Federal Narcotics Agent Reveals Why: Blacks Are Main Victims of U.S. Dope Traffic! NEW YORK-—lIit is an estab- lished fact that more than 90 cent of all heroin addicts in the United States are non- white: Black, Puerto Rican or Mexican American. STATISTICS RELEASED by the U.S. mt of Health, Education and Welfare show that prior to the craze for LSD t chem- icals, the major market for illic- it drugs in America was among nonwhites. “If there were net federal, wiped out in a matter of months,”’ states an irate Black federal mame to be withheld. “It is commonly thought that oppressed peoples—Blacks, Puerto Ricans and Mexican premacy by using v; amugs,” he said. ‘But several aarveys indicate that even up- of America when contradict n that one or another ethnic group is more to experiment “The fact of the matter,’’ he , “is that there is a direct correlation between the of drug addicts in this commu- nity.” He said that teen-agers natu- a dare,’’ whether they are white or nonwhite. “It’s well and good for a par- ent to say that he has brought his child with the awareness of various pitfalls, including dope,’’ the agent told the MU- HAMMAD SPEAKS reporter. “On the other hand,’ he con- tinued, ‘‘even the parent most conffent that he has instilled in awareness of the pitfalls of life ... will be the first one to speak out velmmently if there is even a rumor of a dope peddler around his child's school or in the community.” The federal agent emphasized that no parent wants his or her child exposed to narcotics, re- gardless of his confidence in his ability to rear the child. “WE KNOW THAT local po- lice throughout America—espe- cially those assigned to the ghet- tos—do not care about how many Black youths are captured the ‘ syndrone,’’’ the agent continued. ‘‘But if a police station in a white community gets the word that a narcotics ped- dier is in the neighborhood, the station commander will assign three shifts of his best detectives to catch the peddler.”’ But in a Black community, he went on, ‘‘the officers are either apathetic or prone to take bribes from the peddlers. “After all,” he stressed, ‘“‘It's only Black or Puerto Rican youths that are being exploited —and virtually murdered day by day—by the narcotic traffic.” In New York city, those killed by drug abuse mainly range in age group from 15 to 35. They were found in abandoned build- ings, on rooftops, in basements and hallways throughout the city. All were heroin users, and their deaths were causing unusu- al concern, even in a city where heroin abuse killed a total of 650 persons last year, and more per- sons in the 15-to-25 age group than did murder or disease or any other single cause, including automobile accidents. Five heroin fatalities are re- ported in New York city on an average weekend. During the last weekend in June, the num- ber rose to 2%, an increase of almost 30 per cent. There was no_ white- Black breakdown on the number of deaths. But since it is a well- America are Black, it can be as- sumed, with much credence, that about 90 per cent of those killed by the narcotics traffic were Black. NO MORE NIGGER WILL | BE No longer will I slave and toil My life away on white man’s soil. Breaking my back for nothing more Then a spit in the face and a slamming door. No longer will I live or die In his back alleys under his filthy skies. Which rats have left and death now crawls. In tenement houses with gnawed up walls. No longer will I accept his lies. Or flee his intimidating spies, who lurking in the shadows slip To lash my back with malicious whips. The white man’s fool I’ll never be. Or be tormented by his cruelties. Instead I'llmar ch with vigor and pride Until all his evil acts subsides. Then no more nigger will I be. My chains will break and I'll be free. And all my sufferings will be of the Past. I'll be free forever at last. A free black man forever at last. Rv Ren Greer. Jr. MORE THAN 90 PER CENT of the users of narcotics in the ghetto-infernos of this per- nicious society are Blacks or Puerto Ricans. Here a young Black male user enters needle the M to - HORRORS of dwelling in a Spiritually deranged ee have toboganned lack people to the into his vein . the lives of many young TO WHOM THIS MAY CONCERN Hey, abl you white-cocksuckers you jive-time mother fuckers that call your- self men. Yea you,- with Black skin and the “white chick dangling from your arm. Yeasyou, Unity Trust and his blackness, Respect Defining a Need for By PAT WILMOT The Role of Violence in Revelu- tionary Change Some brothers involved in the Struggle (redundant since a brother by definition is one in- volved in the struggle) are still confused about the correct posi- tion to adopt toward violence. On the one hand brothers are advocating the use of violence ence and passive resistance. Judged from the standpoint of revolutionary politics both posi- tions are incorrect, taking as they do a political position that has no relation to political reali- ties. Advocates to violence, devoid of correct political relations, are generally either romantic revo- lutionaries or psychopaths. They need violence to satisfy exhibi- tionistic drives in their own psyches. Besides these two there is a third type, run down by Brother Fanon in The Wretched Paze 6 shadows Yea you, the fool who fails to see beauty in Black women--her sleek skin, and dark kinky hair. Yea you, the jerk- off that puts brink of self-destruction, th h th i madness of the needle, ieerg ne tives white pushers, (the direct liason men to the reser establish™ent) lurk in the slum making capital off Bla wreckage like fodera favs bell ace : On Black Students : Recently there has been a fall- ing off in idealogical and politi- cal work among students and the one offed when the who has forgottentime comes for the some new and funny tendencies have appeared. Some Black stu- dents seem to think that there is no longer any need to concern themselves with the politics of liberating themselves and their colony. It would seem that study and practice was once all the rage but currently not so much in fashion. To counter these ten- dencies, we must dicipline our minds. Students should study hard. In addition to the study of their specialized subjects, they must make progress both idealo- Bically and politically, which means that they should study cur- Tents events and politics. Not to have a correct political point of view is like having no soul, all Black Studies Classes should shoulder their responsibilities in idealogical and political work Violence of the Earth. This is the to deal obras that needs violence as therope that piss = anything before his Blackness. Yea you, the mother fucker thats gonna find himself thing to come down BanG. = ee After centuries of suppression organized and systematized viol- the colonized person needs non- ence in the form of the army, directional violence as a means the police and the nationa to assert himself, his manhood guard. But, more importantly, and his humanity. Although this type may be worthy of sym- pathy, it is still necessary to organize such potential for viol- ence to move against the power- structure in a strategic manner. Advocates of non-violence and Passive resistance point to Ghandi’s India and the early Stages of the civil rights strug- gle in the country. What they fail to realize, or to come to terms with, is that India’s ‘“‘in- dependence”’ and American civil rights legislation have failed to alter the essential relations of power caste in either country. They overlook Ghandi’s own statement of principle that given the choice between violence and cowardice one must choose viol- ence. They fail to confront, and enve is necessary, it must be revolutionary violence — di- rected Mao emphasizes, grows out of the barrel of a gun. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE for Panthers’’ put forward by the Black Panther Party can be won, There is a historical precedent for just this sort of exchange taking place. This writer played a small part in this precedent and remembers it vividly. The Black Panther Party is de- manding that the United States gov- ernment release Panther political prisoners in exchange for U.S. war criminals shot down while making murderous bombing raids over the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Apologists for U.S, imperialism will say that this sort of thing just can’t be done; that people imprisoned under the criminal codes of this country can’t be freed in political exchanges. Peo- ple who don’t really want to see the Panthers freed from the pig power structure will point to a lot of legalisms as to why such an exchange can’t be made: the Pan- ther brothers and sisters have been jailed on criminal, not polit- ical charges; the federal.govern- ment, which would have to arrange such an exchange, has no juris- diction over the separate states; the Panthers have yet to undergo trial and sentencing, etc, etc. But all this is really a lot of baloney. The U.S. imperialist gov- ernment could free the Panthers tomorrow if they wanted to, Be- cause just eight years ago, under almost identical circumstances, the pigs in Washington did agree to political exchanges. This was in the case of Francisco Molina, In Nigger Town In Nigger Town The streets ere meade of mud Infested with rats and bats and bugs In Nigger Town In Nigger Town The streets are made of brick Ask any swinging dick that happens past Why won't he get off his big, fat, black, funky ass A grumbling snitch A shot of shit. for a dope fiend bitch Hid behind the PILOTS FOR PANTHERS, AND THE MOLINA- ARTIME PRISONER EXCHANGE The demand ‘Prisoners of War who had beén sentenced to twenty years for second degree murder. able’’ of the Cuban fascists they held in reserve by the Cuban years, but today isa free man. In the meantime, the real murder- were dealing with. Not only did government -- Manuel Artime, In Francisco Molina was a young ers -- a group of Cuban counter- Artime know all the intimate de- exchange for Artime, Cuba de i = worker who lived in New York revolutionaries who had come tails of how the invasion was plan- manded the release of Francisco City, He was a passionate de- from Miami to New York to start ned, but he was an important public Molina fender of the Cuban Revolution at trouble -- were flown to the trial figure built a time when both the Cuban Re- from Guatemala where they were might be needed for future adven- public and its supporters in the U.S. were up against the most vic- ious fascist attacks from Washing- ton. Molina was framed up on a murder charge, and for weeks the papers screamed about ‘The i Hook’’ (the name they made uf for him because he had lost a hand working in a Queens toy factory) with the same kind of hysteria they use today against the Panthers. Like the brothers and sisters today,who are in jail on bails that are impossible to make, Molina was held without bail so that : he couldn’t get out and rally i support. Nevertheless, there was j great support for him in the Cuban community and among North ameriKKKans sympathetic to the Revolution. Like the Panthers in jail today, Molina was held on a criminal charge, but the real case made against him was for his politics. The U.S. Ambassador to the UN lost no time in charging the Cuban government itself with murder. Editorials screamed that the city was in danger from armed Cuban guerrillas. But of course when the time came for his trial, the ques- being trained by the CIA, It was tion of his politics was ‘‘irrele- their testimony that put the young vant’’--the lynchers wantedtohave Cuban worker behind bars for their cake and eat it too. twenty years. Molina was sentenced to twenty But history sometimes has a fun- In Nigger Town one ny way of setting things straight. The men who helped the U.S, gov- ernment put Molina in jail found themselves behind prison bars just a few weeks later, Their Guat- emalan training had been for the Bay of Pigs invasion, where 1200 counter - revolutionary worms were captured by the Cuban peo- ple. Among them were a couple of thugs who had framed Fran- cisco Molina. The U.S. government found it- self in a doubly embarrassing situation, First, the invasion had failed miserably leaving it obvious to the world that the CIA had planned the whole thing. Second, there were now the 1200 prisoners being held in CUBA, The U.S.had to make efforts to get them back. It had already leaked out that the ‘‘leaders’’ of the invasion had been kept under lock and key at Opalocka Air Force Base by the CIA so that they wouldn’t get in the way during the affair. If the U.S. didn’t get the prisoners re- leased, other embarrassing details of the ‘‘all-Cuban”’ invasion would surely be told. The Kennedy Administration febmbslasssscanoscastsoss rmntneton ses soe, day Four little chil- dren kneeled to pray ---In Jesus' neme Boom$ Four little chil- dren gone And Jesus never came Now you say, you're tired of all this shit BOBBY SEALE AND HUEY P. NEWTON POLITICAL PRISONERS OF US FASCISM up by the CIA, who From a legalistic point of view, there were more obstacles in get- ting Molina’s release than there are today in the Panther cases. Molina had already been tried and convicted by a jury; he was serv- ing a 20-year sentence in a state prison for murder: it seemed that the fad, 1 g 1 al ight to intercede, The Governor of New York State was a Republican,while ithe President was a Democrat. But all these legal problems vanished when the ruling class de- cided that they had to get Artime pack, Governor Rockefeller signed a pardon, and within a day Fran- cisco Molina was on his way to Cuba, Free Territory of the amer- iKKKas. Rockefellers opponents in the ruling class didn’t breathe a word of criticism. All the legal fol-de-rol was swept away because the Establishment decided It was in their interest to carry out tne exchange. The legal complications are not as great inthe case of the Panthers, a since the trails have not yet taken i place, It is not a question of over= ruling a jury. The Panthers could be released immediately if the fed- eral government urged: the state authorities to drop the indictments, The legal machinery to free the imprisoned Panther brothers and sisters can be found if enough pressure is brought to bear upon tures. The U.S, was anxious to get him back. As Secretary of the Molina De- fense Committee, I went in the fall Ob OL to vi es eee Done tke ruling class Establishment. ovan, a New York lawyer who was ~ And while such a possibi ma negotiating the prisoner exchange. soem remote to aoe Neo His spacious office in the Wall Artime exchange is a clear his- Street area showed him to be a torical precedent. man with more than just a “‘hu- The release of the Panthers by manitarian’’ interest in the ex- the pig power structure wouldcer- change. I explained to him about tainly bea bitter pill for them to Francisco Molina, how his case swallow, something they would was definitely political althoughthe have to be forced to do. But the charge had nothing to do with polit- ics, and that he had been framed by men who had then gone on to Participate in the Bay of Pigs in- vasion. I asked that Molina be freed in the prisoner exchange. Donovan’s answer was that he could do nothing in this regard, since Molina was under the juris- diction of the New York State courts and was a convicted mur- derer. But cables from Cubans contin- ued to pour into our little office, by the hundreds, showing the ex- treme concern of the Cuban peo- ple for their brother who had been railroaded to jail in New York. And our committee kept up a campaign to free Molina, picketing the court and Governpr Rocke- feller’s office. Finally, the deal was made to You suck-a-pawed son-of-a-bitch if you was, you'd began negotiations with the Cuban exchange the 1200 prisoners for government for a prisoner ex- food and medicine, Donovan signed change. Cuba was asking for agri- an agreement in Havana with Fidel cultural supplies and medicine in Castro. He was supposedly acting exchange for the counter-revolu-for a ‘‘private’’ group of amer- tionaries -- goods kept out of iKKKans, but the Kennedy Admin- Cuba by the U,S, economic block- istration made it clear that Don- ade. ovan was in reality an official, determined struggle of the oppres- sed people has forced such con- cessions before. The Molina case is not the only example of this. Who would have thought , that the mighty U.S, im- perialist government would get down on its knees before the Peo- ples Republic of Korea and con- fess to espionage? But that’s ex- actly what happened when the U.S, signed a confession about the spy ship Pueblo, The U.S, government doesn’t want to admit that the Panthers are political prisoners, prisoners taken in the war against Black ameriKkKKa,. But the demands for ‘(POW’s for Panthers’’ exchange points this out clearly. They didn’t want to admit that Molina was a political prisoner, either. Andthey didn’t want to admit their crimes in Korea, But the struggle forced them to free Francisco Molina, confess their crimes against the Korean people -- and the struggle is going to force them to free the Panther prisoners. By Deirdre Griswold former Secretary of the Molina ball your mitt Do something The kingpin captured in the in- vasion was Manuel Artime--the CIA had foundhim the most ‘‘tract- nigger if you only Nigger Town spit! cemetary in the fog A leg, 2 hog, a short dog of Elderberry Misery spreads and brothers dead Tell the truth snaggle-tooth I know you're scared you mother goose Witb niggers in Page 7 I'm fed up to my neck About a drunk, 4 thief, a punk I woulin't give 4 husky heck In Nigger Town but secret, representative of the Defense Committee and author government. of ‘*The Case of Francisco, There was one prisoner whowas Molina, Political Prisoner’ ’ ~ FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS