Everything in the picture is white —well, almost everything.
Ceiling, with glowing florescent fixtures, walls, even the floor. The clock face is white too, with a white plastic case. Only numbers and hands disrupt the pattern (must, I guess, be able to tell when the appointed time arrives). The frame is white, too, on the window that allows witnesses in the room next door to see what takes place when the appointed time arrives.
The main contrast is the chair itself. It is, you can tell right away, a very special chair, the only one of its kind at the Greenville Correctional Facility in Jarrett, Virginia: an aged-oak color, with dark leather straps— both of which are more likely than the ceiling and walls to match the color of a prisoner fastened there until definitively corrected.
The color of the human hand that, when the appointed time arrived on so many occasions, threw the switch, delivering thereby the requisite correctional jolt, is not public information. But you don’t really
have to know. Just remember: Everything in this picture is white —well, almost everything.
Call out the names of the dead so that we may mourn. Call out the names of the dead.
Call out the names of their killers so that we may rage as we mourn. Call out the names of their killers. Photo by Carl Lawrence
Call out the names of those who march in protest so that we may give thanks as we rage and mourn Call out the names of those who march in protest
Call out the names "Peace," "Justice," "Freedom," "Palestine" so that we may hope as we give thanks, rage, and mourn. Call out the names "Peace," "Justice," "Freedom," "Palestine"
And when the time has come to call out the names of all who remain silent as we are calling out these names let us pray that yours will not be among them.
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