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...cookie, black on the outside, white on the inside. Another moderate, Roy Wilkins, received only 53 per cent backing. The NAACP leader, highly popular with Whitney Young among the black soldiers of 1967, is roundly criticized today for condemning the black studies movement. "I dig the militant brothers," said Jessup. "Nonviolence didn't do anything but get Martin Luther King killed." Young drew the support of 51 per cent...
...America is just fighting this war so that the white man can put boo-coo money in his pocket," Pvt. Bruce Jessup of Washington, D.C., said in Pleiku. "He just lets you die so he can send his little war materials over here. To hell with this war. We should say, come on in. Ho Chi Minh, this is yours. You can probably do a whole lot better with drove a gas truck for the 815th Army Engineer Battalion...
Only 14 per cent of the black enlisted men said they would follow without reservation orders to put down rebellious blacks. More than 45 per cent replied that they would refuse the order. "I'd put 'em right down," said Jessup. "And put myself right down in the heart of the riot, and riot right with them, Army clothes and all. As a matter of fact, I'd get out there and put down the police...
Blacks are more tolerant; the right to protest means more to them. "I'd either join the Black Panthers or SDS, preferably SDS," said Jessup, "because SDS is down on the whole thing, down on this war, down on society, the establishment. The society and the establishment are messed up. They need changing', man, so that people can live, live equally. Get all this racist stuff on out of here." "Hell, yes, I'd riot," said Cpl. Toby Hoffler, a black Marine from Brooklyn. "The white man had his goddamn Boston Tea Party, so why can't we have...
...occasionally forensic manner and his brand of intellectual passion are rarely found today. But the questions he asked-and many of his answers-are still pertinent to the country he loved with an unabashi patriotism. Herewith a limited sampling of Editor Luce's thoughts, drawn from the Jessup volume...