There may be a few exceptions, but I simply have not met any of them in my eleven years. Hidden are the facts that, at each institution I’ve been in, 30 to sometimes 40 percent of those held are black, and every one of the many thousands I’ve encountered was from the working or lumpenproletariat class. The experience is quite different from the columns of figures neatly arranged to give the impression of well-studied, detached, scientific and calculated analysis. What I have seen in these eleven years is the living situation. This is my eleventh year of being shoveled into every major prison in the most populous state in the nation - and the largest prison system in the world. These statistics conceal the living reality. Since 1960, the number of men and women prisoners in state and federal penitentiaries has fluctuated slightly around the quarter-million mark.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation compiles and indexes almost all information on crime in the United States - I have the figures as it states them right here: Vital Statistics - FBI Crime Report - property crimes, 87 percent of the total in 1969, 28 percent of these crimes occurring in the ghetto. Yet it is true that even official figures prove the case against capitalism.

I refuse to make any argument with statistics compiled by the institutions and associations that I indict. The mayors that curse the rioters and the looters (Mayor Daley of Chicago has ordered them summarily executed in the streets) ignore the fact that their bosses have looted the world!!! In order for capitalism to continue to rule, any action that threatens the right of a few individuals to own and control public property must be prohibited and curtailed whatever the cost in resources (the international wing of the repressive institutions has spent one and one-half trillion dollars since World War II), whatever the cost in blood (My Lai, Augusta, Georgia, Kent State, the Panther trials, the frame-up of Angela Davis)! The national repressive institutions (police, National Guard, army, etc.) are no less determined. I sent the keeper a blank check for a headstone - and two extra sites- blood in my eye!!!įor their freedom to prey on the world’s people. His grave was supposed to be behind your grandfather’s and grandmother’s. I went to Mount Vernon August 7th, 1971, to visit the grave site of my heart your keepers murdered in cold disregard for life.

Blood in my eye george l jackson