Troy Davis has been executed by the American justice system.
This, while we sit on our good government jobs and hide within our gated, so-called communities and make excuses for greedy and corrupt leaders right here in our backyard ... because we think we have arrived and the Troy Davises of this world can't touch us.
If Fannie Lou Hamer, Medgar Evers, the Little Rock Nine, the Freedom Riders, the Montgomery boycotters, Bayard Rustin, and the many freedom fighters of that era had depended on us to speak up, to march, to say no, to resist the power structure, to join them in the struggle for justice, they would have made no progress at all.
All we want to do is pretend we have ascended to some high seat where humanity and justice are insignificant, where all that matter are how much money we make and what our neighborhood is called and where we shop and what schools we attended and whose parties we get invited to and who our pastor is and how powerful we must be for having elected a black president.
In fact, we might be the most ignorant "educated" people in the history of the world. Do we not know yet that money cannot buy our freedom?
Do I hear Spike Lee screaming "WAKE UP!!"? Speak up. Let somebody know.
(a word from Prince George's County, MD)
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