San Francisco Chronicle, Thursday, February 1, 2001, headlined, "No Federal Charges For Diallo's Killers." The Justice Department has concluded that they could not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Boss, Carroll, McMellon, and Murphy violated "Diallo's rights to be free from the use of unreasonable force."

Two years after the death of Amadou Diallo, we are constantly told, and shown, that racism is strong within our judicial system, state and government institutions. What will it take for African Americans to gain mutual bonding to fight against the powerful White forces that continue to oppress people of color? When will people of color bind together to denounce the racist establishment and their polices who do not protect the lives of human beings who are not White? (See Amadou Diallo March)

A Chico, California man got ninety days for killing a fellow skier unwillingly, what would his sentence had been had the skier been Black or a person of color?

In 1999, an African was killed, thought to be an armed rapist, standing in front of the building in which he lived. He, Amadou Diallo, was shot at forty-one times, even as he lay on the concrete, with nothing dangerous in his hand, just a wallet. Now the US Justice Department says that was justice. Why does it happens to just African Americans and other people of color? []

Frank Thomas Williams

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