The Nigger Factory

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Gil Scott-Heron. The Nigger Factory

Contents

Author’s Note

Seven p.m. Phone Call

MJUMBE

Earl

Lawman and Odds

Confrontation

The Plan

O’Jay’s

The Head Nigger

Wheels in Motion

Angie

Calhoun’s Assessment

Preparation

Evaluation

Ten O’Clock Meeting

Captain Cool

TO ALL FACULTY MEMBERS AND ADMINISTRATORS

Executive Conference

High Noon

MJUMBE Mandate

A Three-pronged Spear

Self-help Programs

Reactor

Counterthreat

Choosing Sides

On the Spot

Calhoun Moves

Lying in wait

The House on Pine Street

Destruction

Plans Abandoned

Final Word

Faculty Only

Exodus

Explosion!

MJUMBE Discovery

Downhill Snowball

Copyright

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this book is dedicated to:

Sister Jackie Brown

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In the dim light of the meeting room a flare ignited in the darkest corner where Abul Menka lit still another cigarette and attracted Baker’s attention. If ever there was a man who puzzled the MJUMBE leader, Abul was that man.

When Baker arrived at the first pledgee meeting of Omega Psi Phi during the spring of his freshman year, the only man present he did not know was introduced by the Dean of Pledgees as Jonathan Wise. Baker had seen Jonathan Wise (who later began calling himself Abul Menka) driving around campus in a new Thunderbird with women hanging all over him, and he could not have imagined the man as fraternity material because the style-conscious New Yorker from the Bronx already had everything. And the perplexing thing was that during the two-month pledge period Abul had done nothing to indicate why he was there. Even during ‘Hell Week,’ the last week of the indoctrination schedule, when their line, ‘The Jive Five Plus One’ was not allowed to sleep, Abul never complained, never reacted even in private to the paddlings they were receiving or confided in the others during their restless nights in the ‘Dog House’ when they waited nervously for Big Brothers to come in and deal with them.

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