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Keeping touch has been Reddin's main concern. California Criminologist A. C. Germann suggests that a good police chief must be as willing to talk to black nationalists as he is to the Optimists' Club. Reddin may not exactly rap with the Black Panthers, but he tries...
...ludicrous imagery, of a white tornado suddenly swirling through an untidy kitchen. He wakes up singing "You can take Salem out of the country, BUT . . ." His kids, riding shotgun on the shopping cart, may not know a stanza of The Star-Spangled Banner, but they can rap out several verses of "To a Smoker, It's a Kent...
Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism is a kind of historical guide and handbook for the gentleman rebel -Emerson-cum-Marx rather than Rap Brown-cum-Mao. "I am less interested in 18th century radicalism than in 20th century radicalism," Lynd admits, and at times he makes American history read like one long protest march in which Jefferson, Thoreau and Staughton Lynd are fraternity brothers linked arm in arm. Lynd writes as a scholar as well as a proselyter, and his slim volume valuably documents the American tradition of dissent. But it must be read with the proper skepticism...
Equally inflammatory to unstable minds is the rising hyperbole of U.S. political debate. Race, Viet Nam, crime- all lend themselves to verbal overkill, not so much by candidates as by extremists: the John Birchers, the Rap Browns, the most ardent war critics, the Ku Kluxers. The evidence is everywhere. In Dallas, Assistant District Attorney William Alexander snarls on a TV show: "Earl Warren shouldn't be impeached-he should be hanged." Cries Rap Brown: "How many whites did you kill today?" Lyndon Johnson is routinely excoriated as a mass murderer. Robert Kennedy was branded by San Francisco hippies...
...once rode with Quantrill's border gang during the Civil War, but has since become fat and 40, one-eyed and sloppy. Soon they are joined by LaBoeuf, a straight-shooting (but not always accurate) Texas Ranger, who wants to get the same outlaw for an earlier rap and a larger reward...