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          "alt": "or exhaustive introduction to Black anarchism, but it will trace and talk through my interpretations of the works that led me to the places I write from. I will mention people throughout this text who educated me about things I needed to know. Some I outgrew, don't agree with, and depart from at times. The point is, they taught me, and I'm speaking for myself through my writing.\nGwendolyn Brooks's poem about the Blackstone Rangers in-\nspired the title of this book.\nJeff. Gene. Geronimo. And Bop.\nThey cancel, cure and curry.\nHardly the dupes of the downtown thing the cold bonbon,\nthe rhinestone thing. And hardly in a hurry.\nHardly Belafonte, King,\nBlack Jesus, Stokely, Malcolm X or Rap.\nBungled trophies.\nTheir country is a Nation on no map.?\nHer poem, which touches on the organization of gangs that take on new names, new identity, and new shape, is something I've been\n2 Gwendolyn Brooks, \"The Blackstone Rangers,\n\" in Blacks (Chicago: Third\nWorld Press, 1987), www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43323/the-blackstone-rangers. Reprinted with consent of Brooks Permissions.\nINTRODUCTION I XXVII",
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          "alt": "thinking about for many years now. Gangs and street organizations are an important part of the conversation I'm having in this text and in much of my work. These groups, often formed by people who have been forced to move and migrate to cities, help me think about Black America and our history. As I confront ideas about nation-building and/or trying to use or reform state power, I ultimately want to encourage others to take abolition and apply it to borders, nations, and states. I see the \"nation on no map\" as a group of people using skills others may struggle to recognize to develop new think-ing, new language, and new societies. I envision a nation that doesn't need to be a nation and that doesn't need to be on a map, because it knows borders, states, and boundaries cannot accommodate the complexity of our struggles.\nWe've been in the mud for far too long, and, in the process of trying to come up out of it, some people have embraced some questionable methods. I am dedicated to liberation, and I'm committed to understanding it by whatever means I can. What's transpired throughout history is not merely something for me to criticize just because I can. The politics and ideas I've chosen to explore are a part of ongoing struggles that are very serious and too huge to be shrunken down to highlights. Having said this, I do hope people will study the revolutionary events that I draw from beyond what's referenced throughout this book.",
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