WHAT IS A PIG? (2022)
Whenever the people try to get you off our back,
You pretend you’re the victim of an unprovoked attack.
The pig is a foul traducer
It was Huey P. Newton who introduced the
Term
So the people could learn
To … Read the rest
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Kevin Rashid Johnson
A DIALOG OF MISLEADERS
Black power!
Solidarity!
All power!
Man, we need talk about
‘DAT NIGGA.’
Yeah, his pen
got a blade for a point,
n’ he
keep cuttin’ mufuckers!
What’s YOUR point?
He s’posed to
criticize the system,
but like Hubert Harrison
he … Read the rest
MY NAME IS REVOLUTION
I reach the world
Borders and checkpoints
can’t impede
my seeds
I make flags unfurl
arm little girls
against your preying
not praying
so you can lay in wait
Teach them freedom songs
for THIS world
No need to wait… Read the rest
WHY WOULD MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS LIE? MY DENIED CANCER TREATMENT BECOMES MORE SINISTER (2022), by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
A RECAP OF MY DENIED TREATMENT
As those who have been following my situation of denied cancer treatment know, Virginia prison officials have known from blood tests taken over a year ago that I have had prostate cancer at least … Read the rest
MEDICAL CARE AS A POLITICAL WEAPON: REFLECTIONS ON FRANTZ FANON’S TREATMENT AND DEATH FROM CANCER IN AMERIKA (2022), By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
As I continue to endure worsening complications from prostate cancer and denied treatment by U.S. prison officials, which has gone on for over a year, I’m reminded of Frantz Fanon’s own death from leukemia, and how the U.S government provided … Read the rest
THE ADVERTISING INDUSTRY: PERPETUATING WAGE SLAVERY AND MANUFACTURING ARTIFICIAL DESIRES (PAGES FROM THE “PIG PLAYBOOK”: READING #3) (2022), by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
INTRODUCTION
Wage labor is slavery. To illustrate the point, let’s compare chattel slavery and wage labor.
The point of chattel slavery, which was an economic system, was to exploit the labor power of the slaves for the ‘owner’s’ profit. Capitalism, … Read the rest
RETALIATION FOR LITIGATION: VIRGINIA TARGETS PRISONERS SUING AGAINST SOLITARY CONFINEMENT (2022), by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
SOLITARY TORTURE IN VIRGINIA
In 2011 the United Nations declared solitary confinement to be torture and that it should not be used for longer than two weeks. The next year I was transferred out of state after spending 18 years
Isolation As ‘Rehabilitation’: Amerika’s Inhumane Prisons and A Case of the Terminally Ill Left to Die Alone (2022), by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
SAYING GOODBYE TO FLIP
Aug 25, 2022 was a sad day for many of us here at Virginia’s Nottoway Correctional (sic!) Center. It was the day that Shawn “Flip” Joyner was abruptly transferred to another prison.
Those of us in … Read the rest
U.S. Officials Devise to Murder Political Prisoners by Medical Neglect: My Continued Denial of Cancer Care (2022) By Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
Since receiving a recent diagnosis of prostate cancer I have received an outpouring of love and support from many individuals, and organizations and their supporters, including the Panther Solidarity Organization, the Revolutionary Intercommunal Black Panther Party, the Third World People’s … Read the rest
My Cancer Diagnosis and the Disease of Denied Prison Medical Care (2022), by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
On July 1, 2022 I was informed by a prison doctor here at Virginia’s Nottoway Correctional (sic!) Center (NCC) that I had tested positive for prostate cancer.
This diagnosis came after I had been left for months by NCC medical … Read the rest