Die Nigger Die!: A Political Autobiography of Jamil Abdullah by H. Rap Brown (Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin) PDF

By H. Rap Brown (Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin)

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More than the other black chief, H. Rap Brown, chairman of the unconventional Black energy association pupil Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), got here to represent the ideology of black revolution. This autobiography—which used to be first released in 1969, went via seven printings and has lengthy been unavailable—chronicles the making of a progressive. it's even more than a private heritage, besides the fact that; it's a name to palms, an pressing message to the black neighborhood to be the leading edge strength within the fight of oppressed humans. Forthright, sardonic, and surprising, this book is no longer only illuminating and dynamic yet also a very important rfile that's necessary to realizing the upheavals of the overdue Nineteen Sixties. college of Massachusetts professor Ekwueme Michael Thelwell has up to date this variation, overlaying Brown’s many years of harassment by means of legislation enforcement enterprises, his remarkable transformation into an enormous Muslim chief, and his sensational trial.

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They got to i�tellectualize everything. Now how you gon' intel­ lectualize screwing? At the age when little white kids were finding out that there was something down there to play with, we knew where it went and what to do with it after it got there. You weren't a man if you hadn't gotten yourself a little piece by the time you were seven. When the white kids were out playing Hide and Go Seek, we were playing Hide and Go Get It. One dude would count to a hundred while the girls hid. Once the girls were hidden, you went and found one and you got it.

Go tu the emer­ gency room of any hospital and see who they're bringing in on the weekend. The brother, and didn't no cracker shoot him. Violence is accepted in america as long as it's white folks doing it. v. and you go deaf from all the gun­ fire. Let two fighters get in the ring and let neither one of them hit the other and see what the real savages out there are going to do. They're going to scream for blood. It's no different than the people in ancient Rome who put lions on people. So the question is not can Black people be violent.

I met Eric Jones at that time, too, and hI' later worked with me in Alabama. chool the dudes couldn't tell me nothing, 'cause, like, they hlldn't read what I'd been reading or heard what I'd been Iltmring. C. the next summer, the summer of 1963. This was during the Cambridge thing and I went over to Cambridge with Courtland Cox, who had become Program Secretary of SNCC. Courtland told me we would 59 just go down to Cambridge for the day and come back that night. We went over there and spent a week.

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