Martina Davis-Correia, the sister of Troy Davis, has passed on. I remember having the opportunity to hear her speak of her brother’s trail and conviction while she was on the freedom road, attempting to get Troy off death row. Something in her eyes and voice resonated deep within me. This womyn spent the last years of her life, as she battled illness, trying to undo the wrong of this Capitalist system. Moments before Troy was executed I saw Martina get in front of news cameras and declare that “the old South will not rise again”. The pure fierceness and unrelenting passion, which echo’d so many powerful Black womyn in my life, touched me. Her passing is a great loss. Please take some time in your day to remember this womyn. Bourgeois history may forget her, as it does with many of our warriors, but her spirit lives in us. Her life carries in ours and her fight continues with ours. Till the wheels fall off. Till this system falls down. A luta continua!
Our Lives, For Martina
Our lives speak soul afro progression
Music
Pain
Suffering
Whips
Gin joints
Sin joints
Spinners
High tops
Righteous fists
And grits
Cats howling at the moon over broken Colt bottles.
The sweet rhythms of the Delta.
And the rough ones in the boogie.
Shake shacks and the state hunting us.
They speak of a justice not yet seen.
And imprisonment behind red, blue and white bars.
Our lives speak Black.
And sister, our lives speak you.
Selfless and bold.
Forever pressure put on coal.
May your life be light
and your words be felt.
Our lives speak you.
