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''I Just Wanna Put the Facts Out There''
3:30PM ET March 31st, 2012
Contributor : Martin James
 Rapper Silkk the Shocker recently discussed his incarcerated brother, rapper C-Murder, the justice system and the Trayvon Martin incident. Silkk shared that he believes that his brother is innocent and compared C-Murder's situation to the Martin shooting in Florida that has captured the nation's attention.
He says his belief in C-Murder isn't based in brotherly bias.
"I’m not a person who talks about this much because I know that people will say, 'Well that’s his brother, of course he thinks he’s innocent,'" Silkk told my-HipHop. "But I don’t think that way, because I personally think that if you guilty you just gotta go do the time. And when my brother [Kevin Miller was shot and killed] I felt like 'Give the person who killed my brother a thousand years.' And if my brother was guilty, give him a thousand years."
"But, what I realized is the same thing as Trayvon [Martin]," he went on. "Stuff gets brushed under the rug so easily. And New Orleans [Police are] bad for this, man. So I know that C is a poster child for the innocent."
"People are rallying behind him because they’re locking up young Black men on a plea bargain," Silkk shared. "Like, if I catch you I’m gonna make this crime stick to you because you don’t have enough money to fight with the system. Then they tell you 'I’ma give you 100 years but I’ll give you 10 years if you plea bargain.' As a man I’ma be like, 'If I’ma lose and get the 100, I might as well plea out and get the ten.'”
"So, what I’m saying to you about my brother is this right here: forget about he’s my brother for a second, what they are doing to him is just wrong," Silkk says. "And the fact of the matter is that they could do it to you or me. I pick you up, I put a whole bunch of witnesses that don’t exist, I get a judge that doesn’t like me, I get 12 white jurors that hate the name C-Murder, and that’s the problem that we have. Forget he’s my brother for a second, I’m fighting more for [this] to be stopped in our community. And that’s why I think [fighting for justice in] the Trayvon case is a must because they are just sweeping stuff up under the rug."
"And it’s not a Black or White thing, but I’m speaking for the Black side of it right now because I’m watching young dudes, 15 years old, getting 30, 40, 50 years and they are literally innocent," he adds. "And that’s what my brother’s situation is."
"Yeah, his name is C-Murder and all that, but the average person doesn’t know how they did him," he says. "How they railroaded him. And I just wanna put the facts out there to where it helps the next person down the line. That’s what it’s really about, man."
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