(for Adhimu aka Lawrence Hamm and Sheila Reid*)
by ‘bro. zayid’
“I'm gonna stay on the battlefield
“I'm gonna stay on the battlefield
I'm gonna stay on the battlefield,
Until I die…”--Freedom Song
this is not rocket science…
no experts need be empaneled
to further milk the cow of genocide…
u say that ‘all lives matter’
but this is not happening to
pete, or heather or bob…
it is our sons getting shot
with their hands up
it is our sons getting shot
with their cellphones in hand
it is our sons getting shot
with their hands in their pockets
or their behind their heads
or their hands cuffed behind their backs…
and it is our daughters
being pummeled into highway asphalt
our daughters
getting body slammed into their windshields
face first in midsentence
trying to answer their questions
it is our daughters
being found throatless in putrid jail cells
after minor traffic violations
as if they have no names…
and we are the ones whom death is shooting apart
surrounded by squad cars amp’d up
to enjoy feasts for state massacres…
this is just not happening to bob, heather and pete…
and it doesn’t even matter
that it is happening to us now on videotape!
grand juries
let it go
local courts
let it go
state courts
let it go
the justice department
lets it go and explains to us
why we have accept it all
and accept what they won’t do…
why? why?! why?!!
insulting the saltburned flooded eyes
of the growing litany of mothers burying children
over and over and over and over and over again…
even the leaves the grass and the soil
are offended by the volume of our earthburning tears…
the universe yelps
at the outrage
of the bleeding imbalance of injustice…
their warning whispers
of the lethal consequences
of the violent lunacy of white supremecy
continue to be ignored…
there is more to whats wrong in Milwaukee
than the beer and the cheese going bad…
so when the fat lady’s toxic bloated belly
bursts
into an indiscriminate lava of blood
soaking the streets of our cities
ruining yr gentrifying grand plans
u will have no one to blame
but yrselves
for killing
her song…
*Lawrence Hamm is the founding chairman of the People’s Organization for Progress(P.O.P.)…He has put more foot soldiers on the streets of New Jersey over the scourge of police brutality over several decades than any other so-called ‘leader’ or ‘leaders’ combined…He is currently directing a Justice Mondays campaign where P.O.P. rallies at the Justice Dept’s Newark office every Monday…Sheila Reid is the mother of Jerame Reid who was shot by Bridgeton police officers with his hands up on videotape on December 30th, 2014. On August 22, 2016, the Justice Department said that they would not charge these officers for that spectacle killing. This poem is a response to that decision…
‘bro.zayid’ Muhammad is a Jazz poet, stage actor and activist. Also known as ‘Baba Zayid’ to young people in the greater Newark area, which means ‘father’ in Yoruba, he is one of the more well-known cubs of the legendary NY chapter of the Black Panther Party. He is working on a new volume of poems called The Soul Poems-Offerings of Love and Resistance…
©2016 all rights reserved
UPDATE:
On Monday, August 29nd, the People’s Organization for Progress (P.O.P.) will host a ‘Day of Outrage’ protest rally to condemn the failure of Justice Department to indict the officers who shot and killed Jerame Reid on videotape with his hands up on December 30th, 2014 in Bridgeton, NJ!
The decision to not indict the officers came down last Monday, August 22nd, to the shock and outrage of many!
The rally marks the 31st consecutive Justice Monday protest to demand federal investigations into four active police shooting cases here in New Jersey.
The Reid case is the only case of the four where live actual videotape footage actually captures the lethal excess force being used.
That videotape footage has gone viral all over the world, subjecting the U.S. Justice Department to some severe scrutiny from all sides of the issue.
The other three cases are the police shooting deaths of Abdul Kamal in Irvington, of Kashad Ashford in Lyndhurst, and the police shooting of 14 year old Radazz Hearns in Trenton. Hearns survived his violent ordeal only to face charges to justify the officers’ conduct.
“We are outraged at how the Justice Department has handled this case,” said an emphatic Lawrence Hamm.
The protests were launched on February 1st in honor of the Sit In Movement that was launched on that day in 1960.
Participants will rally at the Peter Rodino Federal Building, located at 980 Broad Street Newark at 5pm.
For more information, please call 973 801-0001. ‘Like’ us on Facebook…
THE PEOPLE’S ORGANIZATION FOR PROGRESS
PO BOX 22505
NEWARK, NJ 07101
973 801 0001
CONTACT: LAWRENCE HAMM
August 27, 2016
DAY OF OUTRAGE!
FEDS FAIL INDICT IN VIDEO’D HANDS UP! DON’T SHOOT CASE!
JUSTICE MONDAYS AT WEEK 31!
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Replies
Who was the president of the United States in 2014? Obama, that's who. So this has nothing to do with White supremacy. What it has to do with is the elite's agenda. They want 90-95% of us DEAD in the world. Google Georgia Guidestones, and read what it says on them regarding limiting the world to 500,000,000 people as opposed to 6.8 billion people who are living on the earth now.
Killing decent people such as Jerame Reid is just one way of achieving that goal.
Cancer is another. They don't want you to know that there are 400 cures for cancer. And they have killed 51 doctors now including one who was part of the African American community, Dr. Sebi because they were a threat to that agenda.
I have advised African Americans that Liberia accepts you. You are fortunate. I live in the UK with no status, but by the grace of God. In Liberia you would have status. If I were you, I would seriously consider moving there.
God bless you all,
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