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