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Die Nigger Die!: A Political Autobiography of Jamil Abdullah al-Amin
More than any other black leader, H. Rap Brown, chairman of the radical Black Power organization SNCC, came to symbolize the ideology of black revolution. Die Nigger Die!-which was first published in 1969, went through seven printings, and has long been unavailable-tells the story of the making of a revolutionary. But it is much more than a personal history-it is a call to
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April 1st 2002
by Chicago Review Press
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Jul 31, 2010
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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.
Brown is actually pretty funny. Just the titl ...more
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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 in 2000 on dubious grounds, m ...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 in 2000 on dubious grounds, m ...more
this autobio is the raw and uncut thoughts of a young person who was tired of how this country treated him and people who looked like him. his views were seen as problematic, not only by the majority but by his own people. reading his thoughts on race, the power structure, capitalism and problems with america in general and comparing his them with the state of this country today i'm inclined to agree with a lot of what he had to say. its a shame that so many revolutionaries from that era are sti
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god this book made me laugh out loud several times. it felt really good reading this... while walking around intensely antiblack san francisco, on valencia street. okay so i didn't really do that as often as i imagined i would prior to when i started reading, and a couple of times i became weirdly self-conscious around other black people. i don't know if seeing me read this book prompted other black people to read it although i really think it should be read. one white person asked me about it w
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الكتاب يتحدث عن الشيخ عبد الله جميل الأمين في فترة ما قبل إسلامه (من ولادته عام 1943 إلى عام 1969) و كان في ذلك الوقت يسارياً شيوعياً منادياً بالحقوق المدنية للملونين الأمريكان
الكتاب مهم من ناحيتين
1- التقسيم الماركسي لطبقات المجتمع (جيد إلى حد ما لفهم ردود الأفعال تجاه التغيرات الجذرية في أساليب الحياة )
2- توضيح التفكير الأمريكي العنصري (سواء أكان عنصري أبيض أم أسود) لأني أظن أن هذه العنصرية تم تحويل إتجهاها فقط و لم يتم إخفاءها بالكلية
الكتاب مهم من ناحيتين
1- التقسيم الماركسي لطبقات المجتمع (جيد إلى حد ما لفهم ردود الأفعال تجاه التغيرات الجذرية في أساليب الحياة )
2- توضيح التفكير الأمريكي العنصري (سواء أكان عنصري أبيض أم أسود) لأني أظن أن هذه العنصرية تم تحويل إتجهاها فقط و لم يتم إخفاءها بالكلية
I understand that this book was written at a time when racism was at it's highest and people protested like they meant it back then but this guy was ridiculous. How many times can you be arrested and be worth anything? How many incredible feats can you accomplish? How many times can you know what the white man is up to but you still haven't fixed race relations? This book is all about a guy who just wanted to share his hate and fantasy with people that unfortunately agreed with him. My take away
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"This country has delivered an ultimatum to Black people; america says to Blacks: you either fight to live or you will live to die. I say to america, Fuck It! Freedom or Death. Power to the People." H. Rap Brown 1969
Love this book!!!
Love this book!!!
The only reason I think "Die Ni**** Die!" isn't popular like
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
is because Imam Jamil al-Amin (H. Rap Brown) is still alive. I bet any young street dude in the 'hood today can get with this book, even if he didn't grow up in the deep South, or with Black Power influences, or politicalized. That's what makes this book so powerful. I knew of the imam as a political prisoner before I came across "A Political Autobiography" around '06. I still rank it above Malcolm X's au
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A quick, fun read. Most of the politically important material is in the last two chapters.
"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)
America, my country, is such a greedy and dirty nation. Yes Lagos is poor, yes Calcutta is poor. If you think that the poverty of other nations is enough to allow us to ignore our own problems, then I hope to see you in Hell. The book is inflammatory, but it's also short.
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.
Oct 03, 2012
She-ra's A' DragQueen
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A book about blacks being kept down by the man written by a black guy doing life in prison for shooting 2 white cops. Bravo. You sir, have failed at life.
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H Rap Brown is the man, and delivers a powerful message, please, please, read this black men.
Available to read on the internet at:
http://www.historyisaweapon.org/defco...
http://www.historyisaweapon.org/defco...
Will have to see..about the guy who started a political movement.
It's O.K but he came across to me, as a Malcolm X wanna be
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“The long-simmering anger at racism and economic injustice of alienated black youth in the ghettoes was erupting into violent and destructive urban insurrections. In every case these “riots” were triggered by police brutality or misconduct, most usually the killing or brutalizing of an unarmed black man.”
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