Who was George Jackson? America's prophetic revolutionary

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Who was George Jackson? America's prophetic revolutionary | Rattling the Bars

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At the age of 18, George Jackson was condemned to a prison sentence of one year to life for the alleged robbery of $70 from a Los Angeles gas station. Jackson spent the remainder of his short life behind bars, but it was from the confines of prison that he became one of the most powerful revolutionary voices and one of greatest living threats to the American capitalist system. Jackson’s autobiographical book of prison letters, titled Soledad Brother, would become a touchstone of Black revolutionary thought for generations of radicals within and outside the prison-industrial complex. As Field Marshal of the Black Panther Party and one of the organization's principal thinkers, Jackson's philosophy and strategy for revolution lit the path to armed struggle taken by the Black Liberation Army and other organizations. On the 52nd anniversary of his killing by prison authorities, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez joins Rattling the Bars to speak with host Mansa Musa about Jackson's towering life and example, and about the impact Jackson’s work had on Mansa, on our departed mentor and fellow political prisoner Marshall “Eddie” Conway, and on their incarcerated comrades.
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@deeringkendrick8388 11 ай бұрын

I am 54 y/o, and I've never heard of George Jackson. The longer I live the more I see how our education system fails us all.

@mar25947 11 ай бұрын

When I first click on the vid, I was embarrassed thinking I should have heard of George Jackson...but the truth is public education just never taught us...

@Mocha69A 11 ай бұрын

We'd be very young kids I'm 54 in December. I only new racism as a young boy in early 70s apart of a very white neighborhood school in a racist Texas city

@gallen2101 10 ай бұрын

Omg, I can tell you hun, those were .magical , dramatic, revolutionary times!!! I consider myself so privileged to witness the Pure bravery. Super intellectual, United Black Men and Women, I felt protected whenever I walked the streets and addressed as Sister / Empress in passing. Yes the Ideology was Unity 🖤

@milhouse9003 9 ай бұрын

I looked at A People's History to see if he is referenced by Zinn - he is right before Zinn's discussion of Attica.

@battleaxe. 11 ай бұрын

Blood In My Eye: A book by General George Jackson. A beautifully written book concerning guerrilla tactics, the fight against the United States government, class struggle and American fascism. Nothing at all has changed! R.I.P. 🙏🏾🙏🏾💪🏾💪🏾👈🏾

@jonblaze4244 11 ай бұрын

Well said. Especially "nothing at all has changed".

@battleaxe. 11 ай бұрын

@@jonblaze4244 Peace to you Brother! ✌🏾👈🏾

@gallen2101 10 ай бұрын

💯💯💯

@battleaxe. 10 ай бұрын

@@gallen2101 Peace to you Sista! ✌🏾👈🏾

@annesaunders3851 11 ай бұрын

Soledad Brother, read it in my youth in the 70s in UK. It made a lasting impression on me as a 16year old, white schoolgirl.

@ThexAristotle 11 ай бұрын

Did you know he hated that book? He said it twisted his analysis to make it more palatable to upper class academics and white people.

@TheHippieatheart63 11 ай бұрын

So much true history withheld from us in our schools and in the media.

@jonblaze4244 11 ай бұрын

Not just history, TRUTH period. The powers that be only tell us the facts and fictions that they want us to know. Everything else we have to research and find ourselves.

@TheHippieatheart63 11 ай бұрын

@@jonblaze4244 Damn Skippy fellow citizens, I've been digging since this whole plandemic and their shit is so deep. I've been deep in the rigged judicial system since the US Air Force made me a Law Enforcement Security Policeman, I could only stomach it for 4 yrs, to many badge hungry Neanderthals for my taste and I hear it's worse in the civilian LE field. I feel I spent 13 yrs in school Pledging Allegiance to a beautiful thing that turned out to be a big lie. I use to live and breath Hot Dogs, Baseball, and Apple Pie. Now I'm so damn Disillusioned, Sad, AND PISSED OFF. I about want to puke when I hear "Thank you for your serve". All the old veterans that wear those embroidered ball caps....so proud to have served their country with their sacrifices...I use to be........ we were and are nothing but Cannon Fodder for crooked politicians and defense corporations, Wars good for business, all under the guise of democracy, patriotism, freedom, humanitarianism, foreign aid, World Peace and all the latest catch phases representing "Justice, Inclusion, Diversity, Global Stability , Economic or Energy Independence. Follow the damn money. I only see CLASS RACISM in my part of the country, not BLM, REDNECK KKK , LGBTQIA+. Now a Mobile, AL public Library did have a RuPaul type male read at a story time to some young kids a while back, all over the news, didn't much care for seeing that myself. Kids don't need to be seeing that type of thing until their older to make mature decisions about their sexuality, they need to read, write, and math first anyway. Damn, sorry for the novel, I reckon I needed to vent. Peace.

@numbersix8919 11 ай бұрын

"If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything."

@fooo2241 11 ай бұрын

Sorry to say I had never heard of this man, his story. YT remains horrid, but grateful to content creators who share such histories and allow me a bit of education that my life's would not have otherwise encountered 💚

@gallen2101 10 ай бұрын

Oh please research these prolific times!! It was real

@jazmost 6 ай бұрын

Read Soledad Brothers in the 1990s while serving time myself. I was attracted to the book because his other book, Blood in My Eye, was banned in the Institution that I was housed at. Banned? How powerful was this writer and his ideas? I got a hold of Soledad Brothers and it blew my mind! It changed the way I used my "time" while I was away and as he said in his book, “I met Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels and Mao when I entered prison and they redeemed me.” George Jackson redeemed me.

@mylifetotaly 11 ай бұрын

Thanks! I remember reading about George Jackson and the Black Panther Party in Middle School and High School

@therealnews 11 ай бұрын

We appreciate your support!

@aarondigby5054 11 ай бұрын

The Panthers and they need to let these revolutionaries out of prison they have served too much time, when J6 rioters were slapped on the wrists for insurrection.

@VERYPURPLE 11 ай бұрын

I’m 48 years old raised in Chicago Illinois The first time I heard a glimpse of the story a couple years ago. Thank you for provide content to his story of George Jackson I can truly relate.👏🏿🫶🏽🤟🏽

@cheri238 11 ай бұрын

Thanks you always Real News Network for all efforts for allowing all sides of American history to be shared. I have been listening for for some years.

@therealnews 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for listening and your donation!

@jeanettesdaughter 11 ай бұрын

Great show. Great! I cried. Never forget. Never.

@kurtstrains 11 ай бұрын

This should have been 2 hrs long

@jonblaze4244 11 ай бұрын

An even more in depth 2 hour conversation about George Jackson is had on Black Power Media if you're interested.

@imasweetie2800 11 ай бұрын

At 2 hours, fewer would click This is YT. Attention span = 8 sec

@shirleyjbaker1096 11 ай бұрын

"From Reform To Revolution" The Right Of Self-Determination 2023" From Civil Rights To Human Rights SALUTE

@Chris-cq5pw 11 ай бұрын

This is the first content I’ve ever come across about George Jackson (though I’ve heard his name referenced). Thank you for sharing this part of our history that’s been concealed from us.

@shirleyjbaker1096 11 ай бұрын

Raleigh NC Thank you I never knew about George Jackson. "Standing 444LIFE 1💚 #jimcrowsouthsurvivor63

@purplelioness5853 11 ай бұрын

Loved this episode.

@shermanw711 11 ай бұрын

EXCELLENT!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

@muskogee2732 11 ай бұрын

I grew up in these times (1960s-1970s) and was aware of what was going on. Even though I transformed my life by working to support my children, I was always in tuned with the real-world conditions and was able to provide a little better environment that saved them, we are all still living with a JOB aka (just over broke JOB).

@peterhardie4151 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for this. Great journalism and stories.

@shermanw711 11 ай бұрын

Nyc we learn about stuff middle schools not high school they taught His-Story!

@walter1932 11 ай бұрын

Long live Marshall Eddie Conway.

@FASBLAQUE 11 ай бұрын

Most people in prisons are political prisoners. In Nebraska we have a woman who is the first to be be prosecuted under these new abortion laws.

@aarondigby5054 11 ай бұрын

There need to be a groundswell protest and suffragettes type movement. Vote these draconian politicians out of ofgice.

@cm9247 11 ай бұрын

ALL PRAISES TO THE MOST HIGH YAH!! We are all on the plantation now. Keep speaking truth to power brothers! Shalom shalom.

@spartacusjonesmusic 11 ай бұрын

Soledad Brother was a significant book for me. For a while there, back in the 'mid-60's to early '70's, it almost looked like the good guys -- the anti-war/civil rights guys -- might win.They got cointelpro-ed, and smeared, and they killed all the leaders, and then convinced the frustrated rebels to blow their minds on dope, or put on a tie. It was a sad end to hope. But at least, we tried.

@moorec1053 11 ай бұрын

I am still amazed that Angela Davis was not assassinated.

@muskogee2732 11 ай бұрын

Yep; those were the options. Thanks for putting it straight. I was witness, just like you. My first child’s daddy took the dope option; my second child’s daddy disowned her. I worked to save them. Although they + grands are well, our battle is for our land & resources- not a job

@t.ruththeblack 11 ай бұрын

For real, that's what happened! Then came CRACK . . .

@spartacusjonesmusic 11 ай бұрын

@@t.ruththeblack Yeah, man. I used to get into arguments with guys who thought doing dope was "revolutionary." I said, "Whose dope do you think you're doing?" Didn't go over well.

@Juan-ud3if 11 ай бұрын

Salute Truth Tellers.and Activists for Peace. 🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋🙋

@papi_sativa 5 ай бұрын

💚💪🏿💯 Thank y'all so much!

@shirleyjbaker1096 11 ай бұрын

#BlackAugust1🖤🖤🖤🖤 #SolidarityForever 444LIFE

@gasmask1795 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for the video! Solidarity from eastern Europe! It is sad that George Jackson is mostly unknown figure for European left... It must be important for anyone, we all brothers, and must remeber great people like Jackson.

@LeeeerrrroooyJennnnnkins 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for the introduction, both utterly shocking depravity and yet an all too common thread of systemic injustice..

@juanbetancourtg68 11 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@therealnews 11 ай бұрын

Thank you, and thanks for supporting our work!!

@antranettescott3335 9 ай бұрын

A spectacular conversation. Thank you. I am thinking of the parallel of prison system of the US within colonial border of the the past, the open air prison that is Gaza and the People’s rightful armed resistance. Also changing of perspective of prisons in terms of our (Black people/working people) communities within the US now.

@tahseti1113 11 ай бұрын

I'm well steeped in black history and revolutionary thought. I transitioned from revolution to spiritual evolution. Mansa came up in my neck of the woods ( DC). I remember listening to Malcolm on the radio when I was a little kid and King being assassinated. Dangerous times.

@Mocha69A 11 ай бұрын

Outstanding guest on your show

@gallen2101 10 ай бұрын

He was a Real One 🖤 knew exactly where I was and what I was doing when I heard that news, prompting me to join the party. Thank you for shining light on his monumental legacy

@marcyfan-tz4wj 11 ай бұрын

thank you. i have a book about him and one written by him on the way. this will give me something more than the bob dylan song to go by.

@shiddykiddy 11 ай бұрын

What song was that?

@marcyfan-tz4wj 11 ай бұрын

it's called "george jackson". there' a big band version and an acoustic version (both on you tube). i was just sitting in the sun reading "blood in my eye" a couple of hours ago@@shiddykiddy

@elizaphan4696 10 ай бұрын

Shocked again at hearing the numbers of young people who have been in darkness, lacked in the knowledge of people who shaped the world's history.

@The_Mixed_Ron_Swanson 11 ай бұрын

We are 1.

@DC-wg1cr 11 ай бұрын

Read blood in my eye

@beverlydixon6556 11 ай бұрын

I NEVER HEARD OF HIM EITHER. NO SURPRISE😮‍💨😪 FATHER GOD PLESE HELP US PLEASE HELP UR PEOPLE🤧

@terrenceharris-hughes4436 11 ай бұрын

Wasn't there a movie based on his experience in prison

@jonblaze4244 11 ай бұрын

Those that know George Jackson would say the movie was a very loose interpretation of George. Not to mention the movie doesn't go into George's politics.

@jujutrini8412 11 ай бұрын

@@jonblaze4244 That seems like a somewhat pointless exercise then. 😱

@jonblaze4244 11 ай бұрын

@@jujutrini8412 the point is to try and water down what George Jackson actually stood for. Same way they made a Fred Hampton movie but the star was the dude who betrayed Fred. They're trying to water down our leaders so we soon forget the important things they've done.

@erich.2550 9 ай бұрын

@@jonblaze4244 It's called Black August.

@stevosd60 11 ай бұрын

I read Blood in my Eye in the 70s. Made a big impression at the time . Not the sort of book or person the authorities want you to bother with . Wonder why?

@rastafari4932 10 ай бұрын

First heard about George Jackson in a song by Steel Pulse…

@marleyite 9 ай бұрын

Steel Pulse and Bob Dylan have composed some excellent songs dedicated to the memory of George Jackson, Soledad Brother.

@bernicehagins643 10 ай бұрын

A real man and fighter

@HughKefner300 8 ай бұрын

This is deep

@Asheroyal12 11 ай бұрын

❤️🖤💚👊🏿

@shamashwanTRUU 6 ай бұрын

Rise again Ahch✡️🙌🏾✡️

@aarondigby5054 11 ай бұрын

Heard of him, saw him on tv protesting and giving speech.

@sanmicahxavierjohnsonnegro7100 4 ай бұрын

En San Julio Obama Mefuman habrá una ciudad con el nombre de Julio, que será el segundo municipio más poblado de la provincia

@extendedclips 11 ай бұрын

🦍🤲🏽🐉

@sanmicahxavierjohnsonnegro7100 4 ай бұрын

Vivo en Julio

@sanmicahxavierjohnsonnegro7100 4 ай бұрын

El hospital de la provincia de San Julio Obama Mefuman estará en Julio

@bopcoppins5337 10 ай бұрын

Mansa Mousa very astute profound brother who was also a victim of this system!!

@sanmicahxavierjohnsonnegro7100 7 ай бұрын

Provincia de San George Jackson

@djbrad1068 11 ай бұрын

👍

@sanmicahxavierjohnsonnegro7100 4 ай бұрын

San Julio Obama Mefuman, martes 19 de mayo de 2024, tengo 58 años de edad Ayuntamiento de Julio

@sanmicahxavierjohnsonnegro7100 4 ай бұрын

Soy de Julio

@sanmicahxavierjohnsonnegro7100 4 ай бұрын

Julio ciudad de San Julio Obama Mefuman

@isisbeck2374 11 ай бұрын

This shyt still going on 9/ 2023😢

@lwdhmrcy 5 ай бұрын

Free: Mumia Abu Jamal, jamil Al Amin, bring Assata Olugbala Shakur back home. Great work my brethren from a Black Latino. The Middle Easterners fight for their political prisoners freedom we don’t anymore why?

@genericamerican7574 10 ай бұрын

*🚩Just crazy🚫⚖️🚫✌️📣✊💐🕊️*

@bopcoppins5337 10 ай бұрын

George Jackson one of the greatest revolutionaries this fascists ran world ever encountered,for awhile he really did put a blade in Fascism!!!

@sanmicahxavierjohnsonnegro7100 4 ай бұрын

Debajo del cartel de La entrada del municipio de Julio habrá un retrato de San Julio Obama Mefuman, santo de la iglesia de los negros de San Rafael Nsue Nchama y de San Malcolm X

@LOGAFFY 11 ай бұрын

Loving Father, Help us to remember the birth of Jesus that we may share in the songs of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and the worship of the wise men. Close the door of hate and open the door of love all over the world. Let kindness come with every gift and good desires with every greeting. Deliver us from evil by the blessing which Christ brings, and teaches us to be merry with clear hearts. May the morning make us happy to be Thy children, and the evening bring us to our beds with grateful thoughts, forgiving and forgiven, in Jesus' name, Amen and Amen.

@t.ruththeblack 11 ай бұрын

Oh yeah, George Jackson the American Revolutionary they don't want you to know about.

@t.ruththeblack 11 ай бұрын

Let's not forget his brother . . . Jonathan Jackson!

@imasweetie2800 11 ай бұрын

This hurts my heart. How many Soledad Brothers now in prison? Many for MJ which is protected IMO In Jewish teachings, it’s accepted , in Mormonism,” every leaf and seed to be used for the domain of man “ If religious beliefs are protected , and these two religions embrace Mj, why is Mj criminal ?

@marjoriehapgood4547 10 ай бұрын

Was my comment struck down can’t stand truth then I won’t comment

@mikeaguero2875 6 ай бұрын

Donald Goines

@MakonnenHallasie 7 ай бұрын

It’s 2:30 not black liberation it is the liberation of all the aborigine (blacks) aka the Indian let’s talk bout that they kept him quite for that reason askin because his mind was rising fast at a young age us we are all lost even the Church folks