Pubdate: Sun, 27 Apr 2003
Source: Courier, The (LA)
Copyright: 2003 Houma Today
Contact:  http://www.houmatoday.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1477
Author: James Knightshead

AMERICA'S NEXT WAR SHOULD BE ON DRUGS

Operation Iraqi Freedom refers to the slogan drawn up by American leaders 
to describe their position on war with Iraq.

Perhaps, it should be necessary to return to the drawing board for yet 
another long-overdue battle. A war against drugs to be fought from its 
highest levels.

Operation Iraqi Freedom is a reality now. The Iraqis are free, and I'm 
happy for them, but I'm saddened by the many underprivileged and 
hard-working adults held prisoner from within the walls of their 
drug-infested communities. For the most part, it aches my heart to see the 
blood of so many of our black youth being spilled over the dirty urban and 
rural streets of America, while others are handed life sentences in 4-by-8 
cells, forever caged like animals in a zoo. Most of these incarcerated are 
deprived of their souls, leaving behind families whose lives become filled 
with complexities and uncertainties, which in turn sets the stage for a 
destructive behavior pattern to remain a part of the woven thread stitched 
by a well-planned strategy from the world of yesterday.

The big picture is clear to me now. The annihilation of a well-picked group 
by its own group along with a fat modest reward for white-collar kingpins 
in high places. We are the dying voices of America crying out for help. Our 
black people are becoming extinct.

American leaders, if you saw the need to free the people of Iraq, and 
protect the heritage of the wild eagle, will you save our children?

We ask for your assistance to tear down the spreading walls of these drug 
thrones masquerading under legal cloth who not only possess the mentality, 
but the financial means to get the drugs to the hands of our young people 
for distribution. We are asking you the government that more reality-based, 
save-our-children programs be instituted into prime-time media television, 
displaying the harsh realities of prison life. Finally, we ask for more 
in-home informative programs such as short commentaries on radio and 
television illustrating the true drug structure providing the reality of 
who wins and who loses.

In conclusion, brothers if you are reading this article I beg of you, stop 
the killing. Find new and creative avenues for your minds. Don't continue 
to follow a plan designed for your destruction.

Preachers, if you talk the children will listen. Please do your part in 
Operation Save Our Kids.

Parents, even if you are a single parent find time to be supportive of your 
kids in positive programs, such as Little League ball, a school play or 
even the church choir.

Most certainly if the government wants to do nothing, then we have to do 
something.

James Knightshead

Houma
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