To the sisters & brothers of the New Freedom Fighters,
Were it not for my physical limitation I'd be there with you today, but I am there with you in spirit. I just wanted to touch on what we did in Brooklyn last Nov and why we did it. We stood up together to say NO MORE to treating Black and Latino youth as a criminalized generation, guilty until proven innocent, if they can survive their encounters with law enforcement and prove their innocence. We were acting to bring an end to the way this society breaks the bodies and crushes the spirits of so many people for nothing more than the color of their skin. In doing this we were standing on and extending the tradition of previous generations that stood up, from the abolitionist movement that struggled to end the horror of the enslavement of Afrtican people in the US thru the young people who went on the Freedom Rides and sat in at lunch counters. As they did, we put our bodies on the line as part of struggling to end injustice.
What we did was right and was just. It is Stop & Frisk, and all the other terms the authorities use to describe the racial profiling that traps up so many people, that is criminal. It is mass incarceration and all it means for the lives of 10's of millions of people who are forced to live their lives enmeshed in the web of the criminal injustice system that is criminal, not us and what we did.
The last thing I want to say is, "We Won't Stop Till We Stop "Stop & Frisk!"
Carl Dix
Were it not for my physical limitation I'd be there with you today, but I am there with you in spirit. I just wanted to touch on what we did in Brooklyn last Nov and why we did it. We stood up together to say NO MORE to treating Black and Latino youth as a criminalized generation, guilty until proven innocent, if they can survive their encounters with law enforcement and prove their innocence. We were acting to bring an end to the way this society breaks the bodies and crushes the spirits of so many people for nothing more than the color of their skin. In doing this we were standing on and extending the tradition of previous generations that stood up, from the abolitionist movement that struggled to end the horror of the enslavement of Afrtican people in the US thru the young people who went on the Freedom Rides and sat in at lunch counters. As they did, we put our bodies on the line as part of struggling to end injustice.
What we did was right and was just. It is Stop & Frisk, and all the other terms the authorities use to describe the racial profiling that traps up so many people, that is criminal. It is mass incarceration and all it means for the lives of 10's of millions of people who are forced to live their lives enmeshed in the web of the criminal injustice system that is criminal, not us and what we did.
The last thing I want to say is, "We Won't Stop Till We Stop "Stop & Frisk!"
Carl Dix
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