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Oct 2003

Binghamton

The Social Justice Center, Equinox

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Adelphi U., SUNY ALB

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Gemini

It's 3:47 am
I just read on MSNBC.com that
Stanley "Tookie" Williams was executed
by lethal injection by the State of California.
tears are sliding across my face while my fingers hit this
keyboard
the army can drop bombs on Baghdad killing babies
and somehow that is justified
they can justify torturing people in their prisons
but one man, a former gang banger,
og - original gangsta, can't be spared,
how come people across an ocean can nominate this man
for the peace prize and our nation executes him.
This is just a glaring example of the war that
this jim crow judicial system is waging on the black
community.
if you don't believe it,
spend one day in any city court in the country
more often than not you will find a scene out of south
africa, lot's of white people making
a livelihood off of the incarceration of black people.
Nelson Mandela knew what it was like to waste a quarter
century in a cell, just like "Tookie" Williams.
and even though Winnie Mandela came to visit "Tookie" to
commend him on his amazing work, he's still a nigger
in they eyes of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not worthy of
breathing air anymore.
What I witnessed acrossed cyber space this early morning
was a modern day
lynching, and now Stanley Williams is with Emmit Till and
the numerous souls awaiting redemption,
longing for the day that we correct the racist,
sadistic society we live in.
Life is so precious that we kill people by lethal
injection to show the world that killing is wrong.
If it is true that the criminal justice system is nothing
but a Jim Crow System, and the prison system nothing but a
slave system, and the death penalty nothing but legalized
lynching. Than I ask you a question. Where is John
Brown? Where is Nat Turner? Where is Harriet Tubman?
Are we just the apologetic voices that sat idly by while
america was founded on slavery and genocide re-incarnated
for the 21st century?
I hope not.

Anyone who believes that the current system we live in is unnaceptable. If you dream of a life where we are not tracked every second, where trees are more important than cars, where freedom is real emancipation from mental slavery, where racism and sexism are confronted with commitment and dedication, where people aren't afraid to speak the truth even if it is unpopular. If you dream of a world where people aren't put in cages, where children are more important than oil, where women don't have to look over there shoulders when they walk down the street, where all life is treated with respect. If you dream everyday that Mumia is free. Than I'm down with you.