Saturday 10 August 2013

What the System does and have Been Doing to our Boys

The treatment of black boys and black men is appalling.  The youngest person to be executed in America was a 14 year old boy.  I posted this on my fb timeline.  Is this just typical or a one off.
Let we never forget.... How far we have come......Or do they just shoot us now???



"In a South Carolina prison on June 16, 1944, guards walked a 14-year-old Black boy, bible tucked under his arm, to the electric chair. He used the bible as a booster seat. At 5' 1" and 95 pounds, the straps didn’t fit, and an electrode was too big for his leg. The switch was pulled, and the adult sized death mask fell from his face. Tears streamed from his wide-open, tearful eyes, and saliva dripped from his mouth. Witnesses recoiled in horror as they watched the execution of the youngest person in the United States in the past century.................  This is just an extract, the details are gruelling and cruel of course he was innocent.  Which is often overlooked when you are black and male.... 


posted fb 10/08/13
#191a I want a Boy


I want a boy
I want a boy
I wondered about this sentiment
Why a boy in preference to a girl


How sexist I thought
How self loathing I thought
I want a boy
I want a boy
So the system can
Turn him into a toy


So he can be put down
So he can be accused
Stop searched
All rights removed
I want a boy
To be foda far the system
Make solicitors rich
Keep courts busy
House prisons
I want  a boy
I want a boy
So he can be called names
So he can be drugged
Then sectioned
So whatever happens in a 10 mile radius
He can be blamed
I want a boy
I want a boy
That I can love
Where my father walked away
This boy can play
I want a boy
Who one day
If he is allowed to be
Can lead my people

A boy to set us all free