Keep your negative opinions to yourself Kevin Nash. Tookie Williams may have died because of your lack of compassion, and your comments on the air about Tookie, and how Tookie may deserve to die by lethal injection.

We find it sad that KJLH has lowered its standards by openly advocating Tookie William's death by lethal injection. Kevin Nash, on his Sunday show, "Love in the Spirit" said that the nominations that Tookie Williams received for the writing of his books was nothing. Kevin (a brother), also indicated that he felt that Tookie should be executed.

Why should we continue to buy the products of the sponsors of KJLH radio, when KJLH has no compassion for its listeners and their lives?

I think that we should all boycott KJLH, and its sponsors.

Tookie Williams was never allowed to enter his DNA as evidence. Many Black men in this country have been lynched, murdered, and executed. As a matter of fact, Illinois has halted all executions, because a few Black men were executed, and it was later discovered -- through evidence, that they were innocent.

Do your research buddy. Blacks are so eager to back up the White man, while stabbing their Black brothers and sisters in the back.

Charles Manson even got support from some White communities. It is sad that most Blacks will support Whites, but not Blacks.

There is no excuse.

Hell, he had a credit card for two years to buy all the gas food and weapons, to say nothing of being allowed to live on the ranch shooting up the place for over two years.
Look up 'Operation Chaos'.
The flower children had to be gutted.
The bloody murders Tex Watson committed ( or so the papers said he did ) was a military hit. Phone lines cut, dogs that didn't make any sound and gun shots that were never heard.

There are reasons to believe that the four murders weren't committed by Tookie. I don't know, but Charles Manson looks to me as an Operation Chaos asset and the government has been known to frame high profile individuals and even kill innocents to further their interests. What is suspicious is the loud and concerted push to execute this individual with the media involved in a well orchestrated and rather slick (sick ) public campaign as we have seen on this web site.
It smells like a set up to:

Silence a voice for peace and unification

A move to silence further investigation on a suspicious trial.

" It smells like a set up to:

Silence a voice for peace and unification

A move to silence further investigation on a suspicious trial."

It may also simply be the demand for justice of a garden variety thug, quadruple murderer, regardless of how many kids' books he wrote.

The slick PR campaign was the one waged to tey and paint this guy as anything other than the murderer he was.

LET US NOT FORGET THAT EVEN THOUGH THIS MAN (MR. WILLIAMS) MAY HAVE RECEIVED FORGIVENESS FOR HIS SINS THAT WE SERVE A JUST GOD AND THERE ARE CONSEQUENCES TO EVERY ACTION. LET US NOT FORGET THE REAL VICTIMS IN THIS SITUATION..................THE FAMILY MEMBERS OF THE SLAIN.

Convicted murderer of four and founder of the notorious Crips gang, Tookie Williams, is gone, executed under the death penalty of the state of California. Now those who protested his conviction, and worked for his clemency, want him to be remembered as a hero.

However, these folks should appreciate that their efforts are undermining any credibility and efficacy that there might have been in the words of remorse that Williams left behind.

The picture they choose to portray, of a justice system hopelessly racist and tilted against blacks, supplies nothing but oxygen to the culture of destruction and violence that sustains the very gangs that Williams supposedly wanted to discourage.

I say "supposedly" because his own words and behavior, up until the end, lend credibility to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's concern that Williams' "redemption" was "hollow."

Redemption, after all, is not a declaration but a transaction. It involves one seeking it and one granting it. The more appropriate word for the one seeking it is penitent. Yet, as I look over Williams' words, I see no reference to repentance but a lot of claims to redemption.

Williams made redemption an entitlement, declaring himself his own redeemer and granting himself his wish.

His defiance _ the defiance that sustains gangs and the culture of "us against them" _ was evident in a final interview that he gave. He said that the redemption that he wanted to be his legacy is "something that I believe is not exclusive just for the so-called sanctimonious, the elitists." Not exactly the sentiments of what one would expect from a humble penitent.

Who exactly are the "elitists" that Williams thought claim redemption as their exclusive territory? Surely, they must be those with the temerity to have suspected his guilt.

So, with irony that he seemed not to appreciate, he sought clemency from a system whose legitimacy he rejected and from authorities who, in his mind, were sanctimonious elitists.

Now Williams' entourage wants to carry forth the message that the problem was not the man, but the system.

Despite eyewitness testimony to one of the murders, witnesses to his confession, ballistic analysis relating the shotgun casing from one of the murders to his shotgun, and 25 years of review after review of the case in state and federal courts, Williams' entourage not only refuses to accept his conviction, but even to recognize that there is a remote chance that justice was done.

A Los Angeles Times journalist touched the central nerve of the controversy, identifying the "dueling goals of redemption and retribution."

These have been opposing strains in the civil-rights movement since the days of the Rev. Martin Luther King.

King's great challenge, and great accomplishment, was to fight the forces of violence and destruction and lead a movement defined by hope and possibility. In addressing this challenge he wrote: "What could I say that could keep them courageous and prepared for positive action and yet devoid of hate and resentment."

King believed in the ideals of America, that racists could be led to repentance, and that equality could be achieved. He spoke of the "magnificent" words of our Constitution and shared his dream that black citizens could share in the freedom that the Founders conceived for all.

The forces that King tried to keep at bay preached nightmares rather than dreams. They saw no hope in America. Their nightmare fed frustration, bred despair and spawned riots and violence.

King wanted equality. They wanted revenge.

The gangs, of which Williams was a founder, and today's hip-hop and "gangsta" culture are offspring of the nightmare. They convey hopelessness and a world without value to black kids. So these kids see no value in learning, work, faithfulness and morality.

Ironically, despite Williams' claim to redemption, and alleged repudiation of the gang culture, the message he has left behind, a message being amplified by his hangers-on, is feeding the nightmare and not the dream. He wanted to be forgiven, but he could not forgive. The result is not a legacy of hope and redemption but one of defiance and despair.

If Williams' folks really believe he was redeemed, and that his primary interest was to save black kids, they must change their tune. Stop trying to transform a deeply flawed man into a cult figure, and start talking about the possibilities in a free country for those who live responsible lives. King believed it, many blacks have achieved it, and it is the only possible hope for a decent future for black children.

Star Parker is President of Coalition on Urban Renewal & Education.

Star Parker
Founder and President
Coalition on Urban Renewal and Education (CURE)

Star Parker is the Founder and President of the Coalition on Urban Renewal and Education (CURE), a non-profit organization facilitating national dialogue on issues of race and poverty in the media, inner city neighborhoods and public policy. Parker was herself previously a single welfare mother in Los Angeles. Today, as a renowned social policy consultant, she gives frequent testimony before the U.S. Congress, and serves as a regular commentator on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News. Parker is an engaging author, whose books include the newly released Uncle Sam's Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves America's Poor and What We Can Do About It.

Book Description
America has two economic systems: capitalism for the rich and socialism for the poor. This double-minded approach seems to keep the poor enslaved to poverty while the rich get richer. Let's face it, despite its $400 billion price tag, welfare isn't working.

This seems to be a fine newspeak edition...
Don’t you mean socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor?

King was not trying to

" Let's face it, despite its $400 billion price tag, welfare isn't working. "

++++And she is telling us the price tag for welfare is $400 Billion.++++
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King wanted equality. They wanted revenge.

The gangs, of which Williams was a founder, and today's hip-hop and "gangsta" culture are offspring of the nightmare."-

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The nightmare was never broken as we see police killings without justice.
Repression and selective enforcement and slanted prosecution.

she is trying to twist the martyr they created into irrelevance.

Yeah, that's right. Haliburton for the rich, and the 98 cents "broke crap from China" stores for the poor.

The upper 25% of wage earners pay almost all of the taxes in this country. I believe it's close to 85% of the load being carried by them.

The lower 50% of wage earners pay something like 18% of federal taxes and that includes payroll (social security) taxes.

Seems to me the rich are the ones being exploited.

Actually the upper 1% of the population has secured its wealth with is 90% of the total wealth of the US. and through trusts, offshore accounts, universities and other such dodges they pay less than their ownership share. They hold huge blocks of stock that control corporations but are under taxed as is the transactions that drain capital away into these hidden accounts.