Revolutionary Suicide

24 June 2024: "In our innocence we planned to be doctors, lawyers, pilots, boxers, and builders. How could we know then that we were not going anywhere? Nothing in our experience had shown us yet that the American dream was not for us. We, too, had great expectations. And then we went to school" (16). 

This passage, which ends the first chapter of Huey P. Newton's Revolutionary Suicide, is just one example of his powerful and often arresting prose. Newton's biography is our book club selection this month. It's unlike a lot of what I read, but it sure is engaging. 

Work Cited

Newton, Huey P. Revolutionary Suicide. 1973. Penguin, 2009.