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By Mumia Abu-Jamal  Posted by Hans Bennett (about the submitter)       (Page 2 of 2 pages) Become a premium member to see this article and all articles as one long page.   8 comments

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Schools, especially in Black and Latina neighborhoods, are increasingly training grounds for failure.

Also, with the popular pollution of culture, there is the spread of the worst, most anti-life, and misogynist ideas imaginable; usually through music.

Cut off from the academic life of the nation, this cultural pollution seeks to justify various forms of street-hustling as the only way of survival.

Again, we see evidence of the war against youth. It's almost as if the generation of elders are envious of the very quality of youth, and are utilizing state power to destroy them.

De industrialization, state militarization, the failure of education, and cultural pollution are stages in this pervasive war.

The re incarceration of Mychal Bell, the recently released member of the Jena 6, is a part of this ongoing war.

Children aren't children; they are merely young combatants, who should be terrorized, just like their elders.

Unfortunately, I predicted the outcome in Florida to other guys here on Death Row.

I'm sorry that I was right.

--(c) '07 maj 

 

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Hans Bennett is a multi-media journalist mostly focusing on the movement to free Mumia Abu-Jamal and all political prisoners. An archive of his work is available at insubordination.blogspot.com and he is also co-founder of "Journalists for Mumia," (more...)
 
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