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This year has been filled with misinformation, in the media that has
been strategically broadcasted to mislead, antagonize and keep people
divided. It is beyond my comprehension to understand how people reason
with themselves to vote for people to office as their representatives
without analysis of what is really going on. All year long the media
broadcasts visible contradictions in everything these representatives
say and do, yet no one questions or holds these representatives
accountable for their actions and inactions.
Movement after movement has arose in opposition to inactions or
actions of government officials, but to what end? or means? These
movements proclaim this and that end or means but without any analysis
of what is really taking place. I see no method for resolving these
contradictions to any prosperous end through any known movement. Our
movement (MIM(Prisons) and associates) are included in my analysis
because of recent dissonance. The Spring 2020 ULK No. 70
publication attempts to demystify MIM’s failures, but has either
forgotten or not published Mao Zedong’s cataloged weaknesses exhibited
by themselves or the lumpen-proletarians as revolutionary soldiers. The
following should be published as strong talking points for future
issues:
The military viewpoint – A tendency to regard fighting as the
only task of the army, avoidance of such political tasks as educating
and organizing the mass of the people, arming ’em and helping ’em to
establish their own political power. Without this fight/politikal work
the whole fight is lost and its meaning and the revolutionary a reason
for existence.
Extreme democracy – Aversion to discipline, each commander and
soldier going their own way in a carefree manner.
Absolute equalitarianism – A demand that everyone be treated
alike regardless of circumstances; meanwhile no one is created
equal.
Subjectivism – Holding opinions and criticisms without a
realistic examination of the facts and without regard for politikal
principle, basing opinions on random talk and wishful thinking; focusing
criticism on minor issues, petty defects and personal quirks. All of
these only lead to mutual suspicion and unprincipled quarreling between
people.
Individualism – Vindictiveness, cliquism, the mercenary
viewpoint; holding oneself responsible to individual leaders rather than
to the revolution as a whole; Hedonism – an urgent desire for personal
comfort and pleasure, longing to leave the hard life of struggle and
find some softer spot.
The idea of roving insurgents
Adventurism – Acting blindly regardless of conditions and the
state of mind of one’s forces; Slack discipline on the one hand but
corporal punishment and the execution of deserters on the other,
attempting to enforce rather than to inspire loyalty to cause.
These are the tenents we need to analyze and play on to prevent any
challenges to our rule before the revolution begins and count on ’em to
disrupt the revolution once it begins!
Amerika declared war on New Afrika, first and foremost by the
murdering of New Afrikan men, women and children and then imprisonment.
Amerika made movies and television shows (the news) to publicly show
other fellow white supremacists in and outside this country her kills
and trophies. This was also to instill fear into the so-called blacks to
not defend oneself from these eminent attacks on us.
Whether we are in these concentration camps or in the free society,
Amerika is murdering us and are using us to Blackface this evil nation
to try and gain freedom, justice, and equality with the Black Lives
Matter movement. But they don’t give no credit to the originators of the
phrase “Freedom, Justice and Equality”, who are those who come from the
Moorish Science and the Nation of Islam.
Black Facing of Amerika is also the browning of Amerika… By the
sexualization of our brothers’ phallus or Mandingo and our sisters’ big
breast and booties, both sexes of the white nation exploit our
reproductive organs for their own survival and our own destruction.
Despite improvements in recent years, New Afrikan males are still more
than 5 times likely to serve long prison terms than white males, and New
Afrikan infants are still 3 times as likely to die than white ones. The
prison is a major location of the control of New Afrikan sexuality and
reproduction, which once took place on the slave plantation.
In The Man-Not, Tommy J. Curry explains,
“Enslaved Blacks were denied manhood and womanhood, they were defined
as beasts of burden whose bodies were used at the discretion of whites.
Violence against the enslaved took no gendered form. It was unbridled
violence against Black bodies where rape was enacted against both
sexes.” (p. 158)
“The prison subsumes the Black male self only as penis and flesh. In
Soul on Ice, Cleaver notes that”the penis, virility, is of the
Body. It is not of the Brain… [I]n the deal which the white man forced
upon the [B]lack man, the [B]lack man was given the Body as his domain.”
Toward the end of the 1960s, Cleaver had already worked out the role
white administrators (in both society and prison) determined for the
Black penis: It was the symbol of pure animalistic brute sexual force,
the criminal rapist beast.” (p. 86)
This imperialist/capitalist nation white-washes us so they can be
able to Black face in a whole new level. We must fight to defend our
minds, our souls, and our bodies; fight to defend our elders, our
children, our men and our women. It’s time to police our own
neighborhoods as the rapper G Herbo said. It’s time to separate from the
United $tates and become New Afrika. It’s time to depend on ourselves
and ourselves only! Stand for what you know is truth or die for the
lie$!
Remain Consciously
Conscience
The Black petty bourgeoisie are in all areas of the socially
oppressed and economically oppressed communities; from churches,
schools, boards of directors, your city councilmen/women and especially
the entertainment business. They’ve taken in these capitalist and
imperialists’ potion (lies) and love the brief ecstasy it brings them.
As a drug addict, you’re induced into a temporary high, and once the
high is gone, you notice that you either need more or you could stop,
but why should these talented Tenth, or house negroes want to become
rehabilitated? They see and hear the truth but being conscious makes
them believe they are in control. So unconscious becomes their mind
state chemically-induced coma, while walking. It becomes almost as
dangerous as their masters’ frame of work!
What is Blackface? It was originally a form of racist comedy put on
by the Europeans in this country. They paint their faces and act as an
ignorant black person. Then they transmutated that ideal and inserted
its ideological substance there in our ancestors’ minds. In which, they
begin to put on the Black face paint and act as ignorant as our captors
did, believing it to be the only way to take back the “joke” from our
oppressors. Sad to say it only amplified their criterion for a stronger
potion (lies) for Us to take! Alchemy at its best.
Now that the chemical has arrived, it is slowly being administered to
our children, or the “colorized people.” The black petty bourgeoisie
begin to release statements such as: ‘You must work hard and not think
about the environment you’re in! That is in order to succeed in life!’
Yet, I see the working class and many are still being feasted on by the
ruling class parasitic capitalism!
We need to weed out these conscious but unconscious in our
communities! For they are the potion of lies waiting to be administered
to our present Brothers of Struggle and Sisters of Struggle (BOS and
SOS) within the United Struggle from Within (USW). We must begin to
insert our truth, the original truth(s) of our ancestors. It is the
first vaccine, so to say, that will cause a chemical reaction to their
lies. Next is where we sit at in these institutions of slavery. We must
re-educate not only oneself, but our Brothers and Sisters of struggle,
where you are currently held captive. Then call out those in our
communities that wear this Black face.
Capitalism and imperialism was born by racism and colonialism, that’s
why socialists and internationalists must be self-determined and head
strong. Words are the deaf, dumb, and blind poison! Its transmutation
becomes one’s actions, habits and then your way to death, self genocide!
Remain consciously conscience.
Black Face of America
It has come to the attention of We, the politically intelligent mason
prisoners of amerika in California, the sudden changes of opinion by
U.S. society and its exploiter nation’s status quo to no longer look
favorably on the social construct of cross dressing, make-up drag or
Halloween costumes done in the fashion of Black face. This narrative
goes to draw a connection to the false information campaigns led by the
bourgeois pop culture executives in order to keep the population of
exploiter nations like the U.S. in a state of false security and
economical privilege as underdeveloped nations around it suffers.
No white man, woman, or child should be caught painting their face
Black - especially those who hope to have a career in social politics.
Question is, when Blackness is not only a state of mind, but also the
substance of which all things are manifested from, including the outer
orbits of space called the Universe, is Blackface really that wrong?
When being Blackface isn’t at all that easily escapable for the
darker shades of humanity, and is actually necessary in the national
suicide process of neo-Nazi defectors and Euro-amerikan/white supporters
of New Afrikan liberation by reparations, repatriation and total
autonomy for all things indigenous to Afrika. And really, who of us
doesn’t want to claim a little Afrika, aka Blackness for ourself?
Facts are that people have been tanning since the beginning of
Egyptian/Summarian civilizations. So why is it currently being blasted
all over capitalist news media broadcasting stations that this Black
facing is a national catastrophe in need of most attention and immediate
gratification?
It’s just that; immediate gratification, something that has very
little to do with solving long-term conflicts in any given phenomenon,
but instead is a diversion in interest of the long-term imperialist
agenda to bourgeoisify the entire world with the capitalist systems of
greed, ignorance and destruction.
Anyway, Halloween and its costume parties aren’t the subject in need
of discussion. What is most needed for the politically inclined to wake
their game up in is the why questions posed by brothers and sisters of
the African National Prisoners Organization (ANPO) and New Afrikan
Shamaan (NAS). Why does the devil call our people black? Or even African
for that matter?
This is a subject that has begun to resurface in prisons, in such a
way that it has been the reason for violent group altercations and
segregated populations, resembling the Jim Crow south. (Jim Crow was a
famous Black face character performed by a white entertainer.)
When Black Face Goes Bad
In California prisons, the segregation issue is at an all time high
because it is a culture that is integrated so deeply amongst the
population that Blacks segregate themselves into groups amongst
themselves. There are those who consider themselves to be
African-American, those who consider themselves Negroes, those who say
they are Black and those who struggle for national independence under a
variety of terms, for example the Asiatic Free Moors and the New
Afrikan.
There is a very real divide between these populations that needs to
be consolidated if it is to be that prisoners as a whole will ever come
together in peace to face the exploiters. Where prisoners as a whole are
made up of several nationalities, that will play a powerful role in a
united effort to overthrow the current prison structures. Every national
population must seriously organize itself in a Community Social
Accountability Regiment to draw the lines between the political divides
within We the oppressed internal semi-colonies of the oppressor nation,
Amerika, if We are to ever get beyond failed hunger strikes and
commissary boycotts. Though the immediate gratifications offer a
temporary relief from the pressures of confinement. We escape to Walt
Disney’s World of mystic illusions, the state department is still
subjecting We all to toxic prison conditions. And as long as We are a
divide between who isn’t Black and the argument that this whole entire
damn planet is Black, We shall remain a population of social rejects,
ignorant to the science of self.
I am sincere and stand by when we say Black lives matter, but I think
we should say and believe that all life matters. I am in a
political/race-driven prison just like in California and Texas. We say
Brown Pride, White Pride, Black Pride, then White Power and Black Power.
We should take all race out of it and be power to the people!
I am 50% Mexican and 50% white and in Juvenile D.O.C. it was mostly
Black and Mexican. My last name is [white-sounding] so I got jumped
every day for years with a couple of the other white kids. If we are to
fight hurt, pain and suffering of being oppressed and rejected. But it’s
hard when we are surrounded by so much hate. I only know my dad on that
side of the family, the Mexican side, hates me and disowns me cuz my mom
and dad was never supposed to happen.
We only admit there’s a problem when it surfaces. I got sprayed by
the cops a couple months ago for no reason, filed my grievance, but
don’t have no help nor know how to take further actions. It sucks that
it takes people to die to get action. …
If each one of us did what was right it would be all good, but you
can’t change the people that want to look at every one else instead of
being a solution. I will be the solution whether anybody is watching cuz
all life matters!
MIM(Prisons) responds: Since the uprisings in
response to the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, we have
received many letters echoing the slogan “All Lives Matter.” Like this
comrade, they are not doing so in opposition to “Black Lives Matter” but
in solidarity based on similar experiences.
We want to commend this comrade for standing with all oppressed
people, and with Black Lives Matter as a movement despite eir experience
being jumped by New Afrikan youths while in juvie. It speaks to the
unity of the oppressed, that ey could see past that experience and not
paint a whole group as eir enemy, when those who have lived much more
privileged lives are quick to paint whole groups based on something they
saw on TV.
In today’s globalized culture it is sometimes hard to have
conversations that are limited to one audience, and as a result other
audiences are often offended.
In case any of our readers are unaware, the phrase “All Lives Matter”
became popular among cops and white nationalists as a rejection of
“Black Lives Matter.” The implication is that “Black Lives Matter”
somehow means Black lives matter more than others, when on the contrary
the slogan was developed by New Afrikans who just wanted their lives to
be given the same respect and value as others, specifically as
euro-Amerikans. The less forgiving implication is that people who say
“All Lives Matter” just want to keep Black lives in a position of less
value.
In contrast to this mainstream narrative, every letter that we’ve got
so far from prisoners who are white or Raza, stating “All Lives Matter”
seem to be coming from a genuine place of respect for all lives. But you
all should know what the implications of the saying can be.
We agree with this comrade that race should not be brought into
politics, as race is a baseless concept. So why do we talk about whites,
and New Afrikans and indigenous and all these other groups of people so
much in our writing? Well, we are talking about nation – a group of
people with a common culture, language, territory and economy. While
integration is greater than previous points in this country’s history,
there are still independent New Afrikan, Chican@ and countless First
Nations within this prisonhouse of nations that is called the United
States. And until these nations are liberated from imperialism, from the
United $tates, there cannot be justice here.
What about euro-Amerikans? In prison, euro-Amerikans will generally
experience life as an oppressed persyn. Certainly there are hierarchies,
and there are white supremacist groups that work with the pigs, etc. But
most of our “white” readers are feeling more oppression than your
average persyn walking down the street in the United $tates. That is why
we see uniting the imprisoned lumpen on a class basis as an important
project that is primary within the prison movement, while recognizing
the national contradiction as primary in this country overall. To
highlight this class unity, we prefer the slogan “Prisoner Lives Matter”
to demonstrate what all of our comrades are facing in the Amerikkkan
gulags, where you can be murdered for nothing like George Floyd was.
On 4 July 2020, 7-year-old Secoriea Turner was fatally shot with her
parents present inside the car which she was shot in.(1) Her death has
been widespread news in Georgia and has been a popular talking point on
the discourse surrounding the oppressed’s action against the
racial/national oppression of the United $tates today.
The scene of the incident was the Wendy’s where Rayshard Brooks was
murdered by the Atlanta Police Department (APD) on 12 June 2020. The
leading narrative of how the shooting went down is that one of the armed
barricaders of the Wendy’s had shot at the car that Secoriea was in.(2)
According to Community
Movement Builders – the Non-Government Organization who called for
building of a “peace center” on the razed down Wendy’s site – there were
threats of white vigilante-type organizations coming to the Wendy’s site
and the local New Afrikan masses armed themselves to honor and defend
the life of Rayshard Brooks.(3)
The Wendy’s barricade was started by the revolutionary spirit of the
New Afrikan masses to defend themselves against amerikan chauvinism and
so-called “white supremacy.” Members and supporters of the armed masses
have burned down the Wendy’s murder site, and graffiti tagged signs of
support for the broad mass movement of New Afrikans against occupying
police and the life of Rayshard Brooks. Because the masses they were
armed; because they received threats of amerikan chauvinist presence;
and because of the APD’s presence in Atlanta, a barricade and check
point was necessary. Tensions were high.
It is not crystal clear as to how it went down at the hour of the
murder of Secoriea Turner, but we do know the broad facts: APD committed
an illegal killing of Rayshard Brooks; amerikan chauvinist elements
threatened to come to the site of Rayshard Brook’s killing; New Afrikans
barricaded and armed themselves from police and amerikan violence; and a
7-year-old New Afrikan child has been murdered among the conflict.
Should Communists
Condemn the Barricade?
When the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) implemented a
campaign of bombings across Great Britain (primarily Northern Ireland)
the masses of the Northern Irish people were tired of the violence from
all sides. Out of the masses the petty-bourgeois/national bourgeois
elements were especially tired. So the current and then would-be
compradors and neo-colonial leaders of the Sinn Fein signed a peace
treaty called the Good Friday agreement, in which they ended up
condemning the so called “terrorists” of the Irish Republican movement
and the violence coming with it.
In the Philippines today, a Protracted People’s War is being waged by
communists organizing the peasants of the countryside. The communists
have often been declared as the number one security threat by the
fascist U.$.-Duterte government, and within the revolution there are
elements of the masses also tired of the violence coming with
revolution. The Communist Party of the Philippines have been active in
calling for a peace deal in past years, but unlike the Sinn Fein of
Northern Ireland which abandoned and condemned armed struggle, they did
not call for the turning in of weapons by the New People’s Army and
instead asked for the killings by the Duterte regime to stop in the
cities and the red base areas of the countryside in which the communists
had a “stronghold” in.
Both of these examples of calling for peace are from far away
countries with different conditions than the ATL, but they are relevant
as ever to the international fight against Neo-colonial tactics of
imperialism. The violence that comes to the masses with revolution and
the contradiction among the people are serious questions communists must
be ready to solve in order to overthrow imperialism.
While we Maoists do see the death of Secoriea Turner as a tragedy and
our hearts and condolences go out to her family and close ones, we do
not agree with the neo-colonial New Afrikan “leaders” actions which have
bulldozed the Wendy’s site and the paternalistic negotiation attitudes
in which these “leaders” dealt with Community Movement Builders.(4) The
comprador-bourgeoisie mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms in fact alluded to the
armed New Afrikans defending Rayshard Brook’s life and legacy as “the
enemy within.”(5)
“We’re fighting the enemy within when we are shooting each other up
in our streets,” said the comprador mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms.
“We’ve had over 75 shootings in the city over the past several
weeks,” said Bottoms. “You can’t blame that on APD [Atlanta Police
Department].”
Maoists do not blame the APD for those 75 specific shootings in the
span of several weeks. But we do blame national oppression, the
pseudo-communists’ inaction in building independent institutions among
oppressed nation communities, and the lumpenization that came with the
so-called “war on drugs” on the 75 shootings. And we take action to
combat national oppression and lumpenization as well.
Going Beyond the Barricade
The failures of the barricade shows the limitations of spontaneity,
and the necessity for an organized and self-reliant people’s institution
designed to serve the people. There are dogmatic revisionist “Marxists”
who claim that the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist theory of an organized
vanguard to lead the people’s struggle and build independent
institutions goes against the writings of Marx. These “Marxists” claim
that capitalism’s decay will naturally rise the people up due to
oppressive conditions. Even in the Third World where proletarians and
peasants are the majority, and with the writings of Marx and Engels on
the Paris Commune, we see that a proletarian power and proletarian state
is needed to overthrow imperialism and preserve socialism. And history
has proved that ultimately, political power grows from the barrel of
guns. Maoists do not condemn the masses desire to defend themselves from
white supremacist and fascist presence, and in fact applaud it. We just
believe that it should be crystallized into a more disciplined focus of
serving the people and building independent political power.
Notes: 1. Atlanta mayor says ‘enough is enough’ after girl
fatally shot near scene of Rayshard Brooks’ death, 6 July 2020, CNN.
2. Ibid. 3. Greyhound, July 2020, Interview With Community Movement
Builders On Their Recent Struggle On the Wendy’s Site, Under Lock and
Key. 4. Atlanta Wendy’s where Rayshard Brooks was killed gets
demolished, 14 July 2020, New York Daily News. 5.
Ibid.
Several weeks ago, Rayshard Brooks – a 27-year-old New Afrikan man –
was murdered by the Atlanta Police Department at a Wendy’s at South
Atlanta. Media reported that armed protestors have set up barricades at
the Wendy’s which by then have been burned down and graffitied up with
support for Rayshard Brooks’s life, the Black Lives Matter movement, and
anti-police messages. On the 4th of July, it was reported that the 7
year old New Afrikan child – Secoriea Turner – had been fatally shot
near the Wendy’s site in a car while with her parents.
Due to the tragic death of
Secoriea Turner, and the violence that heightened at the 4th of July
weekend among the Atlanta masses, Comprador-bourgeois representative
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms declared that the armed New Afrikans must be
vacated from the Wendy’s. From then on, the organization Community
Movement Builders (CMB) stepped in with regards to showing support and
calling for a Peace Site at the Wendy’s. Here is the interview with CMB
leader, Kamau Franklin:
1. The armed protestors in Wendy’s have been occupying the
site since past several weeks. Have these protestors been part of the
Community Movement Builders?
Actually no, these protesters armed and unarmed have been from the
local community. They were inspired to act after the killing of
Mr. Brooks. My understanding is that some protesters provided security
because there were threats of white supremacist coming to the Wendy’s.
We were just getting involved right before the tragic shooting of the
8-year-old girl outside of the Wendy’s. Our understanding is that there
are competing narratives as to what took place. Which does not make the
events any more tragic and has caused the protesters to expand their
vision for the peace center to include the young girl.
2. On Monday of July 14th, there have been protests declaring
to “Take Back the Wendy’s” and calling for a creation of a peace center.
What will the peace center’s role be in the struggle against oppression
and the goals of CMB overall?
The role of the peace center is to make sure that community control
is established over that property and that Wendy’s is not allowed to
rebuild another hamburger chop-shop, but instead something needed and
valuable is established in the community. The center will create
programing against violence and will at the same time highlight the
American role in perpetrating violence on Black people and how we can
stop it from happening. For CMB it is important for us that we continue
to advance the call for liberated territory (places where the community
is in direct democratic control of land, organizations and institutions)
and against the corporate and development class with support from city
officials who continue to treat working class, poor and Black people as
expendable.
3. Mayor Bottoms has declared that the protestors should be
cleared out due to the violence that happened in ATL over the 4th of
July weekend and that she will no longer be “negotiating” with the
protestors. How do you think the actions of “Take Back the Wendy’s” and
the call to build the peace center affected this protocol by the city
government?
Well the city was never negotiating in good faith. The city was
stalling hoping the protesters would go away and or possibly maneuvering
to take back over the space. It seems very disingenuous that Mayor
Bottoms would hold a press conference with Turner’s family but has never
done this is similar cases where people have been killed in senseless
violence. Our goal is to keep the pressure on to force the corporate
owners and the city to have dialogue over the future of this space.
4. A lot of the news media has covered the reports of CMB’s
actions in the Wendy’s site. Has there been any misrepresentation of
what the news media have been reporting? If so, what are some
misconceptions that you would like to clear out regarding CMB and its
actions on the planned peace center?
I think its obvious that the media was looking for violence to break
out and was looking to paint protesters as violent. The idea of
community control over space as opposed to the capitalist private land
grab model is what the corporate media supports and elevates.
Hello - Saludos y Respeto to all those in the struggle, the struggle
is real. I must weigh in on the events unfolding in Southern Califas.
Namely the two lynchings, the first in Palmdale CA, the second in
Victorville CA. What do they have in common? Answer: the Sheriff’s
Department! Both racist! Both departments have a long history of working
together and as a political prisoner held in CDCR these are the same two
departments that joined forces to try and silence my voice and bring
down the AV Brown Berets.
Both Departments have deputies that are card carrying members of the
racist Minute Men, the new KKK. And having shined the spotlight on this
fact earned me a life sentence for crimes I did NOT commit.
And in both cases there is no doubt in my mind there is Departmental
involvement. And nothing can surprise us coming from these two
historically racist departments.
In both cases these were meant to send a message to the BLM movement
against police brutality going across this nation right now, and to
discourage it! The evil and racist regime in Palmdale has a long history
of using these tactics to silence the voice of the PEOPLE. And if they
can’t kill you, they will bury you behind the wall. And this will not
stop until they are made to understand the world is watching and will
hold them responsible and accountable for their actions. But the racism
and prejudice is systemic NOT only in the Sheriff’s Dept. but
also in City Government in the Antelope Valley and Silver Valley (The
Sinister Valleys) to a mind-blowing degree.
My heart goes out to the families, friends, and loved ones of these
latest victims of these Evil Regimes. I spent years of my life trying to
expose the racist and criminal practices of these two partners-in-crime,
it has come at a great cost. My family, my freedom, not to mention all
my worldly possessions but I will NOT stop until justice has
been done, and the Evil has been exposed; because the needs of the many
outweigh the needs of the ONE. In the end the TRUTH ALWAYS comes out! We
must continue to move forward and not be discouraged!
LA LUCHA SIEGE!!! VIVA LA CAUSA!!!
(Justice for Ro Alvin Harsh)
MIM(Prisons) adds: Six lynchings, 5 of them New
Afrikans and one Latino, have been reported on the heels of the recent
uprisings against police terrorism.
Robert Fuller, a 24-year-old, New Afrikan man hung from a tree in
Palmdale, CA is under investigation
Malcolm Harsch a 38-year-old, New Afrikan man hung from a tree in
Victorville, CA has been declared a suicide by police and the
family
Dominique Alexander, a 27-year-old New Afrikan man hung in a
Manhattan park and was ruled a suicide by the police, who later said an
investigation continues
a 17-year-old New Afrikan boy was hung from a tree in Spring, TX
was ruled a suicide by police
a Latino man hung in Houston, TX was also ruled a suicide after
family stated he was suicidal
Otis ‘Titi’ Gulley, 31, a New Afrikan transgender woman hung in a
park in Portland, Oregon was ruled a suicide by police
I am enclosing a memo distributed to the captive population in
response to the uprisings by the Americans’ oppressed New Afrikan
population. It is claimed that their actions are not punitive, but of
course that is clearly not the case. There is evident fear of the latent
power of their oppressed nationalities confined within their prisons, as
can be noted at the end of the first paragraph.
“As you are aware our Nation is facing difficult times as emotions
run high and peaceful protests have turned into violently charged
demonstrations. In an effort to maintain the safety and security of the
institution, a lock down has been initiated. This lock down is not
punitive. … However, we are committed to preventing any type of
disruption from occurring, and I strongly emphasize any type of violent
behavior will never be accepted or tolerated at this facility.”
MIM(Prisons) adds: This action by the federal government reveals
the level of fear that they have right now of the oppressed nations and
the youth in general in this country. Prison officials display the same
hypocrisy as the police on the streets who have responded to peaceful
demonstrations again and again with violence against people for
exhibiting their First Amendment rights. Young people are coming home
from protests permanently disabled. While thousands are being locked up.
As statistics on police murders and violence are gaining interest, we
must ask what about the “peace officers” behind bars? How many have they
killed? How many Black men are dying at the hands of the state where
cell phone cameras are illegal? Where peaceful protests always face
repression and there’s no videos to post online?