With the chains and shackles of solitary confinement, barely
able to hold a pen, he would express his heart to humanity. We ask why they have given Ramsey a death sentence
when he has never taken another person’s life.
“History, culture,
and freedom are the most important spiritual gifts from God.”
Cinco De Mayo
For the last 20 years of my life I have been incarcerated in
the federal prisons of America. Every year of my imprisonment, on Cinco de
Mayo, I feel in my “corazon” that it is
my ultimate destiny to share with the world the historical importance of Cinco
de Mayo as it relates to our lives in the past, the present, and the future of
those who will one day read these words that come with pain, suffering, and
imprisonment.
This historical day is one of many events in the history of
our people as we came into existence not only in Mexico, but throughout the
world. Historians have written many volumes and have shared accounts of how
we became the people that we are this very day. That is why it is stated that
people that have no knowledge of their history will forever be in a mode of
oppression, discrimination, and will forever suffer injustice.
On the morning of May 5th, which is known throughout the world
as Cinco De Mayo, the French army ran into resistance by unexpected valiant
Mexican troops at Guadalupe Hill -- a name that I consider spiritual. It was
just outside of Puebla, Mexico. The
majority of our Mexican troops, under the command of General Ignacio Zaragoza
and Porfirio Diaz, were brave barefooted indigenous people from the Zacapoaxtla
Sierra. They held the day, and forced the French to pull back to Cordoba and
Orizaba. This famous battle of Puebla came to be our celebrated Cinco de Mayo.
The last French troops were driven out of Mexico City,
Tenochtitlan, on April of 1867. On this very day of remembrance we share the
same spiritual, cultural power that our heroes maintained. They rose with such
pride and dignity into the region of Huitzilopochtli, god of war/sun, with their
spiritual force of will and power that overcame the impossible and conquered
all barriers.
As we celebrate this most spiritual, cultural, political day
in history, we must continue with the same pride, dignity, courage, and respect
that must be given not only to us here in America, but to our sisters and
brothers in Mexico who set an example for others who seek justice and
liberation.
Even tonight, as I share these words of spiritual wisdom
that come from the depths of my heart, my body and soul are
confined in this 6 x 9 cell. But I stand before you accepting the sorrow,
sadness, grief, sacrifice, and death of our ancestors on Cinco de Mayo, a day
of remembrance. For the last 20 years of this oppressive unjust confinement, I
too stand in the center of all of God’s creation, just as our past ancestors
and heroes did.
I remain balanced in mind, body, and soul in who I am and
have always been. On this day of celebration, I gaze into the sixth sun of
consciousness, as I have awakened from that strange nightmare of ill movements
to the self-realization and acceptance of our spirituality that made Cinco de
Mayo historical.
We continue the process of recreating another page of
history today, tomorrow, and in our future. It is written that one day soon I
shall be free once again and together we shall all celebrate this day of
remembrance.
Tu hermano,
Ramsey Muñiz
www.freeramsey.com
