I hope he gets number one Amazon.com. We need to get this kind of word, this kind of conversation out into—it needs to be disseminated, it needs to be in the mainstream more. We got to stop thinking that this kind of stuff just belongs at the very, very fringe of society… Everyone should hear it, you don’t have to necessarily agree with it but, my god, it needs a place at the media table… Read more…
A lot of say Black people are still vested in integrating into the mainstream, they’re still very trained on that, that’s what they want to do. But I think you just need to introduce to folks—just pass it [BAsics] out, maybe at the subway, on the street level. And I think BAsics is a great way to do it because it’s like the quotable Bob Avakian. It’s like pieces of stuff but they all add up. And like you could read a little bit at a time, you don’t have to invest the time to read the entire book. But you could actually open the page at any point and get something out of it. I think it’s a great format and good for popular reading. I think it’s actually a really good way to disseminate everything he’s about. So I think it’s an important step.