The United States Is Fast Becoming One

If They Survive, Today's Children Will Inherit A World That Our Fathers And Grandfathers Have Ravaged, Where The Seas Are Acidic Cesspools That The Whales Have Fled, Where Rain Forests Are Indian Memories Never To Return, And Where Human Greed Has Plundered Mother Earth's Innards And Turned Human Genes Into Factories For Profit. They Will Inherit A Diminished Planet Where Fresh Water Is Increasingly Rare, And Where Fresh Air Is A Commodity... We Live In A World That Fears And Hates Its Young. How Else Can One Explain The Bequest Of Such A Foul, Polluted, And Hollow Inheritance?

The United States Is Fast Becoming One Of The Biggest Open-air Prisons On Earth

Do You See Law And Order? There Is Nothing But Disorder, And Instead Of Law There Is The Illusion Of Security. It Is An Illusion Because It Is Built On A Long History Of Injustices: Racism, Criminality, And The Genocide Of Millions. Many People Say It Is Insane To Resist The System, But Actually, It Is Insane Not To.

I Think Because I Came Into Journalism By Way Of The Black Panther Party - And Not J-school Or A Corporate Bourgeois Institution - I Tried To Do News, Writing And Reporting That Had Social, Political And Racial Content And Context.

Contrary To Popular Belief, Conventional Wisdom Would Have One Believe That It Is Insane To Resist This, The Mightiest Of Empires… But What History Really Shows Is That Today`s Empire Is Tomorrow`s Ashes, That Nothing Lasts Forever, And That To Not Resist Is To Acquiesce In Your Own Oppression. The Greatest Form Of Sanity That Anyone Can Exercise Is To Resist That Force That Is Trying To Repress, Oppress, And Fight Down The Human Spirit.