August
21, 2013, marks the 42nd anniversary of the assassination of our
beloved Comrade George Lester Jackson.
Here are quotes from his two books: the bestseller, Soledad
Brother: the Prison Letters of George Jackson (1970) and Blood In My Eye, (1972), published
after his death . It’s remarkable
that these statements are as pertinent today as they were 42 years ago, perhaps
more so.
"International
capitalism cannot be destroyed without the extremes of struggle. The entire
colonial world is watching the blacks inside the U.S wondering and waiting for
us to come to our senses. Their problems and struggles with the Amerikan
monster are much more difficult than they would be if we actively aided them.
We are on the inside. We are the only ones (besides the very small white
minority left) who can get at the monster's heart without subjecting the world
to nuclear fire. We have a momentous historical role to act out if we will. The
whole world for all time in the future will love us and remember us as the
righteous people who made it possible for the world to live on. If we fail through fear and lack of aggressive
imagination, then the slave of the future will curse us, as we sometimes curse
those of yesterday. I don't want to die and leave a few sad songs and a hump in
the ground as my only monument. I want to leave a world that is liberated from
trash, pollution, racism, nation-states, nation-state wars and armies, from
pomp, bigotry, parochialism, a thousand different brands of untruth, and
licentious, usurious economics." (Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of
George Jackson).
