Keep Up the GOOD Fight!

Download or read book Keep Up the GOOD Fight! written by Davon "D" Hall and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We Fall Down but We Get Up!" And Keep up the GOOD Fight! The Coronavirus Pandemic on top of pre-existing social impediments like generational trauma in toxic households in what would be and should be, communities but that have been devastated by violence both self-inflected and manufactured and brought to us- Not By Us - By the United States Government... By the Criminal Justice System have produced many sad stories and a shining but still struggling example of resilience and brilliance. D. Marque Hall FineBlackArt.com, Decarcerate Delaware, Decarcerate America. We must help one another to Decarcerate Our Power by Decarcerating Our Minds and by doing so We Will Decarcerate Our Future from Enslavement, Imprisonment, Spiritual-Marginalization and unjust policies that serve the wealthy few and the lying policy-makers who serve them. I went from my mother being pregnant with me in a prison cell to us being separated to sitting across the table from the President's daughter, Ashley Biden at the Delaware Center for Justice. I went from being locked up in the hole when Obama got elected to getting out and deciding that God was in my corner and I was going to compete to be on Team USA's Olympic Boxing team so that I could win a gold medal and use my platform to speak out like my hero Muhammad Ali. But I was going to stay out of jail (I thought) I went from being the first candidate to run for office in this poor, Black City Council district where I was imprisoned in the Howard R. Young Corrections Prison facility in 2008 to organizing demonstrations and pushing legislators to craft legislation to REFORM this system before the injustice completely destroys everything and we have to build anew and maybe that's exactly what we will still have to do... In 2022, And in 2024, To be Free... We need new leaders to step up to the plate and take a bat to the institutions of exclusion and break away that mess so we can run to that new destiny that we are creating together for our future to just be because we are dying faster than ever and many of us already lost our "everything" in 2020 and even before that... I've lost many loved ones to the healthcare system, to the criminal justice system and to the streets. Some of us have lost our minds to our experiences with pain and brutality, to addiction, to self-hate even to social media and to unhealthy isolationism and selfishness we've mislabeled as self-love. I have been assaulted by the police as an activist. It was captured on video. I was arrested...This isn't just my story, it is ours and I thank God I am still living to be able to share my perspective as a fighter. I didn't resist them with violence but that's what they charged me with. All I did was speak the truth. They lied. We are so good at accepting challenges online- I challenge us to stick together and to support each other by learning about something you will be able to relate to - Buy this book By Me- Davon "D" Marque Hall Community Councilman, Ambassador for Peace, Golden Gloves Champion & Athlete Representative. KEEP UP THE GOOD FIGHT! The word of God says, "Compete in the good fight of faith. Grab hold of eternal life-you were called to it, and you made a good confession of it in the presence of many witnesses."- 1 Timothy 6:12 (CEB)