Sometimes a heart
Is left in suspension
With no one
Worthy of mention
To give it individual purpose
To give it life
Like a close ally
A comrade or wife
Sometimes a heart
Has been so taxed
It yearns for … Read the rest
Are we there yet?
No, not yet
Bet we are somewhere
Though not where
We aim to get
And where is that?
It’s a place where
We won’t be preyed on
Anymore
Lie on anymore
Where we’ll receive
An even … Read the rest
MEMORIALIZING A NEO-NAZI: THE COMMEMORATION OF CHARLIE KIRK (2025) By Kevin "Rashid" Johnson For weeks now, the mainstream U.S. media has been awash with coverage and accolades about Charlie Kirk, a racist ultra-right young fascist who was shot to death… Read the rest
THROUGH COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT VIRGINIA OFFICIALS PROMPT PRISONERS TO VIOLENTLY POLICE EACH OTHER (2025) By Kevin "Rashid" Johnson If anyone needed further confirmation that Virgina's top officials can't be trusted to safely run the state's prisons, their recently created policy of… Read the rest
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN SOUTH CAROLINA LEADS TO SUICIDE AND PSYCHOSIS (2025)
by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
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I recently wrote about the barbaric conditions in South Carolina’s solitary confinement units (euphemistically called “Restrictive Housing Units”). [1] I want now to give … Read the rest
THE NAZIFICATION OF AMERIKA (2025), by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
Amerika is this what you wanted
A neo-Nazi in the white house,
Spewing imperial racist rhetoric
out both sides of his lying white mouth?
No pretending this isn’t fascism
Can’t say … Read the rest
LOST LIVES BETWEEN TEXAS AND GAZA (2025), by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
The Texas floods
were a disaster
The slaughter in Gaza is deliberate
ongoing, much faster
Between Palestine
and the U.S.
Color, nationality and religion
makes their lives worth less… Read the rest
REFLECTIONS ON THE MOVIE “BLINK TWICE” (2025), by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
Reflecting on the movie
“Blink Twice”
A rich white male rape scene
made a paradise
For the victims of this
wicked scheme
Had the women believing
they were living … Read the rest
How does your celebration relate to me?
Confined in a concrete box—can’t hear, can’t see
My life is solitary
How for me is this day honorary?
Or let’s go back to its origin days…
As your forefathers proclaimed freedom, mine … Read the rest
Both the United Nations and Courts all over have recognized that continuous confinement inside a cell for even brief periods is torture and has proven in extensive psychological studies to cause mental illness and organic brain damage.
There has been … Read the rest