This poem was written after being an outside protesting witness to the Texas shits-tem murder of Derrick "Hasan Shakur" Frazier on Aug. 31st. This is not meant to offend anyone or say that no one does anything to help our brothers out but is meant to raise awareness that these guys depend on us. It was written to help the struggle bring everyone together, one purpose, one fight, all plights...to end the Death Penalty. On the day of Hasan Shakur's state sanctioned murder only 3, soldiers protested while only 5 others with one candle stood there talking and not praying....Soldiers that protested were myself, Ray of the Welfare Poets, and Walidah I. We were faithful in our hearts that we would get a last minute stay of execution however we watched Mrs. Frazier, beloved wife of Hasan Shakur, being walked into the Walls Unit, Huntsville TX to witness her husband’s execution ALONE...To hear the upsetting news and see her walk back out with tears in her eyes, crushed our hearts and put us on a DRIVE to service this OUTCRY... We're asking everyone to RISE UP...Support to the fullest and not just the day of the execution but every day. We are asking that when you support that you follow through, follow up, and organize...and on the date of execution that you seek some type of protesting station and join in so that these states, especially "Texas" will know that we are tired of them killing our Nation’s Innocent Brothers and Sisters.....

 

 

OUTCRY -- WHERE WERE YOU AT 6:00PM?

 

This Texas hell (w)hole is a demon

they got us screamin

free our brothers and sistahs;

 

FREE DERRICK FRAZIER

FREE MUMIA

HANDS OFF ASSATA

FREE KENNETH FOSTER

FREE TONY EGBUNA

FREE CHARLES MAMOU

FREE ALL INNOCENT DEATH ROW PRISONERS!!!

 

do it NOW, rather than later

cuz they lockin us up in tombs

stealing us straight from our mothas womb.

got us still actin like slaves

walkin like mummies

straight to our graves.

 

Stop it, Dont Walk to your death.

DRIVE 2006

mount up, Rise up

cuz this

is a never ending battle we cant risk.

 

So for all pro anti-death

watchin our brothers and sisters walking to their

last breaths,

this is an OUT CRY

CRYIN OUT

for all the lost souls

its time to roll.

get on a MOVE!!

cuz the state got us all wrong

yo' word is bond

our STRUGGLE IS STRONG!!!

 

dont get it confused,

lettin it get out of sight, we got to FIGHT.

cuz the time is NOW,

time is ripe.

 

CRYIN OUT,

cuz while the state keeps lynching us

its unjust,

our brothers and sistahs are being

spread like whores

while we standin on the sidelines

leavin some ignored.

 

Death Row Inmates

getting accused

abused

misguided

misused

and we got them sayin,

do we?

who?

just me?

wheres all our support?

cuz these picket lines and protest rallies

keep comin up short.

 

Where yall at, they say

RISE UP,

STAND steady, but be Ready

ORGANIZE

get enterprise FOR US (death row),

this is a must

aint no show

in yall we TRUST!!!

 

not this nation,

theyre just falsifications

locking us down

this fucked state, TEXAS

got us living on soured plantations

damn Right, Im chanting,

these incantations.

 

Say we do, but do WE?

i remember better days

when we had better ways

when MLK use to walk these streets

PREACH, i have a dream

but i dont want "just a dream"

i want our brothers and sistahs

to be FREE!!!

 

We cant continue to keep PEACE,

cuz, JESUS weeps !!!

for our lost children,

lost activist,

lost prisoners

those not sayin much

till our brothers on DEATH ROW have their veins touched.

 

WE NEED ACTION,

TODAY........

THIS MINUTE.

this is not fiction, but fact

like I said before

Where was yall at?