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Chapter 60
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Criminal escapes such as robbery and fraud are no more typical
of the shortsightedness than the more lawful escape attempts
constantly referred to in racist stereotyping. The climate of
death and fear kills long-term trust in the future and makes it
easier to buy a big SUV than to begin saving money in order to
someday move out of your rotten shack.
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Coming from a welfare state, I find it ironic
constantly hearing contemptuous white Americans refer to this
so-called "low black gratification threshold," while their own
lives seemed so completely tied up in a shortsighted tax revolt,
trying to heap all kinds of video machines and unnecessary gadgets
over their own threshold. When you refuse to pay for the common
good you certainly invite criminals to your house.
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A country deserves the criminals it produces. The
black criminal directly challenging these inequalities is the most
misunderstood and unduly feared person in white America. He is
actually of little danger to whites - 95% of U.S. crime is white
on white or black on black.
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In Africa, criminals impressed me by working
together in highly organized groups. They would go for the
wealthiest homes regardless of color, spend days researching when
guards were off duty, poison the dogs earlier in the day and at
night, so it was said, blow "witch powder" into the house, causing
the whole family to fall asleep and thereby avoiding bodily harm.
With the family in deep sleep they would empty the entire house
and even have a party in it.
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The contrasting disorganized state of the black
American criminal indicates a state of slavery as much as the
futile American slave rebellions did. I can take dubious pride in
having participated in several muggings simply because my friends
did not let me know about them beforehand and in fact had not even
nurtured any plans themselves. When they saw prey they acted on
the spur of the moment in a vicious cocktail of deep-seated hat
and self-hatred rather than actual need.
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Just as colonized children everywhere will steal
from you when you show them "master"-kindness, I found that the
adult "rip-offs," "stealers," and even "strong-arm studs" were
overwhelmed by Shakespearean motives: "I am one, my liege, whom
the vile blows and buffets of the world have so incensed that I am
reckless what I do to spite the world." |
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Freddy's dead, that's what I said.
Let the Man rap a plan,
say he would send him home. |
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But his hope was a rope
and he should have known. |
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Why can't we brothers protect one another?
No one's serious and it makes me furious. |
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Everybody misused him,
ripped him off and abused him
another junkie plan, pushing dope for the man... |
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It's hard to understand
there was love in this man. |
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Now Freddy is dead,
that's what I said.
A terrible blow, but that's how it goes. |
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Freddy is on the corner now,
if you want to be a junkie, wow!
remember Freddy is dead! |
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When you live long enough in these surroundings,
you easily feel that conspiracy against the underclass the blacks
talk about. All the actions of the dominant class manifest its
need to divide in order to preserve the oppressor state. Upper
ghetto is pitted against lower ghetto, gang against gang, family
against family, even brother against brother. |
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When I lived with 15-year-old Larry seen here with the gun and his mother in
Richmond, Virginia, his 13-year-old brother lay in the hospital, hit in a gang
fight by the brother's bullet, which penetrated his head and made him blind.
Nevertheless, I followed the 15-year-old in the streets two days after the
tragedy on his new expeditions. |
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Many of these street gangs were destroyed by
heroin; the press disclosed that the police had sold heroin and
flooded the ghetto with it at a time when some gangs had become
politicized. |
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It is again the divide and rule policy being used against a
colonized people to further fragment it. |
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Yet I know whites well enough to believe that
except for a few FBI-"Cointelpro" activities there is no planned
conspiracy against the oppressed. |
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There is no need for it, for our daily seemingly
"innocent" racism, our daily evasive looks and master-race
vibrations function as the most well-plotted conspiracy. |
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Touring the luxury estate of one of the richest
man in the world, Jo Paul Getty, furnished with marble and art
from all over the world, I knew that his two black figures
fighting under the white plantation pillars were not an artistic
expression of any "ruling class conspiracy" against the oppressed.
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But having just been ghettoized for eight months,
experiencing eight people murdered, I could hardly avoid seeing it
that way. |
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Why can't we brothers protect one another
no one is serious
and it makes me furious.
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Don't be misled, just think of Fred.
Everybody has misused him
ripped him off and abused him.
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Don't want to be like Freddy now,
'cause Freddy is dead!
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