King seemingly handicapped the struggle for Black Americans by limiting his educational intake to that which was offered by America's perverse educational system. White institutions programmed him, his ideas, his values, and misgivings of America's capitalist infrastructure. He idealistically and not realistically posited equality. Intoxicated with hope, King sought by means of integration an equality …
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Within prison walls men are held in total isolation. Across the nation there are literally thousands of such prisoners who are kept for years, if not decades, in administrative segregation and Security Housing Units (SHU) and other special isolation units designed to tightly regulate, monitor, and drastically limit, if not eliminate, any physical contact or …
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A few years ago (2010) a Sacramento, California high school teacher was criticized for introducing to her class the lyrical content and poetry of Tupac Shakur. The local news, News10, broadcasted interviews of parents who took offense to their kids studying Tupac in light of his violent deathstyle, lyrics and criminal history. "Hump! The nerve …
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That all men are created equal before the eyes of God and the U.S. Constitution is of little, if any, importance before the eyes of men who measure equality in terms of political and economic power. It is through the educational process that this sort of power is either constructed or deconstructed. ALTHOUGH I HAVE …
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... from privilege to underclass households I had a front-row seat to watch crack cocaine flourish. What was once a rich man's high was now the poor man's destruction. We were ignorant of its affects. The addiction deserves little to no explanation. Yet what does deserve explanation is the Blueprint that transfigured our parental and communal …
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There is no such person as a "criminal" in American society. Only what I am to describe as a dispossessed individual persecuted for his or her indiscretion that is commensurate to the capitalist spirit of this nation. Once defined as "a person with predatory instincts who has not the capital to form a corporation," Howard …
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Knowing that freedom and equality are truly myths and illusions in a capitalist society, I decided one day to prod a fellow prisoner with the question: "What is it going to take to make freedom and equality a reality for Black folk?" With a hint of humor, he responded: "For every Black man the world …
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... the Civil Rights and Black Power movements effectively channeled the aggressive psychological energy pent up in the Black community into a well organized political force that posed a formidable challenge to the existing institution of racism (i.e., the existing order set in place by capitalist). Consequently, this would make the ghetto youth of today subjects …
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Growing up in the South, like Jena 6, in school and in prison it's no different. We have our shade trees and they have theirs. Black rarely mixes with white and vice versa. As for the closet racist that oversaw my formal education, the objective remained the same: Program servitude into the Black masses. And …
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Ivan Kilgore 