoect
of the lstest desth. “How ya deinT* '*I's still
52 it meve Tamponed. Tnler's bekone spscal
Tt nymane., Bres hing 1s on the coanarcial p ad. up Expnsivs
eion Tine up i’ accist the pissence ané sons of édie savagurs: “Life in karchinging
e e Te i e oo Sevat et That'a the defimitiye slon of mking 1t
ot Senened Teon- o siatikes in Tistoan, toor Bon's oLl ‘en ortors!
et only Drougy. Eralmessned porsmmel Oo A4 gve yuick (hypur whe] and gt the
T el S’ hink wbamtho are s sy peoducta. 1o gorge wpRTT?
e hocons of Ui, specires from e sixiien tad evenciest Ry bave
scattored 1. she 4ind Ko sthe siates - Worth Caroline, Tosse, Arisons, Vecomeln,
et oter Toaybre ragetya 1f aver, bard fron sgain. 'Seme vaco ovo stap shed
2t o -anyaag, - Sthars satiisd nesry d Fashioned soss SoEt of Lewrestad 1.
She'of the e SuiTioLn socialyteny v o Hellyuood and bocaan & Vg “amecess”
et oot astsid secoms Jiore snd sorntc situstion comedies. Sone efs ovbistence
ehent e, etin measged 1o wst & e, 8 vifo tod Kidec A1) oo often, sttemple
e peiathamy woted in siactable fatbice tod may) 1a. ihels fortiss, eill ive
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Lorngly ey Bt ieiog heaselve i seliing out 12 the Mimlghty tallec
et OLT Ul They survived, sosehon They rotacted thelc twsing and murtared
hemat1 on alorer Tn tha sidvrnece sroe found 1ove a7d weze able 10 becons
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areinen’s Lungiogs secebd Sutlesiiah an visLent Tob WAk b ¥rote s ferek
concrn or agars and i he Felr-sintad shoerver soday, reseabering the villary Vst
Ao 36 festribed ek th 15k TFerenos 4 o overcose, 11 appescs spprofeiste tnd
etosaiey.*Touta Ruchantas
T aa svare that nany oblect 4o the severty of = lesguage) but 1s thers ot
cause for sevarity? 1 will be aa harah as truth and so uncoaproniaing me Jotie
2 Viilien Loyd Garrloon.
“Our reckless couras, our eaply rant, ow fassticiss, has sade Abolittoniste of
508 of the beat and sblest aen 1n the lasd. - Vendell Phillips.
T vors’ Fossionss Toaros, snoach fo seETIody,
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Sochaia'of varlin: meeiceded Wbl death squsd eLicw Siaten, bhaldes sy’ S5
Thetr 0., aters. Ty Mo 18 CaeeLowly sk a4 sarve ihis o comirr.
men, women and childres to “enjoy® the fruits of "seconds” decadence. Their
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“I clatn for the asti-clavery movement.. it has besa marked by souwd Jolgemeat,
marring foresight, the nost sagsiour adapiation of s 1o ends, the sirictest
el-disozline, tho aost thorough 'and s anownt of patisat and mealy
arguent "o the conschence aod iniallect af the netion, such as oo other
catoe of the Kind, in Bgland or this coumtey, haq ever offered,” - Ugpdell Pilllipe.
“Ne have facts for thoss vho. thisk,: arguseate for those who Teasany but he who
“1 2 1n sarmest. I will ot equivoceta'- T Wil sot excuse < T will pot retrest
® ringle tach - AND X VILL I& JGUDI" Those were the Jussvorts of liberty.
- Villtan Lloyé Gesrtca,
¥ell, the Sicke won another gase Last night, contag fron behind tulee 1o vin w
7 - 6, even’though the sanager tried to Blow it, as usual, I had six tickets for that
Perforne U Tutehel 0 30 the Elnc Potty Tay Vicenk, aod maete-ar-serveomd the
Tlevation o Ut dootia, Dot Selis. K shits sods opeatt 1o Ko of Tike the
adnire the'textbook dleplay of the clasete ickst sean. One gy sonss
Tor tickets. " A half-block Som, another felloe, Alraculouslys is seliing tioketat
Wice try guys, but helll Rotchadork can barely give thess tokots wway. Wiy woud
anyhody sstusily pay for ‘eat
Gire started coning ot us,-belling!obiff: Poanita, papers, prograsts. T Sought
prer: Bclass, Tor o diar. "o end e soedd deelv'dilfary o K s, Tt
Vs ool ¥Ih ne, whatever. I imntod o read what the ress in the Hlack comtiity
1ad o say. The'front page prowieed information slout the Cosgo, Mgeria, Fritres, oto,
Teibme! Tist's
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Whito, whereas & Vlook beToke 1t Ua¥ MAIE whita, haif biack, - Kluo the strweture iteslt
18 constructed-along class 1ined. The. plsbetanis-are:seat, 1 the moosbived section, way
p 10 Duafuck, Klong & Windlng Tadp Ut Keepe then akay fron the good seats and the.
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Trosntions st contred
“Hey! I was about Vietaaal® So ends George Momney's once flowrishing 3
Fesldmtinl We. 12 st not scoeplatle in the Aseriotn political arsste
Vapla texta ihroughut crade soheol suger cont and render slawey, sivil wr,
sovolation, sighty ¥orld stiusgles, anto iasipidly sxplaised ~ihings,t Things ithout
Tite, Sunt codurring, vith lesertasy goversasat telstering reasose.” “GhI 0.
That's good - aice abd siaplal® Afier MaLE an hour, the sublect 1n changed. “Let’
Taurn vorda or mabare.t Tou'1l never Loarn axactly uhat Ma socurreds o sy, mueh
Ihoe 0w 1% o Seingrily natorsel Towl bu 4 s, Gui-riied eer,
conmined vith ouw prodeeta,
T overhascd & Comereisl so T vas teying to rest and oy elght yoar old s atehing
2030 stupld cartoon show, Tt aa1d sonething 1ike *tasching kids bow bsiness sarke.”
Tethers T2 bot T s aintetes, Froudly airus indoctrinstion, Tha talovision
1 o
“bid ‘you ses ihe maper, today?® "Toah, what adout 1417 “Wall,... what vas in 447
‘coupon for camed bixf. The Sox lost and soae cope had to Kill seas crazy
* Soother boay e day. “Xave Jou e stout saviaing going on 2 4y
‘countzy, svert™ I kaow that KL Salvador, Nexico voted for ihe contras, that
o had 0 g5 od K11, & while baski® "You're increlily kmosledgablels "I gut
magasiass.” You know, 'stout ubat's happening.” "0b, yealt, ibat magastzest® "Tou
koow, "eople’ T’ ewa? s
14 you know that the Hesven's Gate gy, “Do,” waa called Elser the Pul, behind
Ba back? Mol , Toll ma ll about 141° ““Have you ovar heard of Bast Tiaor?® *Vbat
£hat1" Anysay, 'theso castrsted dupes of this white gy, Delieved this Ldlotis stuff,
Eloafully golng to theix deatha, Salieving they vers shosen 4o 17t off 1nto space
for somo real great tises... Vait o aimbol That dssoribes ot uidte
‘are neatally, ot gyuically castrated. Tikesi* “You're
ialogy s verioten 1a polite
“hb 9. Boabi Auay, Toor Slinks Qut of Vistaen ”y
Arnold 3. Tesscs has written.a clesratghted account of the ending of Aserica’s !
‘4avolvenent? in Vietoss, Lacs and Caabodia, titled ¥ithost osor: Defest n |
24 Caabodia. Ho vas & years Long in-Field reporter remaining 1 S i ditter i
24 Thallcopter oweuation.) Thia is intensely inportant history, giving alr fo both
ides* views seasured up ogainst. the reslity of the situstion, sonething Azericans
ave striven o avoid, The lessons ~Learned” by Anericans fros Vietoan aod the lesscns ‘
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ught the zest of the vorld are cosplotely at odda, A thorough exaaination of this
‘i1 ‘conflict ts 1n order.
In 1962, Ho Ohd Mish aid, "I thisk the Anericans greatly under-sstizate the
steratoatiod of the Vistntaoss people.” p. 491, Averica never oven iried to wderstand
tnanese reslities efther, slvaye puiting theit Flight in the context of the crusade
ZAlnst suppmsed worli-vide comunist expaneioniua, The Vietnacows hovever, wers
osued vith brilliant Jaadership and a long Mstory agaiset foreign " Wharean
2o VistuasTas Asekica's longost conflict, 1t via Fistosate shortest.
Toasce® story begins 1n 1972. After years of Moody fighting, seccet negotiatises
o going on botusen Henry Kissinger and the North Vietasieos ShLGE negotiator, Lo Duo .
o, uing et iy tas boen pulvecised o rovle and the Borthe! offesive b
The Norih Vistaasess bresk the fogotistisg iapssss-ly resoving thelr dessid that
Da Thieu regise mat go. ALL Anerican "objectives” axe agroed fo.
FFcAFLC concrete demands of the United States had Sbon reduced to
T . .
Hissingar acciven ta Setgon tuo-daye bafers s 1o to flsalise the gricest 1
gt o o S Vistnincn, 12 Ingliah oy cop 1 ftered, o ot perenl
“iopl1ed sk coosent. 1 sontzsaty +The Commla, weze é1stctutlog and spiaistng
& oven b Shais Sou-level ‘catese 1n 65 10, While the Amoricans reruscd the sase
Teldsnen o the prealient of the slilel countiy whoseeurrivel vas A% s,
5 Seramares anti-seaisioaty,
it
rtered, conpered At to sl strocities, Lo fonds likensd 1t to Guernics, The Lendon
117 Vitror said the boabing -cade the vorid recoid in revideton.” p. 57+ Die felt
editorialised, “Evon allies sust call this & crise aguinst henity.” 1Md. The i
Chetstans Sosibing s perceived by the U.5. 33 8 sort of parting gift of destcuction
for the Thiew regtas.
"X new caase-fire vas estallished for January 28, 197). The agressent called for
the Asericans 4o contribule to the post-var Teconstruction of Vorth Vietasn without
any polttieal conditions. Tt also called for withdrowsl of . Vistaasese troops from
Castodia asd on snd to U.5. loabing. The cesse-fire vas igsored by toth aldes, Very
fou acticles of the troaty vero carried out, save for the return of U.S. peleosers snd
'3, Ginengagement. Tacs vas bosbed vatil the minute of the cesse-fire sad Canbodia
s ‘aasaively bosbed mtl) Congress prohibited 1t in August, 1973. Klssinger dvocated
Fosuning the boabing of orth Vietnan after the peace sccords, 1o pereusds thea to
So-operate in Lass 4ok Casbodta, but be s & 10 volf 1n the groving arasoic
Stasephare of Vatergate.
In Laos, 2,052,500 tans of Saab were dropped froa Assrican planes - egual to sl
the tonnage droped iy the U.S, ia the Buropeun and Pacific thentres in W II. *The
Slanea case 1iXe bixds, sad iho Moabs foll 1ike ratn.* To Veshington, this wia “arasd
Lon K61 held to the pipo drean that “Anerican B-52's aro MILng & Shouowsd eney |
avery iny aod the vz wil1 sbon be GWeE." po 219, The U.5. refused 56 acknoviedge the
“noraoun civilin sutferisg, Tnstead of swding f0od ank metioine, they loabed “the
ey and Laauad statonents: laiaing tho vietizs vere sdauately cared for.
The sxplanstions for ihis neghict vere Jariiouiarly guling. Farsscestionl
suppltes vers disabioved for foer of baving thes fall o Commiriat banda oz becsuse
iehse Yy the nesty sould cuuse s serioue sedieal problen. They fimaily offeced |
Tov houtand “Chocka® vitasina, “The aisecly reLiof stfort coineided vith the uiler |
drvastation of Gastotia‘s sconswr P 20, As the infra-stcuotare ey Fulsed,
Wyer-inflation Tetgoed.
“The fury of the beabing asd ta aialessness aade the Burogean community fesl that
the 0.5, 1ad fone “eraay." Fhore and nore, the Soubing seened o take an the qualtly
o e o 47 i Telicn colan s e Aercan g whn g i
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4. the hetght of the clissctic selge ia Pon Feah, “for the srivileged elite |
here vere.tormis atohes, aight slube, cxpenaive Fresch nesls, nd opilent trasdy~
= e S48, Fhnsa Faah vas o4 the Deight
sssurance of evacuation vas but & final betrayal.
£ Saigon via helicopter aftor a rato stgmal
(the slaying of ~Vhits Christass.”) Thelr Vistnasose staffes quickly cught on. AL the
od, Anericans vould trasple over the backs of Vietnasese, punching, Kioking nd
hoving thea sy with rifle butta to board their flighte.
“The Viotnsase used and cosproaised by invslvespat vith the Thisu regiae and/or
the Asericana, had o hard tine in "re-education caspe.” Nazy euffered the horridle
£ the "Soat Feople,” vanteriog the oceans, acceptable to 10 one, welcose |
everyuhere. i
ifier o pertod of retreat 1n the ald-70's, the United States begaa to rovise
tators and dotive "lessons” fron tae var. Ronald Resgan satd, e will never again
ok Soiag men o Tignt and posaitly dlo i & vaz our govermsent 1a afraid o win.” p. W63,
This protéctsd the folitictass froa the flasco, soothed military peofessionals wbo
ZOAMARC: wnderstand’ their fatlure fo “wis" and roclaiued that Aserica's “special
Soral Standing had not been tarmished, Any Guilt vas shaken off. lethargy to ast 1n
Tha world vould not be 8 problea. The var vas lost, not by Asericen waidity, Wt by
Viatrasbee tanacity and the legitisey of thelr striggle.
e Joason taught the U.5: Ailitary vas not 1o let Asericans suffer even modecate
casudles, sa the U.S, peosle WAL not take i¢, An all-vslunteer aray vas inatituted
o batiar tontrol the foroas. Massive ee of air ower vould be even Jore exionsively
Sorbiyed; kesping grousd trospe b6 & ainisin, snd thase vould be hesvily armored.
Faaatvd‘ansuy" camalies are nothing compared to one U.S. death (Smartekopt.)
Panaca had Triq vere masively bosbod. froa the safely of supersenic airplases or
off-qhate destioyera.
<O mother method of dostoying your eaomy L o create and train local Killing wnits
- (Vidtaanieatton.”) This was done in Argeatise, Gustondls, Joasbigus, Agola, Citle,
2 Salvador, Niciragus, oto. The School of the Americas 1 fo thelr peoples, The
Schadl of Abeasein, Tt Fhosmix progres vhich targetod alleged "Vistcong” for torture
anddaath, provided s training ground for aury future Anerican “advisars.” This kaope
[tho Aaarican puilic shislded fron beltoving in anything but Asericats Maflcence:
Going srouwst the vorld killing people, destroying the savizonzent, fastalling rutiless
Vo (013, poopls) 4o not suffer directly and are inforsed owr
sromota “himan rights." Grestly lixiting attleficld Teportage
12" anfokend o slisinata the uapleasant 1sages and screass of tmse vo lavo murdered,
z . xriting in his sesoira, the anti-var protesters (asd Congroos
iame for Anorida‘s defaat. Anti-var protosters were portrayed as aati-U.S.
Soidioc'and the effusive "Support Our Boye® caspaign in lraq served 4o aldetrack sy
toousation or Frotost of this vile Moodletting by sainstresn Aserisa.
“iaatngor shaclved hiaself of any eulpability by saying, e should aever bave
Soen thore ot all. But now it'a Mstory.® 7. 485. Gailty of ver crisos o Tunk ith
Thono g at Nurealurg, he ia & Nobel Frise winaer, rosected gueet oo Mightline and
Qdux lstatossan of the Ropibiican Farty.
Tha North Viotnsesa japor nevspaper Nian Dan characterised Nizon 3 “an ectraasly
bel142a48 ageressor, 4n intermatiosal pirste, & Toatnsoss Moodthirsty an aad
dangeroun Fotier. p. 20, Bseantly buried, bo vas acolaised by the .5, sress 88 &
Zoreign poliey gesius. Ab China asd Russia 1eft Vistaan 1n the Jurch in 1572, couying
40 idon, North Vietnas had thia prosclent apprateal of the welalist canps ‘For 8.
Countey 1o care for ita iasadiate and narror iaterests while shirking ite lofty
Sntarstioealist duties not saly 1a dotrisental to the revolutionsrt moveasat in the
Sorid Wt vil] Alao tring unfatbomsble hara to 1toelf n tho end." p. 21, Vitness
Bussia todsy. It'a people are satiag out of gurbage cans, ita sconowy 18 1a & free
Tali, ‘st usting to 8 ssacket sconomy:*
Tha Anerican ublio ot atressed out fros having neshovs snd cousine, nolghbors
. and sona retarn fros thelx one-yess stint in Vietaaa horribly sltered. Suly, shell-
Shocked, drug-addiotod, doesly Lrsuastised, hoacless spectres, injured or desd lnside
2 box - they snomyaously Tespoaced. Thetr localities wero going Urough o nattoavids
Sadacia ey TVioto eing the ptuce. e vaz 1 1o sy, e Asican peesle
crted "Unclel” .
2 Upon Satgon boing ronased Ho Cht Ninh City, & alow return to huan weloty
ocourred The legacy of death remined and continues o baunt Vistoea. Moro Vistnasess
Citizens have died aftar the var froa wierploded U.S, bosbs than ell Aserican deatha
duriag the var, Dioxin and country-vide ecocide his'seared into the quality of 1ife.
Their birth-raiss renain lov, tholr cancer rates are high and hideous birth dofects
aro comon. A 1n Irag, 1% the children ¥ho today still suffer grestly fron the
Tewslt of manive Auerican tarrorisa, Bxcuse so, I seant o eay, “Asarica's defenae of
rvoden sad zespect for huasa righta:
"o bad to destrey the village o save 1¢.” - 3 soldier 1a Vietaaa,
of Mot
ou! Thia 1a the coslest video gase ever! Just like the stmulators in the | 8
conserctalst Be a1l you cta be, LA LA LA L4, in ho ax-ar-neol®
014 you see thoss iy parta fiyin' 1 the alET llo cooll”
“Danal de*ze outia sissiiest Vhat do ve o1
“I'L1 2ok theoagh the Field glasses. Has... They're protty woll sandilasted to
Roll. O valil 1 ses n white lagl Soneiedy's conin’ out vith thelr hande wpl Quick!
Pire the machine gui-
“Vat are ve gonnn do vith thin sens ve nader”
“cail the Lieutenanti®
“Liestenaant! Vhat do ve do? Ve'ro out of rocketa.”
“Have you sustatned heavy casusltioet
“Noi Jobason's got & blced Wiater on his second inger fron holding down e
trtgger g0 much.
“low about the emezy.®
Moat of *en are dead, but the rest wnt 4o surrender. Vhat.do we doT"
“on't take s
“Hhat about the Sodies and stutrr~
Votvo ot ya covered, Thera's a Wldoser battalion right bohind you. They'il
by ‘en al1 in big heape. They son't ourvive tat eIt Ve'll send the am truck
Vit agre ocketa, overle
“oali Overt®
ZBoy, 7ou gotta love the aray. They're oo damn effiotentl®
“Sergeant!” Bad neva. Ne'ro supposed o s%op LGAIRE."
et Ve're Just gotttag into it. hat happesedii™
“Ther'co snying ihe Frecident vest seft on .
“Nc, Prestdent, you've got 10 let us contious. ds've got ‘en set up for dissslution.
They'zo fiah in & tnivel, 'aon, a'son, c'menl Doa't sake us stepl It's o classie
HTitazy campaign of sxtersinatisn. Tiis o textiook! Ob, Bleasel C'aon! You ought
C27100% UaFF over berel Lat wa-use 141 L4 addan von' know bat ML hial®
“0n husanitacies grouds, 1'n stopping the var, The world aight think s're brutal
o sonathing. Tt's the vision:thing, ¥ sk, Ko Amny prisoners have you takeat”
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~Vol1, T'a sorzy, At any rate, stop it. They've alresdy agrood fo suender
mconditiooally. ‘Yowve got to go neet Saddua's represantatives. The Tent ia alresdy vp.
“This is iada euddes, aia’t 147 Jesparal IL'11 take s fou hours for the gms to
16 dom and T want 1o finish the sorties ve have scheduled for today.
Vhatover, Dut roacsberi It's t1as to close up shop. Ve don't vent sy sor
ALFight, alright! Yobody's died 1n & wesk, though, snd that vas friendly fivel”
ordec
“Gentlonent Ve got 16 quit, Tha Chief’s guno soft.
“How the hall are e suFposed %o get aedals and promstions without battlefield
expertencer”
“FIUE up the reports. Vha knows vhat reslly happened? The jress oure s bell
0n'41 They ovalloved theis daily doss of b.o. whole and vagged their taile.”
...4nd now entering the Tent is the fonorsble Brigadier Geseral Araptt Varceoffi™
oot sou, Ny namo s Sadase Nussein
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“You. o in meried to %7 sister, Ne has fuoked ay sothar and shot sy fatier,
He's tortared xy brother asd grased xy dsughter. I'a hia peraomal megotister.”
“T guean you'll quility. Nao Saddan dean taught a lessout™
Yoo, He vaa geite thrilled with the fireworks display and oven dined in hls
Somb aheltar once. ¥ thosght your bosbers wers Juotaarvelous. T frotably shouldn't
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4 sort of 1iks being alloved to kevp our Fistols:
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A Weskly FeeSpech Foum Sinca 1951 g{ H '§
College of Complexes [ %5
The Playgousnd o People Who Think 5182
Saturdavs Presentation at 8:00 PM. b4 A8
33t Modern Day Abolitiosisa
Muaws - Anihoay Rayson, polifc sboriessans
Jool Ipatse's Tk, Priday, fay X0, 1997 i
Juzen Ko tatroduces foel on behlf of 5.0V, (Students Aguinet Vhiteneas.) Jocl
hao writien iy the Trish Becase Vhite, and Kioog ¥ith Jom Garvey, sdits face Traitor
L, ta o Shoian wntienst se & soSLy
Soel has_ Just von s Fational Sock Avard for Jase
The Civil Hights oveaent "legally* abolished racisa, on paper ampiay. Tho vord
“White" vaa sbricken fron the constitution, Today, the New Abolitionist Profect i
to 1dcatiry, challenge, defy, disrupt 4nd Finaily destroy the Lnatitations that
reproduce Tice, suh be the Facially farselling of lob refecences, trasking, red-listng,
racially loaded S.A.T. - type eating, eaclunionary sractioss of irade nions, ote. |
The ressons £ stiack “Whiteseas” are niaber sne, 1t4 Sleneatal sorality. - TN, Tacten
108 Tundanental. diptraction in dexling vith aio soctetal prodless, In Aserican |
olitics, acton 1o all-pervasive, It 1s drumed into everylody that, black sales are
Criatoals 4ad Viack fesiles are asorel. Vithewt the Folasning interfecence of race,
Feople could aociounly sddress their Fosl protiess. |
The pre-Civii Var Abolitionists varo the seat succssstil of a1l US. revlutiemctes. |
How could such n sanll group becoms so FoveEful?
Aiolttiontsa bagen So Feceive the organised iapet of white eople 1n 1831, with
the pubiteation of the first Lasve of The T il1ian Tiopd Geceison vas the
spestheading Toroe in Uis effort, Mo jroved 1o be an Wncoapromiaing abiitioniet.
To-seainal sventa ogourred during this tire. A black aaa, David Maiter vrote s i
JouerTal Appesd 4 Mlack slaves, Which case Just short of belng & chll o arms. Kat
‘oppose’
Sx-ilaven, They {1t thens people should bo relocatsd in soas other comtry. Gerrison
4 first shared theas Milefs, Tut acks convinced ha that they belonged 1n Shis |
Country, "The slaves fud setually built this countcy, and vere native o L, sany for ‘
a7y gunerations. The Slack Abolitionista lectured arricon againet sny fors
Eidjan 7. Tovodoy vaa murdered by & o ransacking ha hose 1n Alton, Dlisets, i 1837,
hla viclent reaction by whites wes Froof o the dlitionista of the effoctivenees
SF thais unconprosiaing oettion, Wiy did white nots stiack shest Vhite peogle vers ;
108 £ believo that the abolition of slevery would break up the unlon. They also -
“hjocked. to Sonplete iack swaLity. Tmuigrarts. wore afvasd fur thelx smnogoly sf fte.
Tn the 1000's, adolitiosien wervent & pelitien) diviston: Tb oplit over the
10us of vosen speaking in pAlio dencuncing dlavery. The Griské slsters sod ytia
PRt Ghuli, anatg othece s vecy Stostive wEiiers and. spuskera 1n the catae of
Iuaan decency and frosion. They defied the curions of cale/femls osgragation. Ths
initiative Yy vosen was denowacud by the srolastant churches. Soms 1n the sovencat:
thought 11 would dlacretit akolitionisn % allov vosen o spesk Fiblicly in thelx nase.
Voaena® 14beration vas theo 4a aven sor Meghasous conoupt, than full musd righta
for slaves. Garrison srgved for woasn, To bz, they Mist bo sllowed 0 opesk freely
S0 publiciy, aa atolttioniate, No rojected the path of secial “rospectability.”
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In'the 18%0's ad *50%s, restotance to slavery took on auay foras, sich sa the
Tatizoad ant siave resoues, sto.. Toass tolitisnist astians gave conerete
il1aot Vanted. uhite vorkers to bo *free” of slave Competition asd jroposed thia n
Congroas. This brosght. o the fore the coafliot of Slave labor sad wige labor.
Slavery sargimalized the vags systea, So, the gush wea on, fot to only ban slsver
ludo a11 Vlacks. 5o the “aoderste”
cruotal mosent. 1n Matory and proved effective.
Slavery vas eliainatod, but racies easina estrenched. After Lincoln'n assassination,
Andror Johnaon let the South off the ook, Backet Vlack laus and vacrascy Lae, Sia
Crow soctety and KX vigtlants *Sustice,” derailed any hoe of gemmine Tesonetruction.
27gue that xe are on & GuLE trip and that ve're Lgroring the clese nature of sepltaties.
V.5.D. Dubois vas & Harxist, but he fully uderatood the unique yosttion Tace s
Peld in Anerica. It behooves us all o shine the Kileg lighta on it end stazel
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Stemn goes on to recount how 1997 s the ntons Ro s
26 recruiting sev seabers goos. Ten thowsand nev vorkors vero added to the wmlon froa
thecontral states. Nl €14 say real vages for vorkers has
staguant for the last twenty-five yers. fo said BUL) Gates has 507 20ney in his
Sank accounts than the entire gross ationl product of Ceatral Aserice. Pertesp
rage inside! These death squed “flegling dosocracies” belp U.S. compenies Tun sooth,
Profiteutld enterprises off the super-sxploited labor of thase countries' werkers.
On’the averags, Aserican C.5.0.'a got & 204 raise last yeur, Mo saye Rougun hd it
A1) vrong. " It's not "trickle down" it's torrenting up froa the Jockets of the needy
%o the baak sccounts of the greedy.
Stem lista. threo things o iscrease the over of the labor sovesent, Musber
on 1a health care. Our union aust put preasurs %o bear on sansgunent o insure
Feivatising ou ot
Vo rodsce the Waspons of decteustion wlesohed 8
18 an exmaple. They're the folka vho Wrought 12 $630.00 toilet seats and the $7,500.00
Soffen pota for their F-16+1 Those Guys are now gotng, to aiks velfare *afficientl®
0w noner oes o our penaion fuad % g o Companies that are taking our obel T
don' . hink tna 1a go0k For our Tetiressnti So eaya Antrow Starn
support ther denocrata or republicans, abosver 18 pro-union o3 &
He"2ayn Jeople who ke over F100,000.00/your. have b 0% votor Surarout Tute. Vorkers
vote-at 173 that Tate, Now, vy the hell i thaiTT? ‘Ta it aybe st the lavs,
(iritten & layere) the couris, buataase and. the "domporatio® pitical yaten ia
17 s o L Voo bt gt wocke gactios v s deiniain tapct
in Anericar Neverl, Giving Ti¢ nonay o supposed eny Legisiators 108
iato of soner, Let'a segaaite on tae ieckal Lot's wbe direot Astionl What
S nout efferitve veapost 14's the stcike, Hothing paralyaes captalisa like
ik, When
hie cohorta doss aa T-Syy musber vith tresch conta and wmglasses, It's Kisda funny,
The Mlack guw reatnds me of the bodyguard for Hucy 2. Newton in the Runther's hepday.
PRAL (xho 1o vhite) saye the cospaniss he aust deal with give hia the old tired
25
1tas abost how thy have 1o coapets W1t non-umlon security contractars, MLl thinks
by our poaition, e aust wionize these non-union Gecurity guarda. It's the
20 Sick brokes Tecord. Companies dre in wusinass solely o realise & profit, the
Tives'of tholr xorkees and their faailies sre of sscandary (or worse) consideration.
Hext up 1a” the Dounstate Direotor, Al Ploper. Ho reainds evegbody that this
wesk astka the sanivessary of the banging of the aysarket oartyrs. Novesber 11,
s boun co-opted aa Veteraa's Day. In Goneda and eloswharo, Lt 1o considered
Reseabrasce Day, 1n bosor of these krave Chicago Anarchists, wbo were ratlroaded lnto
o bangata'a noose after s kangtees court, Twir courage inspired lagtons of social
Justico fightars aroud the world. dayday (Wy 15%) 1a also 1a horor of thea. This
ook aleo 1a the amniversary of the 1909 Cherry, Nilinots aine dissster, Tvo handred
and £1fty-nine atners vers killed in this tragedy. He also nentions Woiher Jonss,
logonéacy fighter for freeion ead Justice, ¥ho is burled in his neck of the veeds,
* literaturs. T vas plassantly surprisod vith thes vhan T veat 40 Speingfiald recestly,
- ‘The next sposker wes Ciristine Soardaaa, who 18 & lawyer for the follway. She
Topresented the publie osctor workers, shich the tolluay ia jart of. Six peosle came
out uith large signs that together spelled, P-U-B-L-1C, Thair asssage is that public
© workera descrve decent contrsots and respect while doing & diffioulty Laossitle fo
- Ploase evecybody.task, al1 the vhile having the soven-hesded hydra of the state as
a0 eaployer, o aust sboord the iajact of the publi
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The orkers asd soldiers vanted freedon froa Tsarisa, capAtilist SO0 WL, LT AT
anted gemmine voruatst dosocracy thiough thetr cowrcils (soviets) tousrde & BeLter
rubber stasping whatever
Yife, The Tolshevita ticned the sovists inta seck couctls,
A Bolunevi hherasehy dastnded. AL other parties wero suppressed Uheoudh BuTTEr:
crushing even “the flove i other narchista and
Ereedon-loving fighters for soctal justice vere Tikeriss Lgul
the sxecution squads inward 1n a jaranold illios of vorkers,
e trorowainy cantrol1ed) vere none-the-less fossed Lato the vartex of tho Stits
e e mase of ~communian. ALl suthordty is inheriatly erilt | The (s
o e he vestars h soctety ithout goversaent is the bestl O course, whgneves
foople dsvilope these pocket of recdos, autiaritaris forces drom thes 1n Hood,
roving® the need for authorityl
e a oot i34-dying vorld e Live 1n. oot people 1n thie cowntsy oo’
renlize bt the uarld goeetheough on our account and hey sre conditicacd sot o
care or ant o know.
of oppresston ace much sore conisant
Black people, dus to thets wique histary
of the sestily of inta world and hov Taciat systeas operate wder thie caplialisd
Gomtry. “ihites” overshelaingly fall for sess fora of the &
oo couatey iands for dtaooracy” and “hunaa righta.” If 42d whan the Tevluiioe
somsmer st i3 be 1od by Blacke, voaen, other people of color, but tat “uhites
CEREEAt peoyle vii1 no longer cosslder thamselves “white" and Vi1l flght slongaide
e maburt) wrothere and sisters, Af social and econcate progress 18 1o be Did;,,
‘tantitution vaa felt froa ita centre
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e - ¥.B.D. Diloto.
I should have been
“Slavery 1o xrong,” he said, - "KIll it.
‘ranchy givo 1¢ %o qurter,
“1£ a1 the bullots that bave over beca alsed ot 3o hed Nty
28,6431 of holes aa o riddl
Deas Tony -
‘Thanka for your
ead the srticies by Bobin D. Kelly and Vazy Foulke ood
17 811 thrgo, Thsiva vero vell-ressonod, deeply perceptive
T matestie, I ax witing for a swsoription fo the Wi, I wender s1eg Eboil
ook e safur 1o Bans, Teaiter, Nov can T got thaty In hat the bnok uhlch the former
T Fope you & Leslio know well when she Wil have surgery.
tion goos woll ¥ith her.
oo ey a1t - snd g th pe £o8 o2 tobnd
youra g the tors Toues wvet g 3,
Tatte fron sy mele. T thisk hota 79 yesrs old and still lesming ell be cans Send
rreon e hen raltor, 7,01 B0k 603, Casteidgn, Ma G21K0-005. OF send $20.00 for
four Lesuan of the Journal, It coass out awwut v
Dear Tonyt
Pranklin Rosenont. ‘Surz
kene feess,chicage
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268z Tony ot Uh Lakest abu - you are i’ e as - sa oppsed o st oxt
theze uho are Gbi1] oot Kein --." 1 doav gor Seriin met seek ok fo somtn sty
froa cola Chicago - o o renew 1y Buropea comtacts - un b st s be dov o
2eLp the franchlass e the vrid. A warge i svry Sebvoon Peboilirs sace more
lcas sathod of rarecring i slase vacTarer Bae - sorkeofomite .
prctreiget o elase werrare, Bae s gt
The Abolitionista vero o g2 - dom eoen and Vonde FALLLE ve 70 o pecton, the
due fro: canservative hsoriuas, Brom Siot vy be the SFekt Amerions ot o
sinalo-tandedly elge precipiiats the nebices Chvl Jv.” Tess sers JorLe wh sond
for sonething.” 1 s Thiak Aserica telioves in bravery - 41 1o Fin & oawe
T o et e i o e a7
vt Loaing
dumy.dowm aati cocyorste headquarters, 2018 v, Sloontngisls, Chicaess Ty 60817,
Aatrony, .
Thank 7ou for the ackage, poetaarkod Asguat 29, I'n glad that there 13 soze
Stanrt Going oa asongst white Yorkers touscda culturel ‘renent and poliHiesl shoeation
{0 8, Fogresetve yerapestive (1 haotitats 1o wan he sogd “Lertys 50000 g mth of
the uhtte left are 1n Tact Left-ving white,aupcesicisios mth . thoosy ok
R s o, et "hrprentv” e gk of s Wt o)
ave.ro lustons, Wit 1's oplisisti sbous Son proapectse The stugsls aghin
Leficring white s ot
8 vexy well done conferenco. Once 1 fintah, I'I1 sand cousente.
Feace, Grog Jackson, Mack Autanoay Intermational, 32 Beoaduay Avo. EI91S, Seattle, 98102,
e Anthony.
he Jast couple-3 wesks worth oo you can see wiat ue do. Detueen e-atl
& frechies around tom wd subs, we'ze up to shout 2000 resders & wesk on virtaslly no
3 » “ran .18 an astng
Foney. Kind of amaing. Velooss ek 44 tho vorld of canting) ‘Dous s msiag
9% Goor acriah, Bat The State, Seitle, ¥a 145
2
Deas Anthory,
‘Thaaka'for your letter ast the
2oant by “abolition of the
of Pysical way tnetesd of in
41 you Linet up everyons
African, you could not gosat
It's an'unbeoken continga,
government have thi huge affors
I-9 forns, college sdsisatons, ste., eter) T
0 Atbory -
Toan fox sasles of your sk sleng x/ the bck, Eaclesed 10 Ut 3
Kgor, Wy despeat gratitude Tor saring FALAMCRL 1o pereelt suet ou ST SRATATION
Sincerely, Susan Joren, JOB 243961, Anchorage, Alaska, 99526-3961.
Do Antheny,
Thanks for the lettor. It raises so many questions, I can't hope o answer all
of then. Essentially, I would says 1. Anarchiss as & political progran offers no
o e e, ke o Mt Tt il o e
Tou 559 Juaping together Dolabevin (Loin) ¥ith rovistonisn (1a1in) when they are
profoundly difformt. I's sundiag you & fov of our Jourals, vhich desl ¥th toth of
e it T ke it e ol i ol on i oy ettt
seainst xacten and tho ractet capttallat eystenl Reveluiionasy grootlnge, s 01,00
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A Note of Appreciation frol
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nfie adasages ve e over
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Joba'to our cconamy. And a0 ot to
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MAAWELL S1REET FUREVER!™
16300 ere orced v i e, wht v you ik
ot iy priieged cliqe wha, skl fo mtes o mlice
a0d red, planned 0 esro e s cu Tt s he
it 0y rgating Chicgss b Maswel St
“The imnioent destacion of i garios cenry old
perait market s veaicned b e sasrcabl o s
1he ety Unversty of lins o Cirle Cusps, ied 20
abeed by a scacy hat s pracically syneym o doing.
he wros ting: the Chicago Cly Couad.
“Tht Maxwel e s s —tn oo fesdor sod-
plessoe 3 wastcand of misery sad bordar—is o of
ot phain, ivesally-ageed-on st we ek 13
argo sbout. In 8 socety ocrasingly e, f which
poie e v seadily nvadin s ey ook 1o ey,
Masvell Suet euins K o e erery wher i
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The Surrealist Growup
Cbicago, October 1993
CHARLES H. KERR PUBLISHING COMPANY
Estabiisoea
1886
1740 West Greealeaf Avenue, Chicago, Tllinols 60626
THEE PIRST Pach 3¢
Thealyy en the cover s obviously tn trouble. He has two o
Epedos on his heady ita, he'e got
%2389 aeconds before he ateps an s land atne,’ snd pebas
@ TArevork going off Just about five feet awagilililitliT
It Looks Itke ou friend 16 18 0 cpot of troble. Let's hupe Mo good
©1430 hia 0 good tesd, Tt sould’be & shae to seo s Jeaty gl tern
Y0t & Feeling wa baven's seun the Tast of Uh mechy e
0,411 you slout ay other son. s nase 15 Stephen. Mo Lo tre years
Tt ke, o ssley drnik cgnos, iay an b sonpoes <o send e “Ba's %
Ha hhresay 104 ho's clising C1ght nekt to ne (shvisg avtevetione) Fhoms s
e sdvion? 1Ty Phln’ Suton.” Nothing ke srecirs ooy
fera o8 M fesue eut bfore cebting sy endtask stst 1, as T d o Lot
1L, 0né santed to cay sare fusts For those of seu n Sain, L' sorry 1F sou
Thatrs S7n SO ol 41, Tht Seike oy thrg peevented s roo seing Setsrmien.
Eorey Lo o0 eksin, 1 o ok o T'vh Shesied 1 eseive ik Sevs ovesins -
Tor e ahatralia, Stz s ubere's, you - sntecs ag you dare Fescapir
A1 bt Srriter] T dants uve a1 Ut soppelig U et - BaE pebters.
TeToor vtouid. miggest o 1 of you ot thre e por oo sh s ks sk bt
Rte Temmpabaes and sistars, oversens, They"re siaLeing for seek nfoviation shost
nd e o, ULy, Vo't Gk o et then nmw vhat reet rople shinke Toutie
oyl ghves (hon's rcrlesed, Jauntices vies of seaLliy in Anoricn, Tty
Mo S Amecietn maic.” o'cotia Gt the o meekc o i Sbebe s oot sbtar,
o tetrae 00 Yocul: They‘need £ kooe Shat weres bk ere shesgong sad seackly
Aeetouns Going 2iout . Therire counting on 1 sho he onp et oF Do rr
oF reve s ShUsare. Yo w11 Tind 14 1a VeL1 worin 1t as-shey sord o0 4 oxproaton
Drciren s24 Ieartfelt intarest in what va dor. They sven30-ve. the 1ol oF Loetring
P ppen s Ly hnow el ok ot o lexe ounch, Germn Fenish ster
53T 12 standing on ha hair nov and playing with bis peter Nor bevs nessin
Coneeptebiactle and pens, "10"c Just se aud RLA Tieht nox and fox sove vencon aY
Wo'a”teuly & vonderful Joy 1o ua. X oo going oo b1
At toun falr, one'of Stantonta frissda fron school (o
o o1t xkin us at o jionlc takle, They chatied for a Little while
Ber” Toue Ao Somethlag. ' Then she Looked hard st e sk said 1o Stanton, ~ihat 10
7 hour dad o your GrandmT® Stanton restgnedly eths ohg dador
Ay, $hls daou wL1 fcus on Shse s5uth Frcas ek, s £ houstng end
the “rust Ll (= and gansrally ‘. peepie are Joerer snd Lo
luent porth and Yoct suburbe, Thers e joskets of ealth
Sround hore af fe1L 88 suburian ghottos: Nousehald mecessisise can be s 4 1ot Shesper
Gectamer epatodte HELLY Shops.” Our Loya and clothas dontt bave 40 0. expesLres
ToriO 3 heled Folntiess aiatia tyots 1ike oo many others Toc Sompeline be Jop
e ety ot forey resiaucante, ‘sonputer slores, o1, ate Tecsted in e seet Subicies
oo aad 5,12 Borth. " The venets 1o not s ihiskdy Layereds Fouds renty Tund oon
Gerpe SIS EeE dom hece. o'xe Closes 1o the Tucmerss 1h diencs ank shinking:
TeciTyTian ¥age slaves vbo 1ive Tron Taycheck £ payeheck. wiih cruasier schoole and
fieilities. Thure’s vne destitution, tevelestrect, Seopones el
Feople i the sity are trusching e o segueatared.
e e, % Eurive i are. satch Sierision and foud
oo Riahtartly anyons has'ever heard of sine o een’cxpoukd 40 a15ermative
et e paTeine: Thls may Sccount for . sxbcene dinguet ioh sootowss Feosle aut.
ons toe g0 conpastnantalized and fesctud of others. Ti's Juot saddening. Fary don't
Joox fox uant t0 kaow) their nelghior, The feax of personsi Mara 18 slnest FIpAMLS.
4 = bt Tt say soud like 8
Fear of Yowght 1a athological. Soctety has thes well coved.
broken record, bt 1t deons 4o ne, blacks are wn
the challeago of s open exchango of Ldeas - 3
Ipt, that I'm preduitced agatnet uhites, Hell! I's very white.
disappoinied in Wiite pmoplest inabiliiy to cipe vith soctetal Mratmmashine.
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a0 hors s San e paraatens of ehoton o son ebois b,
monted l:ll::.n. - the corporations ll\m;:l. and the -r\n:;.—l- (banks.)
ety 1o shoepion . e male o Mt S
Jotaing et et S0 (2 rabits Sececy o ebiming adverttog.
), Fobite el irisinatory SatTon ek eFfets Lot Seet e rerh
ot iue ok -Ou aneetn 1 ‘ather o aCeee T otiny
Al ot iatended 1o dlscriainate, in fact has the effoct of deaying
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intasests to purous the grenter socumilation of
VA R TRSE. 411 the “Laxa,* nedln, ste: are stecked o oets Tovemr o ety
S Infuley T fllon 2 dictalos st doun for Shane Becte 1 dcemmeh trie thes
2ro taught to Bo servile, functionaries in satroprencurtal saterprises.
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Agnorant white ractsts aa o its sconoats fate. But it goss much desper than that. 3§
U8t a8 *WEL10" then “Tonogregated® oF even “integrated” sonsunitios Are Fiamed, 3o
15 this ingrained racten, “Corporations and tanks srchestrate hov salvent & comsinity
411 o, by axpanding bustneas or shutiaring thea, based sostly 0o their FroritbLILty
o the jarception of future rofitatility. As Macks seve in, corporatioss ses rod
404 pull out the seonoale g, vithout repeceunaions, Leally vish govermasatad assiatance
82 slamihare {o infest and exploit other areast workars, IV ia the untouchable right
2 capttaliste to mxiaise profits. Nesmwhile, Macks sze left with the oupiesct wre
a4 Lgnorantly Mssed for this “plamned® outssas.
itonlly igrarant. The trily opressed (Mlasks)
17, oo the gloves axe off in Lir dasiiags ¥ith
he aystea. Thero's no honey-coating reality and there's o actst *priviieges fo be
It vhite prosle wers caart, they vould aceept the decency offerod iy Macks,
Vofrignd thes, lakrn of 11e and Fight racien
"In & vy of attosen's resifents condusted as art of the Quality of Life Task
Force revies, the mSority of respondesta stated that hey wiated to 1ive th & diverss
gommuntty, If Gurvent housing trends contisss, ovevar, Fatiason ¥ill ot remin diverss
Docause the musler of white Manwesokers o fever than the'nisber of Roseesthers. of
sod desatz. dacion aeethes, To the vest of Mattesen, sepated
Yy farms axe the sore affluest towss of Frankfort, hokens, ote. Stesrsd whites populate 31
Soasubat north and sast axo other destitut Black touns that corgorate Anerlcs
Fhoeaix ead Robbins. Many of the oot do
32 the huge county court butlding i located there. The only
“entorpriss” contenplited for thase areas 1s tho incinorstor proposed for Aobbise, &
£ow fast food dusps, sel) wiops, gaa otations, sto, fo supplant the Junkyards ead
Lequer atore, Wost, induatsy has long stace venished. Thelr congresaaas, Joase Jeckson
¥ith the repblicans in supporting 8 third atrport way o the
south (=7 hous i in 30 atsort “footyeint®) of hia district, Mis hapos for sconsatc
in created by {nia mssive project, vhich very for of his.
‘the.cont of maasive ococide (the dostruetion of prise
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¥ero shoun 1o bo the bassat of racists, (by thel very o drocling uttarssces,) 1t st
slipped out.” Tt vasn't supposed o bo'shown 1ike that. ¥hat 1t sxposed vas the
pervasive xiolat soullessnoss of corporate reality. Thase dettiss ace the Gods Dat
e Ancrioan otate, a1l local governsents, the courts, the olice, every mmteimiliy,
ot b odioatend Jomrion st rostitise Dmncivle © oo ell " inton 1
s sten.
bousing, as 3t i in gvesy intustcy,
But the 14berala refuss to look upards o got & gliapae at the real ractst string-
shota in Anerica, ‘The consevatives, ot lesst,
a8 thetr ideal, They're dead wrong, Wi,
enforgad acé tho enen Mack people so condemmingly(sppeesdly sk
Skeeriog” 1o sot St & shononason of soLoeiive Lovrtiatng s rekl atate sgente. 10
Sefregated hovsiag subdivisions are piansed by the colluaion of Suilders and Govertaent.
Cone uttarn doveloged t Taufaah and 3read 1 th anuth suburhan Scen 1o TpLGRL
of the cpelation of tha 35 Hogras S12 overihe counte-. Kachaan sod Bresd ons of
he mationts ducgest Sorporate ilders, eily. she a1l shite developeent of “AppLatees”
13"Contey G10b Killa aed sight ailes aiay in Chicago Raights SULY tho srgar a1
Black Furest Holghta.. This wua nok an acoident. o saketing Frocedres mus bave
Suen carofully dtaigned to romues this results HUD sot orly i hot question. these
Frocedures but sides the bullder by allotsing 255 seoticn 235 soeteages 1o the butlder
To"ha uned in Forest leighto. Tia ia over 305 o the ex. bsen 1 Soer come
sibsicived origages. T dpeletres they ailoties soms 113 aca Mack Wyers aping o
Ippletren vecetold that 235 korigages vace mot srsiiatle 1 Arplotees: Toeds tus eofects
Laze W1 AL the saae iaa With altost Sasmticel houses A% ths
558 TH oade 0 3tie3p o by oF ncora tov-incoms biyers, bet 1oft this epiirely
39 to'ha uthise.* 6 . 35 So mch for govermaent agsnsles T vetobog” Srovgo
Kaoplag the faty bousing avn adnered 1o, The Fecist cosbuct of Sosiness, st ssored,
piy yicirgon
A1 though dvertised a0 an integrated dovelogeent, the srtty af the hes yare
2014 4o Vlacks - sy fron Ghicago's south sad west side ghotioa: Given e Fuok ot
Kaufaen and 3roud plsced the Wik of thets adveriistng in-the Blsck sudia, the velime
1n Toreat Helghta 1n nok suprising.” s, . 396s Foreeh elghte
s out off frua Chicago Heights yroper, It wa originally hosat 1o B an industital
Forest Helghts 1s & tserable section, bounded on the north and sust by ratlrosd
tracks. To tho south a forest resorvo bogtne and o the woot s Vestern Avenuo, &
Duay Mighiay that s the toundary to Park Foreat. It s 8 buay four Jans comnareial
Mighay. " Vhen the housing in thls section began to ccusble dus to shoddy construction,
£¢'vas he Mack occupents, naturally, who wero Mased for the detarioration
thenoelves and their behavior to sscomodate, Aftar all, that's the reslity aost wiAtes
satttg Tom, 20 14'n “erriotal.=
Lirvirs, bave shoi shat whites consder & netghborhood o be *lntagratel® 3f one
o b Nk oty Lve V. Feaercans o to ak » bty B
Sinertty peesencs Lo secaasery bfore & druly bi-ras1el sabience Lo sehigved.
M v tne it Byors 1 o laok seseplnce clse.s 14d. 1 the
A hite Gesand, iniegeation dsslves nts ehite-to-RlAck ‘resegregiton.’ Firat
Seon tues sitie, s th X ap, than bLic services.” bid:s 3. 16, Sou n &
omorehdy resiet eciaty, Masia rb Manef for sveryining, seet spectfically, thts
e ™por ok rina evry ing 105 e Foor whites, sho must aprost thar faailies
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1504 tatus consctousness of shite residanta 13 viewsd as & ato factor wdsclying
thoie erospiion ank eveluation of TeELSL changn.® 6. 3. 375, States 18 dofined o the
el ot antion ot ‘oo, 1V Statun consciouantas 1a the ~dagros 10 ¥hich status
e Aaacsvions 1 aportan 1o ths 1nividass the sxtent o YhLCh b, 1n concerned skovt
o een elative Statis or io bieh sistun Taotors sand to sclor ha nteractione ¥ith
Sthern.® shad.
Secial sstisation of hosor “La clesrly distinguiahed fron the cncept of ‘clase.
Tho desire for statis Fotsction 1ay beseath the wite bobavicr in rasially chunging
Tetahtathootsss. anA that thia dasire sia ueslly manifested as svoidance Sohavicr
e CTatia comacioutness - st S8, s she Soamarian eociritating Wit Filght
1o st wordns Thciin o8 B coud orge, the
e o S Wkl aiatun cossctouaness (eivilogs
% oy 3t Share vers o achs ietie o
of ractat aindlessness, sssentislly afrald of
tus sonscioussess® of vhites 18 tho Fich vein ained by
‘of faarican cilture. This sphecoral “otatus® is uhat we
tatn for our fasilies. By sose nobulous melst guuge,
o the Anerican ddeal 1f vo asoumilate snough
ot car, naybe & boat - shatever) 1n our sprlingly
Whitos vorking dogeedly for thets conanies
ith theix sale socletal goal belng muterial sccumilation ind racist “status.” Tt
50 wiy 1 say vhite socloty ia oultureleon and soulless. The last thing soat whites
want %o hava happen 1a o So Judged on the content of thelr charscter, izstead of the
oo, of 'thelr skin, because they vould all fail atsersiy.
= Hlock' carrins the aputation of states inferiort
netghborhood 1o considersd low status.” 6. p. 377. That'
Tranoon 1o your anaver o thin st tifylng sind-melting rot!
“ith Blacks' thea only vith other whites. That is the truthi:
Vit 10 Dot for backs? I sur't really say, because T
and baven't had So 1ive under this apariheld eyatea, They ire not bothered, per se,
Yy the fresence of whitoa, This in 4 enorsous stroke of lusk for thoss whites smrt
10ugh Lo pureve thelr own best interssts. Blacks need the conary of Mlacks and
Zon) qute coafortable with non-raciet whites. Viiiss Sed the coupany of Macks.
FVhdtnone” Lo everytedy' anewy.
Taotitutional Tacisn 1o invelved in resegrogation as thelr motives are prely
profss deiven, Raocles increases profite.
aciat perception of & Relghorieod dictates lending policies. “Maay flasnctal
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e ey e R Ay
Fineil retisuions tetron sich cosmmity 1s liovr s o
STt Wi G, “Chpiution s oy tatreste n capial soemntens
N velrito, Liter efermre somhor o 45 sioced 1 Srveioe sh o of
Flnaciad Snatetions. e, ok s 2 poFL oF Anart 1 b
decescy o the sonted tntarests. Saald concessions say bo sudo asd 1ip arvice ;id,
it the econoaie engino of racist capitalisa ia not ovea inpercoptively sloved. >
In the 30re affluent suburben housin, you'rs seelng codos, quidripleses, otc.
They're very sxponaive and “oocure.” Often eaoch Wilding L an exsot clone of the ext.
Fore profit and sore saaeness - less “Nlackiess.”
o sedia Lo snother eslyrit, It covers ractal ineidents incossantly, hesdlining
erize stories, daily, They'zo tying to naxiaise ratisgs cd asaiduoualy svoid the
Sonssiously sonstrusiive sndeavors of jeople. ¥ith seven’aillion or 8o people concen-
iratad 1n this sagalopoils, seasiedy Ls gotag o 11 soaobody else, in & most grusadne
fashion, éatly. This hassering on the subject, Te-inforves iguorsnce end fear, Hack
“ouspocis® are daploted aa oreible, sesry mnbters.
Unfortunately, this is the only 2edis knoun o the vast sajority of whites
soverapers, dnlevition and sagaeizo somd ite, hallow ks on serise =
insight So'a telovision somasbelised piblLs, he accept trite sencat 'aa non.
Tn dopth, "1ns1ghtiul analyata of reslily ea's rofitatle éither. The liberals wamt
o persundo
spartacnts, houseo, tenanents, high risea, tar aper chacks, widerpacass, herting
rates, and prisons - BVERIVIEKS 14 T3 VIOLA DAGED COUNTRT - don't ve?
Consmity organisations "operate in Ssolation and often thelx prograns duplicste
ant overlap eachother. I sddition, these housing grospe geaerally are uidestaffed,
‘coneuaars, eblivious o thelr read best interaste (inter-racial 1iving and gemuine hua
development.
s or butldere and developers, "Moat. nev housing 1a constructed n a1l white
doveloping aress rather than in sldar estadliohod mixsd race nelghborhoods... Hlask
honsbugors are a1 fron soviag into new treaa becauss soas boilder-developra
food that Mack hone Iuyers vill drive avay vhite trafic... soss bullder-developers
bave also crosted ‘dnstant ghattos ly constructing sose subdivisiono, often
84 sarkoting thea sxclusivaly to atmrity faailiss.” 8. 3. 21, Big mrpeise here, lan
31 "Goe, T thisk T'n datocting a mitern,
The'*iaage” & community acyuires, sa vieved ly outelders, whether factesl or not,
“oftan asteraines uho soves into that comnaity.” 8. p. 29. in & racist society, Matks
have linited options, often opting for an aren ihat provides at least & peablancs of
socopance: ey, the “our” whises then bave o il vt and desk'out new
sbritged; the lawa d not reetity ractal tion of the Jast nor do thay protect
interracial connity 11ving." 8. 3.}y The lawl Go to aay court in the suburbe for
8 tmffic tiokst or sesethiag, Ths building ia ovarrloving with Mack defentantsl The
actively work to wxclude thensolves froa reglon-vide frobless and reoporaibilities in
Pousing, Furtheraore, 0oze local governents elther do not invest in local, interracial
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“The s1¢% a0k Grosns of the opressed bad eatered into hia soul.”
¥ho Profits Proa Bacteat 1<
I thought the show iy Gan's e Live Togathert® vith Tos Srokav, vas tpaclvision
gatapee 2% he S1tuation, mere Saderesied 1 aking ths host Lok ook s anevering
Ta om question.
Gotiing lgsarsrt uhites o say stupld thinga La Just about the eastest thing 10
o thore 1a, Jusk 1et thes open thelr mouthe. My e s0 2y whites aindlessly ricistt
Vho hanarita from vhite Tk faeisa) That's viet o should have been davestigatin
This contry s Wil on the Sacks of Wack alave latorl Zactss has Lluays been
a nake foron I e secumlation of veslth - contrslied by uMita sororats Averich:
Toe founding fathers vers fovnding SLAVE OAEISI1 Tacisn Cxploita Wacks ruthlesely axd
Tendors vhitan dgporent,and docils, vorking againet their own best interests - Gemuine
Tum Sevelopaents miar-racis) Wersianding ant co-operstion snd the sepoverent 10
Tiprove- the pumn’contivion, Raciss doss L exenpt whises fron sxplattation - 1t
Toioaciaes then to 181 1t 41so oisons shets personsl ard soctal development.
oits fron sative Aericane ¥ho have:bech gmeeldaily maceinalisod, Sack Asericans
oo the oily Srve Asericans. Ty were: hero the Losguet of ary Gruup, werked the
Tantast, coniEiouiad she most, SUSILLy, SPLELABALLY, sonosionily, selaily, politically,
L0 I 2% SAII) oppressed om0 snal HigPTT Tt o becsuse 1t 1a very Feofitinle
2 inm sonted hisrorts 1o Fip-of? Vicks s pave viites sct,se Shelr deluied pema.
Vages,see kept o ihsough Tacisa and vorkee MLAAArLty a Ainisived. Tacisn 1o 4 sl
Latoiinent 1 the weratinting tod addresting of &1 of smcieiy o cuistanting scsposic
208 s001a) dl1ienaan, Progeess comen theough 146 abolitioa.
"% brlof look at our oum history Le very instrwctive in sesing what can be sccoplished
When Hlacka and uhites vork together for soctal sdvancosent aod Wy the Jovers that Yo
Ynoveo vas conpiled into Mook fora and has Tecently oo & National Jook Avard, If you
daatre personal ntallootumd salightensont and sorsl development, 1 wrgo you 1o look
into 3%, The book is fiftesn doliars and the joursal is trenty dollars for four ssuss.
Hattares o, Avpst 10, 1997
In resmase to Ton Srokau's Jue 27, 1997 .1, show “Dateline K,
sttuation 1a Tatteson, T1, sntitled ¥y Canvt Ve Live Togethert” s form vas held at
e St avreses 0-Tasla Shiteh 1n Mabtosss: Resldoats s given the oRELIALL ta
“Xhcens \hais optntont, oviensibly sbout the e, bt Teally abeut their foelings
304 the comatty tnd theke vievs on rasisa.
s vilinga cefictala and o guest speier from Gak
or ouz told Tleudorship.t T gvoes bocasse 1y shoving
pecifionily, Toey clained that racisa
54 not Pattesonts probles, but rathcr, the Gowntry's prodles. Instghtfully, soncose
“1d 1t 1a 3ot & MGk peobles, but & vhite problen, OF course, becsuse vhites ere 60
oroushly inculeated xith racisa, tlacks suffer sa its victiza.
“The Ground rules for the discussion vere 1aid out. Thare vas to be fresdon of
2036 slack, Thase sosaed fatr crough.
Sona Serk (uhite) von't shutup slout soms tiao-wating nonsesso sbout &
sent out by Fatieson, which the village officisle dery doing. He von't stop harping
Slout 1t and vastes & good fifteen ainutes o0 ila pon-tesse, It's obriows o eveone
1t he doss not wndarstand bov racies has infected ha thinking. Hals fimlly calaed
doun caough 10 allo other poople 4o talk.
X Whito lady f41t 16t down because shortly after the T.V. show, nexs trucks easo
by her hovee and. filned her ehildren Flaying dasketiall in the drivowey, She thought
B Vitluge offieiala Lot her down b Alloving thia to haggen and scolded thea boce
o thelr uasvatlability (this was after bustness hours.) She dida’t koow amything stout
o Show. " Sha vaa vory upset. The village officials sald they bave no contrl over
. “Tha Tirst sachdaeat protects froe specch, The forua 1o goLting off to 8
Joor star
Honty Sean, s tatelligent Mack activiat, uho e 1n the siov, spesks sext. Ho
a1k sanas. ~ibat T've soin ypen, s hoppesed SLL ry 1ife. That 1 vant Jou 10
Ihink sumut 1s . osegzogation happons Decusss uhites s2d Vseka sove out.” It
By s of Agarinee WL 17 ety elghers b fero b Dis comhasy
TTBoE Lackr ~AIAGee" o s danguzoua notion, Letrs focus o 2a getting to oov 1oy
e e venent to crosepritinate, 1 el 1t tno "o 199s Gacie Synérene.
T hita 1aiy eaye oho 1o a dong-tine rostéant, “Erokay, didact dok 3ol Wy Vo stayedt
Yo Juke our netgitera. o foed sace. Noree a ainority.. I o seiool ancher, W0
Incvs hor stodente ny mane, not the tolor of thelr skin
‘Tha Loty S14LinE pexh o 20, spoke next. +T aated sy Ghiléren 1o grov up in &
slti-etinie situmti 3"y T oved here, ‘Shars Sacks
¥ "Mltek aan vith & CarriSaan accant, spoke aext. Thare axe Mack niggers ard
bt nlggera,t Shouts of TRight cnl® ~The jroblen ta ¥ith undssizailee.
T EEek Taty saya she oveo the commmity: Another Slack 1ady saya Wiite poorle
e not miare, that vhen Miacks cons 1nto & nelghborbood, they e seeking o detter life.
e FuLLe againet rasiiors yha've some and mgaged in ~janic podiling.” She's roceivod
iyers 1 hor il 4el1ing har “Elacks have soved 14t JouE selghtoriood!” Thess
ein eee Poping 4o gol ihe vhite TLight hose selling tusincee, That Lo Slagusting.
e L Shuatiy sioh aare subtle han St
& Vbt 1ady aays seversd of b old (vhite) neighhurs bave soved to Nanhattas.
Tantatian 1o o busgeuniog hita TLLght havan svath ank e, nentioned on Beoka's
Zhix 52 the next vay wiaiton on the white fligwers siniless hefizm. Fany of or cld
Ehvors have asked her S0 mave out thare, o0, -Aren's you ACrald 1o 1ive harer??®
They my, Maahattan dossntt tave shopping. Maitesca has Lincols fall. T eajoy Jiving
Tare.=na"a practiond.
T aposk st Bverybody has satd their e and vhers they Live. S0 fax, everybody
10 n cosidont of Rattoson. I'a fron Konee, maybe ooven ailea aouth, T don't vant then
Lo Think T'n some “outaide setiater- so T asntion that Ry vifo's sister and bor Musband
Tive in Matteson. T recount that they vers irglacised fov yoars ago aid thay'd
Shought of soving. Ve sacoaged then t atay, o0 88 to saley thelr close \y compeny.
The copa naver solved the criss, but old thes they think one of thelr Black netghtors {7
418 38, Aa they bave no proof, thls 1n & stnister coplicating factor for thelr contirutng
Yo 1ive here. Fortunately, they decide bo slay, vaguelly susplcious sad sstzanged fron
A11 thetr neightors. 1 then launched into the seat of y Tesarks.
hectan 1 uscd by the Fich 1o bead the goor and further earich thasselves. There's
clags var going on and racisn keeps Whktes igaorant and docile. There is seney o be
Raie fros hite Diight. 3y wiat 3y the tanks, the eal eatate industsy, land speculators
The construction intusizy, the tasingsuthoritics, ste. This contry was built on slavery.
The Founding fathers vere founding slave ovnora. The constitution s & slave-sanctioning
document! S1avery in over and the raclst languago has boes doleted fron the lave. But
the raciat ideslogy that cans vith slavery still dostrates this country, Every white
peraon in this Toom and in (nds coutey has been infected Vith raciun since day 0.
Tt'a an insidious dlscose that mst-be fought relentlcscly. I's an Ablitionist essayist.
1'vrote an sesay for the Abolitionist jouenal, entitled ‘Macius and Housing in Chicago's
i weoks bafore this show uas sired. I have Coples of it, 1f sayone.
- “Somseno said "pasa At arowd.” Gne st
ioles and sold hex 4 copy O tox on the st.
aat 4o diarupt the Tlow of comversation. 'Ll abay wnii a4 thnee T've
2ade an tapression on.
A'while 1ady guts up and says she Delioves vo should try to got Along snd be tolerant.
Ve should b husaa boings..
X Slack san Nonders what ve are doing to addzoss the oblea, Feople sen't
stucatod, " o tha beautification sard for Yeepisg & Frogerty up: Ve 4 et 0
'd havo o rolen.”
vod hare singe 1906, "Wy feslings
‘of 1 this. Toe show bas, at lesst,
o ve cas boac thia cross for the Teet of
Yecoan better huan beings.® Anen, trother!
iy ha supporta affimative macketing.
= housing, selling prices will riss. Im't
, inatesd of thirteest Vo're trying
"ia. Nepervidle, vheco she felt quite
(14" overvhelsingly xhite.) Thero sust
in Righand Pack, 5o you kiow vo mst 1ike
ot'vet every sormisg and drive
A young Sack oy, sbout an, ia introduced by hla beasing father, The boy swyo
that *racien is 1ike the scary sonstera 11ttle Kida foar, ond ve could overcon racisa
26 eastly ta chiléren overcone thoir fear of musters. i
A ¥hita san froa Duffale, X.T. spoke next. Ho said “Pural
netghborhood.
Soguthar and transcend St melghtorhoods.’
A ¥hite g says, “I'a Margiret's husband.” Ho gets & laugh. "You'd better sy o
©aU® hia baity chiaes in. Ten't sexual reality Just the st vonderful thingT Mo
says they 1tve 1n & 90-953 black nelghborbood. The jrobles i3 Umt whites xen't nove
T, Nia friends ask Nia “ihy aze you atill therer?" Tt's bocause they love 1t Ke
Suggesta that only shites o allowed o Sove Inia hs are, Shouts of ~RYI" “Because
wa'ons sver doas 11
‘Another Wack 3an s & sult says ve dave o oach our children wbout right and
rong 8 £ Facian. Fa nertioss that on August 2374 acd 2005, there 1a fo ba 8
Jsconet1iation oriahop sbout actss, sponsared ty church grougs at the Joliot Job
Corp Center at 1101 Hills osd, Jolist, Tlltnots. For ore inforaation ve could call
Hia'at hose. ‘Tooul prescher i Fatteson. Mo sald Fiyera stout the verkahop
T e e s, Y sl e ke Lt 0 0 o
Sutata. Sa neok sge ogrs For apperian i Tor seneiiiviey Snining
ok i snderstandingcr
% Saci an, siiousiy s soholsx on the mubject, sxplatns that xactsn fa & octal
conntrut- T5 S Lo eaethne SUELERt oot of Bors Brestors s e sncoms
N ] o e oinh 3 Lok Sratght o 2 shTe T taed, oa o oo
IOt o atar 1o Fearin saer. 01 Il 1 ba a¢ Jength datr, T oo
£ I 2T ST TG e e S Ly
w1th st Tomd 2 B3, ot o need o ntersat and Jbd sciens dhscunaiona,”
Gua'ar ihe Settsiaie rise 1o vrap ihinee ope abiesch 18 on She cutting odge.
Tou niat seesn e manti. Jon st sl 15 4 positive aye ThumRron.”
I ohder hite gentiuian spprosched ne and a1k, -Tov sre FLgh on ha soney ith
your casaanta: " You v, o peve s eltes snslyels 1o wedersiand o sivation Feopesty.
T e eatiants 45 e Sive 1 Bgland o Lon. tan snd sasocia ith i Saciatiota.
B s sointy St brow sy ihsert ~Tonirs i, -Heople 1 thia Snntey
ety sttt Sy, Sntanly e Py, T8 2 Lot
] Govermmats, st aoet o Iocen o imt'a vile, ‘T goverenent 13 the 200t
R Somie 13 Toios o igsranees Tclen ik vielmes: T perke o shoroughly
Edriaibes'tat o sovcaaent 1o painebeally arch o she silie d sees Mind
Coron shanaves o sospetiad vithout 1egitisatn opporition snehers in he world, It%a
e Uitune e
T tae anvions 1o ik to the txo spectfic Sack sen wha'd ssde o goint 40 refer
101y amacks duin e, 1 tiked o sho Fronohr st Sh oy
ML B Dattare I etd s other oy taLkis SIS 1o sevecel pevrle and panded
ok B ags I've eceutly e tbets
e ot Teioh 1€ Sope 1o peet 1 d1da’t gut @ chance o talk to. e vaa
talking 1o sessome 21t and T 410a"s wARt 3 culely Lntrus on hia somversation. T
‘Tosbehell. The folioning day the doacons called on Brows o adaontah hia sad
Lator v1th hin for vhat he had done, But Brown defied thes a1l and that night with the
201d sudaclty of & san vho Joovs he 1 Tight, Jroun took his black brothers stratght
40 his pov.” p. &3 of To Aurgs Thia Land ¥3ih Hood, by Stephen 3. Ontes.
Jotn 3rom vas exgelled fron Ut ahirch, sever 1o refoin caother. Tha only
sam0rtality 1s that vhich lingers 1n tho hearts and alade of those Who respect s Job
. done.
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§ AN A wm m
i mfimu gt
i i 3IF
: i wfi
H mmm HiH a1t
| .a a_wam HiT
wsw LG
so
o say
has power "willed®
24 e really willing to ses racisn uprooted
Decessarily draggiag al1 the rotten Lnstitutions with St, which prop up
otion o gat 1ts ay! Clinton's the sound bite
Caonl
2e03le froa thers uent to & rasisa conference In
up 8 pllcy statasent and delivered 1¢ to Clintan.
Bovething 1ixe that.
“Honey cansot by tais goul (ractal reconciliation) pover casmot will 1t -
soaethiag o dead with raetss. Six
K ‘froa the huan soul.”
laything? It forces death and dastru
7 at tho bead of this sonetrority.
o destroyed,
ashville receatly, drov
inton sai
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y row, but I swat say, nost a1l of tie tander, loving,
‘Ehorry'a. Chels and ¥ilard gave good asoowta of
't spotier o provides e of She distirsise, scosstic Mia lo ths
inly
‘much at all, but 1f 1 oee At, T resct it
o afoud i Kikoe, one of e ot offh] guoctasd
igion
Religion 1eelf L ust & hies,
Lovo the Laders of this church geminely
i temens.”
Gon's bel)
fi_n
tH
E m
and shatiing
amotional cosaitant o igrorance. Ve must tattle against this igiorance.
Thia 1s
Tat, Bacim 10
5 1 614 not sy
actst coumtey and 1 veuld tamlt your intelligeace
& qstan. Bery aystan suygorts this belief of white
*eupariority. '™
"'at e hate ts white supremscy eatality. o don't hate white peosle. Ve have
t0 810 sayiag whites WILL never shance. Secsuse, 1 7ou deltove that, hea you believe S
that wosen hate ven for sexual opproseion. Then shy do we marzy ‘en and have shilirentc
I've often vondered wiy that was... “lou bave o late sexiesl Dute Allingtoa cald, -
W esevor God"s ehildren have atandoned thelr fears, niracles azpen.'~ Where are all
these siraclestr? It's bresitise, folist
Eheis talk, Mo sestions the sheot handed out about sufferiag aad healing. 1t's
he “Phases of Sufferiag® out of a ook scwbody wrote. Kingsley case and had to Leave
Sefore xy forus. e tad ea spyotataeat 1a Aurors. e suffered through aa mush Teligios-
tatated a1k as he could atszach. Ne laft ma vith & dosen face . Cirla says
Martin Lather King said, *
Anothar etepid raciot "white person, se s many of us re.
T vork 1a 8 1011 tooth in Harvey, and see saybe & thossand people evesy day. This
Tactst pall hangs 1n the air 1ike & olson slowl, rendering set people incazatle of
nderstanting o/or sddreasing soctetiss' erying robleas, The gos) of Alitionisa ta
%o atolish the ‘white! raco fron within aa race tratters.
Race 1a got o blalogleal or plysical thing, It s & notion trat Lo profownlly €3
34 1n 1t very casence, idsologicals It is eatitely soctally and Metesletlly constrietsd
in o vay that class o pot. Racles foday 1s the remin of the legacy of slavery. It ia
inetstutionslly ingrained,
hstortan, viots, °T
upon colored peo
what thia attitute
ity ahould the feus of wiat seaobody aight say sbout us stop u from Gota’
thinga ve 11k 4o dor" - Retary Conmsction.
“I dostze yeaoe, the poace of waiversal love,...the Jescs of & comaen tnterest,
coumon focling, & comon bsaeity. But uo long a4 slavery 1o lalomated, 22 ueh yece
“an extet. IAberty and slavery cannot dweld in harzony together... Pessel Thers can
20 eace betaeon Mstice and oppression, betwees Tobbery and righicousness, truth and
Taleahood, fresdon snd slavery.* = Jobm Groenleaf Whittier.
Christianity, Irrationelity and he Strvgels Arainst Raciss sq
The Center for the Healing of Kacisa as started in 1969. Their
tonets are that racian ia a disease of ignorance which violates the
Signity of mankind. 1t retards the unfoldment of the potantialities
atTeelviodine ana corrupts dts pormetrators. | 1t blights haan progress.
The patierna of raciat thAnking and bohaving are learned not inborn.
Racien is marked by the inbalance in econo: 4
power in favor of Some racisl, sthnic and cultural group:
2t the expense of others (*black.”
Gevalopment and perpotration of racism will lead to its
and,the dovelopsent of & just wnd peacelul werld, Wait
Setnotel 1te %5 happen, without
g s e
SRl R phe i, D e
ferth i ¥ Sl S e B e
BT et 1, S G Y
i et B e e s
environsent to explore Tacial is
Of raciem, 3. To examine attitu ‘biacks and how society
has condi t1onod everyd o sseist whites
$0"bocone sensitizes to xpariences and unlearn racist patterns
nereaner thusagivon to. Interruns AcTet Temarks ang avtitedens 5.
T provise accupting, supportive atsosphores Zor blacka to heai the
0 8 Fomuit of presaion of racion. 6. fo make
Ivailable inforaation ebout the Pich heritage of Pedpls of color:
%o butld coalitions and associxtions with other Eroups who share
2 connitnent %o racial justice
e torvices Shey offer Diciude o progran developed by » teun of
factafiators. ey go'sbout the country ‘prejudice and racism.
They tell vhore rasisn originates, how 1t is pm.w.m, he ponitive
Beans So overoose it. They discuss the forsa of raciom and how to
heal ita wounds. These facilitators encourage dialogue %o prosote real
1i3toning and understanding. Thair sessions are nine eve
woek of two hours sach or weckends of two eight hour
°year a nine wesk course is offersd to the Gemeral
Sharge.” This is s valuable service, a much noded
o uneratand and'overcomo racisn.
220 70 recognise vari:
‘tovards
4 e L
. 1t was compiied
HE, S B Sharlings hon
R g A Ay ey
LIRS Teme 16 sevine Suith th ookt Lord 434 Sevior
Cond Ehrintian, Tnetruction ars Tessurses 1t sl
BRI RIERIS Hhi i b
Wfllmw- lnhl'n-l-m‘}ulfllmfiry
ARercn'; e cTana S ustise fo e mey Bt RIS s sonentous
corner.” p. 1. This means our country is m-xn. its hl\y duty by
£E%TnE v Fonok renpreete, T e e of it oo, ST Tachet
tion of to Martin Luther Huv ar Evers, and Ralph Abernathy,
Fveras posent rominaorts f iho pONeE of n arveead ChELBLIARLLY ‘S0
a8 an incubator of social ol .+ The success of the 1960
T orie Hovament mao maskirinte wEioet the Slach opuroh
How avout the TEelse THRTe, hurcheeT Toate”ChrLsttone Ghin't meh
B S e T R o o
RIS SR
Tike Sivaye, Fron the Hack
o ince again provide sorsl
ractent®
Sl ire seginaing to ook 1o"the church
ang_spiritual leadership in the fight againet raciss. Promi
prayer breakfasts, pastoral retreats, Jssus narches - these
%o focus on raciai healing and reconciliation.- b
whose leat
Keepors ate
To Bacioodty ToncEionary.. Mach of Christiantty 10 tumatio Frinte.
rieht wing. Pastoral reiroats, prayer breakfasts snd o
'no tFeat S the racist povers that be.
Vashingtonor Jasus' ralliss that include racial reconciliation
un 3 vital Shene: chelptions and dows pursiciputing o cundie, Aigns
Halat o e ihiionrty Wi et vicedn T 1010 ERL
e bigsest -terroriet* In the Nidéie East g Israel!
TS God give e the Courage o Huand (2" the gup aguinet rucken. $hid.
“God* hag no {nTluence on the Situation whatsoever boosuse he 1ike
ractem, 168 conatrecs of the human mind. He has no free wiil e
Goenot axiat.
“Hany of va Some don’e even e
then. "' Thuo ve dan't peacably shars this good earih.- b b, Whether
w0 “Gelebrate difTerancest of hot has ne bearing on hov raciem afects
The_goononic reality of racist capitalisa;
SOur mailboxen Fecsive ¥hite-mupremicist tracts showing s black san
hooting & nude white wosan.. Under.the iliustratien is the slogan.
To'yout nelgiborhond crime infosted of 1o 1t etil) ail wmite? fp. b-s.
Saoua saio. ‘1ot the 11¢tie children coms 1o 5, and
tent to cure soci:
pooplo suffer from compassion Fatiguo.- p. 6. Compassion fatlevel ON,
¥ eaintel
ot
e Lo vty FofL4ions ot has baen ueed So sncourags racial
eprotiationstin aint Sagn
Shor graile; sous. faok Dhe Chelstian Serlpturee exslt ono race over
otherner Eeriptuse sasing with he suree oy Chnenn' 15 Sanecl 5150 V55,
were selectively mh‘ 1o justify the enslavement of an entire people.
e ungela weeps ToAd: oo AL Fowebiul CAnts 0o argihing 1o Bretent
his angels from despair and impotence?
$3%u8 ruised bhe tunierd sbuinet raciem and all forns of progedtce
In-th Serton on-the Houats
Yo Bave hoars Shac L1 vas satd. to the pecple long ago, ‘Do met
sorser snd s Womnaits VA1 te R0 I ety
TETL"Ysu" it amyons whe. 18- anEry F1ih hio_ veother WALL by s fons to
Todgatuns. " 3eain. ayone e Sye. o Ml DEsEher: Hate'Se Brbveranis
e Tarnestion Bu 2 saye g Foaki whiL be "o seneer
£ 398 T Bt T o e o i
¢ routls thne oy
e vianisy aad Tatiie san never Sorextst. Mot for o
s e Foe ooseends oF
Rl mavure! (oatnckans 5
‘ibla. Mol ‘Mo did not
‘Social conditioning.
our narrdw allegis
" Experience
the Beeds of Tackst thinking.
ugh
et l.?i‘i?":"“‘n‘?: B
ora." 2. Troat others the e to
others, deam how they 1ive. k. Give sthere. the
3" “Rocognise whon you're reacting acsording to sociu) prosraey
8. Lon't overreact o one svent." 7. Ak §0d 1o help Jevtepr
cond.
not for one second!
foated the ‘acts of
‘the fora of hatred known
. 7.
A1 these points are butres
whatover th pecple say, instant cre:
bz love inth our hearts 1a By the ol Sitie.:
God who works in wint"and 3 aot
*PhiaTpplans 2113) You gt the vagse
. white.brown, red or yellow. That is
why 1iving in hia is the ultinate answer to racism.” ibid. Punny, no
quotes here. The Bible 1s replete with ignorance, racisa and. heavily,
Sexisn. The Morsons tock off on the Bidle with the lunatical Book of
‘which explicitly claiag blacks are inforior and doomed £o he
Dennis Rodnan was right! Those peoplo belleve awful things and live
thelg dives i racist plety.
+The sout, vonderful and deassable descriptor that could b upplies
of us 15 ‘children of God' (1 John 3:2), which we bocoms upon
ance and faith in Josus Christ, when we comait to purify ourselvos
he is pure’ (verse 3)." p. 10.
Mary Tight-wing ra:
Ve *cepented.. They'rs chor
of quotes,
verifies whatover the "righteoh
The,
iine 15 vt zn. oivie
ant $obelleve, Rany o
Tave net seriously stueisd ruciem, “comattes 1t ‘overcons (s
Decone “born again,” whatever the hell thai eansi All'of us non-
Beileving hegthens can broast in‘helll Vo e Geserving of etorsal
Oamnatioh and, aceording 1o soms of the more: inaane. pRysical 1iguidation
o welll How'the hell ster insight, avarencss.and
sirigels agnimat raciet roniieytoy
ibtians pin the ratlet tag on the tafl of the Devil. It's
all his foult. Some Chrigtians fael s are inherontly inforior.
The logtc for'uy g aii Crrlotian vellefs are puppered with these
gamttimatens, Serribly writien, non-opeciiic, dsilberately obucure
e o-E12"othr Foliglous neandorings. vers veition sy seii:
H hor o A
Satving prissts, shamsne: s0hs There. i 1 " hy “lora
Fe, an?, theat
Gnce people realite thin s dimengago. hoic Draine fron ihis Sorase
OF Fahtasy and confuslon, the QUIEEE they s11 bo shie o anaiyes
Sisuations Sore Tutionatiy. tnd the mors sfiective they ¥idl bo
Goabatting racisns 1f thatie what they intend t0 80 Sartander
of intelligence to give this centuriea-old, myriad of bI r-k.
“ontrasloting. and shansrully poer writing, any legitiats
ChRtuever 1o do s la a abte of your iioe, the short Whle Yoo are
Ot neY hing ey ra Tucky Tor though, 1n when they die, they wen't
FoTucky for s when, e, they von'
cone T the"Sexliation thap. he S154. Abe0cbes. in TeLigious hocky had
Soen vasted, becauss ey will o o hasven, o hell ©Jubt.deadi!
Bt wastad Hme A% e, ThIE attespt o sccvmiate Afier-iife biownis
points, and it atly diminishes the abllity to understand and act on
compfox and crying proviess:
Socle
of today conaist of
ng out of he ergs of decaying Virgin: Mery
‘ereates_the universe, but can't 8o much a3
Thia "God* is utterly powerless to influsnce
eloe. " Imocent children aie m.x "1..
By She Soatloas. 'God can't 1ift a finger to interceds. Have faith
$his moranTT? Nty prostrate ourselves 1o this Ealevolint
3% B neragti
. o hle Rythical eratn. -
12 iy eresiiiisy.. Govesiing. detude
Doopla are memial shasp - PeFFect fOr doing what eose perevasive
cemogogue wants them to, ae he invokes the "lord,’ of course. €7
o5 A"oF $ue peeplet There ione naturel dov that forces people
A% POckniy avcent unless they are under the apel
Tatono of 1eljgious nonsenset Fany.
wiong.ine sout vile creatures on Earthi
Aeie Fights the. freedon of Teiigion.
ting Fresdon fxap religionl - The fact
decent Christians, the Liberation Pheolog uend out
e tion (in_inis case, the morbidly sexist, reptessed.
fanees, e Cathollc Chuich.) Wow dare these
Yo stop dgnorance. dloeas
atien st St Var e ey sLG Snd el o weetifuge bt
ot g, poverty wracke:
deathe. 1o, the forsula of mesk subaission
“thetet and.the forfelture of what Beager pittance
B0y sk across, o further snrieh the church. sven though thelr
Ol oren are” oying of preventable disasenl! After all, you metnt
e e foppec senth squad boat, If you hope 1o gat to “heaven” -
after, alwys
Tot's not Torget the le these death squads ate the most
celigious Christisns around, - fighting “godless
soticaliy, maso murdere. Whatis there to thiul for?
oo the iruth. and_the truh will set you free.’ said
"vigntl But nat Af you are trying
1y put togather, snolent compllation
eupposediy inteiligent people still
Ahis irrelevent crock. Very fow Cbelievers
Very fow “Aryans* actualiy resd the sunel
hey” rdviged thelr sadan on hig bload quest.
7 but 0ldn’t go to heaven - or hell.
'Whan hao Christianity hot sided with the military and the
who are always buey eubjugating “civiliuna?® Thelr “God* must
Tleni uine monstor, whose dethroning is eesentinl for any hope
fenuine husan progiess. 700 bad he dosun't exi have
5" Figne againet. If he g1d exit and we attemg!
vould unite ue down essily being so all-j one
Re's just a long running, wtusborn ldes In the heeds
Parentn protendsd o befieve it, S0 they do too. Thess fol
Beum agroe on what the heil -it* 1s enyy. What the concept of G
96 u teotanont to-the hubrig, self-conceit and guilibility
3
o
T
ERE
o “Gontiies;” ete. 1
sy i it B B i b PR
o Kb o st i e Sl B
e et sl B
fron the near elave Jabor of Sto* black native
Sty i
on fin 197
o refues to accept his Ko
itatian Richard MLk on'get ovar)ooked???
1143 aneihe pokieet of 5ol oot 1ag In Poland. They sto
aiefent. Saturat
in Cathol Scian, recelvine th
of ‘the Dopo_in Rone, Ualera and Co. Sold the workers into capitalism'e
Charne) Youse. The Gdansh shipya
e sloetd her” Tt
h"so to hell Gin e worker thovght vae stven
% SiXing the entorpr iue run intedf igamtiy® 1ibe
‘Popular anyeore. how cose? He got
the collapse of the Soviet
‘enlaved with *Godless conmuniss.
ekt farter a6
e e a i
il e
They a1k of Gandhi and how hi
%o independence and inluenc
. Mo desperatal;
only God v
et et
s i S i e Bl
Lt b kSR,
o R
S L e e s
gt B it e e
i DL e B et T
B Bl e S
Sintidit S A et T
2 et BRI e b e
i e el e el il B T
et afrensy ! Ches thank Gog Alaten
s Chefot can thank God Mlatghty
that they are, at Tast spititusiiy frav. ibi0. ' T1 ang Do concete
o Tantasyluna’inicn 2ad: 8% least aa much sonss ‘ao thls'becbostis oren.
They €0 on Troa this. Sanal sersonising. o reseust
church burnings in the South. A black ludy, Rosis Tours
Juat“coulan't imagine that we had anybody
at sean, W theught that xe had Tives throvgh that Sine’ po 13
i
€1
Even sose blacks ate deluded by the myth of the clvil rights siree
of the '€0'c. Just because some words were ehln!ld in the racist lll'l.
Goes ot sean Inatitutional, uneelenting raciet propogand, no 1
Pa any sfect. 1o an slaraine derrec. “xhte: 'people stil]. thy
o ack in self-crioplIng anti<binck patterna. Raciem 1o powerfully
intcsnned and aalsy rediniorced Tn cCntices vays. "There'Se ton much
Soney ' pover " stake to hanestly wipese racien us e ajor ool
ST clpliaiTat doniration'that 13 has slzaya been ang"continues to e,
Shcough the more Towrlting of “lava:" The justice “syeten iteelf is
3 Shofouhly Factot - inatitution: One of the groving maney-makers
foday:T3*the priaon induetry, " whers blacks Srehorged 1ike cutile
The lomaprople, Vlack wid “Wnite” (ot ogeiner to rewuita-the
church. Retirabiy: the “Lord had his ning la“tnle effort " T gue
FORSEAC
amyening “good” by whesvers gefinivion s W
11 the a8 wturt” 13 the handivork of the SDevid.s 1t
The ;nhltd‘ u'»l m,‘l-vu'ughmg Clavs, too!) are made up vy ‘the
rgs 57 people * nothing o
winal; :»1{ om bustne
eopLd sorenipping o
ui‘lmn” Mui that. 1 it vhat we've
e 10ve o
stencing. 010
o7 i saintaining
of mueh of the
1 sort of agree wi "
et rear y
Ienorance ind the inartia to act effect! .n,. bleo ve &
experlencing” are eyotens of epprension being Hent i
c
TohSactn ane capiia1jon: Ehat the held 1o Chrlsti
onts? Peuti if people don't belleve some form of e
tortuous]: f dogms, they are shamed and foro
nfora through fear racios, fear of helll m.u..r people
iy, Yetiover wmy of thle "Sork oF et many Teel ‘to
e Song’ i 14; "Pne only snes sho truly Sbellsve’ are
B etea1 ohyoters, bocksioring up. snoracus wade o caah for then-
6 Christianitfes® “messengers.” It's quite vile all-in-all,
and_conveniently, tax-freel
They are pleaséd with the outcoze of this raciet arsen
God. “If you want to be something, you've got to look up.
They munt have Torgot the word "dininished” betwsan something and you've.
e ‘Truth interviews an electsd official, W.1. “Bud Doherty,
who 15 the Pike County (Wisalsoippl) Chamber of Commerce Executive
Director, He says "We have recognized that when b0 percent of your
population is Dlack; and aimost 11 of thea are 11ving below the
Poverty line. then dconoaieally. that maxes ne senas.
st 1a'telling us what to do, and th race relations have
/6 been important to me.” p. 16: It starts off oane, but he's
(frg-into Giecemnectss ireomprahension. Later, recatiing s Viston
“They wore put with pecple they had never
“once sgal
here sone skepticlen in the black cormmity sbout
en a5, white business sfforter- 1oL, bug: say:
nang sther things. “Tho enly way we are §9ing %o solve the provien
b2
but one G
at
o
(Penn’s) and they, once again, cono in peace. They
ty. “The tribesnen sereed to always obey the lawe of Pemn's
2 and to be Toyal to the British Crown.
In return, the white man proaised to protect them fron trade abus
and "assure that thelr hunting grounds would be preserved. They would
Rever injure or defraud one another. as. long as the river should run.’p. 29.
Accoraing to mo loss than Voltaire: this vas the “only treaty betwsen
those nationa’and the Chrlstians Which mever vas svorn to and ne
broken.” ibid. This treaty was nade in 1683,
Ungor tunately, Voltaire died. Alas, by 1737, the colonists bro)
this treaty; 106. A Delaware indian crator said, -1 adait that there
e g00d white Dan, but they bear no proportion to the badi the bad
Ruat be the strongest for they rule. They do what they ploase. They
Cnslave those who are not of their 04 by the
Game Great Spirit who created them.
I8 tney"cound] but "a They cametdo 1t eney ki2) ve.
faith to be placed in the
Procisely.” There 1a mo fal in thelr wordsi! Then
cones the faith vords. 'Its the “Yord of Godi . *1 will eive you
heart and put & now spirit within yous T will take the heart of
Stone out of, £ yeur Tleoh and'glue you n heart of flean.- p; X0,
of cour "the Americen Indlans wore genocidally marginalize:
the n.m enalave itelien la stil] enslaving most of the
wor1ds® economically, as they destroy all 1ife on our planet.
T natret Loy "B ‘make the® beautiful dream of
Shackasaxon o reality.” 1 mean we don't - have to study.
etugels and die Tigheing’this mendecue soolal besat?
Nopel You Just. have to prostrate yourself and rself to Chrlst,
yhatover the held Shug agunal *hing will be hunky dory, in an
nesnoly nebuicus eyl Sov even tornal 11 i
Jave s
‘There 18 no
of
Artor‘aill overything b
© huzan ""hf e, ust ple
o’ control ‘over- thia wor) s
1o SRiinad biine. as "ong sa they’oor
Nandeurt and Blindfold ourseives and try
EIneTagt b "oams o e Taet eneptorr. Hefbaludent- Unti) Justice
Rolls Dowh Like Waters,- They bention that the flrst slaves arrived
in Virginia in 1619, “The eine of the fathers have been visited on us
Doyonaeven the bivileally alleteed third and fourih generation.” p. 3t
Rol""6uruty the Bible cans be wrongl? Ii'a the mcteal Werd of Godi®
Souna” Gogthans crersa lpTTr WALL. yeu know, 3o gy ave 1o aeRinister
SHTHerE et "t yturs Sy amaclovt " Sreck of oor ! neienizigant
oni o yoars iy and lost srac naignifigen
Bt Ty g T en choven b sent he gAY son herei 1
T guess he didn't haye any daughters! They l-n ‘made - from. some
PR X “Tlalniet. God 1o poti, Mo must dove to
and‘sassacie Inalans: Ho's very: plessed with
greedy snity sl sl tnd anio e ot w'sifinely
£
rant. People orshlp is jokeifi Insaned
22514k vese he "Chureh of Jagus Chtiot 1p a slin of bope. a sign
of the.Kinggon of Goa i our T% Barches to & ¢1#forent drusmer.”
§;, 21532 “Tomi | 1t varches 1o & poychopathically self-deluding.
ix gxempt drvmert
Unfortunately; 11 o"clock on Sunday mornings is oftan the soct
0 hour {n America.” p. 32. Heyl It's a rare bit of trutht
s Church, in spite of slubering,‘sine and hesitatione, has
Steelf'at tines to be salt and 1ight in the world.~ ibj
If you've ever suffered through a Christian sernon (who hasn't?) you 63
Enow exaetly how exeruciatingly iime éying this fora of “Giusberine
Foola 1iket
“Somewhere our coclety must allow the long-overdue expression of
minority hurts and prievances and the candid majority expression of
Srustration at being blamed for the sing of the fathers.” ibie:
Hey! “Racien is an ongoing thing. gang! Slavery is gone. but siave
idotoay runetions tekedh biacks Sppfesses and wiises for hiecta’
You cant wash your hands of pervagive reality ac something that has
happened already. It's yesterday. today and tonorrow and must be
obght with rationsl analyele of our actual present day racist reality.
'Thic whole Jeous thing. enriches those who run these privileced
religiovs (and racist) inétitutions, while befuddling the heads of
Hhosé who waste their time. mind and noney aéhering to such women-hating
Ties! 'Town with g1l religionst To hell with Christianity!! We've
been suckared longenovght that goddan needle out of your armi!
he Bible 16 an Jrving-like scam!! Fight racisn with the unencusbered
SRR SN SR AL
Deas Tony,
T4 vas good to Teet you, even though ve oaly had & 1ittle chance to talk, I ikl
your plece on iattecon. It is wrat ve are trylag o prosote--not "islerance” of Hlack
Doosle ot aa enthuriastic eaveace of Mackons 38 the concentrated exprossion of
Spyosition i the Whole sNL. The ceiiique of the liberals 1o wat KT Locks for. fould
Jou ve iakerasted in sxpanding 1t 4nio an Arelcler If you sre tas buay with other things,
or thinc you ave alzeady Sald what neads o be sald, Lien ue can Nrits an explanatory
Pote tased on the news CLippings gou attaced and puLLish 1t a6 & preface o the relevast
Barts of your coment.
tn, good S1AG 195 ot Tgmataer.
T 818 expand £¢ Into an article. I don't o 1t any of it ¥ill sppesr in 3T,
oe) s bee on & vhirluind tour of the comtry, provoting AWitiontat deas. The
1ateet edtien of 7,10 3t the pristory,st i imiting. Nosl does the wock of ten nen.
BN AR B W, 9T AR T
s e is, 195 A Jecss
T roce1ved your natling yosterdsy and read the saterial you sest ne right avay.
1at'a the soucce of A1 your enecer? Tou seea to Pave weliten frevendoss At of
sttt over a long period of t1ae, and on top of that you've ranaged to ratse a faatly,
17 uni1a working Wbt soundn o e 11k a ALFFIeuls Job. Viat faken You burm 1ixe Fomn
Ganeles (xhacte S2at 1ine in Allen Gincters's fasoue 7ocs about Lnepicad Scileta) .
Seligion haa nevor nade any sonse o 3. God Aluays seens L6 te aout sa Fesd se
Senta Claus, or aay otfer Tlctlondl Gharacter...the use of reason has aluays been cential
in'w 1i7e, Sublugating ressen £ falth e cosplotely Alien to se...
1 a5 struck ty the uay you descrlbe yourself s an abolitionist. I guess what
Tourze 17ing to say 15 i RGK poole cesaind claves v FSer ey were ofFicinlly
i
%0 agree that mast Mlack people resained slaves even after the Civil dar, Wt 1
soudn't aquate Tacies with slavers. Rout Slack people resained slaves after thy CIvil
Var tecause they were poor, And Lf you're oor in 2 cazitalist sclely, you're astcally
'clave. You have 1ittle froedoh. Yos're forced o uork Just %6 survive. Tour bose bar
1nst total control over your 11fe, espectally when you'ce sctually vorking. A maior
Fonaon Al Mlack prosle were oor waa that ey ece victisa of racial discriatmation.
S0 thare’s 8 link betueen their slavers and racias. Eut they're not the save. For ore
thing, lots of white people were slaves, oo, In fact, snyone vbo vas foor oF vorking
Clacs, s (and t111 16) 3 slave. So Jou can be a slave Mithout belng 4 victia of ractal
Atseriatnation, .
GELL, those are Just sone idens 1 had after reading e saterial you cent e Tlig
to underatasd a13 this MAff Ls an ongoing process for se. I try not to te cloed sindel
and dogatie. Good luk nath everything, | B4 D'asgelo, Brooidym, Neu fork.
Hayte dater, wion T mave a Jitile
T an energized - energized
=, Beliglon 1s
clst capttatien doesn't co o the trowble of
Bt 15 tae backs, they do herd
brust of the evil that 1o
Ve're all black, sone are just.
Tar oters. 1f jou can feel yourself as the sodrest and veatest biack foels, your
wironesn seyrostets. 10 alel your Nriienees Lt 1o Libkeate your desires and flover S
{11 T betog, To i your woteera asd sisters s an equal describes frosdon.
It can enatle you lo traracend the sundane aad Soin the struggle with expouered dlgnity.
I sluays enoy your very tiougit-provoitag letters. THLI Iater, buldy.
tings, Antiony!
Soiry for the delay n gatting Mck o you. I've finally fiatahed Lesue 43 and
cnclose 11 for you. Fope you Find soaething of interest in it.’ I've continued 2y chil
faing advice ¥ith an Arilele on caring for tables. Fow children are treated in this
sorld §a & get subject of nine, considecing so sy chiliren are 1iving thetr ives under
(yranny, supprecsion and a1l e of sbuce.
F1n Clad to know you agree with a6 on how to trest Mids. Sleeping vith your children
s one of ke 305t nurturing, loving things you can do. Ay dsighter and 1 slept together
or yenrs, uatil tho uanted her ovs bod. She ia uat An wwaaing young voman, Loving,
osttive, ful1 of gef-csteen, snd 8 friat fribta o 3 “weirét notione of child-resring.
Thask you for the Sace Traltar femue
e concept of uhiteneas as 1t 1z addcessed in Tace Traitor 1s one 1 v1ll addres
PSPEATOT] It'a 30 true that as & “white persen 1 have been privileged a1l ay life, in
iays Arat sre ien for granted and nover considered. It 14 8 subject very mach ority
) dseusston. .
Greotings to your fastly. Keop hugping thase teys and 1) thea you love thes,
wvery @yl Hate, g 515 - ca0, Givbons, 32 VON TV0, CKUADA.
Here 15 a Letter T urote that vas printed In SEIU Aetion, the sonthly rejort to
I Stevards, organisers, sctivists and Leaders throsghont the couatey.
1'n ot a aester-organtser, but T an 8 long-tize plugged-tn stoard, T take v
esponsibilities very serlowsly, wrlting full explanations o seetiags, griemnces, s
inion conpary dealings, azd distribsting thes Lo ay co-vorkers.
You should refirect sone of your snergy iy froa the marrov focus of the union and
xpand the sagazing to Include elucstioral saterial. What are organisations doing acound
he ountry to o7pose the corjorats Juggernast? Mo sbout & requisr feature exploring
%0 aspect of abor history?
Tet's xadical ze our aesbors. Teole are fod up With thie decades-long pendulun
£ ceaction, and are looking for visble altematives. Unclowied anslycls 1 & race, yot
Aehly vital, necessity iadsy.
Son'tbe afratd 1o appear "tso radlcal” to your aesbers. If you lay the truth on
be Line 10 Platn Eaghion, poorle Festomds - orony Bayeone
e Tony.
Thope £t by this Line you've recetved the tuo packages, one containing the book,
AW NORL, and the other vith the back-issses of The Kateh. It took 20 a uhilie to put
ogether thoso tack-aaiies, 45 mary Tandiord-forced soves over the years have Juabled the
14 tablotds together and 1¢'s rard to f1nd anything
T cne of your dettars lately you nentioned hov your brother wae shackled, drugged,
rd clestrosock *treated® by peyeriatrista. T fate pyeniatoyl! T Tegard it s the
(orat. jaeuto-octence -- Yoras even than lying caueer nitvitisa, becauae paychiatry has
e ear of tho Lav, Soze yeacs ago T ran into & forser good friend of aine, and T asked
s Vbt he vas doings e caid o vorked 1n & peychiatric vard, and 1t vag his b to drvg
cosle up the naent they vere taken 1a, whether they wanted 1t or not. 1 tald Ma he
s a taai, and turned around and walked avay without another vord. Hevr talied to hia
@tn....
Best wishes, Fred Noodsorth.
s veual, e sate.
ey .
Tive read 18 al1 and fousd 14 very interenting.
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