Thursday, September 20, 2007

Jena 6.

Speak out against the DISPARITY within our country's judicial system.

Speak out against white students hanging nooses from trees in Louisiana.

Speak out against local officials punishing black youth and not being able to find ONE shred of legal support to admonish ALL forms of racism.

Speak out against people still believing that to do ANYTHING that rings of murdering black youth [whether in fun or not; whether from whites or not] is intolerable and institutionally out of the question.

Stand up for inspiring our black youth.
Speak out against black people accepting mediocrity as excellence.
Stand up for the importance of education.
Speak out against black mothers degrading and dehumanzing their three year old sons in the streets.

Stand up for the empowerment of black youth so that not just thousands of people gather in Jena to protest, but the entire community of black youth across this nation. Who have the ability to be so empowered that as soon as the nooses dropped from the branches, millions of them would have traveled from every corner of every town and said...

WE WILL NOT TOLERATE MEDIOCRITY FROM OURSELVES; AND WE WILL CERTAINLY NOT ALLOW AN ACT OF DEHUMANIZING DIRECTED AT OUR PEOPLE.

And that... that communal outpour from our black youth would be strong enough to pull back the ocean and send it crashing onto the shores of injustice, drowning all things [anti-youth, anti-black] for ever.

Stand up!!!

Until next time,

Keith

2 Comments:

At 6:48 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Do you remember meeting me? I was with my sister and we grabbed a bite after seeing the Lisa Kron play, Well, on Broadway in April 2006. We had a friend in common who was in the play. I visit your blog every now and then and I love your writing. Stay well, my friend.
Mallory

 
At 7:21 PM, Blogger DIGABLE-POET said...

Yes, Mallory. I DO remember you. You were visiting from Minneapolis, I believe. Somewhere in the Upper Midwest.

Thanks for checking out my blog and for your advocacy. It means a lot.

 

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