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moniss

(6,864 posts)
Mon Mar 31, 2025, 06:56 AM Yesterday

No notes needed and laying it

out straight. It is a shame that so many today have never heard the words of men like this. The speeches by people like Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) and Jamil Abdullah al-Amin (H Rap Brown) from this period and before are instructive to us today. For example when al-Amin spoke to large audiences and told people "you are either free or you are a slave. There is no in-between and there is no 2nd class citizenship." Despite people of wealth and power trying to make us 2nd class it cannot be because you must either be free or you are a slave. So we fight against people of power and wealth telling us that we are "free" when they shove us into 2nd class status.

As Kwame Ture says we must organize.



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