In honor of the life and times of Chokwe Lumumba, Civil Rights lawyer who has been a legal lifeline in the fight to support and protect personages in the clutches of injustice in this country. Late in his life he achieved a great victory in becoming the Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi before his untimely death this month.
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From: Cathy Harris
Date: Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 11:46 AM
Subject: Fwd: Mayor Chokwe Lumumba of Jackson, Miss Dies at 66 - 2 Artcles
To: Cathy Harris
By now you all know that Chokwe Lumumba is dead. He is now with the ancestors.
He spent his life progressively fighting for Black people. His greatest achievement was being elected mayor of Jackson, Mississippi which is the capitol of Mississippi. His election trumps Obama's selection because for the first time you have a Black Pan Africanist Revolutionary in charge of a major city in the south in the most racist state in the country. That is history. His election was payback for all the evil that them devils in Mississsippi have done to Black people for the past 5 centuries.
The election of a Black Pan Africanist Revolutionary with a history of progressively helping Black people was something these devils could not allow for it would serve as an example to all Black people especially in the south. Imagine if you had a Chokwe Lumumba in charge of Atlanta, a Chokwe Lumumba in charge of Miami, a Chokwe Lumumba in charge of Charlotte, a Chokwe Lumumba in charge of Charleston, Columbia, Nashville, Birmingham, Montgomery, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Little Rock, Dallas, Houston, Austin etc. you are talking real Black Power.
This was something they could definitely not allow which is why they assassinated him with natural causes which they can do because they have the technology to do so. They did not even let him spend 1 year in office. They took him out and took him out very quick. This just illustrates the fear and viciousness of these devils have of true Black people (not Boule kiss ass Black people) coming in charge. I am sure that his death will be compared to the death of Harold Washington of Chicago whom they say too was assassinated.
I hope that the family will have his body exhumed by an independent doctor that they trust for they sure as hell cannot trust the state.
C. Benjamin
CONTINUING COVERAGE: Mayor Lumumba's son just spoke about his father's death
If you missed our live coverage, watch it here: http://bit.ly/1fpMuzA — with Djarius Sykes.
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From: calvin benjamin
Date: Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 8:18 AM
Subject: Mayor Chokwe Lumumba of Jackson, Miss Dies at 66 - 2 Artcles
To: Calvin Benjamin
Please share this with as much Black people that you know.
As stated before, Chokwe dedicated his life to truly fighting for Black people.
Check out the parts in red. You can be certain that they are going to come up with some bullshit excuse to cover up the fact that he was assassinated.
http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/247176421.html
Jackson, Miss., 1st-term Mayor Chokwe Lumumba, attorney and human rights activist, dies at 66
Article by: EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS , Associated Press
Updated: February 26, 2014 - 2:53 AM
JACKSON, Miss. — Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba, a human rights activist and nationally prominent attorney who as city leader persuaded voters to accept a sales tax to fix crumbling infrastructure in Mississippi's capital, died Tuesday. He was 66.
Officials said Lumumba, a Democrat, died at a Jackson hospital. A cause of death wasn't immediately clear.
As an attorney, Lumumba represented Tupac Shakur in cases including one in which the rapper was cleared of aggravated assault in the shootings of two off-duty police officers who were visiting Atlanta from another city when they were wounded. Shakur died in 1996.
In 2011, Lumumba persuaded then-Gov. Haley Barbour to release sisters Jamie Scott and Gladys Scott from a Mississippi prison after they served 16 years for an armed robbery they said they didn't commit. Barbour suspended their life sentences but didn't pardon them.
Lumumba served one term on the Jackson City Council and was sworn in as mayor last July. He persuaded voters to pass a referendum in January to add a 1-cent local sales tax to help pay for improvements to crumbling roads and an aging water and sewer system.
U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Democrat whose district includes most of Jackson, said he has known Lumumba since 1974. "One of the reasons I was so public about my support for the mayor was that I believed once people got to know the real Chokwe Lumumba they would find him to be an extremely bright, caring and humble individual," Thompson saidTuesday. "His election as mayor and very short term in office demonstrated exactly that."
Lumumba is the second Jackson mayor to die in recent years. In June 2009, Mayor Frank Melton died while unsuccessfully seeking re-election in the Democratic primary.
City Council president Charles Tillman has become acting mayor, and the council will set a nonpartisan special election for voters to choose a new mayor.
Lumumba was born in Detroit as Edwin Taliaferro, and changed his name in 1969, when he was in his early 20s. He said he took his new first name from an African tribe that resisted slavery centuries ago and his last name from African independence leader Patrice Lumumba.
He moved to Jackson in 1971 as a human rights activist. He went to law school in Michigan in the mid-1970s and returned to Jackson in 1988.
Lumumba was involved with the Republic of New Afrika in the 1970s and '80s. He said in 2013 that the group had advocated "an independent predominantly black government" in the southeastern United States. Lumumba was vice president of the group during part of his stint. The group also advocated reparations for slavery, and was watched by an FBI counterintelligence operation.
"The provisional government of Republic of New Afrika was always a group that believed in human rights for human beings," Lumumba told The Associated Press in 2013. "I think it has been miscast in many ways. It has never been any kind of racist group or 'hate white' group in any way.... It was a group which was fighting for human rights for black people in this country and at the same time supporting the human rights around the globe."
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/26/us/mayor-chokwe-lumumba-of-jackson-miss-dies-at-66.html?_r=0
Mayor Chokwe Lumumba of Jackson, Miss., Dies at 66
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSFEB. 25, 2014
JACKSON, Miss. — Mayor Chokwe Lumumba, a prominent lawyer and human rights activist who persuaded voters here to accept a sales tax to fix crumbling roads and dated water and sewer systems, died Tuesday, the authorities said. He was 66.
City officials said Mr. Lumumba died at St. Dominic Hospital. A cause of death was not immediately clear, though the City Council president, Charles Tillman, who was sworn in as acting mayor, said he met Monday with Mr. Lumumba, who had a cold. “He kind of joked around about it,” Mr. Tillman said.
Mr. Lumumba served one term on the City Council and was sworn in as mayor last July. He was one of two candidates who defeated then-Mayor Harvey Johnson Jr. in the Democratic primary in early June. He defeated Jonathan Lee, a businessman, in the general election.
As mayor, Mr. Lumumba persuaded voters in this capital city to pass a referendum in January to add a one-cent local sales tax to help pay for improvements to an aging infrastructure.
State law says the Council will set a special election for voters to choose a new mayor. The Council has up to 10 days to meet, then the election must be held 30 to 45 days later.
Mr. Lumumba was born in Detroit as Edwin Taliaferro and changed his name in 1969, when he was in his early 20s. He said he took his new first name from an African tribe that resisted slavery centuries ago and his last name from the African independence leader Patrice Lumumba. He moved to Jackson in 1971. He went to law school in Michigan and returned to Jackson in 1988.
Mr. Lumumba was involved with the Republic of New Afrika in the 1970s and ’80s. He said in 2013 that the group had backed “an independent predominantly black government” in the southeastern United States. Mr. Lumumba was vice president of the group for a time. The group also supported reparations for slavery, and was watched by an F.B.I. counterintelligence operation.
“The provisional government of Republic of New Afrika was always a group that believed in human rights for human beings,” Mr. Lumumba told The Associated Press in a 2013 interview. “I think it has been miscast in many ways. It has never been any kind of racist group or ‘hate white’ group in any way. It was a group which was fighting for human rights for black people in this country and at the same time supporting the human rights around the globe.”
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Please share this with as much Black people that you know.
As stated before, Chokwe dedicated his life to truly fighting for Black people.
Check out the parts in red. You can be certain that they are going to come up with some bullshit excuse to cover up the fact that he was assassinated.
http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/247176421.html
Jackson, Miss., 1st-term Mayor Chokwe Lumumba, attorney and human rights activist, dies at 66
Article by: EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS , Associated Press
Updated: February 26, 2014 - 2:53 AM
JACKSON, Miss. — Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba, a human rights activist and nationally prominent attorney who as city leader persuaded voters to accept a sales tax to fix crumbling infrastructure in Mississippi's capital, died Tuesday. He was 66.
Officials said Lumumba, a Democrat, died at a Jackson hospital. A cause of death wasn't immediately clear.
As an attorney, Lumumba represented Tupac Shakur in cases including one in which the rapper was cleared of aggravated assault in the shootings of two off-duty police officers who were visiting Atlanta from another city when they were wounded. Shakur died in 1996.
In 2011, Lumumba persuaded then-Gov. Haley Barbour to release sisters Jamie Scott and Gladys Scott from a Mississippi prison after they served 16 years for an armed robbery they said they didn't commit. Barbour suspended their life sentences but didn't pardon them.
Lumumba served one term on the Jackson City Council and was sworn in as mayor last July. He persuaded voters to pass a referendum in January to add a 1-cent local sales tax to help pay for improvements to crumbling roads and an aging water and sewer system.
U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Democrat whose district includes most of Jackson, said he has known Lumumba since 1974. "One of the reasons I was so public about my support for the mayor was that I believed once people got to know the real Chokwe Lumumba they would find him to be an extremely bright, caring and humble individual," Thompson saidTuesday. "His election as mayor and very short term in office demonstrated exactly that."
Lumumba is the second Jackson mayor to die in recent years. In June 2009, Mayor Frank Melton died while unsuccessfully seeking re-election in the Democratic primary. City Council president Charles Tillman has become acting mayor, and the council will set a nonpartisan special election for voters to choose a new mayor.
Lumumba was born in Detroit as Edwin Taliaferro, and changed his name in 1969, when he was in his early 20s. He said he took his new first name from an African tribe that resisted slavery centuries ago and his last name from African independence leader Patrice Lumumba.
He moved to Jackson in 1971 as a human rights activist. He went to law school in Michigan in the mid-1970s and returned to Jackson in 1988.
Lumumba was involved with the Republic of New Afrika in the 1970s and '80s. He said in 2013 that the group had advocated "an independent predominantly black government" in the southeastern United States. Lumumba was vice president of the group during part of his stint. The group also advocated reparations for slavery, and was watched by an FBI counterintelligence operation.
"The provisional government of Republic of New Afrika was always a group that believed in human rights for human beings," Lumumba told The Associated Press in 2013. "I think it has been miscast in many ways. It has never been any kind of racist group or 'hate white' group in any way.... It was a group which was fighting for human rights for black people in this country and at the same time supporting the human rights around the globe."
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Are you too one of the ones like myself who is waiting tor history to reveal that two of our most prominent African-American Mayors who might have been perceived to become a threat to society for actually achieving to the highest level, were actually assassinated to prevent their societal success; most likely performed by the same operators who snuffed out the lives of Dr. King, President Kennedy and his brother Robert Kennedy, as well as probably Malcolm X. Even though I had pondered the possibility of this undeserved demise of Mr. Lumumba, I was not alone in my questioning. May their lives be revered and elevated to a place of honor in our universe.
