Bro. Dock daka walker-gctid34005

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Thanks to Sistah Q's highly informative weekly radio program (Welcome to D & Q Communications - Articles | News | Media | Online Store), Bro. J'malo (We Are Our Brotha's Keepa) was able to call-in and speak about Bro. Daka Dekua, a prison organizer who was alleged to have been involved in the assault on James Earl Ray, the man charged with the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.  Bro. Daka would welcome your correspondence and is in need of support.

He wrote a brief biography to share with you all, please send him a card or letter of encouragement!
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Greetings,

My name is Daka Adui Dekua, Aka Dock Walker.  I was born on November 22, 1946, on the riverbank of Memphis, TN.  The so called home of the blues, and that's what I had after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  My mother and father are deceased.  I was born as the third child of 11 children; 7 brothers and 3 sisters.  I have three children; 2 sons and a daughter.  As I write these few lines, they all reside in Memphis, TN.

Anyway, my coming to prison was a blessing in many ways, because my behavior before I entered the Kamps was at best criminal minded. But my behavior would soon change. When I walked through the prison gates of the Tennessee State Prison in 1970, I came into the system with a 100-year sentence for one count of armed robbery with a deadly weapon, to wit a pistol.  Wherein no one was hurt or killed in the said robbery.  But what I was unaware of is I was smack in the middle of a social revolution.  My awareness at the time was zero, so I had to do some growing up real fast.

After struggling to get my feet back under me, I was approached by a nationalist.  I was then made aware that just because I had a sentence of 100 years, my life was not over.  I was in a state of depression but these brothers would not allow me to give up on myself.  They introduced me to the works of people like George Jackson, Fanon, Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey, Dr. Ben, etc.  It took some years to get in my head with all of this information, because I had been taught to be an extreme individualist.  I had been brought up the better part of my life to think of me, myself and I.  My real education started the day I entered the Tennessee Prison system.  Once I found that I had been miseducated, I took to reading everything that I could get my hands on.  Eventually, my awareness grew into revolutionary consciousness.  It took me 10 years to make the transformation from the criminal mentality to the revolutionary mentality alluded to by Bro. George Jackson and others.

Following my transformation that empowered me with a new found freedom, I joined with other brothers and began the hard work of attempting to build a free and new Kmt.  Also we held weekly seminars in getting down and taming the paper tiger with overstanding that our goal is always the same: "the creation of an infrastructure capable of fielding a people's army."

Into my eleventh year here, I was charged with assault with intent to commit murder on the person of James Earl Ray, and sentenced to an illegal sentence of 60 years, which I am fighting to this day. As I write this short biography, this other brother and myself are serving life sentences for assault.  An all white jury sentenced us. All blacks were struck from the jury, and sent home and the state proceeded to carry on its legal lynching.

After serving 25 years for armed robbery, I was then paroled to the 60-year sentence.  The state made the sentences run consecutive.  My co-defendant and I would have to do two life sentences back to back.  I now have 160 years and am scheduled to appear before the parole board this year.  Currently, I am a few months away from being incarcerated for 40 years.  Anyway the struggle for life and freedom continues.  We are preparing to take it to the next level.

In order to develop my spirituality I-n-I turn to Rastafari.  Rastafari is a movement of black people who know Kmt as the birthplace of Mankind and the throne of Emperor Haile Selassie I – a 20th Century manifestation of God who has lighted our pathway towards righteousness, and is therefore worthy of reverence.  Rastafari recognize Kmt as the central origin of religious history, culture, science, and technology, as well as the modern day repository of the world's wealth – gold, diamond, oil, and other industrial metals.  Kmt is an emotional magnet for many Kmtyws in the Diaspora, calling us home to a continent from which our ancestors were taken more than 300 years ago.

That call has never been felt more deeply than members of the Rastafari faith.  Rastafari wants Black people to know that we are Kmtyws, and to develop a sense of pride and integrity in ourselves, knowing that our heritage is the noblest of mankind, and that we inferior to no man, or race.

All Black people are Kmtyws, and Kmt is the birthplace of Mankind.  We must re-culture ourselves so we can have a sense of pride in turning from eureurasiaan culture, and taking into ourselves the power of our Kmtyw culture.  Kmt awaits its creators, and Rastafari see I-n-I selves as warriors in the battle for redemption and reconstruction of our Mother Continent.  To accomplish this, we cannot confront the eureurasiaan culture's gun power, and win.  Our only hope is for us to use the mental power of our Kmtyw culture to unite ourselves and overwhelm the eureurasiaan culture wherever it impedes our progress ...

All praises due to Jah,

Daka Adui Dekua
Aka Dock Walker #67550
W.T.S.P.
P.O. Box 1150
Henning, TN  38041