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Yesterday, at Center City Park, we did our first WHOA Day School. We read and discussed a short passage from George Jackson’s “Blood in My Eye” and we passed out free meals to our houseless comrades.
In the middle of the privately-owned and taxpayer-supported Center City Park, Comrade Jackson's words resonated: “Government and infrastructure of the enemy capitalist state must be destroyed to get at the heart of the problem: property relations.”
When we look down the street to the privately-owned and taxpayer-supported Lebauer Park, Comrade Jackson's words come to life: “The power to alter the present imbalances” and “remedy the critical defects” depends upon “control over production and the distribution of wealth.”
Greensboro is 42% Black, but its houseless population is 72% Black. The city has consistently expressed hostility not hospitality to its Black residents, whether they are housed or houseless. Houselessness is racialized in Greensboro, so the city doesn't care for the houseless.
Comrade Jackson wrote, “[t]he problems of the Black Colony and the Brown Colony...can never be redressed as long as the necessary resources for their solution are the personal property of an extraneous minority...that extraneous minority will never consider the proper solutions.”
![Comrade Jackson wrote, “[t]he problems of the Black Colony and the Brown Colony...can never be redressed as long as the necessary resources for their solution are the personal property of an extraneous minority...that extraneous minority will never consider the proper solutions.”](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EeYvJKDXYAA4yED.jpg "Comrade Jackson wrote, “[t]he problems of the Black Colony and the Brown Colony...can never be redressed as long as the necessary resources for their solution are the personal property of an extraneous minority...that extraneous minority will never consider the proper solutions.”")
![Comrade Jackson wrote, “[t]he problems of the Black Colony and the Brown Colony...can never be redressed as long as the necessary resources for their solution are the personal property of an extraneous minority...that extraneous minority will never consider the proper solutions.”](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EeYvJLKWAAAqkk6.jpg "Comrade Jackson wrote, “[t]he problems of the Black Colony and the Brown Colony...can never be redressed as long as the necessary resources for their solution are the personal property of an extraneous minority...that extraneous minority will never consider the proper solutions.”")
![Comrade Jackson wrote, “[t]he problems of the Black Colony and the Brown Colony...can never be redressed as long as the necessary resources for their solution are the personal property of an extraneous minority...that extraneous minority will never consider the proper solutions.”](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EeYvJMAXgAAySNy.jpg "Comrade Jackson wrote, “[t]he problems of the Black Colony and the Brown Colony...can never be redressed as long as the necessary resources for their solution are the personal property of an extraneous minority...that extraneous minority will never consider the proper solutions.”")
![Comrade Jackson wrote, “[t]he problems of the Black Colony and the Brown Colony...can never be redressed as long as the necessary resources for their solution are the personal property of an extraneous minority...that extraneous minority will never consider the proper solutions.”](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EeYwTy5WkAA1v5b.jpg "Comrade Jackson wrote, “[t]he problems of the Black Colony and the Brown Colony...can never be redressed as long as the necessary resources for their solution are the personal property of an extraneous minority...that extraneous minority will never consider the proper solutions.”")
For some of the working-class and the houseless, the revolution should have happened yesterday. For Comrade Jackson, if the revolution is “tied to dependence on the inscrutabilities of ‘long-range politics,’ it cannot be made relevant to the person who expects to die tomorrow.”
Liberalism kills—we need radical solutions to reactionary problems. Solutions will never come from Sharon Hightower, Tammi Thurm, Justin Outling, Marikay Abuzuaiter, Nancy Vaughan, Yvonne Johnson, Goldie Wells, Michelle Kennedy, or Nancy Hoffmann. #OnlyWeGotUs
The wealth of Greensboro was created by hyperexploiting Black people as a class, ensuring that most of Greensboro’s Black residents retain lumpen- or proletariat status. The economic precarity of Black people is the economic security of the Greensboro ruling class.
We must prepare ourselves for an inevitable confrontation with Greensboro’s violent infrastructures, its peculiar institutions, and its fascistic constables in the Greensboro Police Department. The establishment has demonstrated how far it will go to violate human lives.
The alliance of the working-class and houseless is tired of the city's empty promises as it prepares itself to seize social machinery and build independent political power in the community.
There is more power in the people than there are people in power.
There is more power in the people than there are people in power.
