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Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 10:40:43 -0400
From: dhenwood-AT-panix.com (Doug Henwood)
Subject: Re: Waco and Move Bombing. Kent State and Jackson State


At 8:47 AM 3/7/96, Carrol Cox wrote:

>    But just as we always encounter 10 references to Kent State for
>every single reference to Jackson State (and zero to several other
>atrocities at black colleges in the south during the 60s), so now
>(even on the left) we seem to be encountering 10+ references to
>Waco for every reference to the Move bombing (I would not count
>references in the context of the Mumia defense, where they seem
>unavoidable).

...not to mention the barbarities of the drug war, which looks like an
excuse to criminalize and jail a vast portion of the black male population.

Doug

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