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...Allah." Jones' rhetoric about virile blacks v. effete whites proves his own point. Like the quotations of Chairman Mao, such talk is a form of political action, though hardly divine. The book does offer a savage vignette of blacks being harassed in a Newark courtroom as well as a snarling account of that city's 1967 riots set against a background of ethnic politics and official corruption. But mainly Jones pushes a distended version of black nationalism based on a fusion of black art, black politics and African spiritualism...
...known henceforth. Jabbar, a convert from Roman Catholicism, is not a Black Muslim like Boxer Muhammad Ali, but a member of Islam's orthodox Sunni sect. As for his new name, he explained to a press conference that Kareem means "noble" or "generous"; Abdul, "servant of Allah"; Jabbar, "powerful." Jabbar, who left on a three-week tour of Africa with his bride of one week, added that he did not expect the N.B.A. Milwaukee Bucks to give up his old name immediately "because I've become famous with...
...Dacca, army tanks and truckloads of troops with fixed bayonets came clattering out of their suburban base, shouting "Victory to Allah," and "Victory to Pakistan." TIME Correspondent Dan Coggin, who, along with other newsmen, was subsequently expelled from Pakistan, reported: "Before long, howitzer, tank artillery and rocket blasts rocked half a dozen scattered sections of Dacca. Tracers arced over the darkened city. The staccato chatter of automatic weapons was punctuated with grenade explosions, and tall columns of black smoke towered over the city. In the night came the occasional cry of 'Joi Bangla [Victory to Bengal],' followed...
Ouologuem manages his tableaux with a violent compression of energy, as if he were staging Marat/ Sade played by the Keystone Kops. Over the centuries, in the name of Allah, in the name of Christ, in the name of the god of self-interest, "that precious raw material, the niggertrash" of Nakem is conquered, exploited, then "freed" by new conquerors -Arab, French, even, alas, black...
Although Ali has been temporarily suspended from the Muslims for being dependent on the white man's money instead of Allah, he remains a true believer. For his autobiography and his lectures, Ali has taken to inventing homilies on what he calls "the inner life." "Pleasure," he will say, "is the shadow of happiness." "Yeah, man," his brother will answer. "People are unhappy because they are victims of propaganda," Ali says. "Heavy, brother, heavy," says Rudy. And now that he's a writer, Ali is interested in building his vocabulary. Reading a newspaper piece about himself recently, he looked...