‘As a Matter of Fact, Justice Means “Just Us White Folks.” No Such Thing as Justice for Black People in this Country. Justice Can Only Be Random in a Racist System’ - H Rap Brown [RIP]

From [HERE] Iman Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin has returned to paradise. Al-Amin was born on October 4, 1943, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana as Hubert Gerold Brown. In the late 1960s, he emerged as an effective, militant organizer with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, who became known as H. “Rap” Brown because of his incandescent loquaciousness and verbal dexterity. His voice was backed by a razor-sharp intellect and an uncompromised politics that linked the domestic struggles of African Americans with Vietnam, Cuba, and China. Local and federal law enforcement, including the FBI’s COINTELPRO, targeted Brown, leading to a decades-worth of false charges and unjust, political imprisonment. 

Al-Amin converted to Islam while serving a five-year sentence in Attica and, upon his release, became a respected faith leader in Atlanta’s West End community. Yet the police harassment did not end. In 2002, Al-Amin was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole, convicted on flimsy and contradictory evidence. Al-Amin passed away on November 23, 2025, at the age of 82 in the Federal Medical Center, Butner, North Carolina. A political prisoner, his death was hastened by the medical neglect of the state.

In 1969, as H. Rap Brown, Al-Amin published Die Nigger, Die! his political autobiography. [MORE]