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Abbie Hoffman — Part 30
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ABBOTT H. HOFFMAN
“socialism. But now here! Dig it! When you were five years
old, six years old, you know, farmer Jones came to town, four
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apples, sold them for two cents each, how much profit did he
make? You learn that shit. Columbus discovered America. How
the fuck you discover a country where there are people living?
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power conquer, conquers. Discover, discover-means, dicccver -— -
“t means conquer, that's what the fuck it meant. By a white Western
a4 power of a nonwhite, non-Western power. They ain't no fuckin
bese Way, you see, that you're going to say Juan Gonzales, you see,
7 in 1960 discovered the United States. You never can have that!
i No fuckin Indian ever gonna discover Europe, see? So it's a
= fuckin Red House instead of a White House. Well, what happened
(+ to General Custer. He got killed in an Indian massacre. Massacre?
s That's ‘cause white people like the history book. History, as the
Polish(?7) said, is a total accumulation of man's lies. It is.
And that's how they do it. Words like that, massacre and, you
know, watch, watch the Middle East. All of a sudden there's this
whole group, they're fighting and blowing up villages, they're
commandos, and this group's going this same way--it's dark, you
can't see, and all Mediterraneans look alike anyway. But somehow,
somehow NBC knows which one's the terrorist and which one's the
commando, see? And you dig that and you understand that when you
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