dom-~-uh huh. Yall know how we use to get down on some "dap"—give up that more Black power. That's the way it was cause .all the brothers v/ere together. I'm not even talking about no nee-grows cause they may never grow and just might have to be pulled out of the ground with the rest of the weeds .that's defacing our garden of life. We were sho-nuff together in the Nam but a lot of us just sort of lived that togetherness without analyzing it to see what was really going on. An analysis of our unity would have given us the knowledge needed to transport the Kara togetherness to the Black community where it is still urgently needed at the grass roots level—our level. The swines played one of the most important roles in bringing the Brothers together. Their hate and racism were what really did it, I remember one of the less dramatic racist encounters I had with a staff sargent; he told me to go out on a window ledge and fix something—before I could answer a white guy with me volunteered to fix it. The sarge told him no, it
dangerous for me., and walked away. Then I recall another negative racial . encounter, but this one didn't have any coyer on it, I was the only Black sitting there watching TV v/ith five "true grit" kind of red necks. As I sat there watching TV one of them said: "Where I'm from ve usually hang (nigger bitches)": before I could say anything he said it again. I guess lie figured because I was alone he could go ahead and do his thing—especially considering that I didn't fly into an iiEiaediate fit of rage. But tho thing was—he _was saying that in reference to some Sisters singing on TV: I think it was the Supremes. The reason I didn't respond to the suckers right away was because the Sisters were looking good and I was laying for the commercial. V.'hen the commercial cam*? I walked in the middle of four of them, the other guy was sitting back on the next row: I stood in front of the "murder mouther" and told him—"Y/here I'm from we usually fuck up guys like you," and proceeded to break the right side of his' face. As 'fast as his confederates Jumped up I put 'em down. A sargent broke everything up before I could do the rest of them