brother
Murdered by the State
(August 31, 2006)
The state of Texas gave us another reason to forever
commemorate Black August and to rededicate ourselves
to the revolutionary struggle.
At 6:00 this evening, they executed our brother, Hasan Shakur,
the Minister of Human Rights of the New Afrikan Black Panther
Party-Prison Chapter. He had recently turned 29 years old.
At 19, he was framed for murder. He was called Derrick Frazier,
then, a poor Black youth who had grown up on the mean
streets and in the juvenile halls of Texas, after his mother died
of a crack overdose.
Tricked by police into confessing to a crime he did not commit,
which they knew he did not commit because they already had
the confession of the youth who had done the murder,
Derrick Frazier was the victim of a racist hate crime,
a frame-up, for no other reason than the cops could do it and get away with it. Cynically, they convinced Derrick they were doing him a favor that would save his life.
They didn't tell him that he had a right to an attorney
or that he could not plea bargain without one.
They didn't tell him they had nothing on him, they
told him he would die unless he took some blame
to show he was cooperating...blame for another's actions
he did not even witness. In a very real sense,
Derrick Frazier died in that police station.
Hasan Shakur was born on death row.
It didn't happen automatically. It came out of the depth
of despair and with his conversion to Islam and the teaching
of a prisoner iman who was a veteran of the original
Black Panther Party. In prison he awakened
to the teachings of Malcolm X and Mao Tse-tung,
of Huey P. Newton and George Jackson.
And his living mentor, former BPP/BLA
political prisoner/prisoner of war, Russell "Maroon" Shoats.
Hasan did not fear his death, nor was he afraid to go on living,
because he had found a purpose to his life and death - REVOLUTION!
He was prepared to meet the enemy standing on his feet, standing tall!
Because in life or death he stood for the people!
Today they killed his body, but his spirit will live on,
like that of Che, Fred Hampton, Sr. and George Jackson.
He will march beside us in the streets
and stand with us at rallies and on the barricades.
And when the final victory is won,
he will be there in the bright future of humanity
that will have been bought with martyr's blood
and the struggle of generations against
all oppression and for the human rights of all!
by Tom Big Warrior,
Red Heart Warriors Society
(August 31, 2006)
The state of Texas gave us another reason to forever
commemorate Black August and to rededicate ourselves
to the revolutionary struggle.
At 6:00 this evening, they executed our brother, Hasan Shakur,
the Minister of Human Rights of the New Afrikan Black Panther
Party-Prison Chapter. He had recently turned 29 years old.
At 19, he was framed for murder. He was called Derrick Frazier,
then, a poor Black youth who had grown up on the mean
streets and in the juvenile halls of Texas, after his mother died
of a crack overdose.
Tricked by police into confessing to a crime he did not commit,
which they knew he did not commit because they already had
the confession of the youth who had done the murder,
Derrick Frazier was the victim of a racist hate crime,
a frame-up, for no other reason than the cops could do it and get away with it. Cynically, they convinced Derrick they were doing him a favor that would save his life.
They didn't tell him that he had a right to an attorney
or that he could not plea bargain without one.
They didn't tell him they had nothing on him, they
told him he would die unless he took some blame
to show he was cooperating...blame for another's actions
he did not even witness. In a very real sense,
Derrick Frazier died in that police station.
Hasan Shakur was born on death row.
It didn't happen automatically. It came out of the depth
of despair and with his conversion to Islam and the teaching
of a prisoner iman who was a veteran of the original
Black Panther Party. In prison he awakened
to the teachings of Malcolm X and Mao Tse-tung,
of Huey P. Newton and George Jackson.
And his living mentor, former BPP/BLA
political prisoner/prisoner of war, Russell "Maroon" Shoats.
Hasan did not fear his death, nor was he afraid to go on living,
because he had found a purpose to his life and death - REVOLUTION!
He was prepared to meet the enemy standing on his feet, standing tall!
Because in life or death he stood for the people!
Today they killed his body, but his spirit will live on,
like that of Che, Fred Hampton, Sr. and George Jackson.
He will march beside us in the streets
and stand with us at rallies and on the barricades.
And when the final victory is won,
he will be there in the bright future of humanity
that will have been bought with martyr's blood
and the struggle of generations against
all oppression and for the human rights of all!
by Tom Big Warrior,
Red Heart Warriors Society
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