WORLD WIDE AFRICA THE VOICE OF THE PAN AFRICAN MOVEMENT

As the time goes on George Jackson becomes involved in fights with the punishment of more time added to the already inhuman sentence of an UNDETERMINED SENTENCE OF TIME TO LIFE IS WHAT THIS YOUNG MAN RECEIVED FOR $70.00 He is confronted with the prison life of attacks by guards and white prisoners. This leads to his confinement in solitary confinement. The letter we will read tonight starts thus: “I am still in isolation. Nothing has changed since I wrote you las, Robert.* You have a remarkable method for relieving yourself of unpleasant or weighty problems that can almost be admired, were it just a little less chancy and not so slow.  You seem to just ignore the matter or pretend it doesn’t exist, hoping maybe others with more time or brains or perhaps more to lose will work something out.  I have tried several times over the last few years to adopt this means of rationalization for my own relief.  I tried it at the start of this last attack upon my well-being. Like you, I go to bed each night hoping that the morrow will bring about the needed change.  I simply force all my awareness, all my many and monumental problems, from my remembrance. Without plans or forethought, without a hint of uneasiness, I go to bead each night, hoping , trying to avert the storm that is now coming on. I found each morning, as I found this one, freighted with possibilities of my own disaster.  I still see the poverty among plenty, feel the curse of total insecurity.  I still feel cramped within this cloud of ignorance which has been placed about me purposely to make me act against my interests.”