Comments on: Bobby Hutton and Martin Luther King, Jr.: Forty Years On http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/04/bobby-hutton-and-martin-luther-king-jr-forty-years-on/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:00:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Hans Bennett http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/04/bobby-hutton-and-martin-luther-king-jr-forty-years-on/#comment-17912 Hans Bennett Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:48:25 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/04/bobby-hutton-and-martin-luther-king-jr-forty-years-on/#comment-17912 I emjoyed this article, and it reminded me of this little gem from the COINTELPRO papers at the time. One specific tactical approach was expressed in an April 3, 1968 communique urged that “The Negro youth and moderates must be made to understand that if they succumb to revolutionary teaching, they will be dead revolutionaries.”27 Murdering Bobby Hutton would certainly serve this end, huh? I emjoyed this article, and it reminded me of this little gem from the COINTELPRO papers at the time. One specific tactical approach was expressed in an April 3, 1968 communique urged that “The Negro youth and moderates must be made to understand that if they succumb to revolutionary teaching, they will be dead revolutionaries.”27

Murdering Bobby Hutton would certainly serve this end, huh?

]]> By: Lloyd Rowsey http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/04/bobby-hutton-and-martin-luther-king-jr-forty-years-on/#comment-17592 Lloyd Rowsey Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:04:41 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/04/bobby-hutton-and-martin-luther-king-jr-forty-years-on/#comment-17592 This is an interesting piece, Ron, and thank you for it. But I can't agree with your lead sentence in its last paragraph: "The murders of King and Hutton within two days of each other convinced many people living in the United States that forces within the US government were intent on destroying the popular struggle against racism AND WAR by any means necessary. " (My emphasis.) My memory of the times is that when King and Hutton were assassinated, white anti-war activists in America did NOT perceive those outrages as directed against them in significant part, but instead perceived them as primarily continuing manifestations of white racism. Would that historically, black radicals and white anti-war activists had perceived those assassinations so similarly as the quoted sentence suggests. Would that they perceived them so today. This is an interesting piece, Ron, and thank you for it. But I can’t agree with your lead sentence in its last paragraph: “The murders of King and Hutton within two days of each other convinced many people living in the United States that forces within the US government were intent on destroying the popular struggle against racism AND WAR by any means necessary. ” (My emphasis.) My memory of the times is that when King and Hutton were assassinated, white anti-war activists in America did NOT perceive those outrages as directed against them in significant part, but instead perceived them as primarily continuing manifestations of white racism.

Would that historically, black radicals and white anti-war activists had perceived those assassinations so similarly as the quoted sentence suggests. Would that they perceived them so today.

]]> By: susie day http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/04/bobby-hutton-and-martin-luther-king-jr-forty-years-on/#comment-17553 susie day Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:03:25 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/04/bobby-hutton-and-martin-luther-king-jr-forty-years-on/#comment-17553 Thanks, Ron, for for this little-known history. It's important to place King's tragic murder within the context of the larger anti-racist/social change movement. That movement is too easily separated these days into the "wise" anti-violence apostles and the "ego-bound, narcissistic" armed-struggle faction. We forget the common vision of justice and equality that both streams nurtured and developed. Thanks, Ron, for for this little-known history. It’s important to place King’s tragic murder within the context of the larger anti-racist/social change movement. That movement is too easily separated these days into the “wise” anti-violence apostles and the “ego-bound, narcissistic” armed-struggle faction. We forget the common vision of justice and equality that both streams nurtured and developed.

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