Revolutionary Daily Thoughts: The Philosophies and Opinions of Our Ancestors/Elders
"There is a society. It's made up of a few men who are willing to
take some risks. They don't initiate anything; they don't even
choose. They are as indifferent as rain. But when a Negro child,
Negro woman, or Negro man is killed by whites and nothing is done
about it by their law and their courts, this society selects a
similar victim at random, and they execute him or her in a similar
manner if they can. If the Negro was hanged, they hang; if a Negro
was burnt, they burn; raped and murdered, they rape and murder. If
they can. If they can't do it precisely in the same manner, they do
it any way they can, but they do it. They call themselves the Seven
Days. They are made up of seven men. Always seven and only seven. If
one of them dies or leaves or is no longer effective, another is
chosen. Not right away, because that kind of choosing takes time. But
they don't seem to be in a hurry. Their secret is time. To take the
time, to last. Not to grow; that's dangerous because you might become
known. They don't write their names in toilet stalls or brag to
women. Time and silence. Those are their weapons, and they go on
forever."
"You? You're going to kill people?"
"Not people. White people."
"But why?"
"I just told you. It's necessary; it's got to be done. To
keep the ratio the same."
"And if it isn't done? If it just goes on the way it has?"
"Then the world is a zoo, and I can't live in it."
"Why don't you just hunt down the ones who did the killing?
Why kill innocent people? Why not just those who did it?"
"It doesn't matter who did it. Each and every one of them
could do it. So you just get any one of them. There are no innocent
white people, because every one of them is a potential nigger-killer,
if not an actual one. You think Hitler surprised them? You think just
because they went to war they thought he was a freak? Hitler's the
most natural white man in the world. He killed Jews and Gypsies
because he didn't have us. Can you see those Klansmen shocked by him?
No, you can't."
--- Nobel Laureate, Toni Morrison from her book Song of Solomon on
The Seven Days
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