#BTSpeakingOut – A call to brotherhood

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have
known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph. – Haile Selassie

The decency of human rights should not be compromised. It’s the struggle which makes you sharp. We are calling you. With all our goals our very soul. We’re not falling through. The trust in our faith, the tears and our ways is drowning so. We cannot always show it, but don’t doubt love. 

As an activist I am advocating the power of love; this is what matters – empty battlefields, empty prisons, literacy – never destruction. To be righteous is to love and forgive, all oppression is crime. Deep down culture is spirituality which brings you harmony. The struggle for peace is not something unexpected. Of course, you have all the ridicules and hurdles you have to get over in making a community change or positive change, but the hardest thing in intervention is politics; however, with open communication, anything is possible. 

Can we honestly ask someone else to fix this for us? Let the kids go to the market; let them go to school. Can we leave something that we don’t touch indirectly that’s [causing] death to our people? You don’t have to kill each other to protect your neighbourhood; we have the power of thought over these youngsters. They do as we’ve done; now, if we redo this, then that’s what they’ll be doing across this country.  

You and I must unite and get under some divine leadership because without the Good God we don’t have anything. He also admonished the clergy to be careful of condemning gang members to Hell, stating, “Make your hood fall in love with you…become protectors of your hood”. I’m praying along with the rest of us that not another one of our brothers dies at the hands of a
brother and that we stand together in this last hour and we declare unity. By all means necessary.

Ty Ajani