DON'T LET THEM TAKE OUR HOME

By LUCIOUS CLARENCE CONWAY, JR.

MY DEAR FELLOWS IN THE STRUGGLE:

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While restricted here in the Eagletown, Oklahoma, where I came in October, 2009 to help my
elder brother Paul A. Polk, and to probate my late grandmother, Laura Moore Ayers' (the daughter of
the children of slaves and possibly slaves themselves) estate (In the Matter Of Laura Moore Ayers:
Deceased, Case No.: PB-09-44) I was sued. In November of the same year I found myself being sued
in McCurtain County District Court by one of the wealthiest White men in the the county. Gary Kent
Huffman, and his wife, Jane Huffman sued me for portions of the 23 acres of land at the end of
Mudline Road (Huffman v. Conway, Case No.: cv-09-636). I filed counter-suit for ejectment and
demanded a jury trial. Then in late 2010 I was notified by a White friend and accomplice in Gary Kent
Huffman's attempt to steal the land, Attorney Dan Little, of Madill, Oklahoma, that he had allegedly
purchased portions of the land from distant alleged nephews and nieces of my late grandmother and he
had given Huffman permission to use the land in violation of a court order prohibiting Huffman from
doing so. Little is the 6th attorney hired by Huffman to beat me in court.

While this was occurring my elder brother Paul A. Polk, had been injured on his job at Pilgrim's
Pride Chicken Plant in DeQueen, Arkansas in November of 2008 and almost lost the lower part of his
left leg. Of course Pilgrims Pride fired him while he was still receiving treatment for this injury their
doctor said would never heal and had discontinued all health and death benefits to him. Texas and
Arkansas workers compensation attorneys gave him less than exemplary representation, not even trying
to admit evidence in his favor in his workers compensation claim before the Arkansas Workers
Compensation Commission, even going so far as insisting he accept a settlement of $7500.00 when the
statute states if an employee is denied employment after injury on the job he is entitled to one-years
pay, less any workers compensation benefits received plus any benefits he would have been entitled to
had he been employed that year. Literally, telling him he must take less than the more than $14,000.00
he was entitled to under statute.
Some member of this community and my own family have told me that my presence and work
here is ill-advised. But, my brother, his wife, son, daughter-in-law and two grandchildren live here on
the estate. And, they have and continue to welcome and appreciate my presence here. So, I am in
Eagletown because my family is here and so too is injustice. Borrowing from the Late Rev. Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr.'s letter from a Birmingham jail I add:
"Just as the prophets of the eighth century B.C. left their villages and carried their
'thus saith the Lord' far beyond the boundaries of their home towns, and just as the
Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far
corners of the Greco-Roman world, so am I compelled to carry the gospel of freedom
 beyond my own home town. Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian
call for aid. Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities
and states. I [could not] sit idly by in [Florida] and not be concerned about what
happens in [Eagletown]. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere...
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to
live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside
the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds."
Like Birmingham then, so too is Eagletown now.
"There can be no gainsaying the fact that racial injustice engulfs this community.
[Eagletown's] ugly record of brutality is widely known. Negroes have experienced
grossly unjust treatment in the courts."
Indeed. Gary Kent Huffman telephoned me and called me a nigger. And, a Black man that keeps
company with him told me, in Huffman's presence of course, that I would be found dead on the road of
our property. Huffman then threatened me with legal action and told me that his son Sean Huffman is a
Judge (He is the Traffic Court Judge in Eagletown's sister-city of Broken Bow, and served as one of
Huffman's first four lawyers in his suit against me). Former Governor of Georgia, Roy Barnes said,
"The law should be a shield for the weak and powerless, not a club for the powerful." In Eagletown it
has too long been the latter.
I had no alternative except to engage in litigating these 5 civil actions and my brothers 1
workers' compensation action these last 15 months. Again quoting from Dr. King's letter:
"Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom
eventually manifests itself, and that is what has happened to the American Negro.
Something within has reminded him of his birthright of freedom, and something
without has reminded him that it can be gained. Consciously or unconsciously,
he has been caught up by the Zeitgeist, and with his black brothers of Africa and his
brown and yellow brothers of Asia, South America and the Caribbean, the United
States Negro is moving with a sense of great urgency toward the promised land of
racial justice."
Charles Hamilton Houston, the NAACP's first Special Counsel indicated the need for Black
lawyers in the South because White lawyers cannot be trusted to represent the true interest of Black
people. So, then on my experience and knowledge, I trust no White lawyer here in the South to
represent the true interest of me and my family in this matter. And, there are no Black lawyers, judges,
doctors, nurses, teachers, or county politicians in this community. Today. In 2011!
Like King in his letter wrote, I echo:
"In deep disappointment I have wept over the laxity of the church. But be assured that
my tears have been tears of love. There can be no deep disappointment where there is
not deep love. Yes, I love the church. How could I do otherwise? l am in the rather unique
position of being [a preacher from the age of 13 years. Last January 17, I became 48]...
Yes, I see the church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred
that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists. There was
a time when the church was very powerful in the time when the early Christians rejoiced
at being deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the church was
not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it
was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society. Whenever the early Christians
entered a town, the people in power became disturbed and immediately sought to convict
the Christians for being 'disturbers of the peace' and 'outside agitators'' But the Christians
pressed on, in the conviction that they were "a colony of heaven," called to obey God
rather than man. Small in number, they were big in commitment. They were too God
intoxicated to be 'astronomically intimidated.' By their effort and example they
 brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide. and gladiatorial contests. Things
are different now. So often the contemporary church is a weak, ineffectual voice with
an uncertain sound. So often it is an arch defender of the status quo. Par from being
disturbed by the presence of the church, the power structure of the average community
is consoled by the church's silent and often even vocal sanction of things as they are.
But the judgment of God is upon the church as never before. If today's church does not
recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit
the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for
the twentieth century. Every day I meet young people whose disappointment with the
church has turned into outright disgust. Perhaps I have once again been too optimistic.
Is organized religion too inextricably bound to the status quo to save our nation and
the world? Perhaps I must turn my faith to the inner spiritual church, the church within
the church, as the true ecclesia and the hope of the world. . But even if the church does
not come to the aid of justice, I have no despair about the future. I have no fear about the
outcome of [my] struggle in [Eagletown], even if [my] motives are at present misunderstood.
Before the pilgrims landed at Plymouth, [Blacks] were here. Before the pen of Jefferson
etched the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence across the pages of history,
[Blacks] were here. For more than two centuries our forebears labored in this country
without wages; they made cotton king; they built the homes of their masters while
suffering gross injustice and shameful humiliation-and yet out of a bottomless vitality
they continued to thrive and develop. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not
stop us, the opposition [I] now face will surely fail."
As Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is
no path and leave a trail." The City of Tulsa was founded by Black man, Louis Perryman had acquired
vast land holdings in the Eastern territories of Oklahoma and most cattle drives going east and west had
to pass through his land. He charged a fee and became wealthy. He was forced out during the Civil War.
At one time, the entire State of Oklahoma belonged to Blacks and American Indians as it was given
them by the government as partial payment for the land the government stole from them in Alabama,
Georgia and Florida. When natural gas and oil were discovered Congress illegally took it back. Please
Don't let them take our home. Help me fight for justice. I need ink, paper, postage, gas money, and
internet access and you most desperately as I am in a paper war and ask any lawyer, it is quite
expensive.
I left Florida in 2009 where I lived in an affluent neighborhood, worked for a wealthy woman
and though diagnosed with full blown AIDS in 1994, earned a very decent living. Those who know
where I came from and what I left behind often comment "God had to send you here. No one would
come from Florida to Oklahoma." Obviously, they do not realize what I left does not compare to what I
am fighting to keep...My heritage.
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to help me win justice for my family and by extension yours. Slavery, like the Holocaust must never be
forgotten nor proofs of its demise destroyed.
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Yours for the cause Justice,
Lucious Clarence Conway, Jr.