Trial of Mumia Abu Jamal

By Bernard Livingston

Black journalist Mumia Abu Jamal,
relentless exposer of the capitalist cabal--
A cop is shot, not certain by whom...
Why not just pin it on Mum?
Who shot the cop is not hard to figure;
got to have been the Nigger.
Police intent on execution,
a sentiment shared by Prosecution.
Coerced witnesses on the stand,
much judicial sleight-of-hand.
Racism was having a ball
in the trial of Mumia Abu Jamal.

Immigrants Sacco and Vanzetti, both on the left:
Italian fighters against U.S. capitalist theft--
Big robbery, murder: culprits elude the cops...
Why not just pin it on those filthy Dago Wops?
Got to be those filthy Wops.
Witnesses saw them licking their chops.
1920's Red Scare at its height,
Ruling Class of Bolshevik fright.
Capitalism sends armies to destroy Soviet Reds;
J.E. Hoover takes over here for the Feds.
Anti-immigrantism was having a ball,
Just as Racism did with Abu Jamal.

Julius & Ethel Rosenberg: Communists and Jews;
U.S. needs pretext for anti-Communist views--
Could Soviets, though putting Man in space, have know-how
for Nukes? Never! Rosenbergs provided the show-how.
Got to have been those Commie Jews:
Commie Jews are unpatriotic down to their shoes.
It's Patriots like Albright whom we like,
even though it's now out that she's a Kike.
Defense Chief Cohen--Cohen? Beyond belief!
Soon we'll be having a Cohen for Nation's Chief.
Anti-Semitism was having a ball,
just as Racism did with Abu Jamal.

But all these myths were punctured by time,
same as the myth of Oswald committed the crime.
Fifty years after being eliminated,
Sacco & Vanzetti were officially vindicated.
Fifty years after the chair, Ethel and Julie,
who were framed by a Government stoolie,
were found guiltless in a mock trial by U.S Bar.
And when the world picked up the news from Reuter's,
Everyone smiled, except the capitalist exploiters.
And the same will apply to Abu,
even though he was not Italian, Communist or Jew.

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