The Context of White Supremacy hosts the fifth study session on Sam Greenlee's 1969 literary sensationl, The Spook Who Sat By The Door. The bestseller was adapted into a major motion picture in 1973 and remains a treasured examination of Racism. Greenlee died in 2014. The protagonist, Dan Freeman, becomes the first black agent at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Freeman acquires as much knowledge as possible in order to share his training and expertise with terrorized black people so that they can coordinate a counter-violence offensive against White Supremacy. Last week's session provided a well known, painful narrative of a black teen being killed by Chicago police. Freeman and his long time friend and police detective, Phil Dawson, argue over the efficacy of the "riots." Dawson minimizes the System of Racism and argues that "burning and looting" will do no good. Freeman reminds Dawson that victims of oppression always fight back and that Racists think of all black people - education or no - as niggers. Their conversation sounds like many of the conversations concerning Black Lives Matter and the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, Baltimore, Maryland and Charlotte, North Carolina. Freeman and the Cobras, his revolutionary black gang members, use the conflagration to begin their own campaign of counter-violence. We'll continue to monitor how anti-blackness is reflected in the text, and we'll note differences between the book and the film. #RacismIsNotAPrivilege INVEST in The COWS - http://paypal.me/GusTRenegade CALL IN NUMBER: 641.715.3640 CODE 564943# The C.O.W.S. archives: http://tiny.cc/76f6p