In my 2020 article, “Selling Out in Court: How Settlements Protect Police Abusers,” (1) I explained the court settlement process and how it works to shield cops and guards who murder and abuse people from accountability at taxpayer expense, and … Read the rest
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The Passion of the Christ
Leads one to question
The compassion of whites
Folks who imagine they right
Inflicting gruesome abuses
Against innocents
Inventing self-righteous excuses
Every outrage portrayed
Against the character Jesus
Was done to
It just ain’t white
That you never mention
Race ain’t even real
It’s all an invention
It just ain’t white
Living at the bottom
While all the benefits
The fairer skin has got ’em
It just ain’t white
If we … Read the rest
During October 2024, while I was confined at Virginia’s notorious supermax, Red Onion State Prison, I broke the story that numerous men had set themselves on fire at the prison in desperate response to intolerable conditions there.
This exposure brought … Read the rest
The intentions
Of those who mean well
Seem well
But often pave the path
To a mean hell
Because when we fail
To take proper measure
Of the limits of our means
But instead find pleasure
In confusing what’s real … Read the rest
One who glorifies Hitler
Sits in the Oval Office
Ordering hits on nation’s leaders
Over morning coffee
In contemplation his lips pucker
Like an offending orifice
With a brat’s disposition
He steals positions by means not nice
Creating economic chaos… Read the rest
Before you
Love songs
Were just an art form,
Now they leave my heart torn
Make my heart mourn
The words are so real
Resonate with me,
Speak to the loss I feel
Make an ache in me,
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