Black people in America have been behind the social, economic and political eight ball ever since the first set of slaves were forcibly transported there from Africa four centuries ago, and a significant portion of them are of Jamaican and Caribbean descent.
Recent reports of the horrific death of Noel Chambers, who spent 40 years in the Jamaican penal system and died without being given a trial, have not escaped their attention.
It is true that when a white police officer kneels in a man’s neck in the US, black people everywhere should be enraged, but that is not the end of the story,” Wilson said.
How can a man be in prison for so long and die without even someone in the prison system realising that this gross injustice was meted out to our black brother?
“While our leaders have maintained for decades that they possess the legal authority to indefinitely imprison persons without a criminal trial, this system is unjust,” the JFJ said in a release.
