What You Don’t Know Or Remember Can Hurt You
Submitted By Brotha Baba Omowale
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We ask our legislators to go back to the drawing board and create a real corrections specialist advisory board that actually does its job of monitoring the jail and letting the community know when things ain’t right. Now, we definitely have not forgotten our local, overwhelming commitment, as expressed at two local community forums, held at our Merriweather Library.
The no new jail round table was able to bring out over two hundred of our community people, black, white and in between who said that we must stop any building of a new jail; a new jail where we know ain’t nothin gonna change but the location. We know that because the culture of racism and brutality will move with the building and we know nobody is going to fill those fifteen hundred beds but us!
The murders and brutality that is so woven into the culture that they now allow may even come forth with black and brown faces, maybe even females who fall into that same “ole’ culture that says black, brown and poor white bodies aren’t as valuable as theirs! And so can be brutalized and even murdered at the will of that same “ole”, same o “blue room crew” that has been getting away with the beatings and violations all along. People we can not be fooled by this new rendition of Tim Howard currently named Garcia as he continues to parade around like he is any better than the confederate flag wearing horse rider of apocalyptic omens of death, previously presented to us in the person of Tim Howard.
So, my beloved community, i know we can hold more than one thing in our heads at the same time and now we have to do it! For the love of our people, with an African mind, lord help us shut this garbage down! My people, get on your phones and say “no”, get on social media and say “no”, go to the election booths and say “no” to all of this drama that continues to threaten, traumatize and murder us. That love that reflects our will to live, to survive and to thrive. And yeah. Be ready to get out and vote!!! Peace, your brother, Baba Omowale