But to black revolutionaries like Stokely, because I and others like me had chosen to wear a badge, gun, and blue uniform representative of the forces of an “oppressive” (their point of view) government and enforce what they perceived to be naturally unjust laws specifically designed to work against those victimized by that oppression, we had become modern-day “house slaves”—house niggers, each of us a black Judas who had chosen to collaborate with the governmental “massa” (master) and enforce the “white man’s justice.” We had become slaves to the “system,” the white man’s “boy,” as I was
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