Word: amerika
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...cities throughout the country. But this is not enough. We want to build a militant women's movement that commits itself to the destruction of Amerikan imperialism. We see that the struggle of Black and Brown women to free themselves as women is tied to their fight against racist Amerika. We look to the leadership and example of women like Angela, Afeni, and Bernadine who show us how powerful and crucial we can be in attacking Amerika and building a movement of youth that will help destroy it. As revolutionary women we see ourselves as a part of the youth...
...chauvinism is a strategic weakness we can use against the enemy. We use the fact that Pig Amerika is blind to the strength and courage and cunning of any woman to take the enemy by surprise...
...inferiority and superiority, all ethical dimension. In our history books, other cultures were dealt with almost secondarily: America, like its TV heroes Ward Cleaver and Garfield Goose, survived all calamities and obstacles, fashioned mediocrity into national grace by way of an obtuse patriotism. Other cultures were compared to Amerika's, but with no sense of cultural relativity. From texts and Weekly Readers, we learned a national solipsism and irremedial egoism that made it possible for our soldiers in Nam to tape the severed ears of V. C. victims to their jeep antennae as if they were so many dried apricots...
...inquisitive, truly troubled. Maybe they find it hard to reconcile the world of their textbooks with the one outside. As always, they are addled by puberty, bad grades, small injustices. But their awareness is already unwieldy; they have not been allowed to be themselves. Although the vicious secrets of Amerika have not been kept from even them they are still too young and too niggered to provide either cures of intelligent concern. They only feel, numbly, and they will have to be untaught in order to relearn why they fell. Their real world is still both circumscribed and defended...
...most bluntly radical of black-militant demands as nothing but "racism." And the case for political dissent is weakened when almost any attempts, however peaceful, by college authorities to restore law and order on campus are automatically condemned by militant radicals as proof that the U.S. is a "fascist Amerika." Taken at face value, many protest slogans suggest that the dissenters have seriously misestimated U.S. society and its possibility for evolutionary change...