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Unmasking Amerikan Hypocrisy

By Bro. Khalfani Malik Khaldun

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." —John Emerich Edward

Amerika- the home of the brave, the land of the free. Amerika, in most cases, is said to be a place where anyone can be all they can be. A so-called "land of milk and honey." But is this true? I'm afraid that this is a lie to the oppressed and those who are forced to sell their human worth as laborers. This is a White Supremacists empire who's only concern is not for its people but of its appropriation of wealth through war and murder of innocent men, women, and children and weaker nations. The end result is the rich keep getting richer, while the poor and primarily the New Afrikan "Black" and people of color get sent to prison. This is the reality of that "milk and honey" they're always talking about. Open your eye to the truth and spread the word.

The Myth of Prison Rehabilitation

The Merrrian-Webster Dictionary defines rehabilitation as: (1) To restore a former capacity, rank, or right. (2) To restore to a good condition or health. The U.S. Government, U.S. Judicial System, or the Prison Industrial Complex, all function as extensions that support one another. Poor and disenfranchised minorities are being wharehoused off into prisons all across this vast country at an alarming rate.

The theme of these institutions as they claim are incarcerating the so-called criminal elements, and correct them by rehabilitating them. Prison is a multi-billion dollar business, and any age-early intentions they once may have had to aid in helping a convict change today is outwheighed by the large sums of wealth coming in due to an unlimited assembly line of warm bodies filling up prison beds. Rehabilitation in Amerika is surely a myth, just as their declaration of Democracy. Many of the programs funded today inside U.S. prisons are bankrupt, as it relates to their actual effectiveness and implementation, many of which come with such high criteria or hidden stipulation. Those of us who can actually benefit and transform our lives, in most cases, are never selected, due to our past histories at the arbitray discretion of the prisoncrats.

We are being transferred hundreds of miles from our children, family, and female companions. This is separation, not rehabilitation. We are being prevented from placing ads on the internet in search of new friends and companions. Real rehabilitation wouild allow (all) prisoners unlimited communication with the outside world. Being social and the free exchange of ideas between adults is like medicine that minimizes the agony of isolation. What is wrong with that? Why would the prison system interfere with who you communicate with? Why would they deny you human contact with your fellow convicts or family? Why would they move you so far away from those you love? Why would they create programs that exclude prisoners who desire to participate in them? The answer is obvious: because they are not actually in the business of rehabilitatiing anyone. It's simply all about the Benjamin's Baby.

Funny thing about all this is prinsons is affected by the politics and corruption of the Amerikan government. On a larger scale, the government claims to be rehabiliting or correcting countries like Afghanistan and Iraq by replacing its leadership and putting acceptable heads of state picked by the U.S. to lead them. The truth is this government, just like the Prison System, was/is not concerned with correcting or making things right there. Thier only concern which is not known to the world is to control that region and extract "Black Gold," the oil. The countless number deaths of innocent civilian lives that these wars would cause never crossed George W. Bush' and his lackey's minds. This is the truth. Bush should be held accountable; he is a very powerful criminal. The face of Amerikan White Supremacy.

Reactionary Retaliation

The U.S. government and the Prison Industrial Complex are both reactionary in their very basic nature. Prison and war are ultimately the response of any threats or fear they find to be mounting outside of the security controls. 9/11 and other related issues brought about a revision to be made to the Amerikan Patriot Act. This Act and any revisions to it, amount to their responses to fear.

Repressive techniques and reactionary ideas sparked a prisoncrat movement that gave birth to massive control units all over this country. Now, as a form of prisoncrat fear, they are placing us in these various isolation units, using these units as social control, to supress all forms of rebellion and militancy. They created environments of racist repression, and when violence erupts the prisoncrats seek to punish us, not rehabilitate us, by burying us in deep isolation.

We are forced to tolerate staff, some of whom barely made it out of grade school. I make this observation based on the writing and spelling inadequacies seen on conduct reports filed by those placed in charge of our custody. Many of these prisoncrats have poor communication skills, and lack a professional discipline that it takes to remain objective and professional, no matter what they may encounter. Many of these prisoncrats came from all white communities, and have never been sociable with anybody but their own kind. This fact prevents many white prisoncrats from knowing how to relate and treat New Afrikan prisoners and other prisoners of color with respect. This is one of the greatest causes of racial hostilities between us and them. As we grow and mature, we learn how to endure and tolerate this indifference.

Five years or more is extremely too excessive to be wharehoused in these units. So ask yourselves: if the prison system was trying to help prisoners to better their lives, they then are men languishing for decades with no release date in site? This is not Rehabilitation. It's reactionary retaliation.

Economic Exploitation

U.S. prison labor represents one of the greatest forms of exploitation next to chattle slavery. As noted by prisoner C. Landrum in his excellent essay 'Capitalism and Prisons: Part II,' "the way to extract the greatest quantity of surplus labor 'profit' from the laborer is by increasing the amount of surplus labor (unpaid labor). Prisoners are paid sweat-shop wages for the same hours if not more then workers in society. They're not represented by a union, so the exploitation is to the extreme."

States all over this country are being bombarded by a host of state, federal, and private prisons. The goal is capital, at the expense of blood, sweat, and tears of the captive prisoner as the modern day slave. Despite the greater number in sales from government-operated plantation prison industries, the private prison business remands an expanding economic empire.

Another cash cow that seems to be growing as another economic arm of prison exploitation is the collect call systems operating inside U.S. prison plantations. Many of the families hit strongest here are poor New Afrikans, people of color, and poor whites. These families refuse to be completely cut off from those they love on the inside. That support is costing them a pretty penny. Ohter families have been forced by the poverty of their situation to refuse these calls or have blocks put on their telephones, further isolating and playing a role in the break down of the families of prisoners. That's not rehabilitation.

Prisoner C. Landrum further crystalizes an observation that I agree with. He states: "The conrete material reality is that we prisoners are merely one of the numerous outward manifestations of an essentially outdated and insufficient system that results in the social inequalities that makes a prison system neccessary to protect the stolen riches and privileges of a small but powerful elite and their reactionary beneficiaries- the same profit driven economic system that oppresses and exploits third world people around the globe." The economic exploitation of labor and over priced collect calls tlees me that slavery is still here, it's disguised through prison exploitation. The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution retained the irght to enslave within the confines of prison. Nearly 400 years of chattle slavery was secured and perpetuated by Amendment XIII. Section I states "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime where of the pary shall have been duly convicted, shall exsits within the U.S. or any place subjected to their jurisdiction." Ratified Dec. 6, 1865.

Hidden Racism Unmasked

Prior to and after the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina and the political indifference shown by the Bush Administration, those individuals who have been concealing their racist attitudes are becoming bolder in their open display of racial ignorance. Taking liberties with our women isn't a new idea with the arrogance of White Supremacy. During the history of slavery, slave masters took what they wanted by way of his sexual release from Afrikan female slaves.

When I heard what this white family did to a young New Afrikan woman named Megan Williams, 20 years old, of West Virginia, I was out of my mind. They really dehumanized this young sista, these demented people took liberties over this young sista because they wanted to destroy her innocence. She was, in their blatantly racist and deeply disturbed minds, a slave to be used and abused, then thrown out with the trash. They violated young Megan and they should be served justice by Megan and her family in whatever way they deem just and proper. I don't promote senseless and unwarranted violence, but I do advocate self-defense. When are we going to stop letting people victimize us? When are we going to say enough is enough? Defend yourself; it's not a crime to stop someone from hurting you.

Take the case of the Jena 6. These types of school yard fights occur everyday. Yes, I'm sure there are still alot of white families in Amerika teaching or exspousing racist language in their homes and these attitudes are internalized by their children. So the white children using the "n-word" was no surprise. What was outrageous in this case was the attempted murder charges filed against these six young New Afrikan men. How can you charge the New Afrikan youngsters and simply give school suspensions to the white students, who were involved in hanging nooses from trees at Jena High School in September, a school fire and two fights that involved New Afrikan students being attacked by white males at a local party and at a convenience store.

The statements made by the local D.A. Reed Walters says it all, when he states that, with the stroke of his pen, he could destroy all their lives. This is the same mindset poor people of color are forced to deal with from the police establishment, court system, work establishment, and the prison system. They have that discretion to change our lives forever, in fact they're doing it right now.

Everyone in Amerika, old and young, have a good sense of what the hanging of the nooses represents. Historically, racist mobs of whites that supported and represented the Ku Klux Klan used hanging New Afrikan people by their necks as a form of white man's "justice." One of the Jena 6, Mychal Bell, was released on 45,000 bail to be re-arrested days later on an unrelated charge where he was sanctioned to serve 18 months in prison. They were forced to drop the bogus attempted murder charges, and knew he would be released due to public protest, but managed to send him right back. That is Amerikan justice for you. The 18 month sentence is related to an alleged probation violation.

We have other old, closet racists, like Don Imus who was so comfortable in this country, calling the New Afrikan women of Rutger's Univeristy basketball team a bunch of "jiggaboo's,' wannabees, and "nappy-headed ho's." Another case of this bold racism is the well known comedian who went into a racist tiradeon the stage after being heckled by a New Afrikan audience member. This is way out of control.

Now, just when I thought it couldn't get any worse, CNN just released a story concerning yet another well known white man using the "n-word" to describe his son's girlfriend. Duane "Dog' the Bounty Hunter was openly frusterated that his son was involved with a non-white female. This is on tape; funny how quick these racists are to try and down play what they openly let come out of their mouths. Now he has obviously caused his show to be cut do to his use of the "n-word." In a recent interview with Larry King, Dog claims he was mad and was scrambling to find and process words, so he used "Nigger." Why couldn't he have used "Black girl"?

I didn't like or watch his show anyway, so he will not be missed; that may be an opportunity for a more positive show to fill his slot. I'm simply tired of people thinking we are the poster people for disrespect.

Premeditated Reactionary Murder and the Abuse of Power and Authority

Amerikan police are completely out of control, and it seems they have launched an open season hunt down and kill campaign against people of color. But its focus seems t obe on New Afrikan men in particular. In a recent article printed by Hope Yen (Associated Press) in the October 30, 2007 issue of The Final Call, a study showed that 2,007 suspects died in police custody over a three year period. The study by the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics is the first to do a nationwide compilation of the reasons behind arrest-related deaths in the wake of high profile police assaults or killings involving Abner Louima and Amadou Diallo in New York in the 1990's. The highly populated states of California, Texas, and Florida led the runnings for both police killings and overall arrest-related deaths. Georgia, Maryland, and Montana were not included in this study because they did not submit data. This study also hints towards the fact that most of the police killings of civilians would be considered justified, although it doesn't make that final determination.

The murders continue to occur unabated. Last year in New York, Sean Bell was unarmed, scheduled to be married, when he was murdered by police who claimed he was reaching for a gun. New York now ranks sixth nationwide in the number of police killings, behind Arizona and Illinois, according to this report. There was another case I'd like to mention here. A 14 year old New Afrikan boy was shot in the head by an off duty D.C. Metropolitan police officer on September 17, 2007. The report from the D.C. medical exam shows that this young boy was shot in the back of the head. No gunpowder residue was found, which refutes any claims that the boy fired on officers. Deonte Rawlings, 14 years old, was out-right murdered. They lied in their reports that he shot at them; no weapon was even recovered.

The politics of Amerika and the conflicts in the streets and in the Middle East sometimes compel people to turn a blind eye on U.S. prisons. The police killings all across this country, the loss of innocent lives in Iraq, and the racist attacks on people around the world is impacting our lives in prison. What we saw on the media stations all around this country taking place in prisons like Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, the brutal torture and murder of what they call "enemy combatants," have always been happening right here in the good ol' U.S. of A. This is why when it was revealed that Charles Graner was a pig first at a prison called Sci-Green in Philadelphia before he went to Iraq to work at Abu Ghraib prison I wasn't surprised.

There are two security groups opperating inside Iraq, bands of insensitive mercenaries who are extremely bloodthirsty- Blackwater, and Unity Resources Group. These men are trained assassins, and have killed an untold number of citizens, babies, men, and women. On September 16th, 2007, Blackwater killed 17 people, and are being investigated as we speak about their practices in Iraq. This secretive company is based in Moyock, North Carolina, and does not speak publicly about its operations.

These types of organizationsare operating just like the so-called terrorist groups they are hired to protect people from. Capital is the ultimate objective, and to secure an investment is primary, and protecting the lives of the innocent is secondary. Neither the U.S. government nor any of its allies are genuinely concerned about the liberation of Iraq. Today the U.S. is causing more harm to that region of the world then Osama bin Laden or Saddam Hussein ever could have. It's time for the Amerikan people to remove the veil from their eyes. George W. Bush is responsible for your sons and daughters being sent to the Middle East to die. Will he die for you or your family? I'm afraid not. Yet he wants you to sacrifice your children in a war that was of his own making. There was no justifiable reason to invade Iraq. Look at how many U.S. soldiers have lost their lives, look at how many children have died, look at how much the U.S. is hated around the world.

Soon, the chickens will come home to roost, and I don't want to be on the wrong side where the condemned will reside. Because remember, George W. Bush will not be around to protect you for your foolish loyalty to him and your blind patriotism. The time is now to hold the President accountable.

I am only a prisoner trying to lend my voice in opposition to the obvious hypocrisy of the U.S. government and how it's all tied into the other repressive institutions acting as arms of that one body. The time for playing is over. Stand up now. Self defense in light of imminent danger is justifiable. All Power to the People.

I welcome your outside response to this article or for any dialogue anyone is interested in sharing. I keep my mind sharp by interacting with other revolutionary minded people searching for solutions. So please feel free to write to me directly at the address below. Aluta-Continua.

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