Hi, One Love, Community.
I am BlackFire Poet-Tree and this is I painful and heartbreaking story on how I was unjustly incarcerated for three years in Mississippi Prison simply because I am from a different culture.
Google my name “Patrick Beadle” relating with Mississippi and you will see how the reputation of a university-educated musician was stripped of his award-winning music career and separated from his loving eight-year-old son Tafari. I am now 49 years old and, before this horrific encounter with unscrupulous law enforcement, had never been to prison. Often fathers are accused of not participating in the lives of their children. Those who know I intimately know that I son is I whole heart, mind, and soul. One juvenile court judge placed on record that I efforts to care for I child is laudable. It is a fact that I would regularly drive over 2000 miles from Grants Pass, Oregon (where I maintained a studio and organic culture store under my music name BlackFire Poet-Tree) all the way to Cincinnati, Ohio, to spend quality time with I son. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. The smile on I son's face was alway worth the grueling journey rain sleet or snow.
Please help I rebuild I business and reestablish I livelihood. BlackFireArt.com
With your economic blessings, I shall erect and maintain a community center for tutoring the youth in math, science, and music. Printing equipment and studip equipment will be needed to properly furnish this endeavour. I will help record young people passionate about music while tutoring those energetic about science.
I have worked since I was eleven years old. By the time I was sixteen I was already taken college courses at The University of Tampa and Research Assistant at Moffit Cancer Research Institute. By the time I was 18 I was Premed at Washington Adventist University and Research Assistant Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. Here I published a peer review paper in malaria and received acceptance in Wright State University Medical School with scholarship. I was the first in I nuclear to receive a College Education.. After immigrating here from Jamaica when I was a small child you can imagine the pressures on I young shoulders to make the family proud. I took a leave to go be with I Grandma in Jamaica who was on an oxygen tank and she needed the warmth of I company and the medicine of laughter before she died. I have no regrets.
Additional Notes:
JIMMIE E. GATES | MISSISSIPPI CLARION LEDGER | December 6, 2020 Wrote an excellent article highlighting the scope of the injustice I face in racist Mississippi with its antiquated laws and Jim Crow practices. The justice system and police force target and prey on unsuspecting Black Motorist from out of town. In Madison County Mississippi the ACLU caught the deputy sheriffs red hand with “reports already partially filled out” when they left the station, where they had noted the arrested individuals will be Black and have committed a traffic violation.
Now I am forced to stay here an additional 5 plus years in a place foreign to I sensibilities of common human decency. Never the less I intend to enroll in University and further I graduate education while reviving I music career.
Mississippi claims the motto “The Birth Place of Music” and I came to pay homage to the Legendary BB King sometime after he had passed away.
There are many laws on the books that are fundamentally immoral and unethical. When you consider laws remember slavery was once legal. And when it comes to the the private and profitable prison industrial complex slavery in many ways is still alive and kicking. Interesting Verifiable Facts Referencing
Police Brutality and Institutional Racism:
1. Police tasered I 9 times point blank range while I was cooperating
2. All white jury conviction
3. Arresting officer admitted lying 3 times under oath
4. Judge still accepted Officer testimony even though the cops own camera showed he was lying
5. Judge told I lawyer he could not tell jury I was College Science Educated, Musician or That I had a medical marijuana card.
6. All these are verifiable facts in court transcripts (this was a legal lynching) many with exact same charge never saw prison time many never even saw a court room.
7. I own private lawyer said it would not even go to court (then after collecting all my money
(he started trying to make deals instead of seeking exoneration)
8. The same Judge who tried and sentenced I was ultimately found guilty of breaking Mississippi Law and retired the same day he sentenced I to prison for multiple years.
”where is the justice. where is the peace we talk about…oh somebody tell me now” — Kymani Marley
“I have to pick myself up and start all over again!” — Peter Tosh
”When they go low we go high!” — Michelle Obama
Thank you very much for your help whether sincere prayers or your economic gifts.
I know the pandemic has hit Us all hard and dollars are hard to come by yet know that I will definitely pay this investment forward.
I will help not only I son Tafari Sellassie Beadle who turned 12 on January 29, 2022; I will also help the young people who are hurting and despondent with no father or mother to guide them. I Music Studio will also be a Tutoring Center for those who are striving academically and just need guidance to reach there potential. In other words I will Return The Love through I Education Ministry text.