An elderly African-American leader, a congressman who marched with Martin Luther King in the 1960s, said African-Americans were being “slaughtered” by policemen. This takes black leaders as far away as possible from the political genius of Martin Luther King. He understood that blacks needed political power and that real power existed only in Washington. His tactic was to gain power in Washington by protest marches in the deep south in cities in Alabama and Mississippi. At the time, Washington was promoting itself in the Cold War against communist Russia as a champion of freedom. King aimed his marches against out-and-out racists in the deep south so that television cameras would capture and show to the world that in America freedom was being beaten down in the streets. He attacked Washington indirectly but it was the real object of his attacks.
An African-American leadership capable of preaching to blacks that they are being “slaughtered” by policeman is hopeless. The assassination of policemen yesterday in Dallas is the result. Blacks need power in Washington. The only way to gain power is to create an African-American voting bloc in Congress. The Irish, another politically oppressed people, had such a voting bloc in the 19th and 20th centuries in the British Parliament and decided some votes in exchange for political power for their people. African-American politicians elected to Congress should do the same for their people. Instead, the present black leadership in Congress passively votes along the lines of the Democratic party. A bloc of votes in Congress, where individual members commonly sell their vote without regard to their moral conscience, is, politically speaking, a huge pile of pure gold which can easily be exchanged for real help for poor blacks. Every rich corporation in the world desires to have the use of such a bloc and African-American leaders dealing with them as a group with great political power is worlds away from assassinating policemen in Dallas and directly in line with Reverend Martin Luther King’s political genius.
Daniel McNeill
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A powerful and very dramatic exploration of love and relations between
a 70-year-old man and four women, two sisters 18 and 19, their mother
46, and a lesbian friend 22. It is full of well-written dialogues between the five
In various situations including sexual relations. The drama moves fast right
from the start and it is impossible not to read it as quickly as possible (it
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and explosive. A complex drama that moves with its own momentum towards
one liberating ending to all its beginnings.
Daniel McNeill
