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Blood in my eye by george l jackson6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Rogers-and Mao’s Little Red Book, Ho Chi Minh, and other revolutionary thinkers. ![]() Albert Woodfox recounted them as well: George Jackson, Frantz Fanon, Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey, Steve Biko, Eldridge Cleaver, J.A. Those authors, George Jackson listed them: the Black Panthers, Kwame Nkrumah, Patrice Lumumba, Marx, Mao, Lenin, Trotsky-all, worldly, revolutionary philosophers. When I’m asleep at night, I still find myself talking to those guys. ![]() I guess it was like some kind of wish fulfillment. I’d sort of wake myself up and I’d hear myself talking to this other person. Sometimes I find myself talking out loud to the author. And because there is no human contact, you depend on books. I would be sitting in a special locked isolation cell, sometimes even with the lock welded shut, and there would be no one to talk to – just the sound of screaming voices. ![]()
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