Saturday, December 10, 2005

Quote of the day

In an article about the pending execution or clemency for Stanley "Tookie" Williams, several Los Angeles politicians weighed in their fears:

Councilman Bernard Parks, a former police chief. Parks alluded to the 1992 Los Angeles riots that followed the acquittal of white police officers in the beating of black motorist Rodney King.


"All you need is a few to disrupt the entire city," Parks said. (Emphasis added)

It reminds me of Malcolm's response to a question about balancing his fiery rhetoric against his low membership numbers. He said, I'm paraphrasing here, that we shouldn't kid ourselves, that American society is like a barrel of black powder, and that while the number of people working to change it might be small, they simply need to serve as the fuse.
For more about: Tookie's case

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