Megan Williams March Report
Posted: November 10th, 2007 | Author: dex digital | Filed under: blog | Tags: activism, blog, politics | 9 Comments »If you’ve been following this blog for at least a couple months, you’ll remember that Vince78 mentioned he was going to the march for Megan Williams in Charleston, West Virginia.
Well, he’s back, and he’s put together a quick slideshow and a flickr gallery for everyone. Take a few minutes out of your weekend and check these out. The below is a youtube consisting of images from the rally set to Talib Kweli’s “For Women”:
National March Against Hate Crimes & Racism – Vince78’s Report
And here’s the images themselves in a flickr gallery with 80+ images including the Black Panthers:
Thanks again to dude for taking time not not only to participate in this march and show support for topics that the media willfully ignores – but to make sure all of us are up on what is going on as well. Any chance on you elaborating on the experience in the comments, fam? And remind us – where was the NAACP?
Also: dig the Seattle grunge throwback diversity: 
positive shit. that last pics my fav.
Yo, this is love right here!
Sara– When the crowd said, “Black Power” in unison, I saw White folks pumping their fist to it– something I found to be pretty amazing! It was also nice to talk w/ people who didn’t look anything like me, people who weren’t in denial about the realities of racism, people who undertood that racism is still & will continue to be a dominating issue of prevalence until we all have some serious conversations & some serious plan’s of action to tackle the beast that it really is.
There was somthing about looking Megan in the face & trying to put myself in her shoes that made me cry– something I hadn’t done even after I found out about her. Yeah, I saw her smiling but I also saw some of the bruising that was still healing. I guess she has a mental disability, something I didn’t learn till later. I bring this up because after watching her movements I thought she was just suffering from post-traumatic stress which is probably also true.
So, the NAACP– according to my understanding (please correct me if I’m wrong) but they said Megan would be aiding the defense team representing the 6 devils who tortured this tiny woman, giving them an opportunity to plan strategy based off what she’s saying or not saying to the press– this being their justification for not supporting, attending, or even endorsing the march!! Hell, I know there was @ least 1 of 6 devils who tortured Megan that signed a full confession about calling her, “Nigger” all day/everyday– a FULL CONFESSION about all the sadistic sh*t they did to her.
The NAACP– & I want to paraphrase Malik Shabaaz because he said something about it being probably the most marching-est organization he knew of & how riduculous it was for them not to support this one. He also stressed the value of the NAACP but suggested that it’s leadership be removed by the people. If you’re not up on what the NAACP is really about perhaps this article can put things in it’s proper perspective:
http://www.blackcommentator.com/221/221_cover_between_the_lines_samad.html
Also, there’s an organization called the Charleston Black Ministerial Alliance, INC whom Malik sought for support of the march. Malik was led to believe that they would support it, but after their meeting with Charleston’s Mayor Danny Jones, they turned that show of support into verbal attacks against Malik & even Megan– attacks supposedly made by Rev. Hill as Megan, her mother (who walked out inraged) & Malik were sitting in the church– a situation which supposedly left the congregation (minus it’s leadership) outraged.. I guess this Ministerial Alliance was trying to convince Malik to call off the march seeing as they were worried for their welfare once Malik had left town. In their defense (which I hate to do) I just gotta mention that West Virginia is 95% white. African-Americans comprise a mere 3% of the pie. However, you can tell when someone is really down for the struggle because you won’t catch her/him compromising it for a political safety net. Now, someone made a comment I can’t say I necessarily agree w/ but it made a lot of sense. Somebody asked, “how you gonna have a Black Ministerial Alliance w/ white people in it.” What do ya’ll think about that?
You wont, cause if it’s a “black” ministerial aliance, you’d HAVE to be black to be in. Seems ignorant. I think putting racial labels on anything is contradictory to what we say we want. If we want the people to come together and view one another as equals, why separate ourselves? That seems to be one of the biggest things to keep us divided, we don’t want to blend. But we’re all the same. Maybe we should go back to “black only” bathrooms. To me it just sends a mixed message.
Somethin i’ve wondered about..why say black power and thrust our fists? It doesn’t give me lightening strength or anything. It’s similar to the way KKK expresses love for their race.
On a lighter note, Clayton Bigbsy.
aww man..i had a video from my friend that lives out there that was sent to my phone ..i wish i could of had a chance to post it .. :^(
I liked all the pictures, vince, especially the ones showing different ethnicites invovled; interesting. I have never seen that before. By the way, Dex, all Gil Scott Heron remixes are on Love podcast comments so tell me what you think of them.
Anyway, that’s me.
Peace
:)
Sara– Did you see the Kiri Davis reconstruction of the doll test? It’s pretty interseting. Also, check this out:
http://charlestoncbma.org/_wsn/page3.html
Today I just learned of the Channon Christian incident:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hiQd_d9erk&feature=related
I think the doll test says a lot about the way we raise our kids. Glad the CBMA didn’t have the mind set to discriminate racially. I didn’t think they would.
I read about the Channon Christian + Christopher Newsom murders on crime library. It’s scary to think humans actually do that to one another. Those men should be publicly stoned.
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