WHEN A CHILD DIES……..
© ’15 Mumia Abu-Jamal [12/28/15]
![Political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal with son in earlier years.](http://voiceofdetroit.net/wp-content/uploads/Mumia-Abu-Jamal-with-son-294x400.jpg)
Political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal with son in earlier years.
NEWS BREAK: Cleveland officials announce no charges to be filed in the police killing of 12-year old Tamir Rice.
There is something shattering about the death -the killing – of a child.
When a child dies, the natural order is torn; the stars weep, and the earth quakes.
We have become so accustomed to this system that we suppose it is natural, instead of a human imposition. Politicians, in the pocket of so-called police unions, bow before bags of silver, and blink away the death of a child; especially if a Black child.
![Tamir Rice, 12](http://voiceofdetroit.net/wp-content/uploads/Tamir-Rice-1-150x113.jpg)
Tamir Rice, 12
What man-made institution is more precious than a child?
What job?
What so-called profession? What office? What state?
When a child dies, adults don’t deserve to breathe their stolen air.
![Aiyana Jones, 7, dad Charles Jones.](http://voiceofdetroit.net/wp-content/uploads/Aiyana-and-Charles-Jones-bed-1-e1452452555513-150x110.jpg)
Aiyana Jones, 7, dad Charles Jones.
When a child dies, the living must not rest until they have purged the poison that dared harm such a one.
When a child dies, time runs backward and attempts to right such a wrong.
This should inspire movements worldwide, to fight like never before.
![Terrance Kellom, 19](http://voiceofdetroit.net/wp-content/uploads/Terrance-Kellom-with-baby-cropped-twice-1-150x133.jpg)
Terrance Kellom, 19
For something vile has happened before our eyes.
A child has been killed; and in America, because it’s a Black child, it means next to nothing.
–© ’15 maj
![Michaelangelo and Makiah Jackson, 6 and 3](http://voiceofdetroit.net/wp-content/uploads/Michelangelo-and-Makiah-Jackson-1-150x113.jpg)
Michaelangelo and Makiah Jackson, 6 and 3
![Kimoni Davis, 19](http://voiceofdetroit.net/wp-content/uploads/admin-ajax1-5-150x150.jpg)
Kimoni Davis, 19
![Ian May, 18](http://voiceofdetroit.net/wp-content/uploads/Ian-May-4-103x150.jpg)
Ian May, 18
![Lamar Grable, 20](http://voiceofdetroit.net/wp-content/uploads/Lamar-Grable-1-117x150.jpg)
Lamar Grable, 20
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