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...paper, few black separatists have sounded more intractable in the past than Playwright LeRoi Jones, 33, who was found guilty in October of having prowled through Newark's riot area last summer armed with a brace of revolvers. "We must make our own world, man," he wrote recently, "and we cannot do this unless the white man is dead. Let's get together and kill him." Yet when the fires started up this month in Newark, Jones got together with Mayor Hugh Addonizio and city leaders of both races to search for peaceful political solutions...
Newark Concordat. Thus, in what Kilson, himself a Negro, calls "almost a concordat," such militants as LeRoi Jones and Willie Wright walked the streets of Newark to urge calm after King's murder. A few weeks before King's death, city hall and the Negro community agreed to a compromise in the urban-renewal dispute that helped spark last summer's uprising. City hall's price: the militants' promise to help preserve order. This new realism-on both sides-is seen by Kilson as the next phase of the civil rights movement, analogous...
...undigested hate, the attempt to splice an artificial bond with victims of colonialism throughout the world. Cleaver himself has been successively an orthodox Black Muslim, a follower of Malcolm X, and is currently a Black Panther. He seems more or less intent on keeping up with the Jones boy, LeRoi, in expressing all "the funky facts of life...
Last week 50 Negroes, led by Playwright LeRoi Jones, trooped into the Newark city council chamber to confront Imperiale's vigilantes attending a routine council session. When a phonograph played the national anthem, the Negroes refused to stand and the whites cried: "Throw the bastards out!" Jones, arguing against the proposed use of police dogs in the ghetto, told the council: "Our rational plea to this community is to avoid the emotional issue of dogs. Whether you own Newark or not, nobody can sell ashes...
Cult of Revolution. Evergreen's politics is as far out as its sex. It subscribes to the New Left roster of revolutionary heroes: Che Guevara, Castro, Malcolm X, Ho Chi Minh, Stokely Carmichael. It has published LeRoi Jones's furious diatribes against whites, mainly Jewish: "The little arty bastards talking arithmetic they sucked from the Arab's head." While not taking it too seriously, Rosset excuses black anti-Semitism on the grounds that Jewish merchants, after all, have exploited Negroes in the ghetto. "We agree with practically everything LeRoi says," explains Rosset, "except that...