Subject: [BRC-ANN] Quote of the Day: Juan Gonzalez
Date Fri, 8 Sep 2000 01:40:49 -0400
From: Art McGee <amcgee@igc.org>
To: brc-announce@lists.tao.ca
In fact, the movement seems unduly obsessed with generating
media attention to how police are treating it. To those of
us who grew up and still live in black and brown neighbor-
hoods in this country or immigrated from the Third World, it
is hardly noteworthy that some cops can be brutal, especially
when they toss you in jail. Nor is it surprising that when you
challenge police authority in disruptive protests at high-
profile national events, police departments will use clubs,
horses, tear gas and rubber bullets. The police brutality
exhibited in the various national protests during the past
year should be condemned, but it hardly compares to the
vicious repression and even murders suffered by civil rights
and radical groups such as Southern Christian Leadership
Conference, SNCC, the Black Panthers, the Republic of New
Africa, the Young Lords, the Brown Berets and others in the
'60s and '70s, or those that still exist in Africa, Asia and
Latin America today.
--Juan Gonzalez
"From Seattle to South Central"
In These Times
September 18, 2000
<http://www.inthesetimes.com/gonzalez2421.html>
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