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Alle die mit uns auf Kaperfahrt fahren, müssen Männer mit Bärten sein. Jan und Hein und Klaas und Pit, die haben Bärte, die haben Bärte. Jan und Hein und Klaas und Pit, die haben Bärte, die fahren mit.

  • Why Gil Scott-Heron Wrote “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”
    https://medium.com/cuepoint/why-gil-scott-heron-wrote-the-revolution-will-not-be-televised-6e298f9d4e2

    In some of the rural towns surrounding Lincoln, there were small units of the Ku Klux Klan. Just a few years earlier, the Klan burned a 30-foot cross one night near the college campus. Concern grew that the local Klan might take revenge on students for the riots in Philadelphia. So, Gil and some buddies decided to form an impromptu defense squad and went “out prowling in the fields with rifles,” remembers Cornwell. At one point, Gil sat with a rifle and a bandolier about 100 yards from the spot of cross burnings in 1962 and 1966, determined to confront Klansmen if they attempted it again. When it started to rain, he linked up with Brian and two fellow students, stashed a few rifles in the trunk of the Rambler and headed out on the highway, one of them clutching a machete. They were headed to a gas station to get some coal oil to make Molotov cocktails. Just four miles north of campus, going 60 miles an hour, one of the tires blew out and the convertible screeched across the four lanes, smashed through a chain-link fence and hit the corner wall of an insurance company office.

    Gil flew out of the car and hit the pavement, leaving a gash on the side of his head, but he was conscious—“the driver’s side door handle was still in his outstretched left hand, though the car was now some twenty feet away”—and the other three also survived the accident. They quickly grabbed the rifles and shells out of the trunk and hid them across the highway. When a state trooper stopped to help them, he didn’t suspect anything and gave them a ride back to campus. Battered and bruised, Gil and his friends recovered from their injuries, drank a few beers and plotted their next move.

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