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jtalization of the title: 2 n she does toe the‘line, her reward will not be a tized kind of love (as in the letters to Beverly } but an impersonal one addressed through her Jack Womanhood. Here is Bobby Seale from his iblished Letter To My Wife (like the budding appearing in the spring issue of the college poetry ney... “~ Doe 1 ain't in love with you because I saw something on H 1 something is wrong... . What's Malik [their three- sop] doing? Teach him how to serve the. people by mples, Artie. ... Artie, I hope you are not being self- 3 keeping this letter to yourself. Aw, I know you are 41t to the other party members. .. . : do black women, so shrewd about their men in settle for this patronizing, impersonal, and unin- ind of love? Because of The Triangle: as we have ne black woman has played Whore, used and z by white men (her “tricks”) and black men (her #83) for centuries. All this time she has looked with 4 the white woman's legitimacy and security. Now, that legitimacy, under whatever crude guise, she ee ied to’ set it up for herself, not knowing the hor- tore. The Wife is the only one who could tell her, are not on speaking terms. For, as we have seen, ng antagonism makes it hatd for them to trade lable (and painful) le$sons they have learned he Man. If they could, they might soon discover ther Wife nor Whore grants freedom, for neither :_roles_is_self-determined. They might alert to Cleaver’s warning, as he anticipates his future ssctiption on his girlfriend's Christmas gifts, in- | 6:2 the other moming that said you were a revolution-" Rs learned to focus her frustrations on the other. | ee ee RS tome a = em ak ee male power, in one of his rare moments of honesty with women: 7 NOW TURN THE RECORD OVER ANP PLAY THE OTHER SIDE: ied to mi . Tan at all. I have have tried to mislead you. I am not humble at a to humility and 1 do not fear you in the least. If 1 pretend to be shy, if 1 appear to hesitate, it is only a sham to deceive: By playing the humble part, 1 sucker my fellow men an “ rast he =e Ta ere = 3 Bt = me eye Me POS EOE NC EU AceNy zits eee Beye ae hee AES eS A Prany3 tiered ey = Tasks Seca Shay . . “» PYRO Q fe . & ODrjTB- Vr/ _ ' ; THE DIALECTIC OF SEX | jj nist Revolution abs: ; * The Case for Feminist Revott seduce them of their trust. And then if it suits my advantage, - 1 lower the boom mercilessly. 1 lied when { stated that I had no sense of myself. I am very well aware of my style. My " vanity is as vast as the scope of a dream, my heart is that of a tyrant, my arm is the arm of the executioner. It is ‘only the failure of my plots I fear. . + estey