Fighting TB Exposure and Medical Neglect in Texas

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Fighting TB Exposure and Medical Neglect in Texas

I did receive your 2 page legal packet a while back and am very disappointed that none of the legal packets I’ve requested were sent to me. Your small packet is correct and I know it but I still need the things requested. I also need the name and address (again) in which I am to send donations to. It’s wiser to put that into in everything you produce off the rip. I’ve been suffering retaliations that have consisted of depriving me of my property for the sole purpose of destruction so don’t waste time, please, with your actions.

You people talk about being down with our struggle, which is real, and I thank you for actually being a part of the struggle. My struggle has changed for the worse as the prison officials conspired with medical staff to expose me to a prisoner who had active tuberculosis in which I’ve contracted the air borne disease. As a retaliation, I’ve been neglected medically due to my legal position and advocacy. This shit’s real down here in Texas. I’m suffering any and every retaliative adverse action you can think of, from staff placing gang hits on me an attempting to bring gang members contraband as they’ve duly attempted to orchestrate the hit or allowing it to take place, to seizures of my property for the purpose of deprivation and destruction, to exposing me to tuberculosis infected prisoners whom I’ve contracted the air borne disease from, to medically neglecting to treat me as a “TB” carrier which is causing my symptoms to worsen due to medical neglect as a conspired action to punish me.

I have been advised by numerous staff and medical personnel that if I will drop my lawsuit and stop filing grievances, I will be given medical treatment, and IF I continue to file legal work (lawsuits and grievances), I will be left to die in this prison system as they will continue to deny me medical care or treatment. This shit’s Real Comrades. This ain’t no Game!! My Life is targeted and I’m (still) fighting but I need (Real) distance not just talk of assistance or advocacy. I’m a good standing member of the “Texas Prison Justice League” for over 2 years now and they ain’t allowing me to participate in any of the ongoing programs as many “white offenders” are allowed to participate in.

I’m the same exact kind of Black Man 2Pac Shakur was so “still I rise” in my struggle, but I need Real help cuz, not just fancy intros. Real talk! Breeds correct revolutionary actions.

I need your newly upgraded version of the (Texas grievance packet) cause my property was destroyed. I need every piece of legal material I’ve priorly requested. I need real contacts to serious contacts whom will contact me back and help me right now. Fuck ACLU and NAACP cause they are bullshitters whom just talk and they are money hungry and don’t care. My life is on the line literally and I need the name of the guy whom filed the lawsuit against Connelly Unit, concerning rec denials in which y’all advertise in Under Lock & Key March/April 2016, No. 49 because I’m now on Connally Unit being retaliated on and I need more info on what kind of unit I’m dealing with. I have Black Panther running through my bloodline so my fight is more than meaningful and more than personal.

I’d like to join his lawsuit and push it to a class action to add the inadequate medical care system and the failure to protect from prisoner on prisoner assaults and staff assault which I’m currently experiencing. I’d like to help the prisoner step his legal skill up. He’s wasting valuable time, wasting paper and effort and with 10 or 8 more civil rights groups who (say) they are about that life, when they really aren’t. I can show him what he needs to do is file a writ of mandamus after he amends his complaint and adds regional directors and executive director Brad Livingston and file an injunction order against them two added parties. He’s taken the steps to file the civil suit, but he needs a little help pushing it. Concerning these matters, “We are walking alone”!!

Comrades, I’m coughing and having severe night sweats because of the tuberculosis that is not being treated, so don’t waste time with delays. My life is important and my life is on the line every single day as I live this struggle that all of you talk about thing down with. If you could see my struggles live a lot of you would cry in tears because the system I’m fighting is so, so fucked up and is nothing close to rehabilitations.

I’ve watched many, many comrades fall off and give up due to retaliations and racist influences. I fear no man!!, and I don’t just advocate for me alone. I’m about my money, but I ain’t got the money yet, nor change, so I keep going harder. I don’t have shit!! No pen pal, no support system, no money. However, I do have the heart of a lion, the mind of a fox and the character of a kind. I need (real help). I also need all of the legal things I’ve requested in order to keep my fight alive. I’m not attempting to be rude, but I am real.

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