SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER: Articles and Essays on Revolution, Black Radical Politics and Leadership

ISBN-13:	9780578749518
Publisher:	Charles Barron
Publication date:	09/14/2021
Pages:	356
Sales rank:	113,531
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.74(d)

When peaceful methods for change are ignored, or rejected, violence is inevitable. Even the Prince of Peace Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, "... a riot is the language of the unheard." And Malcolm X said, "We declare our right on this earth ... to be human being, to be respected as human beings, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth in this day, which we intend to bring into existence, by any means necessary." Black people are tired of dying!The stress and pressure of racist, colonial capitalistic, economic oppression and police terrorism is unbearable. I've already heard the rally cry change from "hands up, don't shoot, I can't breath" to "hands down, shoot back, now you can't breathe" and "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and a life for a life."People are fed up! If America doesn't radically change this racist colonial capitalist system of oppression and end police terrorism, the fires in Ferguson and Baltimore will look like Boy Scout campfires compared t the flames that will blaze across the nation. Don't blame me the social forecaster for this explosion, just as you wouldn't blame the meteorologist for the storms they forecast. Wake up America! The Hour Is Late! Forward Ever!