"Spoken With My Tongue" . Diallo-Sharpton Rally . DOJ . WDC . 2 March 2000


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		On March 2 during the Al Sharpton's "Amadou Diallo" Rally at the Department of Justice in WDC when just before the 'opening prayer' Mark Thompson ... *and so* *loud* *but so very clear* ... shouted, but, perhaps more chanted "We, don't hold back our tongues here ...!" it was as if he was speaking directly to me. And so as to affirm him I responded with an "Amen!". And when Marion Barry, Dick Gregory, Joe Madison and David Dinkins or Walter Fauntroy as well as other, but older, yet more mature and perhaps wiser black men spoke of their sons and daughters with stylized plats, dreadlocks, corn rows, and updated afros, in the year 2000, still being stopped "... just for being black ..." I remembered, but, perhaps more as *flashbacks**, the various times, over the years, when dressed in khaki pants or a Calvin Klein suit or while jogging on Capitol Hill, in Georgetown or Mount Vernon near George Washington's plantation I was approached because, as we were told back then "ya fit the description* ...". Read more and view a photo essay

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