Friday, September 16, 2011

DEATH OF A PEOPLE: prison

“I haven’t made myself familiar with the particulars of Troy Davis’ case, but it reeks of a smell common to what ails the United States of America, and the soul of Black folks. I work at the beginning of the problems with our youth, and deeply entrenched within the thinking of our young people are the structures of idealogies that triggers and maintains our system of slavery, and keeps it going. Our beliefs, our faith in Christianity, our pressing need to be accepted by white Americans, and our sense of entitlement are in our actions, and reflect in our children’s actions leading them into prisons, and for a select few, the slow process to sit on death row.



What is our spiritual responsibility? That is more important a question to ask and address than our customary walks back and forth upon the cultivated lawns of our tired discourses. What are our spiritual responsibilities? For a people who have created so many dances from the depths of their African spiritual roots, and traditions why are we dancing to someone elses’ dance around what ails our souls, our children, our men, our women?” – Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories

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