I am very proud of a friend of mine who today just returned from Jena LA.
At her rquest, out of 100 pix that she has taken I am fortuante that she has let me use 10 of them to upload and present to you all.
For those of you too disconnected to see what is going look at the pictures.
For those that feel they are unnaffected, read the news, read in between the lines and when you think you get it...be sure and ask someone because I guarantee you that you don't
If you think this is a bunch of rabble rousing, then you need to come to the understanding that this and future events will tell you that we still have a lot of the past that needs to change.
At this point I am done with this.....I may post a few comments but from what some of you have shown me, regardless of how many degrees you hold and regardless of how you are living, you still have a lot of things to learn in this life about how things are going in this present day and how one event can have an effect on many other regardless of where they are....
One last thing......for those that don't know....I also like to write and perform spoken word....I would like to leave an excert from one of my peices I wrote back in 2004 called 'Born a suspect'
Yeah u see me, traveling with my homies, in 2’s and threes
You look at my dark face, quicken your pace…grab your phone dial the 9 and 1 on the double, ready to hit that last 1 cuz you’ve assumed my Black ass is about to start some trouble.
I’m born a suspect cuz already I stand accused of crimes I have yet to commit. Murder, Rape, possession with intent, cop killer…the list continues…Before the umbilical cord was severed you already have me judged, sentenced and convicted, that’s the truth your society won’t admit.
I’m born a suspect cuz you have determined the quality of education to hand me, the limits and levels of jobs to contain me, and right when the placenta displaced itself from my mother’s uterus you already have me moved into ghetto housing, dime baggin, crack smoking, gang banging , and baby daddy-ing
Before I was set in my mama’s arms, you had search warrants written printed ink drying, your trying to find the arms I would eventually own illegally, your people so called innocents harmed and supposedly by my hand, dying.
Before my mama got a chance to name me, you took time to number me, you took time to frame me, had me stereotyped, fingerprinted, libeled and defamed me. Because you thought I was a wild animal you had my cage set and ready in the state pen in attempts to train me
Born a suspect before leaving out of the hospital, you already had the timeframe set for my falling over your obstacles. You have set the wheels in motion for my walking into incarceration so I can wait 3x as long than my paler compatriots for emancipation and even if I was ever proven innocent I should never hope to see any reparations.
Enough is Enough...let me live peacefully…stop the ½ told, deleted, blacked out, one sided bulls*it, stop the terror, keep your media in check…all I want is the truth to be known… all I want is respect
enjoy the pictures, all
http://s213.photobucket.com/albums/c...20from%20jena/