Black power people
Tolerance towards black violence has become nowadays so respectable that anything that is black is automatically whitewashed by unthinking men and women. We've had that silly little piece, Bernadette Devlin, proclaiming her 'solidarity' with American 'political' prisoners at the Mermaid Theatre (where else?). There's been a rally in Westminster's Central Hall, ostensibly to raise funds for the defence of Angela Davis, charged with con- spiracy, murder and kidnapping in California. Her attorney, Mr Howard Moore, has been talking about it in London, along with Penny Jackson, sister of George Jackson, who also faces murder charges in California.
Miss Jackson's second brother, Jonathan, was shot dead in August last year attempting to kidnap a judge in the hope of getting his brother released. The guns used in this at- tempt, in which the judge and two others were killed, were registered in Miss Davis's name. Mr Moore said in London on Mon- day that her defence will rest on the claim that she was not responsible for what was done with her guns.
`No black person can get a fair trial in the us' said Mr Moore and he may well be right: for, on the one hand, there is injustice done in the under-publicised trials of Negroes in the south: and on the other, these may well be an altogether different kind of injustice done in the over-publicised and politicised trials of Negroes in the west.
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