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HEARNAP — Part 38
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Just to mention a fev, (and I do ao in complete humbleness
because they were all far greater thah me):
Every dead Indian, every lynched Black, every gunned-dowmn
Chicano, every imprisonsd Puerto Rican, every beat-up
union organizer and to bs morespvecific:
vat Turner, John Brown, Joe H111, Sacco and VanzesttL, tne
Rosenbergs, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Jonathon and
George Jackson, Sam Melville, Le De Barkeley, Fred Hampton,
¢ayd Malik Shakur, Cinque Mtumé@e..s.eeand damn near everyone
~ ' in Vietnamessjust to name a fewe
_ The point of all this 4s that you have got to satay strong.
Don't let your concern for my hife and safety make you weake Pull
for us, support us because in the end we are going to wints
' I vant the psople who knew and loved Bill Harris to feel.
the sane love for Tako and the many other freedom fighters and for
that matter, a11 struggling oppressed peoplee I want people to
Place less emphasis on worrying thet weéll be killed or at least
to also worry for the lives of the millions of people who daily
face death by feeéist pigs or the oppressive conditions of life in ~
the capitalist/imperialist worlds Everyone should understand that.
to single us out for concern because we are white and middle-cls.Ba ».
from "good families", is essentially an example of racism and clastisme.
te aren’t speciale Care for and love us alle st
Cf course we face deathse.»smurder by our class enemp. But:
we cara how wa live far more than: how long we livee Unfortunately-
we cannot Tive the lives we wang without first fighting for them.
According to the police I am a “fugktive from ameriki“an
justice". The implication is that I am rumming from theme If there
is an irony in this it ie protably that for the first time in my ~
life I aminot trying to escapes from life's realitys No more run-
ning aweyeeesosoldiers only make tactical ratreats.
The reactions of some SLA soldter’s parents have been fairly
progrescivesse.+sothers have only re-affirmed their piggishness and
contempt for the people. ,
Iam sorry that I have been unable te communicate with you
during t*is trying period and I heartily appreciate your refusal to
make asninine remarks to the pigs and their presse I am avare that
your lives have been greatly disrupted, and I am aure that you under-
stend that this condition will likely continue. For this I am not
sorry but only glad that you are experiencing the illustration of
part of the daily reality of millions of other people. his can only
elp yoOtte ;
Please sea that Charlie and Larry receive copies of this
letter, along with eny other elements of tha family and close friends
who have onen minds and strong heartesecescapecially my uncle.
Again, I hope you feel strong, for every word of this lettcr
has its basis in my love for you all. &nd every thing I Go is motivates
by the quest for your freedom as well as the peoplesand mine.
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