DEATH OF A PEOPLE

EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS

I think this is an important issue as is the complexity around the industry of incarceration, and death. But the merchandise of souls is so intimately tied to other concerns, and problems within our communities we cannot afford the luxury of a slow pace to change our penal system, and the execution of our people. We need to be much quicker than an issue at a time. The assaults against us from within and without moves at a rapid pace, and remains uninterested in our agenda, pace, or inability to heal ourselves. As a people our relationship with and understanding of power is fundamentally killing our significance in the world arena.

As the world changes, as American life changes the insistence of our people (Black folks) to be disengaged from the world stage has become our Achilles’ heel. The ethnic groups with intimidating powers in this country do not have the attitudes we embrace in our thinking processes. If we are to be taken seriously, and we barely are, our entire belief structure needs to be torn down. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories (9/15/11)

TROY DAVIS: a story of justice

Troy Anthony Davis

“There is something within the culture of law and prosecution that bristles at the notion of being wrong, and losing a case to the right thing to do. If we are to change anything change our value of life, and the way we believe about life.” – Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories http://troyanthonydavis.org/ 

Troy Davis, a drawing of

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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