Are true to our word were told were going to leave there were going to do something about this what were doing and the way we do this is we do all over and we try to end the Death Penalty. But when i went to death row i wasnt arrested i was rescued i would either died then tilled shot or i would have killed somebody because of biker wars back and forth back and forth people killing each other. I went to eleven funerals in the club killed by other other clubs. Then when i got out i didnt talk about it a lot of people go they go right to the press and they Start Talking the media all over stuff i did my head anyone anything to do it i got to get my life and tracked i have to work and i have to start my life over. Along without help. I worked eighteen hours a day i didnt want to talk to people i didnt like Everybody Knows my face so i hid at work i didnt ever give a thought to the other guys i thought i didnt know who is the other guys that were innocent on death row. Are. Ill practice my talking my speech in here are generally watching t. V. With me. I like a politician much like to speak right now i dont. Ive never given the same speech twice never. Get your way whatever the fuck you got. When i was real little we learn how to do it to hear you have a sack on your back or were going to texas so when the minute. Before i was eighteen i was trying there weve been arrested over twenty five to thirty times and i want off among them. I turn eighty. When i remember. Go to your home. And i had. A robbery case that i was probably guilty that. I was convicted of given a five lifesome. And thats when i began to work oh my sap could get changed. And denounce my past and join the Political Movement a Prison Movement and then in nineteen seventy three nov twenty seventh i came as i would refuse a leading up rival for peoples got murdered got killed or whatever and that for the next nine years i had to fight for my life. First of all let me. Say thank each and every one of you all for being here tonight to see im here tonight not because of the system but in spite of. Im here night because you were just like your sister. Got a call. That the time when i was convicted i wanted for trial in my second trial i was going to get it and since it died at center court will be somebody that they say we were here on campus there was black near some of the evidence it was have against miss him he walked in the cookie with his head i would have to try with no more why should i have a loss i treated innocent. Id sure just like i mean curtain you all to stand up against racism you stand up against social injustice to stand up against all forms of injustice and i dont know what all you all are going to school some of you are going to school to be lost but i just want to get one more recipe to your residence. Take up because you dont have to be difficult but take up the call for social justice and i can assure you my for when you take up that cause the structure of justice its called if youre very normal. A better teacher and a better guy a problem with. My name is right my name is Ricky Sanderson take the test i didnt come here to mess with you i just come here to break witness to this and. That i believe in the Death Penalty yes. In some cases you know i did. Yes. I do now because i met too many people that were innocent and were on death row. And almost died. An innocent person. And the reason the way we get the word out and thats the way he is you got to teach her weve got to educate the public to change their mind get a change opinion we always had hope but you know its there i got a calendar on a wall im putting x. s in the squares i know when im going to die basically one time when the cops come fast we walked into the church i was nine days from execution. We said that race or barbers are here and our voice to you that directors remember is one day could be your brother your father your son or your daughter. If you say you cannot bring them back. Youre. Just going to. Im so happy to be here im so honored to be able again to open this meeting and share this time with our family. That this is the first time here. And you know the end is there when its already. At which you do this all the. Day all. Year long their role in your. Death throes a spooky place here. Other people crying at night people killing themselves you want to kill yourself everyone sure that youre a monster everyones positive that youre a monster and you deserve to die. Normal when you use that term not you know its different from your term in the senate but now if youre a good party you know i jury but you got your formula. And we survived you now but you survived thats right you survive thats it thats the way to look at it but we dont were very we were just. This special thing about going to susans was it just being with someone else and been through this it was like the veterans painted meeting they get to talk to each other. Nobody else in the world belongs to this club like they do hundred fifty six of them. And. One of the best part of the gatherings ok is after everythings done and we go up in and we pick some room usually is my room with party we bring cases of beer and liquor and we bring it into the room and were not a camera anymore and we could talk over just exonerates we get together and talk and everything like that were drunk and have a good time people are passed out on the florida smoking dope i mean out the window and we have a good time. I am looked at i mean im. Im but i think about it when we first come together i will say that you know. That. Our knocks out here are far from one part. Of the you know the our. Board out there you know when our there. Have been and far. Nevertheless having taken a. Year to stay thirteen years before we realize that you will say listen you think youre going to kill you on a date than three different than. I remember when i got out at that prison it took me i couldve walked out of the courtroom i do want to go here after eleven years i say go back up to. I couldnt believe i have to be here and i. I have a film i can get from on it definitely will eventually but ill probably have to spend the rest of my life in prison because of where to respond guess me. Excuse me. If i hear you talk a coup or how i was going to treat be treated interview im going to go for a goal or a computer. Who takes it very. He made wonderful friends and and actually did did well for several years and then. He he suffered from from posttraumatic stress disorder. Really seriously dead and he just started have and he started having problems again and then he started on beer and he came here he drank it be like to me one time he was here and the first thing you do is get a beer when he got up in the morning and i said greg you know it seems to me that you have. Youre never completely sober. And he said thats exactly the way i wanted to be. A lot of people when they leave prison they think theyre free theyre don they dont know something horrible followed them off a death row not supposed to manage stress disorder they dont know what it is theyve heard the term they i dont have that im fine i dont feel anything they dont understand all the symptoms at durham you know understand that theyre having nightmares after having flashbacks and stand anxiety attacks the depression is the worst depression is ors thats what basically what drives people to drugs and alcohol one thing and early on he said after he was down there he said now. I want you all to continue your lives and dont worry about me so that carrots. Im here today to talk about my. Great work ive been on great all that. Every time we got together and witness anything we was always happy to see each other. And greg was full of life rick was the greatest speaker in our nation often tease great after hearing him speak. As a great one of the greatest speaker in our division you are the best you look at any. Bad self only grik you respond like. In the last. I would like to say. To you all if by some unfortunate circumstances if you all of the insides of people like me and greg hart. Go. Somewhere i read the most happy is a peoples dont necessarily have the best of things they just make the best of what comes their way happiness comes from struggle the fight to those who have so the most pride is. What i will be based on a forgiven or forgotten because. I am with you and you are with me we are deeply honored that you gave us an opportunity to come in and not to say goodbye but to say i see you later still it. Why. I say when i got my. One. Or are we not white but we here with the black people born in america and we must oppose it and fight that. This is not about and right is not about food were notas about its about the world we make america a better place we go make the world a better path. Book. Chinas property. Fields become cities. Rivers water parks forests. Mostly empty. Yana brings international before the illusion of a thriving metropolis and the mc even in the vulnerable to call me chinese dream a witness documentary at this time on aljazeera Business Update brought to you by karzai a way hes going places together. Business update brought to you by chance are they always going places together. Ok. Whether someone saying. I think its. Doing it you can just. Fly out. 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