Do Black Lives Matter Behind Prison Walls???
Does being convicted of a kkkrime forfeit all your rights as a human being ? Does being railroaded through a clearly unjust, unequal and racist judicial system forfeit your human rights ? Guilty or not I am still a person. I am a human being.
We need people to understand that the struggle for human rights, the struggle to be free and not murdered by the state or its agents doesn't stop at the prison gates. People tend to ignore the Fergusons, the Baltimores and such behind the iron curtain of prison and mass incarceration until it’s a riot, slave revolt or a lucasville that burst onto your T.V evening news programing. People fail to understand that for decades we have fought the foaming at the mouth racist rural prison guard who clutches tight the wooden club or baton as he bashes your head in, or as he grips tight to the dog leash being pulled and yanked by some growling and foaming german shepard that has been trained to bite, maim and kill black.
For decades we have had to organize hunger strikes, demonstrations, file lawsuits, scream, shout to the mountain tops that we are being brutalized behind these walls mentally, physically and spiritually. That we are being destroyed, tore down and rebuilt into psycho-sociopaths. Rebuilt and designed to keep the vicious cycle of catch and release going. To keep the vicious cycle of black and brown bodies parading thru the system like an assembly line. Do black lives matter behind prison walls ?
How is it that a system that has fed on the bodies and corpses of black and brown people in order to keep the kapitalism functioning now be given diplomatic immunity ? Reform ? Really ?? How can slavery and genocide be reformed ? That’s like saying rape can be more kinder and gentler. Thats like saying a black holocaust can be white washed and made humane. Oh I forgot they had to save the ni--as from themselves by murdering them !! We had to save and protect the black community by initially mass incarcerating and murdering its male population and now they have begun to target black / new afrikan women. A best kept secret is that new afrikan women represent one of the fastest growing segments of imprisonment in the country. Yeah they just had to save and protect our community by destroying and undermining the particular family structure, while shooting, choke holding and lynching us under the color of law at every chance they got. Yes people, systematic genocide in the minds of the state and its agents is a cure all to what ails the black community. Mass imprisonment, lack of sufficient or quality health care, no employment or underemployment, failure to treat or prevent curable diseases, the closing down of public schools, hospitals, clinics and a heavy dose of saturation drugs in our community are a cure all to what hurts the black community. You didn't know ? Don’t you find it strange that whatever region of the world that the U.S military find itself in the drugs that are unique to that area finds itself flooding our community? Seriously, DO YOUR RESEARCH.
When the vietnam war was raging and the u.s military was in asia and the golden triangle, herpoin and opium flooded our community . In the 80's when the U.S military was deeply involved in counter insurgency and counter revolutionary activity in south and central amerika you had cocaine and later crack flooding our community . And now the U.S has been in Afganistan and iraq for over a decade and heroin is flooding our community ( and prison ) like it’s the crack epidemic. How much of a coincidence? We charge the United States Government with genocide.
What if I told you that the same drug epidemic that now exist on the streets also exist behind these prison walls. As the physical and mental oppression in prison becomes more and more intense the desire to escape that reality thru drug consumption has become more and more intense. Investigate just how many drug over doses have taken place throughout the I.D.O.C within the past 12- 24 months !! This is despite the fact that in
most institutions 50% or more inmates are on non-contact visits when you can see you family for only 30 minutes thru a glass. When you don't have any jobs or vocational programs, when you can only take bible based college programs and financial aid / funding has been cut out for all other college courses / programming. When you’re locked in a cage 20-23 hours a day and you’re being fed food that isn't even fit for a dog. You have a recipe for disaster for seeking to escape by getting high. People we eat breakfast at 3:30 A.M, lunch at 9:30 / 10:00 A.M and the last meal of the day is 2:30 / 3:00 P.M !! So again i ask you, Do black lives matter behind these prison walls ?! Can I live ?? Can I breathe ?? Can I be treated like a human being ?! --
HELL YEAH OUR LIVES MATTER AND WE ARE GOING TO FIGHT TO MAKE IT SO !!!