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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342247" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>If I Was President</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If I was President<br>The first thing I would do<br>is call Mumia Abu-Jamal.<br>No,<br>if I was president<br>the first thing I would do<br>is call Leonard Peltier.<br>No,<br>if I was president<br>the first person I would call<br>is that rascal<br>John Trudell.<br>No,<br>the first person I'd call<br>is that other rascal<br>Dennis Banks.<br>I would also call<br>Alice Walker.<br>I would make a conference call.<br>And I would say this:<br>Yo, you troublemakers,<br>it is time to let all of us<br>out of prison.<br>Pack up your things:<br>Dennis and John,<br>collect Alice Walker<br>If you can find her:<br>In Mendocino, Molokai, Mexico or<br>Gaza,<br>& head out to the prisons<br>where Mumia and Leonard<br>are waiting for you.<br>They will be traveling<br>light.<br>Mumia used to own a lot<br>of papers<br>but they took most of those<br>away from him.<br>Leonard<br>will probably want to drag along<br>some of his<br>canvases.<br>Alice<br>who may well be<br>shopping<br>in New Delhi<br>will no doubt want to<br>dress up for the occasion<br>in a sparkly shalwar kemeez.<br>My next call is going to be<br>to the Cubans<br>all five of them; <br>so stop worrying.<br>For now, you're my fish.<br>I just had this long letter<br>from Alice and she has begged me<br>to put an end<br>to her suffering.<br>What? she said.<br>You think these men are the only ones who suffer<br>when Old Style America locks them up<br>& throws away<br>the key? <br>I can't tell you, she goes on,<br>the changes<br>this viciousness<br>has put me through,<br>and I have had a child to raise<br>& classes to teach<br>& food to buy<br>and just because<br>I'm a poet<br>it doesn't mean<br>I don't have to<br>pay the mortgage<br>or the rent.<br>Yet all these years,<br>nearly thirty or something<br>of them<br>I have been running around<br>the country<br>and the world<br>trying to arouse justice<br>for these men.<br>Tonsillitis<br>hasn't stopped me.<br>Migraine,<br>hasn't stopped me.<br>Lyme disease<br>hasn't stopped me.<br>And why? <br>Because<br>knowing the country<br>that I'm in,<br>as you are destined to learn<br>it too,<br>I know wrong<br>when I see it.<br>If that chair you're sitting in<br>could speak<br>you would have it moved<br>to another room.<br>You would burn it.<br>So, amigos,<br>pack your things.<br>Alice and John and Dennis<br>are on their way.<br>They are bringing prayers from Nilak Butler and Bill Wapepah; <br>they are bringing sweet grass and white sage<br>from Pine Ridge.<br>I am the president<br>at least until the Corporations<br>purchase the next election,<br>and this is what I choose<br>to do<br>on my first day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alice+Walker">Alice Walker</a><div class=q>
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The first thing I would do
is call Mumia Abu-Jamal.
No,
if I was president
the first thing I would do
is call Leonard Peltier.
No,
if I was president
the first person I would call
is that rascal
John Trudell.
No,
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