Prison Articles

 

    Save our Youth
    By: Herman Averhart-Bey

 
Revolutionary Greetings Comrades. I write these words because of the love and concern that I have for our youth. As I sit here in this cage of steel within the belly of the beast, I am filled with rage and longing to rip the heart out of this nefarious capitalist, imperialist and fascist system of exploitation, oppression and genocide.

Brothers and sisters, holler if you hear me, holler if you feel me, holler for a stop to the random violence and senseless killings of our youth.

Brothers and sisters, our youth are in serious trouble and it is up to us as conscious, progressive, revolutionaries to save them from themselves and from the genocidal plan perpetrated by this nefarious system.

Our youth are our future, our bloodline, our lifeline and continuation of us as a New Afrikan people. But daily our youth and our future existence as a New Afrikan People is slipping away as the blood of our youth, the blood of our future as New Afrikans, is being spilled on the streets, highways, byways, alleyways and ghetto colonies of Amerikkka.

Brothers and sisters, holler if you hear me, holler if you feel me, holler for a stop to the random violence and senseless killings of our youth.

Our very lifeline is being severed as the umbilical cord of our life’s nourishment as New Afrikans in Amerikkka is being cut away from the body of our continuation, which binds us together as one New Afrikan People, one New Afrikan Nation.

Many of my bothers and revolutionary comrades criticize me for rotating amongst the reactionary elements (street nations), but I chose to continue to rotate amongst my unconscious brothers of the street nations because I have not forgotten where I came from.

Yes, brothers and sisters, I come from the streets, and the Black P. Stone Nation out of Chicago. And even though I have become politically, socially and economically conscious and made the transformation from reactionary and counter-revolutionary to that of New Afrikan Revolutionary, I cannot, I will not, I have not and I won’t forget where I come from or denounce or turn my back on where I come from, who I am, or on my brothers and sisters of the street nations. And many of my brothers and revolutionary comrades criticize me and I even times criticize myself, but I strongly and firmly believe that the course I have chosen is one of the surest ways of reaching our reactionary youth of the street nations and bringing them the message of solidarity and unity, to raise their consciousness politically, socially and economically to help them realize their self-worth and to regain their self-pride and to put a stop to the violence and killings.

Brothers and sisters, holler if you hear me, holler if you feel me, holler for a stop to the random violence and senseless killings of our youth.

Brothers and sisters, many of us, also I must say, most of us, come from the streets, as well as from street nations, and we weren’t always conscious, progressive, revolutionaries seeking independence and self-determination, being about the struggle to free the land from capitalist, imperialist and fascist domination. No, brothers and sisters, we weren’t always conscious progressive revolutionaries.

There was a time in our lives when many of us were just as reactionary and counter-revolutionary as our youth are today and in some cases even more so. But many of us, most of us, after having become conscious and making the transformation from reactionary and counter-revolutionary to conscious, progressive revolutionaries, chose to try and forget where we come from, that we come from the streets, that we come from the same street nations.

Brothers and sisters, our youth of today are trying to be like we once were. They’re doing what they saw us do, they’re following in our footsteps, the prints we left during our unconscious reactionary and counter-revolutionary lives.

Brothers and sisters, holler if you hear me, holler if you feel me, holler for a stop to the random violence and senseless killings of our youth.


  Master Plan
  By: Nantambu Lumumba

 
Prisons are a part of a “Master Plan,” that is designed and directed against New Afrikans and people of color. In the 1960’s, in nearly every prison throughout the United States, the New Afrikan population was five, ten or 20%, with the exception of a few southern states, such as Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. Now prisons all over Amerikkka are full of new Afrikans. There has been a diametrical change in the racial make up of the population or prisons, exactly opposite of what it was 25 years ago. Now New Afrikans are 60,70 or even 80 and 90 % of the prison population, totally out of proportion with the percentage of New Afrikans in the general population of society.

Why is this? The starting point to answering this question is the fact that the racist white power structure of this society, who has carefully studied the manufactured nature of New Afrikan people, will so easily and quickly adapt to captivity. For four hundred years in this kkkountry, New Afrikans, our culture, and our physical and psychological behavior patterns, have been put under the microscope, and the power structure has determined that New Afrikan people will so complacently adjust to, accept, and in some cases appreciate prison life.

Prisons have become an enterprise. It is more profitable to have New Afrikans and people of color behind bars, rather than walking the streets, demanding jobs that are reserved for white society. Prisons have become so profitable that many large corporations, such as Goldman Sachs and Company, Prudential Insurance, Smith Barney Shearson Corporation and Merrill Lynch, are investing in prisons. These companies are underwriting prison construction bonds. Westinghouse Electric Company, Minnesota Mining Company, and Alliant Techsystems are adapting and selling their technology to fight crime. It must be recognized that the existing prison system, as a big business, is making people of color and the poor their larges commodity. The reality is that incarceration is not just the exploitation of New Afrikans, but part of the “Master Plan” of complete modern day genocide of Afrikan people.

So, this government (which is the racist white power structure regardless of the color of the skin) initiated legal policies and statutes through legislative acts of Congress, under the disguise of the “War on Drugs” in order to in motion the “Master Plan” that we see at work now (sweeping thousands of young New Afrikan men and women off the streets and into crowded prison kkkamps). The “War on Drugs” has a more compact meaning; it means that the U.S. Constitution, in time of “War,” is suspended.

At one time in the legal history of this kkkountry one could merely prove that his/her constitutional rights were violated and justice would demand that he/she receive redress. But now constitutional violation is not quite enough. There are technicalities involved in the law that makes it almost impossible to receive justice. The whole purpose of prisons nowadays is to isolate, exploit and eliminate by any means necessary.

If we are going to be successful in overcoming obstacles that constantly confront us, we are going to have to start forming united fronts and establish bases of support through which we can collectively support each other and combat enemy aggression.

Those who are reading this article, I’m asking for your help and support to fight in the kkkolonial arena that’s founded on racist politics and white supremacy. I also request that you become involved in or with the prison struggle. Strength is ours and victory is only certain when guided by the people. If there is no resistance to downpression, there will be no progress towards revolution to overthrow Babylon. All power to those who don’t fear freedom! Let’s be up and doing!


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