A review by butch
Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism by Mumia Abu-Jamal, Stokely Carmichael, Kwame Ture

challenging informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

I definitely need to read/listen to more of Kwane Ture's work and words beyond the time span covered in this book. Ture is direct, evolving (this book spans the 1960s and 1970s so you can see changes in his thoughts), and incredibly insightful. He doesn't hold back and his words have challenged me in many ways. His points on combating white liberalism are especially poignant: "I think that the problem with the white liberal in America, and perhaps the liberal around the world, is that his primary task is to stop confrontation, stop conflicts, not to redress grievances, but to stop confrontation. ... his role, regardless of what he says, is really to maintain the status quo, rather than to change it. ... The liberal is afraid to alienate anyone, and therefore he is incapable of presenting any clear alternative." I also really enjoyed that he attributes and documents his influences and other revolutionaries whose efforts and ideologies have contributed to his own.