BANDWAGONEERS I’M TALKING TO YOU

Out of all my writings, how many of you can recite the title of one piece I’ve
written without looking it up either on my myspacepage or the Drive site? And
I’m not talking about my super-personal piece dedicated to my Wife, “Whats’
love got to do with it?” I mean and I’m seriously asking y’all, how many can refer
to anything I,veever said that has left an impression on you? Am I that
superficial? Are my thoughts that inconsequential?

I ask these things because anybody who has taken the time out of their
mundane lives to give my words a glance will sense one thing about me, at the
very least I’m a Man, imperfect, striving for perfection, what does this mean?
That men are a dying species amongst boys? I’ll tell you what it doesn’t mean. It
doesn’t mean I’m a prison number, It doesn’t mean I’m a Death Row prisoner. It
means I’m a Man not constricted to these damn bars, concrete and steel that the
system preaches is necessary to encage the beast I never was and never can be
—because I’m a man. “Imperfect striving for perfection, a Man does not exist lest
he is conscious of the principles that dictate his life, allowing the universe to flow
through him, as opposed to him blindly resisting its flow, reinforcing the dictum:.
“A hard head makes a sore ass”

Yes, I’m not talking about donkeys.

I’m talking about men with principles which means a disciplined man. I’m as
disciplined as the samurai, blade slicing through the fabric of time, while
engaged in battle. And I bleed like you do, and will bleed for whatever I believe in
as my physical scars, from years of protest while here on Death row,
demonstrates I’m a man with a mind, no longer a puppet blindly reacting to the
viciss, cudes of life. A man that won’t “mind” if my manhood is not respected.
Not a primitive bet-not-step on-my kicks manhood. No, That’s boyhood
masquerading as manhood. By manhood I mean my essence everything that
makes me who I AM I AM!

So what does all this mean? Well….What do I mean? What is MY damn value?
What da hell do I matter? I know the answers to these questions, but do you
have answers to these questions? No, don’t say “oh, but you’re Gods creation
“or”Thebible says….” If you’re saying this, then shouldn’t you be convincing
Christians to embrace our campaign with something more than lip service?
Besides these typeof responses are too general, maybe you’ll say “well, the
Death penalty is wrong.”To that I will ask why? And if you can’t recite specific
injustices in my case then why are you my “friend”? You don’t know me!
Because if you did then you would know I would have a problem with a person
who says they support someone or is fighting for a cause they don’t understand
or know anything about.

If this is you, what kind of person are you? I’ll answer that for you: The kind of
person that will decide whether you will either keep being the reason why a small
handful of people will continue to carry on their shoulders your part of the load,
or get some more principles.

And I, Omari Huduma, aka Reginald Blanton approve this message!