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Justice Riding on Four Wheels & Brown Fits
Poem for May Molina, a Disabled Latina of Ill. who died in police custody on May 26, 2004
Justice Riding on Four Wheels & Brown Fists
(For May Molina)
Activist in Action that was May Molina
Kept police & prisons
In checked
Turning over wrongful convictions
Target on her chest
She drove between institutionalize bullets
in her wheelchair
Like Harriet Tubman, Molina led her people to freedom
Out of the prison system
And into an activist revolution
Help started an organization
For Families of the wrongly convicted & victims of police brutality
Her community, supporters and family
Demands answers about her death in police custody
Although she had diabetes police refused medical care
Thanks to police & mainstream media her background has been smeared
While the names of officers are invisible
Seems like we’ve been here, Cammerin Boyd in San Fran, Annette Auguste in Haiti
Hey Homeland security, am I next in line?
Cause like May Molina, I’m outspoken about systematic oppression
I can see Molina wheeling up to the mic
at the Chicago Police Board
my Latina disabled sister
your spirit has traveled from Chicago to San Francisco
to clear my vision and to rededicate my life to your mission
Time to bring attention
to how the black & blue
abuse their authority
onto my brothers and sisters with disabilities
Forget about internal investigation
Open up politicians & police’s closets all around the world to the public
The community & family is the Juror & the Judge
And we have our progressive, ethnic and activist media
Mother May Molina, your wish has come true
Judgement day is here
The power structure is crumbling
and Justice is riding on four wheels & Brown fists!
By Leroy F. Moore Jr.
Black Diisabled Activist
sfdamo [at] Yahoo.com
Rest in Peace Molina. With Revolutionary Love!!!!!!
(For May Molina)
Activist in Action that was May Molina
Kept police & prisons
In checked
Turning over wrongful convictions
Target on her chest
She drove between institutionalize bullets
in her wheelchair
Like Harriet Tubman, Molina led her people to freedom
Out of the prison system
And into an activist revolution
Help started an organization
For Families of the wrongly convicted & victims of police brutality
Her community, supporters and family
Demands answers about her death in police custody
Although she had diabetes police refused medical care
Thanks to police & mainstream media her background has been smeared
While the names of officers are invisible
Seems like we’ve been here, Cammerin Boyd in San Fran, Annette Auguste in Haiti
Hey Homeland security, am I next in line?
Cause like May Molina, I’m outspoken about systematic oppression
I can see Molina wheeling up to the mic
at the Chicago Police Board
my Latina disabled sister
your spirit has traveled from Chicago to San Francisco
to clear my vision and to rededicate my life to your mission
Time to bring attention
to how the black & blue
abuse their authority
onto my brothers and sisters with disabilities
Forget about internal investigation
Open up politicians & police’s closets all around the world to the public
The community & family is the Juror & the Judge
And we have our progressive, ethnic and activist media
Mother May Molina, your wish has come true
Judgement day is here
The power structure is crumbling
and Justice is riding on four wheels & Brown fists!
By Leroy F. Moore Jr.
Black Diisabled Activist
sfdamo [at] Yahoo.com
Rest in Peace Molina. With Revolutionary Love!!!!!!
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I loved your poem! I am from the group Comite Exigimos Justicia ( We Demand Justice ) in Chicago that was co-founded by May Molina. I helped with the emergency response the first morning and spoke at the police Board hearing the next night. After the funeral we went to the Justice department. We will go back next week to the next police board meeting. I'll pass this poem on to the family and the folks in our group !!!!
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