| |
that news people will start coming to see the form that you have filled in in your own handwriting, and which you have forced me to sign. But I have signed my own name -- it is not David Washington. And my signature is known all over the world, so there is no way of deceiving.
"And what was the reason that you wanted me to sign under a false name? The only reason could be that, even if you killed me, there would be no trace left of where I disappeared -- my name would not be in your registers, in your forms: I have never entered the jail; David Washington entered the jail. Nobody would suspect that I could be David Washington, and you can release David Washington tomorrow."
Those twelve days were a great experience for many reasons. I could see that what America pretends to the whole world -- that it is a democracy -- is all nonsense, it is a hypocrisy. It is as fascist as any fascist country has been; just the mask is of democracy.
They moved me into five jails in twelve days, and I was surprised to see that there was not a single white man in five jails. Each jail had five hundred people, six hundred people... all black. It was a strange thing. I asked people en masse, "What is the matter? Looking at the jails it seems as if America is a black country, or perhaps no white man commits any crime. Why are all the jails full of black people?"
All are young, and the strangest thing is that they were all arrested just like me, without trial, without any arrest warrant, without being told why they were being arrested. There were people who told me that they had been waiting for nine months in the jails. And they went on being told, "Your trial is coming, your trial is coming" -- and the trial never comes.
This is absolutely against any democratic principles -- punishing a person without proving his crime before a court. Now, for nine months you have already punished a person, and perhaps the court will release him; he has not committed any crime. He is not even aware that he has done anything. I figured out that the reason is not crime, the reason is that young, black people are rebellious, and they have become a danger. So in the name
|
|
|