40 years in prison for a crime at 17... I think I would also find Islam if I were in his stead, otherwise God save the system and the captors from me.

  • hello_hello [they/them, comrade/them]
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    3 months ago

    And I became obsessed with history. I pored over the works of Marcus Garvey, Chancellor Williams and J.A. Rogers. I read about the American, French and Iranian revolutions and the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. When I read about the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama — and how many of the students protesting the bombing were jailed — I immediately connected that to the Tiananmen Square protests in China.

    Of course. Everything else is great though, the autobiography of Malcolm X is great to radicalize someone.