The "Summer of Love" vs. “Summer of Hell” in Newark

The "Summer of Love" vs. “Summer of Hell”  in Newark

          On July 12^th, 1967, in the aftermath of the savage spectacle police beating of an African American cab driver John Smith, many Newark residents tired of that abuse rose up and rebelled.

The uprising that occurred that July evening was caused by a growing discontent with the white power structure that controlled our civic life. The current violence and disorder that plague our city have little to do with that type of  mindset. We have become complacent with the devices that the white power elite employ to entrap us.  It is true that the political structure in Newark was converted from a White controlled government to a Black dominated organization, the police department has largely changed it’s complexion, BUT are we better off?

In 1967 there was a camaraderie among African-Americans, whether we were Christian, Muslim, Buddhist or Atheist. There was something in the air that united us, even our popular music carried a liberating message.

How was this trap set? “So the government wanted to stop the black movement in this track?? Technically they used us, drug dealers, it gave us high quality heroin and cocaine to pop into our own neighborhood and then we sold it to our own people, to break the back of the revolution,” said Imam Abdul Alim Musa a major drug dealer in Oakland, California where the revolutionary Black Panther Party had its headquarters. “Russia had given the Sandinistas a hundred million dollars to fight with. Congress had cut off all the money from the contras, so now, the Sandinistas had the advantage,” said Freeway Ricky Ross, one of America’s biggest drug dealers. “They would be in our backyard. I believe that they felt it was more valuable to sacrifice a particular sector of America, and a race of people in America in order to save the whole country,” said Ross.

Radio host Alex Jones said: “They [the CIA] sell you the drugs, and when their police on the street catch you with them, they then put you in their prisons working for 25 cents an hour displacing American workers and driving down wages,” he said. “This is all still going on at an even greater level today in Afghanistan and is now hidden in plain view.”

So here we have it in a nutshell the Federal government places the drugs on the street sells them to gangs, so that they can imprison our young men or have them kill each other. Meanwhile the money goes into “Black Ops” and the CIA is funded for them. We must avoid the “snare of the fowler and  the deadly pestilence.”