Songs From The Commons 008 - This One's For Tookie Williams

Lots of great music from teru's website -- including a mix from
teru himself of a mashup of two other remixes. This One’s For
Tookie Williams. No Business As Usual This Show - A Man Imprisoned
by the State of California Has Been Put To Death By that same
state, and I just want to take a moment to think about it. It
happened around 12:30 am this morning- Dec 13, 2006. I don’t like
to be reminded that we’re living in a police state, but things like
state-sanctioned executions make it all too crystal clear. Will we
find out months or years from now that Tookie was innocent? We’re
learning that innocent people are convicted all the time. It could
happen to you or me, but research has proven definitively that it’s
much more likely to happen to you if your an african american male.
And what if he was guilty after all? Is he arguably rehabilitated?
Or is rehabilitation just a lie? However you slice it, it leaves me
sad. And thinking. Whether you’re for or against the death penalty,
I think you will agree that it’s important that we all think long
and hard about what happened today.