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I Think It's Absurd To Talk About - One Time You Were Outside The System, Now You Are In The System - No, We Fight, The Cause Of The Fight Is Because The System Is Bad That We Can't Get Out Of It.

I Know Sociologically That Words, The Power Of The Word, Words Stigmatize People.

White America Has Seen To It That Black History Has Been Suppressed In Schools And In American History Books. The Bravery Of Hundreds Of Our Ancestors Who Took Part In Slave Rebellions Has Been Lost In The Mists Of Time, Since Plantation Owners Did Their Best To Prevent Any Written Accounts Of Uprisings.

We Were Trying To Increase The Conflict That Was Already Happening... We Felt That We Would Take The Conflict To So High A Level That Some Change Had To Come.

What I'm Really Trying To Say Is That I Believed An Armed Insurrection Could Work. After I Was Shot And Went To Prison, That Ended That Illusion. I Had Time To Think.