THE FAILURE of the police to Talking Blues is a collection of interviews youths, black parents and some Church people. The section where the Souls speak of their experiences up against the lan.
Young blacks are seldom given the opportunity to speak directly about their In this pamphlet they talk ahout harassment and brutal ity, They show how eyes of the police to be black is to be a suspected person.
defend black communities from racist attacks; the use of the now notorious "sus' laws, and other examples of racist Many of them express the growing militancy in the black community. this oppression any more. can't stand this pressure either get out or we fight back Gl us boin here.
So the only thing we know is to fight and we will fight'.
Oras another said:
war a go hot in a Babylon. black against white. Just bke people South Rhodesia; black agaist white, wou kncw.!
ORDEAL Young blacks cannot trost black the police. One told of encounter with a police officer. best He was riding his bicycle past the police station. 'A police walk never have nothing to da, 80 dida't run anything, I just went скрег- to him.
That was the beguine of an south being pushod about in unemployed and black you are more likely to be harassed by 'As lar as I can see the mon down and oura black man is, or the black youth is, the more we cant stand advantages the police will take of you, around mid day i mid day should he working, the more the police harass you. or else ILLUSIONS Airica, Many ol interview ed, although aware of of maintain Blusions goodwill of the hence in change itself. Some felt that the an young blacks rebelling and adjust themselves cousin's to the realities of life in this country.
expressed stumbers of black parents have to admir: 'Years ago, when we used to hear about the police arracking black with the could net believe it.
We believed that the youths were making it all up. But after years al experience come to realise that it is true.
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avoid and fear the police. pamphlet about blacks and the police.
treatment from the law have all encouraged blacks to LEROY GORDON reviews Talking Blues, a