Mumia Abu-Jamal -- 40 Years in the Wilderness!

40 years later; and prisons are increasingly the only Black communities where public housing is maintained; 40 years later, and Death Rows, North and south, are disproportionately Black; 40 years later — and still white judges and juries sentence Blacks to eternities in Hell; 40 years later — and still white (and now Black) cops wild on Black youth, beating, choking, shooting, and torturing them — male *and* female! — with impunity; 40 years — and while there may be thousands of Black politicians, there is precious little Black political power; and much of that lies trapped within the cage of Democratic politics, where promises are many, but actions are few.

As Florida proved overwhelmingly, just 'cause you got a Voting Rights Act, don't mean you got voting rights. It may have been Rev. King's crowning achievement, but for tens of thousands of blacks, it's little more than a dead letter.

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