Black is beautiful .Black isn’t power. Knowledge is power. You can be black as a crow or white as snow but if you don’t know and you ain’t got no dough, you can’t go and that’s for sho’.

~ Lewis H. Michaux

Lewis H. Michaux 1973 Blackpower Mixtape Harlem Writer

Naturally, this country can't stand truth.

~ Lewis H. Michaux

Lewis H. Michaux 1973 Blackpower Mixtape Harlem Writer

I can remember when I was a bit of an ETA fan myself. It was in 1973, when a group of Basque militants assassinated Adm. Carrero Blanco. The admiral was a stone-faced secret police chief, personally groomed to be the successor to the decrepit Francisco Franco. His car blew up, killing only him and his chauffeur with a carefully planted charge, and not only was the world well rid of another fascist, but, more important, the whole scheme of extending Franco's rule was vaporized in the same instant. The dictator had to turn instead to Crown Prince Juan Carlos, who turned out to be the best Bourbon in history and who swiftly dismantled Franco's entire system. If this action was 'terrorism,' it had something to be said for it. Everyone I knew in Spain made a little holiday in their hearts when the gruesome admiral went sky-high.

~ Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens 1970S 1973 Assassination Basque People Dictatorship Eta Fascism Francisco Franco House Of Bourbon Juan Carlos I Of Spain Luis Carrero Blanco Spain Terrorism