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Spit it out
6/12/2008 9:43 PM UTC
You know it is a positive situation to see a young african america women,spitting it out about important matters that are going on in today's society keep speaking your mind
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No weapon form against me, shall Prosper Take a stand.
Date / Time: 6/30/2008 4:59 AM UTC
Date / Time: 6/25/2008 8:28 PM UTC
Date / Time: 6/20/2008 1:46 AM UTC
Take action to achieve justice for the Angola 3:
After a week of intense public pressure, officials at Angola prison moved Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox out of solitary confinement for the first time in 35 years.1 But they're still locked up--for a crime everyone knows they didn't commit.
Together, we've started to turn things around by making it a political liability for the authorities at Angola to keep Wallace and Woodfox in solitary confinement for challenging the violence and segregation at Angola.2 We need to keep the pressure on to force federal and state authorities to intervene and release these innocent men. Will you join u
"Angola", sits on an 18,000 acre former slave plantation and its history is telling: considered among the most violent, racially segregated prison in the 70s, almost a prisoner a day was stabbed, shot or raped3. Inmates were often put in inhumane punishment camps for small infractions.
Although not activists when arriving in prison, brutal, squalid conditions and news of a civil rights movement on the outside prompted the Angola 3--Wallace, Woodfox and Robert King Wilkerson--to begin routinely speaking out against injustice. They organized hunger and work strikes and a Black Panther chapter within the prison to protest the corruption and horrific abuse, including systematic rape4, facing the largely Black prisoner population.5
Shortly after these protests became public, the Angola 3 were charged with murdering a prison guard and quickly convicted by all-white juries, based on fake evidence. The bloody fingerprints at the scene don't match any of the Angola 3. Both men have alibi witnesses with nothing to gain, while the witnesses who testified against them have admitted to being coerced by prison officials. Even the widow of the correctional officer who was murdered does not believe Wallace and Woodfox killed her husband; she's urging state and federal officials to find the real killer.6
The Angola 3 don't pretend to be saints. They committed crimes many decades ago, but they've more than served their time. They should not be denied their freedom for standing up against unimaginable conditions in prison--including violent segregation and 16 hour, 6 day a week work schedules.
NBC Nightly News7 just aired a piece this week about the plight of the Angola 3. And it's time to finally get some justice for Wallace and Woodfox. When we spoke up about the Jena 6, it was about more than helping six Black youth in a small town called Jena8. It was about standing up against a system of unequal justice. That broken system is at work again and we're joining The Innocence Project and Amnesty International9 to challenge it in the case of the Angola 3.
It's now time for the Governor of Louisiana and the Department of Justice to step in and say enough is enough. Please join us in demanding that they both intervene--to ensure justice for the Angola 3 and to bring about reform and accountability in Louisiana's prison system: Essie Berry Your voice made a differerence thank you for standing for the Dream Dr. Martin Luther King Had you truly are a breath of Fresh air .God Bless Mrs Essie Rerun Berry
Date / Time: 6/20/2008 1:40 AM UTC
Date / Time: 6/16/2008 11:43 PM UTC
From: "James Rucker, ColorOfChange.org" <no-reply@colorofchange.org>To: Essie ReRun Berry <spititout1@yahoo.com>Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:45:20 PSTSubject: Thank you for taking a stand. Now please spread the word.Dear ColorOfChange member,Thank you for taking the pledge and standing with us. We know thatwhen we stand together and speak with one voice, we can make changehappen because we become impossible to ignore.We started by taking the pledge ourselves. And then wereached out to folks we knew who we thought felt similarly--thatall folks should have a political voice and that is criminal howso many of us are left behind.The response has been great, but we have a long way to go. Thebest thing you can do at this moment, now that you've signed thepledge, is think to think of who you know--friends and family--andinvite them to sign the pledge.Below you'll find a brief letter you can send. Personalize it asyou wish or start from scratch and write your own, but please sendit right away. Also, please only contact people who know youpersonally. Spam will hurt the effort.Once you've emailed folks, take action by joining our currentcampaigns at http://colorofchange.org/campaigns.html.Many thanks,-- James Rucker & Van JonesColorOfChange.org
Date / Time: 6/15/2008 1:52 PM UTC
Current mood: peace Category: peace Life
Ghettofication of the Obamas
You(th) Vote: 6/13/08 @ 1:32 p.m.
The Republicans are doing their best to portray Barack Obama and his wife Michelle as the last thing that most white and black voters want in the White House—-a "black" person. No, I don't mean a REAL black person. Not one who's intelligent, hard-working, successful, and perseverant. Not one who is proud of their heritage, provides for their family, and consistently knocks down the barriers that society places before them. No, I'm talking about the media-constructed and perpetuated "black" person: the watermelon-eating, sagging shorts-wearing thug. The blinged out pimp, the ho, the crackhead, the jailbird, the fried chicken-eating baby daddies and baby mamas. In short, every negative stereotype that you can ever think of when it comes to black people.
(Now, before you go off, I'm not saying that it's wrong for black people to like fried chicken or watermelon. I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with you if your wardrobe staples include a doo-rag, fitted cap, and a blinged out grill. Nor am I denying or denouncing the fact that there are black crackheads, jailbirds, pimps, hos, baby daddies/mamas, etc. All I'm saying is that this is usually the most PREVALENT image of black people shown in the media, and it's always damaging to broadcast just one example to represent an ENTIRE race.)
As Angel informed us in her post about the Michelle Obama "baby mama" comment made on Fox News Negligence, the Republicans along with the conservative media can't find anything serious to attack the Obamas on, so their plan is to constantly remind the viewing public that the Obamas are actually black, and they do this by referring to them in demeaning and stereotypical ways.
This presents a problem for the Obama campaign because one of the reasons he has been so successful is because of his "post-racial" image, as Marcus Mabry describes it in his NY Times article. In short, race is a touchy subject in America, white people don't like to be reminded of it, and they are more likely to vote for a black candidate who doesn't wear his "blackness" on his shoulder. So Mabry is saying that if an African American candidate becomes too closely associated with "ethnic" behavior, ideologies, or appearance they will have a really hard time getting elected by a majority white constituency. Republicans know that, so here are some of the images that they are already plastering all over the internet:
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Obama Current mood: breezy Category: peaceful Life
Date / Time: 6/15/2008 1:50 PM UTC
Gangs violence has to stop Current mood: angry Category: cool Life
, CA
First and foremost, I love Los Angeles and it is a great city to live in. HOWEVER, over the past few weeks, every time I have turned on the T.V. there have been more and more stories about people who have lost their lives to gang violence. Many people think those whose lives are lost are gang affiliated, but that is not the norm in most cases. Angel talked about this "Black/Brown War" issue in one Los Angeles school, but there lies a larger problem; the innocent lives that are being lost because of this ongoing "race war." These people include adults, but most of them are children and teens who are not, and have never been gang affiliated. These are just a few of their stories…
Jamiel Shaw, 17: a football star with a promising future was gunned down two houses from his home.
Anthony Escobar, 13: was picking lemons for dinner when he was gunned down. He was found lying in a driveway.
Clifton Hibbert Jr., 22: only a few weeks away from graduating from California State University - Northridge. He planned on pursuing law school after graduating.
Lavareay Elzy, 6: was driving in the car with his family when gang members opened fire on the families SUV. He was shot in the head.
Emily Grigsby, 19:was standing outside at a party with another youth when a man walked up and shot them both.Cynthia Perez, 14: was shot in the head while sitting in the back of her parents SUV. She was taken off of life support TODAY after she was declared brain dead.
These are only some of the stories that have been reported. There are more shootings that happen all over the community that the media does not cover.As parents we need to reclaim our children our streets our lives and also be parents to your children.Don't let streets raise your children.(spititout1@yahoo.com) Essie Rerun Berry
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