H. Rap Brown Quotes
Violence is a American as cherry pie.
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin
H. Rap Brown, Director, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Die Nigger Die!, 1969
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The law enforcement officers were the ones who broke the law when they beat and brutalized the peaceful civil rights marchers. The “white niggers” refer to the white marchers including clergy.
His home was right in the midst of the major riot area. The government had just instituted the draft to provide soldiers for the Civil War. The rich could avoid the draft by paying a modest fee. The Irish of New York were at just slightly above the Negro in the New York Socioeconomic scale and the two groups competed for the low skilled jobs. Many Irish felt that they were being forced to fight to free the Southern Negroes who when free would come to New York and compete for their jobs. They rioted and killed over 100 Blacks.
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown, is a civil rights activist and convicted felon who was the fifth chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s. During a short-lived (six months) alliance between SNCC and the Black Panther Party, he served as their minister of justice.
