December 12, 2005, - 4:51 pm
Now that Tookie will Depart . . .
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Now that it’s official–that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has decided against commuting Stanley “Tookie” Williams’ death sentence–I think the doubters should read this suprisingly, partially on-point piece by a far-lefty with whom I NEVER agree at all, Black activist Julianne Malveaux.
I have appeared with Malveaux on television shows, and she is as far left and militant as they come. I am not a fan. I don’t agree with most of what’s in this column, but here are a few excellent quotes, which I never thought I’d hear from her (She did not join calling for Tookie’s clemency):
“It would be refreshing if the Tookie celebrity coalition would take a moment to talk about the bloody legacy of the Crips gang, a legacy that cannot be washed away by uplifting children’s books. Infants were killed in drive-by shootings. Children were executed, sometimes by “mistake”. Potential witnesses against brutal murderers died or disappeared. The fabric of community in South Central Los Angeles, and in other parts of the country, was shredded in the face of the brutal gang warfare between Crips and Bloods that claimed thousands of innocent victims.”
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“[T]hose who ask for clemency for Tookie must ask if he has really repented and apologized for his crimes. Yes, he exhorts young people to avoid his mistakes, but perhaps his legal culpability keeps his statements vague, since word on the street in South Central L.A. is that Tookie Williams may have killed more than the four people he is charged with killing. Indeed, it is a peculiar feature of America’s racism that Tookie Williams is being held accountable for the deaths of Whites and Asians, but not of the African Americans whose lives he and his Crip colleagues turned into a living hell.”
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“The people who have gathered to support Tookie Williams . . . . Do they really think this Tookie case is the most pressing issue for African Americans? Will they use the same energy and force they are spending on Tookie to tackle a series of far more pressing issues.”
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“Is Tookie more worthy of mercy because he has written children’s books and been nominated for a Nobel Prize?”
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“[T]hose who ask for clemency for Tookie must ask if he has really repented and apologized for his crimes.”
1. Kookie STILL maintains that he is innocent – so much for Redemption,
2. Kookie has never admitted that he did ANYTHING wrong – so much for Redemption,
3. Kookie has never apologized to, nor asked forgiveness from, the families who he caused so much pain and suffering – so much for Redemption.
“”Is Tookie more worthy of mercy because he has written children’s books and been nominated for a Nobel Prize?”
The only reasons why Kookie’s brain-dead supporters want mercy for this cold-blooded killer are;
A. He’s a black militant,
B. His “noble” cause is to further contribute to the decay of America by co-founding a deadly group of cold-blooded, murdering mutants who traffic in drugs, arms, and death.
Thee_Bruno on December 12, 2005 at 5:24 pm