Op-Ed - This is a letter from a Child born in 1958 a product of the 1960’s Black Movement and Now a Man trying to Survive in 2021...
Born and Reared in the New Zion Baptist Church of New Orleans, Louisiana, Pastored by the Rev.Abraham Lincoln Davis Jr. The church where the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was Born...
I saw Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and My Pastor Rev. Abraham Lincoln Davis Jr. who became the First Black City Councilman of the City of New Orleans, fight for CHANGE !!!!
Yet 58 years later after the Changes of the 1960’s ... I still can’t BREATHE !!!!
And Since I Can’t Breathe -
America Can’t Breathe
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America is Choking !!!!
1)Economically - a Shut Down - Economy
2)Physically -COVID -19
3)Socially - Senseless Murders
George Floyd
Gasping for Air , Yearning for a New Normal, Longing for Peace, While breathing Air that is Saturated with hundreds of years of Systemic Racism, Reeking with the Stinch of Hate and Bigotry !!
Here In America,
- Millions of Native Americans - Indians Slaughtered
- Not counting Just Plain ole Lynchings
- 1811 - Destrehan , Plantation Massacre
- May 31, 1921 - 6/1 /21 -Tulsa Ok - Massacre,
- August 1955 - Emmitt Till - - Money Ms.
- 1965 - Harlem, New York - Malcolm X - Assassinated
- February 1, 1968 -2 Garbage Men - Memphis Echol Cole / Robert Walker - Crushed to Death in a Malfunctioning Garbage Truck
- 1968 - Memphis - Martin Luther King Jr - Assassinated
- 1972 - Baton Rouge ,La. 2 Students Killed at Southern Unniv.By La. National Guard
- 2012 - Sanford Florida -Trevon Martin
- 2014 - Fergerson, Missouri -Micheal Brown
- 2014 - New York , New York -Eric Garner.
- 2016 - New Orleans, La. -Joe McKnight
- 2016 - Baton Rouge, La. -Alton Sterling
- 2020 - Brunswick, Georgia -Ahmond
- 2020 - Minneapolis Minnesota - George Floyd
All Undeniable Evidence that
“Power in the Wrong Hands Usually Lead to Injustice “!!!
Change is not Given, It has to be Demanded, then it has to be taken !!!
After Emmitt Till We Asked
After Martin and Malcom we asked
After Rosa Parks and Trevon Martin We Asked
Alton Sterling
Joe McKnight
Micheal Brown. - We asked !!!!
Not this time after George Floyd we ain't Asking No More...
It took 8 minutes and 46 Seconds,
To ignite a Worldwide movement declaring No More !!!
We are Americans and here to Stay, So
Now We Are Demanding !!!
In the words of D J Kool “Let me a Clear My Throat !!!!
Lift up your Voices, Cry out
I can”t Breathe, take your Foot off my Neck !!!!!
Your threats did not inflict Fear,
We were never afraid !!!!
In fact you are Afraid !!!
2020 a record of 0ver 30 million Guns Sold in America
Gun and Ammunition shelves Bare
Gun and Ammunition Suppliers have a 6 month Back Order Situation
Your threats only reignited us and Sounded the Alarm that The Time is Now !!!!
So Yes Protest but Peacefully, because Right is on our Side, Yes Protest in the Midst of a Worldwide Pandemic of deadly COVID-19...
Let's Come together, Organize, then Galvanize.
Because We are Suffering,
We are in Pain,
We are Suffocating,
We Can’t Breathe,
and We are Just plain Ole Tired...
The World has Seen Us
The World has heard Us !!!
So Let’s move the Agenda Forward !!!
Let us Come Together, and in the Words of Al Green, “Let’s Stay Together”...
The Bible in The Gospel of Luke 11:17 says “A House Divided against itself cannot Stand “
The House is Crumbling
Our House Is Falling ...
Yes, I'm Mad !!!!!!! , in Fact, I’am Furious !!!!
“The Bible says Eph.4:26 “be angry but Sin not “
So it’s ok to Get Mad,
But this Time Stay Mad, but Yet Stay Focused
Stay Mad !!!
Until everyone is Registered to Vote
Stay Mad and
Then Do Something - VOTE
Stay Mad !!!!!
AND KEEP ON VOTING...
THAT’s where the Real Power is !!
Stay Mad and that Power...
Will Change Education
Stay Mad and that Power...
will change Economic’s
Stay Mad and that Power...
will change Housing
Stay Mad and that Power...
will change Health Care
Stay Mad and that Power...
will Afford a Decent Retirement ...
So Fight On To Live On...
Then and only then Can I Breathe !!!!
Then and only then You can Breathe !!!!
Then and only then We can finally Breathe !!!
Then and only then America Can Breathe !!!
Then and only then The World Can Breathe !!!!
How long must we hold our breath !!!
8 minutes and 46 seconds is too Long !!
We are Still Waiting to Exhale !!!
Pastor Charles J Southall III
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