Another May 13th goes by and not a peep about the what Philadelphia did to Black people in 1985.
I waited til about noon central standard tie to google the news on the “Move Philly Bombing” and I found six articles. Most black media publications only had old stories or old video recycled but nothing recently shot.
As much as Black youth talk about the bombings in Gaza, Palestine or the West Bank, I would’ve expected more conversations or hashtags what happened to John Africa and our people.
I asked everykid I came across on my way back from Better Family Life to see if their school had even mentioned it today but they said no as well.
I even stopped by a few community meetings and brought it up just to see but you probably already guessed it. Some of the elders didn’t even know about it. Most never heard about it before I brought it up.
Being Bombed By Your Own Government
Many people who lived on the block of the with the Move organizations became victims that night too. One resident who lived at the third house in the photo above recalls hearing the yells from babies and children as the police chopper flew over their head as the flames recked havoc on the Osage home.
However, If you got to almost every public school in Philadelphia or let alone any other public or private school in the United States of America and you would never hear about it there either. How does a community, a black one at that, watch a black family have a bomb dropped on them from a government issued vehicle and not even tell each other about it? It makes you wonder what happened that day.
Well listen to John Africa tell you himself.
Peace,
Tory Russell