（外文电子版资料）Spider Robinson - Night Of Power.pdf

Night Of Power (c) 1985 by Spider Robinson; all rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part by any means without permission from the copyright holder. For information contact Spider Robinson through Bibliobytes. This is a work of fiction, newly revised for this 1994 edition by the author. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental. CHAPTER ONE The infant mortality rate in Central Harlem and the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn is almost double the city rate, and twice as high as the national rate, according to a recent report. The report...showed that of every 1,000 babies born in 1980, 27.8 in Central Harlem died and 26.6 in Fort Greene died. The citywide infant mortality rate was 16.1 per 1,000 births compared with 12.5 per 1,000 births nationwide The infant mortality rate for minorities here in 1979 was 68% greater than the rate among white New Yorkers, the report indicated. The infant mortality rate is an indicator used to measure the quality of life... -Esther Ross, New York Amsterdam News, August 21, 1982 In the first years after the [First World] War, 70 black Americans were lynched, many of them still in uniform. Fourteen were burned publicly by white citizens; 11 of them were burned alive. During the Red Summer of 1919, there were no fewer than 25 race riots across the country. A riot in the nations capitol lasted 3 days; in Chicago, 38 people were killed and 537 injured during 13 days of mob rule. -C. Eric Lincoln, The Black Muslims in America The white man need expect no more Negro blood to be shed on his behalf...the dying to be done by the black man in the future will be done to make himself free. -Marcus Garvey, 1920 Theres a shitstorm coming. -Norman Mailer, The White Negro It was, of course, just after they ha