File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_2001/postcolonial.0104, message 173


From: "Clifford Duffy" <cwduff-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Fwd: "Cincinnati Fires" By Mumia Abu-Jamal
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 01:57:53 -0400





>From: "Marpessa Kupendua" <nattyreb1-AT-home.com>(by way of 
>galupchi-AT-pangea.org)
>Reply-To: a-infos-d-AT-ainfos.ca
>To: a-infos-en-AT-ainfos.ca
>Subject: "Cincinnati Fires" By Mumia Abu-Jamal
>Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 17:32:12 -0400 (EDT)
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>CINCINNATI FIRES
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>Col. Writ. 4/17/01
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>Copyright '01 Mumia Abu-Jamal
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>"The government is only as lasting as
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>your understanding of administration.
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>The Army is nothing without people,
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>the Air Force is grounded without
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>your endorsement, the ships of the
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>Navy could never have sailed if
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>your leaders didn't have you sail
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>'em, and the brutal depravity of
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>police would be non-existent if
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>you didn't wear the uniform."
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>John Africa, On the
>Move, (1975)
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>     Black youthful rage explodes in Cincinnati,
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>Ohio, and several nights of fire, rebellion
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>and pain reminds us that the much-maligned
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>and heralded '60s, were really not so very
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>long ago.
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>     For like the riots that rocked the nation in
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>the 1960s, the precipitating event was an act
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>of brutality and violence by police against
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>black folks.  Police violence against blacks
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>has sparked rampages of rebellion from
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>coast to coast, costing hundreds of millions
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>of dollars in destroyed property, and hundreds
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>of lost lives.
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>     Over 30 years have passed, and in the
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>intervening years we have seen the emergence
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>of the black political class, and the entrenchment
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>of the black poor in inner cities, projects, and
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>ghettoes more desolate, more isolated and
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>more hopeless than the 1960s.  We have seen
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>the explosion of the Prison Industrial Complex,
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>at rates that would've been unthinkable in the
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>1970s, with upwards of 2,000,000 men, women,
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>and juveniles in American jails.  The U.S., with
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>only 5% of the world's population, has <underline>25%</underline> of
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>the world's prison population!
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>     And for black young men and women, the
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>horror of prison has become a perverse rite of
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>passage, marking one's transition from youth
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>to adulthood.
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>     So, while things have gotten better for some
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>African-Americans since the 1960s, things have
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>gotten demonstrably worse for millions of other,
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>poorer blacks.  Public schools, never quite
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>outstanding in the first place, have gone into
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>decline.  City services have declined.  Industries
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>have fled cities for the South and the suburbs,
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>leaving cities with less employment, and with
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>remaining jobs paying for less money, while
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>costs have gone up.
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>     Cincinnati, sparked by the police shootings
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>of a black man, could have happened anywhere
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>in America.  The social ingredients are all there,
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>in every major city in America.
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>     In every major city is economic and social
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>despair, mixed with a militaristic police force
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>that targets black life and liberty.  In every
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>such city are black politicians who function in
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>the role of keeping the restless natives in
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>check; keem them suffering in silence.
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>     Cincinnati represented the eruption of youth
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>who see their position in grim, hopeless
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>situations.  Cincinnati is a harbinger of things
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>to come.  Cincinnati is the fire next time.
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>Mumia Abu-Jamal, Copyright '01
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