The thing with invented
Professions
Are it’s self proclaimed professionals
Are in possession
Of all the made up credentials
That are essential
To inventing false social afflictions
Then prescribing treatments
That cause bad conditions like drug addictions
Treatments that help … Read the rest
On March 23, 2023 the Virginia legislature passed a new law restricting the use and duration of solitary confinement in the state’s prisons. (1) This law was enacted in response to years of public protest against Virginia’s … Read the rest
first shelter
night of growth
from gestation
comes youth
cycle of life
first begun
two forms
joined
to one
from a pool
dark in form
emitted to light
newly born
a gift to a world
torn by strife
oblivious to … Read the rest
… Read the rest”Our point of departure is to serve the people wholeheartedly and never for a moment divorce ourselves from the masses, to proceed in all cases from the interests of the people and not from one’s own self-interest or from the
BLACK WOMAN AND MAN UNITED (2024)
by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson
Who’s been the key to
Our survival
Since our arrival
On western shores
In scores
Of slave ship holds
Under the whip
To be sold
But now when told
History … Read the rest
race is an invention
a social prison
of artificial division
the oppressed separated
into ranks that race
for first place
in a caste system
based
on the color of one’s face
created
by those in power under
capitalism
so that … Read the rest
The Zionists kill
Palestinian children
claiming terrorists
attack from behind civilians
yet they
created Israel
use it as a whole society
of human shields
a nation of settlers
where Jewish identity
is used with impunity
to wield
violence genocide
ethnic … Read the rest
Forgotten ill begotten
of lowly birth
Hindmost hated most
the wretched of the earth
Called the criminal element
irrelevant to the power elite
By them unprotected but expected
to bow at their feet
Not me, my sights are set on… Read the rest
Since returning to Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison (ROSP) on October 30, 2023, I have witnessed an environment where racist abuses continue, and little has changed in this regard since the earliest days of the prison’s history when it earned … Read the rest
Here I stand folks
No robes no glowing head rings
I don’t drown whole peoples
Commit genocide none not those things
Don’t hurl lightning bolts
That’s just the effects
Of atmospheric charges
I won’t condemn you for unwed sex
I … Read the rest