PDA

View Full Version : How 60's Radicals Ended Up Teaching Your Kids




sluggo
04-11-2013, 07:44 AM
Apologies if this has already been posted. Pretty interesting, and frightening, article.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/10/how-1960s-radicals-ended-up-teaching-your-kids.html

Here's a snip, but the whole thing is worth reading.


Or take former Black Panther party grandee Ericka Huggins, who is now a professor of women’s studies at California State University, a professor of sociology at Laney and Berkeley City College, and, according to one official biography (http://www.speakoutnow.org/userdata_display.php?modin=50&uid=1568), a “human rights activist.” In 2011, students at the University of Kentucky could receive extra credit (http://www.uky.edu/~lbarr2/gws250spring11_files/Page391.htm) for attending a lecture by Huggins, described as a “political prisoner and human rights activist.” It does not seem to bother these universities that in 1970 Huggins was brought to trial on charges of “aiding and abetting” the murder of Alex Rackley, a fellow Panther they wrongly believed to be a police informant. She was acquitted.
But a few salient facts aren’t disputed: After days of “interrogation,” Rackley was brutally tortured—beaten mercilessly, boiling water poured on his naked body—and left to marinate in his own blood, urine, and feces. As a warning to other “traitors,” one torture session was audiotaped. In the scratchy recording recovered by police, Huggins can be heard recalling when she “began to realize how phony [Rackley] was and that he was either an extreme fool or a pig, so we began to ask questions with a little force and the answers came out after a few buckets of hot water.” During the session, Rackley was tied to his chair with a gun pointed at him. As he shifted nervously, Huggins snapped, “Sit down motherfucker. Keep still.” (A copy of the tape was recently discovered in a Connecticut house and can be listened to here (http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/rackley_trial_tape_surfaces/)).

tod evans
04-11-2013, 07:49 AM
And I suppose we're better off now what with the cops doing the murdering and torturing...

Can't say I agree with her politics but I certainly understand her methodology..

ninepointfive
04-11-2013, 09:27 AM
sounds par for the course