Conventional Wisdom Would Have One

Here And There In The Barrios And The Favelas, Among Those Who Have Least, Beat Hearts Of Hope, Fly Sparks Of Overcoming.

Free People Have A Right To Decide For Themselves What They Want To Hear.

If You Ain't Angry, You Ain't Paying Attention.

At The Risk Of Quoting Mephistopheles I Repeat: Welcome To Hell. A Hell Erected And Maintained By Human-governments, And Blessed By Black Robed Judges. A Hell That Allows You To See Your Loved Ones, But Not To Touch Them. A Hell Situated In America's Boondocks, Hundreds Of Miles Away From Most Families. A White, Rural Hell, Where Most Of The Captives Are Black And Urban. It Is An American Way Of Death.

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.