PEACE 2 ALL AFRIKAN PEOPLE & DEATH 2 ALL ENEMIES OF AFRIKA !!!
Yesterday I read that the case against the police officer who murdered Aiyana Jones in Detroit in 2010 was declared a mistrial. Needless to say, the outcome of the trial was only a surprise in that the cop wasn't outright acquitted of all charges. In all my years on this Earth, I can not recall hearing about a police officer ever being convicted of murdering a Black person. This is not to say that it has never happened in the history of the United States, just that it is an incredibly rare occurrence. Some officers have been convicted of lesser charges such as involuntary manslaughter, but not murder. The number of police murders of young Afrikans here in America continues unabated, and real justice is never received. At some point Afrikans have to recognize these murders for what they are & call it like it is. It is part of the war against our children and against Afrikan people in general.
Now I know that statement is inflammatory to say the least, so let's look at the facts. The murder of Black children & adolescents by police officers is only 1 aspect of this war. Black children suffer from the most poverty, they generally attend the worst schools, eat the worst food & often live in the worst neighborhoods. As many know, 70% of Afrikan children are born to single parents. This is not to say that a single parent cant raise a child, but it is not the ideal. It has become obvious after 2 generations of this type of family structure that our communities are becoming completely dysfunctional. If you disagree with this fact, then there is no need to read any further. You are living in an alternate reality.
In light of the previous stats & facts, we must come to the conclusion that the events are not coincidental. The condition of our communities have actually gotten worst with the selection of America's " first Black" president. His unwillingness or inability to even verbally address the problems of Afrikans in America speaks volumes. We get speeches about personal responsibility, while bankers get free money, homosexuals get executive orders written for them, and "Latinos" get a national speaking tour in favor or immigration reform. All of this while Black children die by the hundreds in Mr. Obama's adopted home of Chicago. In that same city, Mr. Obama's former cabinet member decides that closing more schools in the city will help those same children learn better. His example is also being followed in other cities such as Washington DC, Philadelphia & New York City. These school closings overwhelmingly are affecting Afrikan children. We can expect this pattern to continue nationwide, with the excuse being the need for budget cuts because of the sluggish economy.
Another aspect of the War on Afrikan children is the school to prison pipeline. I have seen video in the last couple of years of police officers handcuffing children as young as 6 YEARS OLD. Afrikan children are being suspended and expelled for the smallest infractions. If that's not enough we have "Stop & Frisk" in NYC, where young people are constantly harassed by the police for walking while Black. I have seen reports that other cities considering adopting New York's "Stop & Frisk" tactics. So our children are treated as criminals before school, during school & after school. At what point will Afrikans recognize the signs of an ongoing attack on our youth ? What will it take for us to say enough is enough ? The sad part is that these tactics are just a part of the all out assault on Afrikan children in America. The reality is that these things will continue to take place until we as a people make them stop, BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY !!!
ABIBIFAHODIE'
www.aclu.org/racial-justice/what-school-prison-pipeline
www.nytimes.com/2013/03/12/education/panel-rejects-proposal-to-stop-new-york-city-school-
closings.html?_r=0
www.truth-out.org/news/item/16672-racist-school-closings-in-washington-dc
Showing posts with label #Mass Incarceration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #Mass Incarceration. Show all posts
Friday, June 21, 2013
Thursday, June 6, 2013
THE UNSEEN EFFECTS OF MASS INCARCERATION Pt. 2
PEACE 2 ALL AFRIKAN PEOPLES & DEATH 2 ALL ENEMIES of AFRIKA !!!
The other day I went into the effects of mass incarceration that are rarely discussed or addressed in the Black community. We can no longer expect the larger society to address the problems in our community. To state it as plain as possible, these people don't give a damn about us. Don't let the selection of Mr. Obama confuse you, he is an enemy to Afrikan people. That is a statement that I will expound on at a later date. The point of this post is to continue looking at the unseen problems that mass incarceration has caused in the Black community. I state has caused because the problem began when I was a child & now we are seeing a myriad of negative effects. As I previously stated, it is now a multi-generational problem.
One of the things that occurs when you remove a significant amount of men from a nation is that the women's view of the importance of manhood gets distorted. As more women have grown up without fathers, their feelings about men are shaped though the lens of that experience. The person who should be the first man that she meets essentially abandons her. This sets in motion all types of psychological & emotional reactions that most people will never realize. This fatherly absence is, of course, not limited to women. The greater effect has been on Black boys. A large percentage of Black boys never get to see an example of positive Black manhood. They see manhood through the lens of popular media, like music & movies. These media are totally controlled by the enemies of Black people. They present a view of manhood which is completely against traditional Afrikan ideals. The last two generations of Black males have learned to be predators of Black Women as opposed to being protectors of Black Women.
Mass incarceration & the Drug War on Afrikans have helped to tear the foundation of Black people here in America, the family. Afrikan culture is family-centric unlike European culture. When I say family, I don't mean the definition that has been the American ideal that includes a couple, a child or two & a dog. The Afrikan conception of family includes granparents, uncles, cousins, great aunts & people that have known the family for years & they just get included after a while. In an Afrikan family, you can find yourself virtually adopted by your best friend's family if your not careful. This connectedness has been strained with the absence of large numbers of men. These men often have trouble reconnecting with family & never overcome their experiences in jail. They can become living ghosts.
Another aspect is the economic impact. Large numbers of people are working in jail for slave wages, while their families are struggling. Unemployment in general society is about 7.5% in the general society. In prisons it is absolutely 0%. Every person in jail has a job, just like during Afrikan Enslavement. How much money is missing from our communities when able bodied Black men are working for corporations at slave wages in a prison ? How much more productive could they be if they were able to do those same jobs outside of prison walls ? Privately owned prisons charge prisoners excessive amounts of money for phone privileges. This money comes out of the pockets of their friends & families because they can't earn enough money to even be able to call home. Many incarcerated individuals will tell U that those phone calls are often the only things between them remaining sane & total despair.
To be totally honest, the phenomenon of mass incarceration is simply an instrument of war against Afrikan people here in America. The outcomes are not only known by the ruling elite of this country, but are the outcomes which they desire. The number of babies who aren't born because large numbers of Black Men spend their reproductive years incarcerated is problably as many as 1 or 2 million. Add to that the number of men coming out of these facilities with HIV, and you have an excellent tool to decrease the Black population in America. The simple reality is that mass incarceration is a tool of slow genocide.
ABIBIFAHODIE'
huffingtonpost.com/robert-koehler/a-broken-system-perpetuat_b_3397862.html
thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/11/16/370173/private-prison-five-dollar-per-minute-phone-calls/
The other day I went into the effects of mass incarceration that are rarely discussed or addressed in the Black community. We can no longer expect the larger society to address the problems in our community. To state it as plain as possible, these people don't give a damn about us. Don't let the selection of Mr. Obama confuse you, he is an enemy to Afrikan people. That is a statement that I will expound on at a later date. The point of this post is to continue looking at the unseen problems that mass incarceration has caused in the Black community. I state has caused because the problem began when I was a child & now we are seeing a myriad of negative effects. As I previously stated, it is now a multi-generational problem.
One of the things that occurs when you remove a significant amount of men from a nation is that the women's view of the importance of manhood gets distorted. As more women have grown up without fathers, their feelings about men are shaped though the lens of that experience. The person who should be the first man that she meets essentially abandons her. This sets in motion all types of psychological & emotional reactions that most people will never realize. This fatherly absence is, of course, not limited to women. The greater effect has been on Black boys. A large percentage of Black boys never get to see an example of positive Black manhood. They see manhood through the lens of popular media, like music & movies. These media are totally controlled by the enemies of Black people. They present a view of manhood which is completely against traditional Afrikan ideals. The last two generations of Black males have learned to be predators of Black Women as opposed to being protectors of Black Women.
Mass incarceration & the Drug War on Afrikans have helped to tear the foundation of Black people here in America, the family. Afrikan culture is family-centric unlike European culture. When I say family, I don't mean the definition that has been the American ideal that includes a couple, a child or two & a dog. The Afrikan conception of family includes granparents, uncles, cousins, great aunts & people that have known the family for years & they just get included after a while. In an Afrikan family, you can find yourself virtually adopted by your best friend's family if your not careful. This connectedness has been strained with the absence of large numbers of men. These men often have trouble reconnecting with family & never overcome their experiences in jail. They can become living ghosts.
Another aspect is the economic impact. Large numbers of people are working in jail for slave wages, while their families are struggling. Unemployment in general society is about 7.5% in the general society. In prisons it is absolutely 0%. Every person in jail has a job, just like during Afrikan Enslavement. How much money is missing from our communities when able bodied Black men are working for corporations at slave wages in a prison ? How much more productive could they be if they were able to do those same jobs outside of prison walls ? Privately owned prisons charge prisoners excessive amounts of money for phone privileges. This money comes out of the pockets of their friends & families because they can't earn enough money to even be able to call home. Many incarcerated individuals will tell U that those phone calls are often the only things between them remaining sane & total despair.
To be totally honest, the phenomenon of mass incarceration is simply an instrument of war against Afrikan people here in America. The outcomes are not only known by the ruling elite of this country, but are the outcomes which they desire. The number of babies who aren't born because large numbers of Black Men spend their reproductive years incarcerated is problably as many as 1 or 2 million. Add to that the number of men coming out of these facilities with HIV, and you have an excellent tool to decrease the Black population in America. The simple reality is that mass incarceration is a tool of slow genocide.
ABIBIFAHODIE'
huffingtonpost.com/robert-koehler/a-broken-system-perpetuat_b_3397862.html
thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/11/16/370173/private-prison-five-dollar-per-minute-phone-calls/
Monday, June 3, 2013
THE UNSEEN EFFECTS OF MASS INCARCERATION Pt. 1
PEACE 2 ALL AFRIKAN PEOPLE'S & DEATH 2 ALL ENEMIES of AFRIKA !!!
A Sister that I follow on twitter asked an interesting question last week. She asked what did people think was the cause of the rapid rise of HIV rates in Black women in the last few years. I responded that the mass incarceration of Black Males was at least a part of the cause & she agreed. That short conversation caused me to ponder, what other problems in our communities can be traced back to mass incarceration ? The list of problems got longer the more I thought about it.
Let's take the stat of 70% of Black children being born out of wedlock. With nearly half a million marriage age Black Men incarcerated surely their must be some correlation between these two events. It's fair to assume that at least 20% of these men have children. How many Black Women will marry a man in jail ? A few will, but the percentages are small. Either way, that leaves the children of these Black men in some form of single family home. In fact, some of these men undoubtedly ended up in jail trying to make money in the underground economy to provide 4 these very same children. This is not a new phenomenon, but has been going on since the crack boom of the 1980's.
Mass incarceration has become a multi-generational phenomenon. This has led to an alteration of Black communal culture. Homosexuality of both men & women has become more accepted especially among younger people. The question is how & why. Well, this too is partially an outgrowth of mass incarceration. Jail culture is rampant with homosexuality. Many of the men in jail do not consider themselves "gay" even though they engage in this type of behaviour. What was often overlooked was that many of these men continued this type of activity once they were let out of these institutions. This is the origin of the "downlow" phenomenon of the late 90's & early 2000's. Thousands of Black Men were engaging in homosexual acts while carrying on heterosexual relationships with their wives & girlfriends. Rarely did the wives & girlfriends of these men ever suspect their "Men" were in fact homosexuals.
Another unfortunate outgrowth of the exporting of jail culture into the Black community has been an increase of incidents of pedophilia. This is an unspoken truth. No 1 wants to speak on it in public but U hear about incidents more & more. Few people attribute this to mass incarceration, but let's think about it. A person spends 10 years in an environment where people are systematically raped & assaulted. They receive no counseling to address this issue when they are let out of prison. We know that most pedophiles were abused when they were children, but what about grown men who are raped ? What are the effects on their psyche ? If you will prey on grown men, what stops U from preying on little children ? This is something that definitely needs to be addressed in the Black community. I am not aware of any studies on this issue, so this is merely educated conjecture, however, we should protect our children at all costs. I would advise all single mothers who bring new men into their lives to shield their children until they get to know these men. Our children are too valuable to allow them to become prey to damaged individuals who are being unleashed in our communities.
Abibifahodie'
A Sister that I follow on twitter asked an interesting question last week. She asked what did people think was the cause of the rapid rise of HIV rates in Black women in the last few years. I responded that the mass incarceration of Black Males was at least a part of the cause & she agreed. That short conversation caused me to ponder, what other problems in our communities can be traced back to mass incarceration ? The list of problems got longer the more I thought about it.
Let's take the stat of 70% of Black children being born out of wedlock. With nearly half a million marriage age Black Men incarcerated surely their must be some correlation between these two events. It's fair to assume that at least 20% of these men have children. How many Black Women will marry a man in jail ? A few will, but the percentages are small. Either way, that leaves the children of these Black men in some form of single family home. In fact, some of these men undoubtedly ended up in jail trying to make money in the underground economy to provide 4 these very same children. This is not a new phenomenon, but has been going on since the crack boom of the 1980's.
Mass incarceration has become a multi-generational phenomenon. This has led to an alteration of Black communal culture. Homosexuality of both men & women has become more accepted especially among younger people. The question is how & why. Well, this too is partially an outgrowth of mass incarceration. Jail culture is rampant with homosexuality. Many of the men in jail do not consider themselves "gay" even though they engage in this type of behaviour. What was often overlooked was that many of these men continued this type of activity once they were let out of these institutions. This is the origin of the "downlow" phenomenon of the late 90's & early 2000's. Thousands of Black Men were engaging in homosexual acts while carrying on heterosexual relationships with their wives & girlfriends. Rarely did the wives & girlfriends of these men ever suspect their "Men" were in fact homosexuals.
Another unfortunate outgrowth of the exporting of jail culture into the Black community has been an increase of incidents of pedophilia. This is an unspoken truth. No 1 wants to speak on it in public but U hear about incidents more & more. Few people attribute this to mass incarceration, but let's think about it. A person spends 10 years in an environment where people are systematically raped & assaulted. They receive no counseling to address this issue when they are let out of prison. We know that most pedophiles were abused when they were children, but what about grown men who are raped ? What are the effects on their psyche ? If you will prey on grown men, what stops U from preying on little children ? This is something that definitely needs to be addressed in the Black community. I am not aware of any studies on this issue, so this is merely educated conjecture, however, we should protect our children at all costs. I would advise all single mothers who bring new men into their lives to shield their children until they get to know these men. Our children are too valuable to allow them to become prey to damaged individuals who are being unleashed in our communities.
Abibifahodie'
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