How long? How long? How long? How long?
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- Category: Race & Liberation
- Created on Thursday, 22 September 2011 08:14
- Written by Streets of Philadelphia
In Philadelphia the night Troy Davis was murdered. there arose a chant loud above the streets:
"Why is it so easy to kill a Black man?”
Readers, supporters comrades of Kasmaa: post this headline and picture on facebook and whereever people gather to read.
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PermalinkIt is making the rounds slowly on facebook. Do the same.
Also, poems are popping up all over. This one is getting spread a little bit:
<b>Still Life</b>
As guards threaten to pull the plug
on the Democracy Now's camera,
34 minutes after the execution of Troy Davis,
we are signed off
and Billie Holiday sings over
photos of his life;
Stills of a life are played.
a stilled life
And still, life goes on
so I should go to sleep
Knock me out, at least
kill the racist trash gore porn Photoshopped venom
stuck in my head, found
posted on a fake page for Troy Davis
listed as "Public Figure"
Thousands clicked Like
without researching who created the page,
who drew the graphics,
who dared to post dead + partially skinned dog photos under
"Photos of Troy Davis"
within hours of his lynching;
Another photo of cheering
white sailors and waving American
flags beneath fireworks, captioned:
"Hurray! All the niggers are dead!!!"
"I am ashamed of my country tonight"
said the head of Amnesty International
I am ashamed for
what has been done in my name
The shaken lawyer managed to relay that
Mr Davis told the victim's family,
as they glared at the
strapped-to-a-gurney
man about to be killed -
"I did not kill your husband, brother, son.
Dig deeper, go find the one who did."
When the Time Of Death was announced by the warden,
a family inside hugged, smiled,
Wiped their faces dry and
their hands clean.
A family outside began the march
following a black van
where their husband, brother, son
was carted away for the autopsy
to determine that indeed
The cause of death
was America.
Being witness to this,
Mr Davis' lawyer said was,
"a macabre experience,
it's sickening, it's
worse than anything you see in any horror movie."
Yes, this Still Life, this
picture of America
and her blood-dripping hands,
it still is.0 Like
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