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Why?!?! (30 Questions for America)

Why do we let Politicians tell us how to live our lives?
Why are parents trying so hard to be friends, instead of parents to their kids?
Why is it so popular to be a single mother?
Why do so many men have kids and can't take care of themselves?
Why do people allow someone claiming to love them, verbally and physically abuse them?
Why do people marry to please other people?
Why are we so materialistic?
Why are we afraid to accept others for who they are?
Why do we get jealous of each other?
Why can't we accept the truth?
Why is it justified for police officers to kill?
Why are the families of the men and women fighting for our country struggle financially?
Why do our kids respect movie stars, athletes, and musicians but not their parents?
Why do we teach our young girls to look a certain way to be accepted by society?
Why do we teach our young men to be tough and not caring and responsible?
Why do we have so many homeless and hungry people in America?
Why are we so judgemental?
Why do we spend more to build prisons than schools?
Why is the moral value at a all time low?
Why does the FCC control what people say?
Why are a lot of T.V. shows based around sex?
Why are we afraid to be ourselves?
Why are we afraid of rejection?
Why are so many young fathers and husbands dying in Iraq?
Why is the divorce rate so high?
Why do 38 states have the right to take a human life?
Why do we have weapons of mass destruction in America?
Why when innocent people get out, their lives are harder than when they were locked up?

America, ask yourself why are all of these questions affecting our youth in society today? The more we hide from these problems, the more they won't go away. Why turn a deaf ear to someone crying out for understanding, knowledge, love, and respect?

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How would you feel???

How would you feel if you were arrested in front of your family for a crime you did not commit? How would you feel if you had lawyers representing you and they went to sleep during your trial? How would you feel if someone held you against your will and no one believed anything you said? How would you feel if someone you didn’t know or never talked to told the police you had confessed to them about a crime you didn’t commit?

These are some of the things innocent people all across America go through. I know you are thinking everybody is not innocent, that is true, but, do we say the system worked when we lock up an innocent person? And do we justify it after a person has been in prison for a crime they didn’t commit for 10, 15, and sometimes 20 years before they are freed. How would you feel if you were that person? What can the state say to you or your family? No one deserves to be locked up for a crime they didn’t commit, but over hundred of those people have been exonerated. When I say exonerated I’m not talking about technicalities, I’m talking about police and prosecutors with-holding evidence; false identification; Jail-house snitches giving false testimony. How would you feel if your freedom was stacked up against all this and you tried to get millions of people to hear and believe your side of this story? The American dream can become the American night-mare in a rush to judgement in our judicial system.

How would you feel if you were Donald Paradise? He spent 21 years in prison, 14 of them on death row and he had three execution dates, ‘82, ‘86, and ’95. How about Peter Limone, who spent33 years in prison? How would you feel if you were Earl Washington, he came within 9 days of his death? Or how would your family and friends feel if you died in prison, 11 months before DNA evidence proved your innocence, that is the case of Frank Lee Smith. All of these guys lost their freedom due to a system that has shown time and time again it can’t be trusted or relied on? How would you feel if the state you lived in took everything you worked for and told you to fight for your life?

By Jimmy Davis Jr.

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