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NEWS & LETTERS, November-December 2005Workshop TalksTargeting Blacks as domestic terroristsby Georgiana Williams We have to talk about police abuse in Los Angeles. Devon Brown was a 13-year-old African American who took a joy ride in a car. The police were chasing him. They riddled his body with bullets. Since then, they put 80 bullets in the car of a young man in Compton, but none of them hit him. Another brother in Compton had a police chase, and they beat him like they did Rodney King--and that brother is in jail. None of these police has been taken off the police force. There are about 300 women in LA whose sons have been killed by drive-by shootings. They have organized and meet every Tuesday. It’s a good group, they’re doing a lot of good work against police abuse. But the reason I didn’t join is because the Nation of Islam is a big part of this group, and I don’t trust them. I went over there two or three times to see what’s going on, but I’m not going back. I want to speak out about the domestic terrorist law they have in L.A. They refer to all our Black brothers as gang-bangers. They have a new law now. If your son is considered to be in the gang, and he’s arrested, they’re going to charge him with domestic terrorism. They treat the domestic terrorists the way they treat all the brothers that they picked up after September 11 and have down in Cuba in a camp. They plan to put all these people in a camp and they’re never going to be released. We all have to get involved with this domestic terrorism issue, because what they do in LA, it looks like everybody else follows. We cannot let them put our young brothers in camps just because they call them gang-bangers. I call them dysfunctional sisters and brothers. The reason I call them dysfunctional is because they don’t have jobs. There’s nothing in L.A. for young people. They want young people to work for $5.35 an hour. You cannot pay rent if you work for $5.35 an hour. Did these kids bring the drugs into LA? They need to start in Washington and get rid of the people who are bringing in the drugs, because I don’t know any African American with a cargo plane or a cargo ship to bring the drugs into South Central. Some of the brothers found out they can make money on drugs, and they’re making money. And they’re now deciding this is wrong. But if they stop bringing the drugs in, the brothers won’t be able to sell them and the users won’t be able to take them. They have another law that says if your son is picked up and you’re on welfare, they’re going to charge you a large amount of money. It's just awful. I went back to the old neighborhood because they called my sons gang-bangers. I’m no longer over there. What happened in New Orleans is something I could understand from LA. I have family in Mississippi and I have family in New Orleans. I received calls after Hurricane Katrina and heard about what was going on in New Orleans before they put it on the air. It was nothing but racism. I received a call from a man who’s been coming to New Orleans since in the 1960s. He said, "Where did all the white people go? How did all the white people get out? Nothing left but the Black people?" I received a call from a family that made it out of New Orleans to Texas. They didn’t want to stay in the Superdome because all you smelled was death. They had dead people in there, people dying, she said. No place to lay down, so somebody told them to go to Garland, Texas. And they went to Garland. They said they were told to go to the Red Cross, and the Red Cross told them to go back to the Astrodome in Houston. So they told me to make sure nobody gives any money to the Red Cross because it is not going to help you. |
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