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FROM Berkeley to Bedford-Stuyvesant, scrawls of aerosol paint on ghetto walls demand: FREE ANGELA DAVIS. FREE THE SOLEDAD BROTHERS. FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS. The phrase "political prisoner" is so laminated into the radical mind that, like "genocide" or "fascist pig," it has become part of an unconscious ritual. George Jackson's death last week at San Quentin raised some fundamental and difficult questions about the meaning of the term and to whom it applies...
...Jackson in fact a political prisoner? And what about Angela Davis, accused of supplying guns to Jackson's brother Jonathan in last year's shootout at the Marin County Courthouse? Radicals and quite a few liberals, regardless of race, would emphatically answer yes. More than that, many would contend that all black prisoners in American jails are political prisoners in the sense that a "racist," white-dominated political and economic system has condemned them, in their poverty and blackness, to lives of crime...
...freed. But since an overwhelming majority of the victims of black crime are black, and since most blacks, in or out of ghettos, obey the law, the release of all black prisoners might strike law-abiding Negroes as a subtle kind of redoubled racism. Moreover, in demanding Angela's freedom, radicals forget that by their own definition there are all manner of political prisoners in the U.S. who are not black. If all political prisoners are to be released, what about...
Meanwhile, 888 Memorial Drive, a huge, barnlike building near Peabody Terrace, has been newly cleaned and painted over. Spray-panted slogans-"Welcome Sisters," "Free Ericka and Angela"-are gone from the walls; the only words over the door read "Hingham Knitting Company...
...midst of her wedding preparations last week, Tricia Nixon met in the Lincoln Sitting Room of the White House with TIME'S Bonnie Angela. Some of Tricia's observations...