> WW News Service Digest #120 > > 1) Last Statement of Shaka Sankofa > by "WW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >I would like to say that I did not kill Bobby Lambert. That I'm an innocent >black man that is being murdered. This is a lynching that is happening in >America tonight. There's overwhelming and compelling evidence of my defense >that has never been heard in any court of America. What is happening here is >an outrage for any civilized country to anybody anywhere to look at what's >happening here is wrong. > >I thank all of the people that have rallied to my cause. They've been >standing in support of me. Who have finished with me. > >I say to Mr. Lambert's family, I did not kill Bobby Lambert. You are >pursuing the execution of an innocent man. > >I want to express my sincere thanks to all of ya'll. We must continue to >move forward and do everything we can to outlaw legal lynching in America. >We must continue to stay strong all around the world, and people must come >together to stop the systematic killing of poor and innocent black people. >We must continue to stand together in unity and to demand a moratorium on >all executions. We must not let this murder/lynching be forgotten tonight, >my brothers. We must take it to the nation. We must keep our faith. We must >go forward. We recognize that many leaders have died. Malcom X, Martin >Luther King, and others who stood up for what was right. They stood up for >what was just. We must, you must brothers, that's why I have called you >today. You must carry on that condition. What is here is just a lynching >that is taking place. But they're going to keep on lynching us for the next >100 years, if you do not carry on that tradition, and that period of >resistance. We will prevail. We may loose this battle, but we will win the >war. This death, this lynching will be avenged. It will be avenged, it must >be avenged. The people must avenge this murder. So my brothers, all of ya'll >stay strong, continue to move forward. > >Know that I love all of you. I love the people, I love all of you for your >blessing, strength, for your courage, for your dignity, the way you have >come here tonight, and the way you have protested and kept this nation >together. Keep moving forward, my brothers. Slavery couldn't stop us. The >lynching couldn't stop us in the south. This lynching will not stop us >tonight. We will go forward. Our destiny in this country is freedom and >liberation. We will gain our freedom and liberation by any means necessary. >By any means necessary, we keep marching forward. > >I love you, Mr. Jackson. Bianca, make sure that the state does not get my >body. Make sure that we get my name as Shaka Sankofa. My name is not Gary >Graham. Make sure that it is properly presented on my grave. Shaka Sankofa. > >I died fighting for what I believe in. I died fighting for what was just and >what was right. I did not kill Bobby Lambert, and the truth is going to come >out. It will be brought out. > >I want you to take this thing off into international court, Mr. Robert >Mohammed and all ya'll. I want you, I want to get my family and take this >down to international court and file a law suit. Get all the video tapes of >all the beatings. They have beat me up in the back. They have beat me up at >the unit over there. Get all the video tapes supporting that law suit. And >make the public exposed to the genocide and this brutality world, and let >the world see what is really happening here behind closed doors. Let the >world see the barbarity and injustice of what is really happening here. You >must get those video tapes. You must make it exposed, this injustice, to the >world. You must continue to demand a moratorium on all executions. We must >move forward Minister Robert Mohammed. > >Ashanti Chimurenga, I love you for standing with me, my sister. You are a >strong warrior queen. You will continue to be string in everything that you >do. Believe in yourself, you must hold your head up, in the spirit of Winnie >Mandela, in the spirit of Nelson Mandela. Ya'll must move forward. We will >stop this lynching. > >Reverend Al Sharpton, I love you, my brother. > >Bianca Jagger, I love all of you. Ya'll make sure that we continue to stand >together. > >Reverend Jesse Jackson and know that this murder, this lynching will not be >forgotten. I love you, too, my brother. This is genocide in America. This is >what happens to black men when they stand up and protest for what is right >and just. We refuse to compromise, we refuse to surrender the dignity for >what we know is right. But we will move on, we have been strong in the past. >We will continue to be strong as a people. You can kill a revolutionary, but >you cannot stop the revolution. The revolution will go on. The people will >carry the revolution on. You are the people that must carry that >revolutionary on, in order to liberate our children from this genocide and >for what is happening here in America tonight. What has happened for the >last 100 or so years in America. This is the part of the genocide, this is >part of the African (unintelligible), that we as black people have endured >in America. But we shall overcome, we will continue with this. We will >continue, we will gain our freedom and liberation, by any means necessary. >Stay strong. They cannot kill us. We will move forward. > >To my sons, to my daughters, all of you. I love all of you. You have been >wonderful. Keep your heads up. Keep moving forward. Keep united. Maintain >the love and unity in the community. > >And know that victory is assured. Victory for the people will be assured. We >will gain our freedom and liberation in this country. We will gain it and we >will do it by any means necessary. We will keep marching. March on black >people. Keep your heads high. March on. All ya'll leaders. March on. Take >your message to the people. Preach the moratorium for all executions. We're >gonna stop, we are going to end the death penalty in this country. We are >going to end it all across this world. Push forward people. And know that >what ya'll are doing is right. What ya'll are doing is just. This is nothing >more that pure and simple murder. This is what is happening tonight in >America. Nothing more than state sanctioned murders, state sanctioned >lynching, right here in America, and right here tonight. This is what is >happening my brothers. Nothing less. They know I'm innocent. They've got the >facts to prove it. They know I'm innocent. But they cannot acknowledge my >innocence, because to do so would be to publicly admit their guilt. This is >something these racist people will never do. We must remember brothers, this >is what we're faced with. You must take this endeavor forward. You must stay >strong. You must continue to hold your heads up, and to be there. And I love >you, too, my brother. All of you who are standing with me in solidarity. We >will prevail. We will keep marching. Keep marching black people, black >power. Keep marching black people, black power. Keep marching black people. >Keep marching black people. They are killing me tonight. They are murdering >me tonight. > > > > > __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________
