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- From: New Liberation News Service <nlns@igc.apc.org>
- Subject: NLNS: FROM the VAULT
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- The House That Blood Built
- From Liberation News Service #218 December 13, 1969
- Abe Peck, Chicago Seed/Liberation News Serivice
-
- CHICAGO (LNS)--This is the house that blood built. It is called 2337 West
- Monroe Street. It is in Chicago, in what Elvis calls "the ghet-to."
- A pool of blood stains the carpet behind the front door to this house.
- The blood was part of Mark Clark until the morning of Dec. 4. Mark Clark
- was a Black Panther from Peoria, Ill.
- Color him dead.
- Overturned furniture fills the front room and hallways of this house.
- The walls and furniture are air-conditioned police style--ventilated by
- shotgun, pistol, automatic rifle, and magnum shells.
- Color them violated.
- There is a third bedroom at the end of the hallway, and the mattress
- in this room is half brown and half red. The brown part is frayed with use,
- the red part is fresh and slippery with agony and paid.
- This redness was a part of Fred Hampton. Fred Hampton was
- Chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party. Color him dead, too.
- Fred Hampton was 21 years old.
- Mark Clark was 22.
- A block away, the Information Minister and the Defense Minister
- and several other speakers speak of Chairman Fred and Mark Clark and
- armed struggle. They speak of why they are tired of writing and lecturing
- and organizing in the shadow of 400 years of Babylonian Captivity.
- Words.
- At the house that blood built, words are no longer necessary. The
- shotgun patterns show where Ron Satchel, Blair Anderson, Verlin Brewer,
- and Brenda Harris were put up against the wall. Shocked eyes play "follow
- the dots" and relay the truth: each was shot only in the lower body, each
- shot was shot to cripple him or her for a long time.
- Soon we will pay another visit. Jews call it "sitting shivah."
- Irishment call it a "wake." The Vikings launched ships when the time came.
- Soon we shall go to a place unlike "the ghet-to," a place where the air is
- clean and there is space for people to stretch out. We shall go to this place of
- good-byes, and we shall say our farewells to the 27th and 28th Black
- Panthers to perish. We shall stand over the graves and hear eulogies to
- those who fought well and not in vain.
- More words.
- We, the long-haired sons and daughters of the middle-class, went to
- that house that blood built and saw the truth that words and rhetoric cannot
- say. We saw the redness of black men and women and knew it for the
- redness of the yellow Vietnamese and the white activist whose blood will
- flow before the beast is slain. We stepped in the redness, and felt rage that
- the State's attorney could dare to congratulate his gunment for killing people
- in their beds. The redness seeped into our minds as we thought of our
- communal homes and our still-living loved ones.
- When we left that house that blood built, we knew that we had
- descended from the mountain to join with those who dwell in the valley.
- And, when we looked into each other's eyes we knew that the road back
- had been sealed by the avalanche of what we had seen.
- Bring the ghetto home.o those who fought well and not in vain.
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