From the barrio to the pen all need to listen, the recent no verdict of
a killer should be on the minds of us all. Open season has long
announced its call and we see clearly what the lives of one of us really
mean to this system. The protests, the anger, the sadness, direct it,
engage in construction, use this unity to work to really analyze our
situation.
Mike Brown’s blood, Trayvon Martin, Andy Lopez and hundreds more call
from the grave. The killing fields have expanded, if we don’t die at gun
point by police who protect white workers and sellouts alike, then they
lock us away. It’s a war on the oppressed nations yet we kill ourselves
everyday.
This police murder shouldn’t go away in the minds of us all, we have
done what’s asked, we’ve voted, gone to courts, protested, petitioned,
and we’ve still got the same cycle, the same verdicts and the same
answers. It’s our turn to give them a response, but short-lived
reactions do nothing. Ferguson is burning, and rightfully so, but you’re
only burning those you know. The ideology should be burned. Remember
this is so much more than a case of Black and white, it’s a case of cops
killing people, cops who are supposed to enforce the laws, protect and
serve, yet have from the start used their power to promote a system of
oppression and white supremacy.
It’s the 21st century and kops are now the judge and jury, that no
longer use cuffs but bullets, and then scream how they were “just doing
their service.” If we want this hell to change silent vigils and
non-violence will just put a bandaid on a knife wound. We are not ready
to fight an enemy as large as the police. But we can unite and bring
back people’s power to promote peace.
My heart goes to those who fight and protest. Let’s remember these
feelings we have when injustice strikes and maybe we can lose the blue
and red hate and instead band together and smash the state. In
revolution, and science, education and love, peace, from solitary in
solidarity.
MIM(Prisons) responds: This writer is right on about channeling
our feelings of anger and frustration into something productive. For too
many years people have used the failed systems of the imperialists:
voting, petitions, and the law. And yet these systems never achieve more
than tiny changes to an overwhelmingly unjust system. We can still use
legal battles strategically when we have a chance of winning something
useful, but this must always be in the context of building a broader
movement of unity among the oppressed to take on the system of
imperialism. It’s not just a few rogue cops who are the problem, it’s
not just a few bad laws, and it’s not just a few corrupt politicians. It
is the entire system that is based on profit for a few at the expense of
the vast majority of the world’s people. This is nothing new, and it
will continue until we stop it.