and that is telling about being black in America - 25 days and everyone knew that there would be no indictment. What ever is not expressly forbidden by the law is authorized -- in the case of the lynching of Black people (men, women and children) the law explicitly authorizes it. Many call for calm and call for non-violence, I am not one of them. This society understands nothing except massive civil disobedience and violence. Some call for healing, I am not one them. Every child that is lost is open-wound that cannot and should not be healed. The pain of their lost must be felt continuously to remind us why we risk our life and the lifes of others. I am reminded of what ancestor Frederick Douglass said over 150 years ago, The whole history of progress of human liberty Shows that all concessions Yet made to her august claims Have been born of earnest struggle. If there is no struggle There is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, And yet deprecate agitation, Are men [and women] who want crops Without plowing up the ground, They want rain Without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean Without the awful roar of its waters. This struggle may be a moral one; Or it may be a physical one; Or it may be both moral and physical; But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what any people Will quietly submit to And you have found the exact measure Of injustice and wrong Which will be imposed upon them, And these will continue till they are resisted. . . The limits. . . are prescribed By the endurance Of those whom. . [are] oppress[ed]. Men [and Women] may not get all they pay for in this world, but they pay for all they get. If we ever get free from the oppressions and wrong heaped on us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and if needs be by our lives and the lives of others
Posted on: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 03:43:19 +0000
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