San Francisco, May 29—Twelve weary journalists gather at the dilapidated headquarters of the Black Students Union and sundry epigoni from San Francisco State College. On the walls are Black Panther posters, sample caption: “The racist dog policemen must withdraw immediately from our community. …” The students are very uptight (as they say), and are bent on doing their thing (as they say), to The Man (us).
As a matter of fact, it isn’t the journalists who are the principal oppressors. “You are no more the cats who run this country than we are,” one leader dismissed us. “Who runs this country is the capitalist exploiters.” For those who tuned in late, journalists write not what they feel, not what they see, but what it is necessary to write in order to make credible the hypocrisies, and make secure the power of—The Structure.
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