Troy Davis

48 years ago a man by the name of Martin Luther King gave a speech in front of Lincoln Memorial before a quarter million people. This speech was entitled "I Have A Dream..." When King spoke, he effectively defined the Civil Rights movement and the struggle for justice with these famous lines: "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed, 'We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal'." The Civil Rights act was passed in 1964. Fast forward to 1989 when a man by the name of Troy Davis was arrested for killing a police officer in Savannah, GA in which witnesses testified that they saw Davis shoot the officer. Davis was sentenced to death in 1991. After 20 years of sitting in prison anticipating the day for his execution to come, another big murder case arose in 2008 where a mother killed her daughter. After 3 years of trial she was found not guilty and was charged with a misdemeanor for lying to a Law Enforcement agents. Is this a matter of racial injustice? Or is it just a matter of just being in the wrong place at the wrong time? Me...I feel like this is a matter of racial injustice! The fact that our justice system is willing to MURDER an innocent, well a man who wasn't proven guilty for a crime. In Georgia 22% of black people who murders a white person is sentenced to death but only 3% of whites who has killed a black person is sentenced to death, if this ain't inequality, injustice and straight up racism, somebody please tell me what racism, inequality, and injustice is! It is so irritating to hear people say that racism is dead and that we are all on an equal "playing field" because that is the farthest thing from the truth! These are my thoughts, my concerns, my life.