Black August Page #8

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...between the various kinds

of white racists.

Blacks must understand racism's presence

and its effect on the system.

It is a system that must be crushed...

...before it continues to manufacture new

and deeper contradictions...

...of both class and race.

George.

How you doing?

I don't know.

I mean, so long as I had no hope,

I could do this thing, you know?

It's like the hope that's killing me.

That the illusion of that I'll never get out

of this place alive, man, is driving me crazy.

Except on the days that you here,

I'm in my cell 23-and-a-half hours a day.

You know?

That's my reality.

Closing in on me more and more.

I mean, at night...

...I'm dreaming about being buried alive,

man:

Sometimes I see Jonathan.

No, you're gonna be all right.

Just, really, don't let this get you down.

You've got plenty of legal support

for the trial.

And after you're acquitted, you're gonna

get out of here for time already served.

Hey, I wish I was around

when he was growing up, man.

Excuse me?

You know, I thought that...

Knew that Jonathan thought they would

have more concern for them hostages, man.

I'm certain of it, that he didn't know.

We always give them fascists

too much credit.

Yeah.

Do you understand that there cannot be

a peaceful revolution?

No, I'm not... I'm not really sure that I do.

I mean, not all revolutions

have been violent.

Maybe in your history.

But in mine, you learn pretty quick,

it's impossible to deal with a guy...

...whose mentality is built around a gun.

You can't reason with that, man.

You just gotta grip him by the throat.

There's only one way to reason

with a guy like that.

You hit him where it hurts.

Do you understand?

See, nice folks like you

don't understand the need for force, man.

You know?

You've never been pushed

up against the wall, man.

You've never had the things...

...that make life worth living for

stolen from you.

Look, man, we don't wanna cut

people's throats.

To deprive a man of his life

is a terrible thing.

But we must weigh things

against the big picture.

I hear military men say things

just like that.

This is the military, David.

And the army of liberation is gonna

come from places just like this, man.

That's why the pigs are shitting bricks.

Because this is the revolution

and we are the vanguard.

Nice folks like you are either with us

or you against us.

Well.

The first thing that we have to do

is win this trial, all right?

Then once you're out of this place,

then you can do it.

You can lead this revolution.

What? What's wrong?

I can't go to trial.

Why not? No.

I was at the law offices the other day.

You should see how confident

those lawyers are.

They're almost positive

you're gonna win this case.

I can win.

But I'd have to deny I had anything

to do with what happened to that guard.

So?

I can't do that. I do not want to do that.

I'm not gonna stand up in front

of the world...

...and deny I had anything to do

with an action I am proud of.

Man...

...this system needs to know that they

cannot do anything they want...

...and not have any repercussions.

They need to know that the crimes

that have been committed...

...need to be dealt with.

It will not be forgotten.

That the hell that they have made

will burn the flesh of both sides.

Okay. Okay, what?

What if you just admitted it?

You know what will happen. I'd get

lynched like the slaves of yesterday...

...in front of my father, my brother,

my mother, my sisters, Angela.

That's...

You know, I just...

I used to not believe...

...in the existence of a no-win situation.

Who said anything about a no-win

situation?

I just been trying really hard

to do that.

I just...

I don't really know if I can anymore.

Yes, you can. You have to, man.

We would have never gotten out

Soledad Brother if you hadn't.

You inspired me to keep on writing.

I would have never been able to do it

without you, man.

Time's up.

When you coming again?

I don't know. L...

I have to go to New York this week.

Well, I appreciate these meetings,

you know. It breaks up my time in here.

Well.

We'll do more books then.

There you go.

So long, brother.

Hey, David.

Power to the people, man.

This damnable rhetoric that goes on by

so-called revolutionaries on the outside...

...does a great deal of harm.

This irresponsible kind of blathering

about the revolution...

...and "kill the pig"

and this kind of crap.

And right through there.

Oh, I'm sorry, Miss Anderson.

You've been taken off the list

of approved visitors for Mr. Jackson.

- By whose orders?

- The warden's.

This is bullshit.

But this is the pig's house

and I guess pigs will be pigs.

Steve, I got the final edits to

Blood in My Eye. George will need it.

- Can you take care of it for me?

- Yeah, Brenda, I'll take care of it.

Thanks.

For me, time has come to pass over.

It's time for me to become what I am.

Do you know the feeling

of stepping inside yourself...

...of accepting your rage

and your passion?

You see, I have always been an adversary,

a criminal, a subversive.

I never believed for one minute

they knew what was best for me.

Or even cared about me in any way

that wasn't tainted with exploitiveness.

I don't believe in their benevolence.

I do believe in their cupidity,

their bestiality...

...and their tyrannous lust

for world domination.

I don't believe in a long life.

I won't live to remember it anyway.

I forget it when I sleep at night.

And one day I will forget it altogether.

I don't intend to give them

the satisfaction of beating me.

The time has come for me

to create my own law...

...my own judge...

...and my own jury.

George.

For escort.

Bingham's disappearance immediately

after the shooting...

...seemed to support the charge that

he had smuggled a gun into the prison.

We are satisfied now

it was brought in underneath a wig.

And since we found the wig

this morning...

...we can now tie in

that there was help from the outside.

- What the f***'s under your hair?

- Hand that sh*t over.

- Open the door.

- Take it easy. Take it easy.

Open the door.

Open the cells, man. Open the cells.

- I can't. I can't work the cell key.

- Come here!

- Open the cells. Open the cells.

- I can't work the cell key.

Open the cells up.

The dragon has come. We're taking over.

If you're with me come out your cells.

If not, you stay inside.

- Open it up.

- Come on, Jackson.

Get that motherf***er over here.

George, a decision has to be made about

the two white boys in the other unit.

They've seen too much.

We cannot take anyone's future

for granted.

Leave no hostile witnesses.

Go take care of them.

Go, go, go.

We must never forget the element

from which we sprang.

As if we have always been authentic

revolutionaries. As if we are now.

The reality is that history,

and not ourselves...

...shall determine our level

of revolutionary commitment...

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