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Due to family sickness I have been a bit tardy in my blogging.  However, during this “down time” I have continued to communicate with Wayne Williams on a regular basis.  Wayne is doing fine and is looking forward to the day when he can tell the world, in a proper and acceptable forum, the truth about the murders of the young black children so many years ago.

Reality is that Wayne’s chances of actually having such an opportunity are minimal.  The Atlanta establishment cannot take the chance of such a happening as the truth would bring out facts that were not known during the 1982 trial, facts that were known but hidden and certain witnesses who, for various reasons, have come forward to recant certain portions of their testimony.

Racism is not dead, not by a long shot.  Anyone believing such needs to examine crime statistics.  To do so would bring about the reality that arrests, trial verdicts, prison sentences, and parole determinations are based to a large extent upon the race of the defendant.

The Atlanta child murder as the killer became known needed to be a black man.  He needed to be middle to lower socioeconomic and he needed to “fit the pattern.”  The problem is this “pattern,” to a large degree, came into existence only after Wayne Williams became a suspect.  For this there is no doubt.

Will the truth ever reveal itself?  My prayers that it will, my expectations are just the opposite.  There will be a day, someday, when we shall know the truth and only then will we be totally set free.  Until this time comes we must continue to have faith and maintain hope that the truth will surface sooner than later, that fact will out shine opinion, and that those in positions to bring about change will have the courage to stand up for right, justice, and equality for all.

Wayne Williams is older now, much wiser, and maintains a vigilance that makes me proud to call him my friend.  Wayne’s parents, Homer and Faye, are now dead but “Miss Faye’s” plea that I never forsake her son rings loudly.  I will never forsake Wayne and pray that others will not become complacent toward the injustices within America’s criminal justice system.