LOONEY TOONS

Why should a mere “rock paper” devote a portion of an issue to a pair of murdered, black revolutionaries?

It’s not an easy question to settle. The situation is not easily verbalized, the reasons are several and complex, the rationale difficult at best.

I suppose it has a lot to do with who we think we are. In some ways, George and Jonathan Jackson seem like part of us: faced with a challenge, they responded with that nebulous “heart full o’ soul” we’ve all been yapping about these past few years. The question is vstill an existential one: to be or not to be.

It’s no light matter. Two brilliant young men are dead* largely because of their own actions. (There is much to be said about the ways in which they come to those actions, but that is one of This Is It's functions.)

It comes down to the questions of freedom and sensitivity; I can’t imagine two more important concepts for the youth movement.