I was determined that I would go to the trial although my parents' lives had been threatened. But my family and I were determined that I was going to testify, so I did testify. I was 17 years old, and it was a hard moment in my life. But I knew that somehow, I was going to speak up for Jonathan because he was dead and couldn't speak up for himself.

[Interview found at: http://www.yesmagazine.org/other/pop_print_article.asp?ID=402]

As many of you know, after Ruby began to speak, she has not stopped!

And Tuskegee Institute student Ruby Sales? She taught African American History and African American Women's History at several colleges and universities. For the past five years, she has been involved in organizations working on social and economic issues impacting women and communities lacking resources. And she is currently a student in the masters of divinity program at Jonathan Daniels' other alma mater, Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

[From an article about all the major players on that day http://www.crmvet.org/mem/danielsj.htm]

Here is something Ruby said about 18 months ago:

I want to respond to the question where we go from here when far too many Black people are in the theological and christological grip of white conservative Christians. I want to begin this reflection by deconstructing the notion that religion is a monolith or that Empire Christianity is the same as liberation Christianity.

Liberation Christianity begins with the assertion that God is on the side of the oppressed rather than the side of the Empire. This is the good news of the radical Jew Jesus who challenged the Roman Empire and its Jewish gatekeepers. Jesus made clear the radical nature of his mission: (1) to bring sight to the blind, i.e. to bring a new consciousness that freed his community and others from the false consciousness of identifying with the goals of the Roman Empire. (2) to feed the hungry, i.e. a systemic redistribution of resources that is not charity, but systemic economic justice. (3) to set the prisoners free, i.e. a recognition that the Empire uses law and order as tools of oppression and domination.