Black Panther Party of Northern California - Freedom Archives

B.ATS_ROACHES - .AND RUFUS (~r~lriwrrr~i)
`Sweaty andvseamy, spread, .out in .crisscross
concrete pattexns as far as the
eye"'could see .on all horizons . Forests
of ' swiayirrgr red . brick and brownstone
flungw'up towards the vacant blue sky
from tYte~ .~ open ; junky plains . Here and
tMex2, ` tie qu~a~t~aes~ of a wild animal
split the quietness of the morning aid
The Jungle . Eold : And cruel, And Unt~nable,
Little White Rambci stood on the edge
of tre hill and tigln.tened his hold on
his 1~ittle blue knapsack .
~'Oh gee," he-said his voice quiveri~
, g a Tittle . Every morning it was the
same .thing ; : Bvery~morning,it looked a
l t~4s~:~ ::~noxG ;fr c~htening . Every morning
ire th~o!ac~ht; would be, his last . Wipiing
the dust fxom his sweaty mink bxow, he
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~'s~a:xtec~: ;:dowa .~the
:' °F;t3;^~tsv~i'T~RiZ : : ; ' °
path into,,the Jungle . . .
"~.ittle - ;~~nite . Rambo : ; reco.?led in lior-
`ro. . as' aw . .fer.ocious Black, Panther, ,
: : .nJ ~ ,.- ~-,~ ~~ '.ra. c~ ^ked t~ one side of
his pu`cert leather do, ,leaped from be
~:-1aird :::a : ~c~c:-xcre'~e ryes i:x~ front Qf . him. He
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~iC4ae~:cd~ . iii .'s ; ~lxttle blue knaps~~k .clos-
~r vo d:i .s little pink chest .
"A1 ?ri~~at, , motherfueker :'° the Black
--Pa. :ztH~.~ x .
r~xow7 ed, , kicking , the dust at
Lit~;ls~ t~Jizite~ iZ:ambo wit1~ his Stacy-Adams
shoe : .
;grim :: on`
"Dig, man, you trying to run a
us,y ain't you? Every goddamn
-- morn :~xc~ , yut~ 'arine~s your ass through the
juri9lc3 .' carrying that . .goddamn blue
~ .' :knd~~4ct> whiz .you . ; TJow tell me,~ mother-
; fucrcer, w~:ai~: Vin; . :
; the hell is in that
knapsack?'~ ~ . . ,
Hands shaking, , Little :tr~t~ite.~Rambo
pushed: ., tYz~- l:~.tt~.~ . .~blue: knapsack .,at the
°°C3h,,, ., s.ir, ,° she .-s.tut.tered . "Nothing
., .mue:?.io r ,7.~j~ .jtist, : ~a .;little ;rn~oney 1 ,, was
bxia3.n:inch to my ;grandmother in the cas-
: : t?.e at the ..other .end .,of~ : tYi;e J-,?u'nig],e' : ,'°
~° tI}E B1acTc Panther ~ `roared .
f?Fw . ~~`° G ;:,~'nbacks? Dust? Mother-
: .~uc~. ~a . r ~ wear ,cranny don't need nothing
-rbp,~~ rs-ana,:,- :r s stznky finger . ~xand th2~t
pluck ovr~_ he re : °'
Little bVhite Pamho drew~'a fat xoll of
bills out .~zo~ h~.s little blue knapsack
and handed ;it to ;,the'B1~dk Panther, who
snatched it from him and ran off :into
the .7ux~g1~, . laughing ,to himself .-
"Hr1k~, hah, hol y; " ' he rumbhed : `Mo'CherM
fu`cker Now I'm the' Bhackest' Aanther
in . the Jungle :"
I.ittl'e ,.j~lh t .e ; Rambo, wiping .a couple of
tears away; from nis uiashy blue 'eyes,
fo'ic~ed ;his ]tittle b1i~e~`knap5ack against
his chest and'started' ba+ek ~`~ido~vn ~'t .h~ Jun
gle + path, . Presently, " .~i`e `"me'~ .a~aather
creature ~ coming ~dowri `the path from~'the
opposite direction`, ~It was`` anothex Slack
Parith~x,_: . ` but this on'e ` was ~sarikingly
~diffe~ei~t . ' He~-was dr~e~sed~ ~~Vezy neatly,
not like most of~ ~the Tack"Panthexs ' and
liis hair , was cut short' and neatly parted.
He stopped when he `saw 'Little-White Rambo,
walked up to,Mim, and shook his hand,
~'"Ah, my friend, , ' my,.fziend," he said .
"How are you doing?"
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