Afrosphere's Black Accused Support Groups

The Afrosphear's Black Accused Support Coalition invites you to join them in their fight against injustice in the criminal justice system. Look for the icon in support of the BASC and contact its members.


The Afrosphere invites individuals to join the Afrosphere's Black Accused Support Groups (BASG), which is a national union of the blogs set up for Black people seeking justice from the American criminal (in)justice system.

Black Accused Support Groups blogs are interlinked across America to provide support, lay advice and information to Black accuseds, victims of criminal system injustice, their families, friends and communities. When Blacks demand justice, we speak not as isolated individuals; we speak as "One Nation Under and AfroSpear."

The way to start a local Black Accused Support Group (BASG) within the Afrosphere is to (1) start a Black blog that tells the history of one or more accused Black people. (2)Include within that blog a “Welcome to the Afrosphere” list of Afrosphere blogs, (3) using the AfroSpear icon in the Blog layout to identify this blog as part of the Afrosphere and part of the International Black Accused Support Group Coalition. (4)Advocates who do not know how to start a blog can request help from any member of the Afrosphere and receive immediate assistance and directions for starting a BASG blog.

The issues raised and advocacy raised in these independent BASC blogs will likely receive spontaneous or organized support in the Afrosphere consistent with the compelling nature of the case and the effectiveness of the presentation made in the BASC blog.

Because Afrosphere blogs are independent and spontaneously organized, all Black people have an opportunity to present their case to the nation that there is a Black person wrongly accused or unjustly sentenced.

The BASG’s can be another way to help stop urban violence, uniting the families of warring factions behind the common goal of freeing those community members who have been imprisoned and preventing others who are currently defendants from receiving unjust and excessive convictions and sentences. BASG can advocate for increased funding for alternative sentencing modalities, like drug and alcohol treatment and accused participation in BASG support groups.

Do you know someone who needs BASC help? If so, pass this information to them or their group immediately!

He or she wasn't one of us-Virginia Tech students killer

Cho Seung-Hui

He was not one of us.

The gunman responsible for the massacre at Virginia Tech University, the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, was an Asian male student who lived in a campus dormitory, President Charles Steger said today.

The violence will be blamed on outsiders, foreigners let into this country. Not us, we are uncapable of doing such a thing.

But Field Negro corrects us when he writes about young lives lost in his community, blood everywhere from killings. And we can only say one more body , without action. Where is the outrage? Who said it was okay to have this nihilistic view? Derrick Bell? Death and Killing. Locked up and throw away the key, made me safe in my community? Who said so? Who Eddie writes about unanswered rage and it toil on the human psyche. Dr. Spence reminds how we decide to rally behind those in our community when injured. Bronze Trinity provides us a petition within even the Afrosphear to check ourselves. This is a mission of action.

And that is what Temple 3, tells us. We have got to come out of our goo goo ga ga mode of action. T3 provides us with what we need most in our communities, solutions. Temple writes about succession planning. "D" spot headed toward the brick and mortar that Dr. Spence speaks about, a school of children. Children get ready, he's on his way. Afrosphear, where is our plan for succession? Our youth and not so young are waiting on us to get up and to pass on solutions to this madness living in the United States of America. Conference calls can be made, we need solutions. Katrina has taught us that they are not coming. And we do know who they are, or do we?

I don't want to hear not one more time it was not one of us.

Derek O'Dell, who was shot in the arm, said there was an ``eerie silence'' when the gunman entered his class in Norris Hall. The man wore a black leather jacket with ammunition sleeves inside, jeans

and a maroon hat, the student said.

``He was very methodical. He seemed trained to kill,'' O'Dell said during a broadcast interview. ``He had no anger in him at all; he was very calm -- just determined to kill everybody.

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Cho was one of us. Rest in Peace..all lives lost in violence. I've updated from 9:30 A.M.