TROY DAVIS: THE JUSTICE WE VOTED FOR

In America, where we get the justice that we VOTED for. Sadly, in GA where Troy Davis is to be executed the parole board, was created in February 1943 by statute law, and in August 1943 Georgia voters ratified an amendment setting forth the Board's authority in the State Constitution. The voters need to be aware of what is going on instead being reactive in this case we need to be proactive and spend this type of energy to vote in the JUSTICE we want. There are 5 members on the parole board appointed by the Governor that voters voted for, when we don't vote or are unaware of the issues at stake we get these type of situations like Troy Davis. The chairman of the parole board Garland R. Hunt, Esq. is Black and co-pastor of The Father's House in Norcross, Georgia. Two of the five members on the parole board are black ( Garfield Hammonds, Jr.), they have the sole power to grant clemency and should be held responsible. Thus when all we do is get outraged and protest and don't follow up with say mobilizing voters aligned with politicians sympathetic to the cause, this will continue to happen. The outraged protesters in GA should propose an amendment to the law that allows 5 people to have this type of authority. We have to be strategic and not reactionary in order to be effective, otherwise there is nothing to prevent this from happening again and again and again.

Is this another chapter in THE AFRICAN AMERICAN TRAGEDY? I say Don't be OUTRAGED about Troy Davis be PROACTIVE, mentor a Troy Davis, we got a cradle to prison industrial complex being expanded while we are DISTRACTED, get involved with our youth in the community, Our children are less likely to be in a two parent home in 2011 than in 1870 (slavery) we can MOBILIZE for the Essence Festival but we can't mobilize and be PROACTIVE to vote against bad legislation before it passes and becomes Law, we must translate the outrage into a PAC (Political Action Committee). Be less emotional and more STRATEGIC and PROACTIVE.