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+] Geoege Jackzon died 0 Ang Sie oor dS th BLOOD IN MY EYI oe i Wood tir Usrenpnsres de psi of George Jackson's legendary teslsance te wiied ppresion nd acm. Hissnique and inesisly Sriseal perspective becomes. the het that te together the Envision of lees and errys in pee ieee iia Braned struggle, lass war, fart Communism ahd n wide’ aay af ‘her ops lod ie My Fr wan competed only dig efor is matnr wee led Wil at the hans ef Sam: Quen guards ‘Wusing. am lleged Eronpe attempt Al age eighteen (George Jackaon was contcted af stealing seventy doars from 4 gas station snd war sentenced to ane yeae oie Hle'was to spend the feet af hit {fe~elevenyearsin de Caifonnipson system seven ofthe insallary | confinement In peison he tend wiely and tnnatormedhimeel. ito th vis and polieal ineoreticia wo defined hinsell nea eveationsty. At srewoltionary he ford ean inhi daly pisonenstence. Aut it wen ©] sat context that he came totem with the deal of hs younger brother, Jonatian—hilled white sempring te Cvs three Black puisenes, ont ce tooled Brot: The ra Writing of Gav J 1970, ened him the respect and admienlon'ot prog Pesto the wor cence aan oa ay ‘uncompromising individual. A fellow prisoner described him as "x very ‘beni example of whats lackanan shouldbe” Im a lever to Angela Davie Jackson wrote, “If my eneres, your enemies, prove stonger [tin un} at least | want them fo Know that they fade one righteous Afvcan van exeremnely angey™"On anethey veeaston ‘vio, "They'l never count me among the broken men” As We My dese only surviving son, "went to Mount Vernon August 7th, 19710 vis the gravesite of my Hert your keeps mustered in eoldUlregard fr life His grave was supposed to be behind your prndtather’s ad randiother’s, But could’ find it, Thete was no matker Jun ‘mowed grass. The story of our pat I ent the keep a blank chook for a heastone-—and (wo extra stes—blood in my eyelh Amerikan Justice Forth feo ope on the wot pone hater the cst i Bod Dear Greg, In order for capitalism to continue to rule any action Ihat threatens the right of a few Individuals to own and contral public property must be prohibited and curtailed whatever the cost in esources (the international wing of the Fepresive institutions has spent one and one-half trillion dollars since World War 11), whatever the cst in blood (My Lai, Augusta, Georgia, Kent State, the Panther trials, the frame-up of Angela Davis)! The national repressive insit tions (police, National Gus ete) are no less deter ‘mined. ‘The mayors that ert and: the looters (Mayor Daley of Chicago has ordered them summarily ex- ‘cuted in the streets) ignore the fact that their boses have looted the wort T refuse to make any argument with statistics compiled by the intitations and astociations that I indict. Yet itis true that even ficial figures prove 2 against capitalism. ET percent of the total in 1969, 28 percent of these crimes cecurring in the ghetto. Since 1960, the numberof men and women prisoners in state nd federal pententiaries has fluctuated slightly around the ‘quarter-illion mark, These statistics conceal the living real. iy, ‘This is my eleventh year of being shoveled into every ‘major prison in the most populous state inthe nation—and the largest prison system in the world, What Ihave seen in IN MEMORY OF COMRADE GEORGE by SEKOU KAMBUI ‘ut fret the state ses the scene for such vilene, you se. And some people say that we can't ge td of this kind of physical