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Die Nigger Die! A Political Autobiography
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H. Rap Brown
More than any other black leader, H. Rap Brown, chairman of the radical Black Power organization Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), came to symbolize the ideology of black revolution. This autobiography—which was first published in 1969, went through seven printings and has long been unavailable—chronicles the making of a revolutionary. It is much more than ...more
Paperback, 145 pages
Published
April 1st 2002
by Lawrence Hill Books
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Written in the late 1960s there isn't any real political rhetoric in this. Its more or less H Rap Brown recalling and bragging about times in his life where he was belligerent with white people. He likes to say he was always "black" and never a "negro". Brown obviously has a real hatred for white people. I actually have no problem with this because he takes a militant black seperatist stance. Blacks can hate me all they want to if they aren't near me.
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H Rap Brown writes one of the brashest biographies you'd ever care to read.
This book is straight out of 1969 revolutionary black power movement, and you can tell. It's got the politics on race, national liberation, the gun, etc. All that stuff is kind of boring if you're already familiar with it, which I was. But the book is interesting anyway, for at least 2 reasons.
1) Rap Brown, now Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, is currently serving a life sentence after being arrested i...more
This book is straight out of 1969 revolutionary black power movement, and you can tell. It's got the politics on race, national liberation, the gun, etc. All that stuff is kind of boring if you're already familiar with it, which I was. But the book is interesting anyway, for at least 2 reasons.
1) Rap Brown, now Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, is currently serving a life sentence after being arrested i...more
"every Black birth in america is political. With each new birth comes a potential challenge to the existing order. Each new generation brings forth untested militance. America doesn't know which Black birth is going to be the birth that will overthrow this country." (1) "Profit is a nice word for stealing which the society has legitimized." (18)
H. Rap Brown is all hyperbole, all polemical in a radical time, speaking radical (albeit dated) sentiments.
The rap is tight, the words are delivered with intention and foreshadow the likes of conscious rap that would follow decades later.
The rap is tight, the words are delivered with intention and foreshadow the likes of conscious rap that would follow decades later.
It's O.K but he came across to me, as a Malcolm X wanna be
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Will have to see..about the guy who started a political movement.
Not Malcolm X.
Available to read on the internet at:
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