Date: Fri, 4 Aug 1995 10:11:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: Albertha Nurse <myrna-AT-brahms.udel.edu>
Subject: Re: "Writers Support Abu-Jamal"


Thanks, David and Aletha, for your words of support and the information.  
Gareth and K, I hope that these responses provided you with the 
information you required.  If you'd like further info., let me know.

As I read through _LFDR_, I'm struck by some implication's that Mumia makes:
	(1) That America truly grants equality to all Americans, particularly 
African Americans who when accused are tried by a jury of their peers.  
These jurors, so far in the majority are white, and who in "serious and 
publicly visible cases" are pro the death penalty, only serve to condemn 
African Americans again and legally to an unequal status, in a well-oiled 
system of present-day slavery.  
	(2) That the increase of prisons across the country signals that
America has no intentions of practising democracy, and that she is no 
longer bothering to even pretend to do so; that she never truly became a 
civilized, matured nation that risked allowing every segment of her 
citizenry to develop to their fullest potential but instead sought 
camouflaged ways to justify to herself and to the rest of the world why 
Africa and her children deserved and still deserve to be enslaved 
interminably, and that America stands to bear the mark, in ages to come, 
of being the nation that never became a nation, never arrived.

No wonder America's legal system will cover its ears and close its 
eyes, rather than listen to and face these truths, preferring instead to 
silence Mumia's voice, and others like him who dare to say 
uncomprisingly, "Grow up, America, and get over it!"

The beat goes on,
Myrna Nurse 


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