VLVL the Pisks, BAAD and UHURU

[jbor]

on 18/2/04 1:28 AM, Terrance wrote:

> BTW, UHURU may be pacifist on paper or in Australia or Africa (I don't
> know), but in the USA they have been involved in violent confrontations
> with police and others for decades. A quick glance in the New York,
> California, Florida newspapers,  proves that my statement is true. In
> fact, UHURU was very active in NYC during the Guiliani mayorship and
> recently organized a protest march after a boy was murdered by a police
> officer here a few weeks ago. But don't take my word for it. Check the
> Berkeley Library or any big US library or the NY Times Archives.

http://www.supportuhuru.org/pies/oakland/about_uhuru_oak.html

http://www.inpdumchicago.com/

The UHURU Movement is a pacifistic one in the U.S. as well. They do not
embrace preemptive violence in pursuing their aims, and never have. The
point is, and it's a point made in the text (and in Pynchon's Watts article
too, I'd add), that African-Americans "don't have the fuckin' choice" (231)
when it comes to persecution and violence in the street (in the context of
the 1960s, that is). This is what distinguishes their situation from that of
Rex and those Pisks.

And meanwhile, back in the text, there is nothing whatsoever to show that
the BAAD bruthas and Elliot X are exponents of preemptive violence. Surely
this antagonism towards the UHURU movement is a dead horse?

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