Angela Davis: F*ck a Prison, Get Rid of Them
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Angela Davis, the pioneer and revolutionary, is calling for an end to the prison system:
The U.S. prison system, in its present state, must be abolished, says University of California-Santa Cruz Professor Emeritus Angela Davis. Davis, a longtime prison reform advocate, is scheduled to speak at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Tuesday, March 24 at 7 p.m. for the keynote address of Emory University’s Women’s History Month. She cited a Pew Research Center report on prisons released earlier this month: “One in every 37 adults in this country is either behind bars or under the direct control of the corrections system — on parole or on probation. Here in Minnesota, it’s one out of every 26 adults. In terms of the entire country, that means 7.3 million people are under the control of the correction system,” Davis said. She sees prisons as “structural racism,” believing that the current U.S. justice system is “based on revenge” and current prisoner rehabilitation methods are not working.
“We have so many people behind bars because of the racialization that enables criminalization,” Davis noted. “We have huge communities criminalized largely because they are under surveillance — those that are subject to greater surveillance are those communities that produce more prisoners. “And in communities that aren’t subject to that type of surveillance, people can do all type of things without getting caught, like [Bernard] Madoff. He stole millions of dollars, and now all they are talking about is whether he will be able to keep his house.”
The U.S. prison population continues to rise, especially among Black men and women, continued Davis, adding that a “national discussion on what we need to do to solve this problem” is badly needed. “Have you heard [President] Obama or anybody in the government talk about this?” she asked the over-capacity crowd. “I don’t want to replace the prison system with something else,” she pointed out, adding that “a purposeful commitment to fix the educational system” would be better. The professor, activist and author of five books, including her Are Prisons Obsolete? (Seven Stories Press, 2003), first came into national prominence in 1969. The FBI later named Davis to their 10 Most Wanted list in 1970 after a gun registered in her name was used in an attempted prison escape; she eventually was jailed for 16 months before finally being acquitted of all charges in 1972. “Freedom means not the abstract ability to do whatever one pleases or not, that is the opposite of being behind bars,” she explained, “but as the access to resources and materials that make it possible to fashion lives, communities and futures. Rights always have been guaranteed for some, but it has been the result of struggle for others. “For some, rights and liberties have been linked to the status quo. For others, it has been linked to radical, revolutionary challenges to the status quo.” As a featured speaker of the St. Cloud State University’s (SCSU) Women’s History Month activities in March, Davis pointed out, “Women’s history always has been about struggles and movements for change that transformed collective lives,” adding that women of color historically had a lot to do with feminism.
She supports President Obama, but not just because he is Black. “I actually was more interested in the politics of the person,” Davis disclosed. “It’s not about who you are, but what you are willing to do. “If Hillary [Clinton] had had a better political position on certain issues, I would have supported her. If there have been a White male candidate who would have been more progressive and radical, I would have gone with him.” Davis warned the audience not to see the president as a one-man problem solver. “Obama is not a Messiah,” she duly pointed out. “Racism has not ended because one Black man and one Black family [is] in the White House.” On the importance of community activism, Davis said, “Everybody who believes in justice and equality must participate in the Movement. What have kept me [involved] are the communities I am associated with. The strength I need comes from other people.”
After her speech, Davis stated, “I don’t see [problems with the prison system] as a separate issue — it is connected with everything else. So, I can’t say that I want [President Obama] to address that more than seeing him address education or health, because they all intertwine.”
Well, we need to put these dumb ass criminals somewhere. The ratio for black men and women in jail is crazy, we do need to make some changes.
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2nd and blaque power!! keep the prisons though some people have family reunions in there!!
MAN I LOVE THE FRO …HEY “SYDNEY” HOW YOU MISS SISTA DAVIS, FOR WOMENZ HISTORY MONTH!?
WE NEED TO UNIFY,THIS PROBLEM WILL ONLY STEM HIGHER IF WE DONT!!
HELL NO!
keep prisons…some people deserve to be locked up e.g. rapist/kiddy fiddlers.
Hi Glok, I was just getting ready to post, lol.
Ms. Davis certainly makes some valid points about the impact of incarceration on our community.
From an article this week in the New York Times, nytimes.com/2006/03/20/national/20blackmen.html?scp=1&sq=incarceration%20and%20black%20men&st=cse:
“Incarceration rates climbed in the 1990’s and reached historic highs in the past few years. In 1995, 16 percent of black men in their 20’s who did not attend college were in jail or prison; by 2004, 21 percent were incarcerated. By their mid-30’s, 6 in 10 black men who had dropped out of school had spent time in prison.”
IF…You want to reach our pll you have to embrace us where we are and then take us where we need to go.So these writingz are from my generation and for my generation to finally stand up and take this bytch over, but our ppl are to damn stuck on stupid! …If no one will lead or teach our youth love,and guide us,then we will have to teach love and guide our own selves,or this will GET MORE *****KD UP FOR OUR SEEDZ FUTURE!
SYD! I SAW THIS POST AND THOUGHT OF YOU IMMEDIATELY ..HEY SISTAH!
Hi Glok
It’s ironic, to me, that Ms. Davis has made these statements — There are recent reports of the economic downturn’s disproportionate impact on black men, whose rate of unemployment is higher than other racial and ethnic groups. Much of this challenge is tied to a decline in education and increase in poverty.
“The share of young black men without jobs has climbed relentlessly, with only a slight pause during the economic peak of the late 1990’s. In 2000, 65 percent of black male high school dropouts in their 20’s were jobless — that is, unable to find work, not seeking it or incarcerated. By 2004, the share had grown to 72 percent, compared with 34 percent of white and 19 percent of Hispanic dropouts. Even when high school graduates were included, half of black men in their 20’s were jobless in 2004, up from 46 percent in 2000.”
There are also crimes, such as drug convictions, that carry heavier sentences, I believe.
lol now i know some people have been wrongly accussed but MY BLACK MEN…DIDN’T WE TELL YOU THAT WHITE WOMEN WERE NOTHING BUT TROUBLE..DIDN’T WE TELL YOU TO GET AN EDUCATION..DIDN’T WE TELL YOU THAT STREET HUSTLIN WASN’T THE WAY TO GO DIDN’T U SEE HOW THEY DID RODNEY AND OJ AND DR KING AND TUPAC AND BIGGIE AND EMIT TILL!!! BUT NO U DIDNT HEAR THAT!!!the prisons are being built for U!!!HEAR THAT
We often hear different ppl “attempt” to offer solutionz to the problemz that our Black Nation sufferz from.And we often hear the same solution repeated.We hear statementz like “Our pp need education!” or Education iz the key!” Well, those “Tired azz” statements are becoming very useless puposeless and just plain played out!!! White folk have let us to to their schoolz for quite some time now,to recieve a so-called education”But it seemz that we are even more blind,deaf and dumber now,than we were before they let us in them schools, we alwayz wanna be where m*****a be!!! ..SO WHATZ UP WITH THAT?…MORE NIGGRZ HEADING TO THEIR PRISONZ RIGHT?!
This ***** either done lost her old ***** mind or is just looking for 15 more minutes of fame before she meets her maker. Maybe if all the prisoners knew how to act civilized and not like animals then there wouldn’t be a need for prisons. Ever think of that Ms Genius?
Typoz i know, im cloudy!
lol u cant win the game unless u play the game!!! come on monkey see monkey do pun intended do you see white folks on the street no they putting idiots on the street dont be that idiot!! DONT BE AFRAID TO WORK HARD MENTALLY INSTEAD OF JUST PHYSICALLY!!! there are more black athletes than doctors YYYYYYY!!!!
Dont blame the Whiteman this iz our fault..I thought that “education” was supposed to enlighten our mindz not oppress, suppress and depress our mindz.We come out of this “so-called” system more stupified than ever! right? We lose our common sense! we lose our natural mindz! Most of the time we come out even forgetting the fact that we are Black.We lose our own self identity!
As a people we just aren’t smart.
I will never understand how some black can say an education is useless and dismiss it so quickly but think selling dope on the street corner is the way to go???? wth kinda since that make… only fools learn from their own experiences and those who don’t learn from history are bond to repeat it!!! TAKE RESPONSIBLITY FOR UR SELVES AND UR ACTIONS…
WELL AS A FIRST GENERATION AMERICAN I CAN SAY THAT MY MIND SET IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT I DON’T KNOW WHERE YOU GET UR INFO FROM GLOK BUT UR WRONG… AND BLACK FOLKS AREN’T DUMB MOST ARE JUST AFRAID TO TRY!!!
I respect Ms Davis but
Come on! I guess it’s obvious that you’ve never had a loved one raped, murdered, ripped off, blown up, stabbed or terrorized. There are dangerous criminals, and the Corrections Officers have their disposable-gloved hands full of violent offenders with no hope of ever getting out, because they can’t be in regular, open society. White collar crime offenders are more likely to get out sooner. This country has a lot of really smart people who are probably working on this situation, but I am sure that any other solution is going to cost a boatload of money, which we don’t have right now, or in ten years. Sorry to burst your bubble.
P.S if Beyonce plays her in a movie I will be very offended and I will Protest I wand Jada to play her…
MAYBE BUILDING BUILDING PRISONS FOR BLACKS IS A GOOD IDEA…IT WILL WEED OUT THOSE U GET IT FROM THOSE WHO CAN’T GET RIGHT…AND THE REST OF US CAN EVOLVE INTO GREATER BEINGS
Glok9 is an idiot first and foremost
and we as black people aren’t bright. We make poor decisions like untimely child bearing, etc, etc. ***** is a lost cause. Just get yours and turn ya head.
UMMM ANGELA B*****ET WOULD DO THE PART JUSTICE…BEYONCE WOULD BE AN INSULT TO THE PART…
Allof a sudden we become an “American”.So we quickly forget that we have been the vitimz of “Americans” for over four centuries! Foolz you are not an “American” or else you would not have to fight(or beg) for rightz of a real white American!! You are just a victim ,or I should say one of the many victimz of these Americanz…Remember that simple folkz!
@ facefacts
Thank you!!! You are Absolutely Right Education is the only way to make it and people are so Ignorant to see that
STFU ..FOLLOW YOUR SN ***** BRAINZ!
LOL U ARE AN AMERICAN BECAUSE U ARE BORN IN THIS COUNTRY…SIMPLE!!! U KEEP TALKING BUT WHAT ARE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT JUST SMOKE WEED AND CRY ABOUT IT!!! U BETTER WORK SMART TO KEEP FROM WORKING HARD!!! HAVE YOU NOT LEARNED THAT ONCE U ARE THE ISH EVERYBODY EATS OUT OF UR HAND BUT IF UR *****ODY NOTHING U SAY MATTERS!!!
This lady must be crazy, no prisons………I’m sorry but some people need to be locked up and what about those people out there who have lost loved ones at the hands of another. I am one of those people and I find it appauling how inconsiderate people are when throwing their views out there. I lost my aunt to a man with no regard for other’s lives and I for one hope he rots in jail. He’s up for parole in 2016 and my family and I had already begun to write letters to the parole board in 06′ emanding they deny his parole and we will do everything to see he getswhat he deserves aznd my aunt can rest in peace.
I DIDN’T NEED OBAMA TO BECOME THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT TO GET MY ISH TOGETHER.. AND LOOK AT OBAMA HE DIDNT NEED THERE TO BE A FIRST BEFORE HE DECIDED HE WOULD BE…KEEP UR EYE ON THE REAL PRIZE AND NO ONE CAN TELL U NO!!!!
You got plenty of people preying on the community, making it so decent folks scared to be out after dark that need to be locked up. I’m sure Angie D ain’t living in those places.
We need to fix the prison system and the laws
LEGALIZE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WEED NEEDS TO LEGAL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YOU NIGGRZ..Go off to school and dont wanna to be Blk anymore.Now you want to be a “Democrat” or “Republican”,which iz the flip side of the same coin.Self- preservation iz rule number one, but you dont want to preserve your Blk-self.You want to jump into the great “American melting “; so that you can come out melted-down,watered-down thinned out and kissing whitey azz for exceptence!
glok they are building the prisons for u!!!! what are u gonna DO about it!!!!! whats the solution to the problem u have presented???
FACEFACTZ! WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THEY WONT THROW YOUR AZZ IN PRISON TOO ..MY SOLUTION IZ COMING UP ..BARE WITH ME OK!
well how about i walk across the stage…get my degree…get in a $100,000.00 tax bracket and u sit there and think about it…o wait i did that!!!!!
FACE FACTZ! ..The whole key to our proper and effective education,iz to internalize our ture knoeledge of our selves,but this present form western education willnot do that for us…these mother *****ers are still teaching these blk kidz with the same books we used as kidz and before us..So go head with that bull*****…This whole education system iz not about true education …you niggrz dont know who you are..This system iz centered around certfication”.Did you understand what i just said?
FACE FACTZ ***** YOUR DEGREE THAT ***** MEANZ NOTHING IN THIS *****D UP ECONOMY…YOUR SIX FIGURES DONT MEAN ***** NOW…YOU MIGHT BE WORKING AT *****KING PIZZA SHOP DELIVERING PIZZA GETTING MINIMUM WAGE ! SAVE THAT BULL***** ..PLUS YOU BLK …LAST HIRED, FIRST FIRED MY NIGGR!
absolutely not!!! made no sense…u saying *****z like you white… ur using the words which come from the books u dont like sooooo where is the progress ur brining about… where are u going with it? what are u doing about it!!!! ur lost cleary you dont know which direction to go…well hear accept that u are african and get it together
lol thats the shocker u dummy!!!! in the medical field im rolling in the dough!!! this recession is exacerbating the current illnesses of many and it’s creating new ones full learn that the hospital NEVER CLOSES AND IF IT DOES i WILL ALWAYS HAVE A JOB..SMOKE THAT DUMMY WHERE’D U GET UR INFO THE TV…READ A BOOK
Whoa…
MANY OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE EASILY REPLACEBALE ARE GETTING FIRED U HAVE TO GO THROUGH YEARS OF SCHOOL TO GET WHERE I AM SO I AINT GOING NOWHERE!!!!!
AND IM UNDER 25YEARS OLD YOU NEED A ROLE MODEL
Prisons don’t need to change, black people need to change. As usual, we want a hand out, a free p*****. We can’t control the prison system. We can control ourselves, however.
This system has nothing to do with “education”.This system iz primarily centered around “certification “!..LOL ,Niggrz bragging and boasting about your BA,BS,MA,MS,PHD “degrees” you been duped!These are not necessarily degrees of higher education! these are degrees of higher ceritication!Yes,you can deny it all you want to, but the truth iz the truth!
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OH YEAH AND BECAUSE I EVERYTHING IS SO CHEAP NOW IM REALLY CASHING IN…EXPAND UR HORIZONS BE U DIDN’T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ARABIAN MONEY TILL YOU HEARD BUSTA SINGING IT…UR SO SIMPLE
LOL PLEASE EDUCATE URSELF NO JOKE!!! cuz u seem to find fault it was exists but have no plan on what to do about it!!! so ur full of shyt!!
My opinion might be a little biased. Right now I’m on probation, and I was issued a violation by the probation officer because I left the state without her permission. Well here in the tri-state area of DC, MD, & VA, it’s easy to go across lines and you wouldn’t think you’re out of town. Besides the fact that I work in MD, and I live in VA, and my probation officer knows this. My fiancee lives in MD, and I do sneak and see her on the weekends. I know not seeing her enough has caused a problem with my relationship. I just don’t think I should be punished just because I went across state lines. What do ya’ll think? I just think some changes need to be made to the prison system. It’s big business. Do you know they charge you ($1) a day to be in the jail I was in (Rappahanock Regional Jail)? I just want ya’ll opinion. Right now I’m supposed to turn myself in and face the music with whatever the judge says…
FACEFACTZ! SHUT THE ***** UP WHEN THEM HOSPITALZ DECIDE TO CUT BACK….. YOUR BLK AZZ IS THE FIRST TO GO ..SAVE ALL THAT DUMB *****, WHITEY SUFFERING SO HOW YOU FLOWING WITH ALL THIS STACK OF CASH PLZ YOUR FULL OF *****!!!
I don’t agree with completely removing the prison system, i do believe the laws should be modified i.e if you possess a couple crack rocks you get a stiffer penalty than possessing a oz.soft cocaine(white man drug)double standards, that means the brother do 10 yrs. and the other gets probation, the laws has to be modified, don’t get me wrong you do the crime you do the time, but come on let’s make it a even playing field.
Obama is the first black president an i voted for him and i support the brother, but if he’s going to do us some justice he really have to make a ” change” and we as a people have to change our way of thinking, i.e. i got a masters degree i made it….lol It’s people with degrees that are greeters at wal-mart! wake the ***** up
Black people make more excuses than anybody. Why do we have this “Woe is me” mentality? SNAP OUT OF IT! America is a country DESIGNED for you to be able to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps. Don’t like living in the hood? Get the ***** out! And the only way out is with some knowledge. You can live a comfortable life as an RN,Fireman,or police officer. Hell, you need to go to college to get into the NFL or N
*NFL or NBA, it’s THAT important. Black people brainwash themselves into thinking their only option is to sell drugs and *****.
LOOK THE ONLY MONEY BEING MADE NOW IZ THE OLDEST PROFESSION IN THE HISTORY OF MAN….PIMPING AND HOING! THATZ THE BEST THING GOING RIGHT NOW!
“PRISONS IS A BUSINESS AND THE YOUNG BLACK YOUTH IS THE PRODUCT”
If *****ody actually committed crimes, i promise you the prisons will be still full of young black men and women, because we are dispensable in ” america”. No excuses just the facts
@ Glok9n: The real glok !!!
Actually, the money being made is in the health professions. Somebody has to treat the pimps and the hoes when they get herpes.
You call it “the only money being made”, I call it job security.
You niggrz whole life revolves around your job..You wake up,get ready for work go to work,watch the *****ing clock all day get off work come home eat dinner, get prepared for work the next day, go to sleep wake up and do the ***** all over again.What kind life iz that when your suppoed to be free…Itz a life of a *****king slave!
THATMIXEDCHICK! YOU ARE RIGHT, CANT ARGUE!
Poor Ms. Davis I think her afro roots grew into her brain and are shorting out her synapses.
And BTW Glock…education is seeking and acheiving knowledge. I know a lot of well rounded people white and black that have educated themselves by reading,learning and discovery…but they have a *****ty job and no money. The educational system is all about higher certification and frankly that’s better than not having it. It’s up to the individual to improve their knowledge base. I read about history, black philosphers(amongst others) but none of that crap is going to help me fix a COMPUTER problem as is my profession. I would no more have somebody that doesn’t have some way of proving to me that they could do the job do anything for me than I would have the hobo on the corner to do the same thing because the end results could easily be the same. And that is why the model of our educational system is there. That’s why that model is in place all over the world and that is why it is effective. You want “true knowledge” go pick up a book. You want a job? Go to cl*****.
We need reform big time with the prison system, but do we still need them hell yes.. No one should be in prison for selling a bag of weed. That is riduculous
@Glok you are only controlled by your job to the extent you let it. And TYPICALLY you are only controlled by your job based upon how well within the means of the pay that job provides. Personally I make a decent bit of coin but I live below my means ergo I do not slave for my job. And having a spirtual life helps that as well. Having a good paying job and wanting to be well educated and prepared for it is nothing bad and it is NOT slave mentality. Not having that well paying job in proper priority with other things…now that is a different thing entirely.
God. Family. Self. Job. In that order. That’s not slave mentality.
We….are a bunch of corporate slaves,and the educational system certifies what level of a slave you will be.The educational system and schools are slave training centers that determine what plantatation you will eventually serve at.If you have a high school degree you work the fields, and if you have a college degree you work in the house.
We….are a bunch of corporate slaves,and the educational system certifies what level of a slave you will be.The educational system and schools are slave training centers that determine what plantatation you will eventually serve at.If you have a high school degree you work the fields, and if you have a college degree you work in the house.
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Real spit right there my *****
Opinions are like *****holes. *****holes. The sick should not treat the sick. Reading a book doesn’t make you any smarter when you think like a simple fool. That’s right turn your head and get YOURS, just watch your back!
@Glok
So if you needed open heart surgery you’d let someone operate on you that didn’t have their “certificate”? What about if your engine threw a rod would you take it to a guy you had no proof that could do the job in the first place?
BLOODSHOT 3RD EYE..I FEEL YOU…But whenever you are laboring or working day and night for the benefit of somebody else’s nation..YOU ARE A SLAVE.Even those of you making over 100,000 dollars a year are still slaves..if you boss can afford to pay you blk azz that amount ,how much you think he paying himself..dont be foolish,If you’re paid a million ,he making a bilion off of your talentz and giftz from godand your services..Dont be fooled!
SNOOP WHATZUP! I see you spitting that same ***** cuzo!!
We….are a bunch of corporate slaves,and the educational system certifies what level of a slave you will be.The educational system and schools are slave training centers that determine what plantatation you will eventually serve at.If you have a high school degree you work the fields, and if you have a college degree you work in the house.
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I don’t know about you, but if I’m gonna be a slave no matter what, I will try my damnest to be a house slave. While everyone else is struggling in the fields, tryna “keep it real”, I’m in the house, sippin on lemonade. You gotta take your situation and do the best that you can with it.
BLOODSHOT! I SEE WHERE YOU GOING WITH THIS ..OK YES I WOULD…. I HAVE NO CHOICE IM NOT KNOCKING CERTIFICATES, BUT WE DID PAID A HELL OF ALOT FOR THEM ,THEY SHOULD HOLD WEIGHT RIGHT?
Well, I see her point, but:
WHAT IS THE ALTERNATIVE? We have genuinely CAH-RAY-ZEE people out there…what is the alternative rehab system for them?
SNOOP WHATZUP! I see you spitting that same ***** cuzo!!
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@Glok
No sir. That makes you an employee. Unless you are born with money you work for somebody at some point by choice or by force. Here you are not forced to do ANYTHING. It’s all a choice. We are slaves to an extent but slaves to ourselves and our appetites. If nothing will prove this our current fiscal crisis should. The richest are now effectively slave to the poor because of bailouts. Why did that happen? They became slaves to their own greed, averice, and wants. They had to have more and as a result they did more(wrong mostly) and in the end it’s what we have.
We live in a free society with capitalist trappings. If you want to work just hard enough to buy yourself one acre of worthless land in the middle of Arizona and sit there and be content with yourself for the rest of your days…you can. If you want a big screen tv a house a car and to give your seed a better life than you have had…you can. One requires no effort than the other one does. Neither requires you to be inherently more slavish in devotion than the other. One requires you to play within the system up to your willingness to do so. Saying a freeman that entraps himself due to his own greed is a slave is doing disservice to an actual slave a person who has no choice in the matter but to comply or die.
MIXEDCHICK!…Sistah think of what you would make if you were your own boss.All of yur talentz and services are going toward the sustaining and upliftment of this white nation…even if we do have blk prez..You living in somebody else’s house.And if they decde to stop giving you allowance for your c*****s,and kicked you out of their house,you would fall flat on your sweet azz.This is us .Modern day slaves dependent upon”m*****a” for survival This iz us!
Glok9n: The real glok !!!
That doesn’t HAVE to be us though. If you want to own your own business, you can! *****ody stopped Oprah (aka 9 billion)from damn near ruling the world.And *****ody can stop you. But first, you have to play by the rules. You want a business loan? Cool. Make sure you have good credit! You want investors to take you seriously? Dress and speak professionaly!
I will give you an example. I saw a billboard for a black owned bank, and one of the bank workers was wearing a black Tee and a chain. I will NEVER step foot inside of that bank. Not because I’m racist, but because I expect the people handling my money to look professional, and not like some thugs. It’s just common sense.
I will give you an example. I saw a billboard for a black owned bank, and one of the bank workers was wearing a black Tee and a chain. I will NEVER step foot inside of that bank. Not because I’m racist, but because I expect the people handling my money to look professional, and not like some thugs. It’s just common sense.
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THE ONES THAT LOOK PROFESSIONAL ARE THE BIGGEST THEIVES!
i.e BERNARD MADOFF
BLOODSHOT..This modern day education system is a preparatory plantation system.You are trained to think within a certain mind set.You are made molded into the image of a “marketable slave”.You have fit the standards that are set up by the top corporate slave owners of Amerrikkka.The preparatory plantation (university or college) grade you acording to how well you fit the mold.They want to see how well your slave azz follow directionz and they want to test your loyalty!
Bossip this is the most socially relevant story you’ve picked up in a long time. It should have been on top.
I liked when Ms. Davis said freedom is the access to resources and materials that make it possible to fashion lives…
The money system under which society is run is meant to deny some folk access to stuff. Some have, but most don’t. It’s called scarcity consciousness. When products, money, and things are scare, that drives up the value of what is wanted. As long as we live in a money-run economy system this is what will happen. The have-nots will get what they need by any means necessary.
With the U.S. being run by the three main international banking cartels, the prison system unfortunately is headed even further into the negative. A one-world plan for a world government is bout to rule up in this bi*ch and our young black men are not a priority for them. The Presidency is a mere puppet job and the Federal Reserve is the ventriliquist. These m.f.’s have a plan to jail even more blacks and latinos, all the while enslaving the rest of us for the next century to pay off loans they just funded through Bail-Out package. Can you believe it? They’re planning to make the taxpayers pay back this loan…and it was our money to begin with!!!
I’m waiting to see what’s going to be our new method of enslavement, just like the Social Security tax was when it was first implemented to make us pay off the nation’s debt from the Depression when we filed for bankruptcy. Mark my word, it’s going to be Global Warming propaganda. These *****s concocted this global warming scheme to trick us into believing the world is heating up because of us, and not on it’s own. Look for new carbon taxes on Everything! That’s how we will pay back the loan on this Bailout package. ***** *****ers!
After your training iz completed on slave campus,you are stamped with a certain slave certification!…If you qualify,you may get that chance to serve at some of the top plantationz in this country.But if you get a lower grading from your preparatory plantatin you will probably be moving from plantation to plantation just like Nba players high paid slaves.You just take the piece of paper that your training m*****a gave you and show it to the m*****a at the other plantations.They might let you work in they plantation we need our own everything, but were so bugged out of our mindz that we will alwayz depend on this whitemanz world!
Hey, Glock 9 & Sydney
@ The Truth
You have to understand that there are also a whole lot of people who are in prison who have been falsely accused of crimes that they haven’t committed.
But, on to what Sister Davis is talking about. She says that she sees “prisons as structural racism”, which I strongly agree. She also said: “believing that the current U.S. justice system is “based on revenge” and current prisoner rehabilitation methods are not working.
Hell yes, it’s based on revenge – what better way to stymie young black men and women who HAVE GONE to college and who have achieved goals in their lives – but to set them up for crimes they didn’t commit then spend years and years trying to PROVE that they didn’t do these crimes. Hell, by then they’re in their 50’s and 60’s and have lost everything to lawyers fees.
The so-called “rehabilitation”? What being locked up for 23 hours a day is rehabilitation to you? No, people, it’s called TORTURE – INSTITUTIONALIZED TORTURE – at its best.
Lets take Bernie Madoff for instance: Our Prison System wasn’t built for men like Bernie Madoff – THIS IS WHY HIS LAWYERS TRIED TO KEEP HIM OUT OF JAIL AS LONG AS THEY COULD.
More than likely this man will probably have lost his mind by the time is next court date comes around – which is in June.
Now, for our brothers and sisters who HAVE committed crimes in which they need to be REHABILITATED FOR – we need to find another way to rehabilitate them – so that WHEN THEY COME OUT, THEY DON’T DO THE SAME THINGS OVER AGAIN TO PUT THEM BACK IN THERE.
THIS is the point or message that Sister Davis is trying to convey.
PREACH ON, SISTER, PREACH ON!!!
My brothers and sisters,we cant discontinue our education with JUST the whitemanz certificationz.We must ENRICH our mindz byond the training of the whitemanz.He iz not going to train us to be smarter than him.Go ahead and get the white manz training,and get your own independent education also.But once you get it dont be foolish enough to work for the benefit of this man ….get your own like MIXEDCHICK said.You are going to be wise from now on i hope!
HEY! MISSBLAZE44!
Use your own knowledge and skills to uplift your own Black Nation.Foreigners travel here all the time to get knowledge and skillz,but they take it back to their homeland for uplifting of their own ppl..that “each one, teach one mentality”! Thatz very wise too.You should be that wise ,We should be that wise Blk folkz!
Now that we’ve got a black president these fools are asking for all types of *****.
well I can’t hate Angela Davis, she’s a sister on a mission!! Wouldn’t that be crazy if she got a meeting with Obama.. WOW!
WAke up Blackman and Black women! do for self Dont be left out in the cold like so many are in the economy,when these ppl finally decide to stop giving us an allowance.Be a Blackman! Be a Blackwoman! Stop being a modern hi-tech slave! When you go to these universities and colleges,understand that you are recieveing a certification Independently seek out your own education use they ***** for you and our ppl.Any man that controls the mental input of your minds onformation, controls the total sphere of your thinking.Dont fall prey to the tricknology.Accept your own and be yourself…Much love blk ppl, Glok9
@ Glock 9 & Third Eye
But that’s the thing WE DON’T GET PAID WHAT WE’RE WORTH – and I agree with Glock 9 – they test you and test your loyalty – ON A DAMN JOB?! Hell, I’m just there to make a living – and they’re barely helping me do that.
I’m not working right now, so I went to this agency and took their little WORD/POWERPOINT/EXCEL tests scored 300% (100% on each test), I got 30 out of 30 right on each.
Now, I can’t wait to see what this lady is going to do for me. Because typically, white people don’t like for you to do that well or show that you have any type of skills when it comes to certain software.
Now, another thing, most of these employers are looking for COLLEGE GRADUATES to fill these jobs – even for what I do, which I’m an Executive *****istant.
The kicker for me is THE AVERAGE COLLEGE GRADUATE DOESN’T EVEN KNOW HOW TO DO A MAIL-MERGE IN WORD – MUCH LESS DO A POWERPOINT PRESENTATION FROM START-TO-FINISH – but it will be her or him to fill that position because they have a college degree – NOT THE SKILLS IT TAKES TO DO THE JOB – BUT JUST BY HAVING A COLLEGE DEGREE.
This is some bull***** – because when this recession/drepression is over that person with the college degree is going to step, where as if they took the person who has the skills to do the job (me) I would stay.
Lots of great points here. Bloodshot 3rd eye, I love your comment…thank you for that. Ms Blaze…thank you too.
There’s nothing more I can add that has not been said in a far better manner than I ever could.
Glok9n: The real glok !!!
WAke up Blackman and Black women! do for self Dont be left out in the cold like so many are in the economy,when these ppl finally decide to stop giving us an allowance.Be a Blackman! Be a Blackwoman! Stop being a modern hi-tech slave! When you go to these universities and colleges,understand that you are recieveing a certification Independently seek out your own education use they ***** for you and our ppl.Any man that controls the mental input of your minds onformation, controls the total sphere of your thinking.Dont fall prey to the tricknology.Accept your own and be yourself…Much love blk ppl, Glok9
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I agree…because if we had been doing this, we could have already found a cure for, say, sickle cell or the host of other race specific illnesses we face.
Hey, at this point, if I don’t find a job, I will get on WELFARE (hey, I’ve been paying into it all these years threw taxes) and use the money to get my books published.
I just got a copyright for my first book – so, yeah, ***** CORPORATE AMERIKKKA!
Even though I’ve only been out of work for two and a half months, companies are acting like I’ve got the plague or some *****, so, *****’em.
VERY good points Glok9n… you’ve said so much that I would have said, so I’ll just say I hate how our people act like they are elite once they get a white mans certificate.
and Angela Davis is right and been right for a long ***** time. This sista been in the know of things.
@ Denebolo
LOL – you are SO right! Just like how they’re saying that we – the tax payers – own AIG. Huh? Hell, if that’s the case you can send the portion of my money DIRECTLY TO ME.
The sad part is we are not suppose to pay taxes, Congress never issued it into law. We are being deceived by the enlightened ones, all the money still exist, they government wants to create two cl*****es of people rich and poor. Obama is not going to do anything to help, he does not have a say so in much he is only a puppet for the Jews and Europeans to go ahead with their plan. AIG was lending money that does not exist and the people were paying the loans and interest back with real money, so where is the money? Where is the money Bernie Madoff stole? How didnt Manhattan Chase Bank audit his account being that is was over a billion? The bankers just have to tweak the numbers to show the stock market is declining when in fact its not, so when people go sell their low stocks off another entity buys it at a lower price, then the bankers raise the stock again and now the money becomes worth something. We have to watch the Jews, its not even the white people…..the white people strings are being pulled by the Jews and the Jew bankers (Rockerfeller,Rothschild). The Jews hate everyone, this is why they dont procreate with non jews because its like procreating with animals if they do. The Jews have been pulling strings since the beginning of time, the Jews funded (Rothschild) Hilter to execute the Holocaust which didnt happen to the extent of what is reported. Many Jews were paid to tell stories, like Indians are paid for us to be on their land. Jews introduced drugs in the black communities via whites and blacks who were given money and power to help with their plan. The government does not want us to get part of the bailout money because they dont want us to pay our debt down, they want us to depend on them for credit, money, and everything else. Obama is not even trying to give us OUR money, but instead he is acting like he is mad that AIG got bonuses, now they issued a 90% tax on bonuses received which will go into the Federal Reserve which is a funding location for wars and etc.
@glok, snoop and anyone else who is as ignorant as these two are.
We as a people are hurting so bad right now because of the backwards ***** ideology that you guys are preaching. Whats funny and sad at the same time is you dummies are some of the kinds of people who wind up in prisons. Call it what you want, but THIS IS A WHITE MANS WORLD!!! You may not like it, or agree with it, but that is the way it is. And you guys are stupid, “whitey” wants u to to be where you’re at, right where they can see you. As long as you cant compete for whats theirs (nice homes, neighborhoods, cars, good schools, etc.)they are ok. If you have a degree behind your name, it doesnt mean you’re better, it just means you have a better chance at competing. @ 25 years old I myself do not have a degree and are not currently working towards one. But damn, I sure as hell do see how difficult it is without one, compared to those with some form of training or education!!! Black people need to wake up. If not we as a people are doomed. That’s what is “real.”
Lastly, you guys shouldnt spread that poison to young impressionable minds. They need to hear the truth not “your” truth.
one more thing to glok, cowards like you are our peoples worst enemy.
THANK NINA LOVE,HOW YOU DOING LOVE MY MUFFIN!!
The Jews owns the record labels, this is why no one is pushing for better music or a way to help blacks, but instead Jay Z and others rap about drugs, *****es, and violence. IF you look at Sporting Entities and so on they have their players under contract, they get drug tested, and has to keep a clean image…..now why isnt the Music/Entertainment industry like that? Its a way for a message to reach the general m*****es through speak, acting, singing, rapping something you cant do with ball. Jay Z is owned by the Jews, this is why he still raps of drugs but he has so many business dealings with Jews (Rockerfeller) he is suppose to dumb us down and only think abut being a rapper and nothing more… We have to watch everything because while people are doing the single ladies, or the Roc sign they are symbols of the clan they belong to. Blacks were paid off all the time by Jews/Whites to infiltrate the black community to sabotage it. Jay Z studied under York, he is the ultimate sell out.
Love the fro Angela ,, thats all i got to say!!
daisey,
we are supposed to pay taxes. check into that. i’m not coming at you foul, i’m just sayin.
missblaze,
it is unfortunate that you’re situation is in its present state. however, you’re best bet is to try to get a skill or some kind of education. that will put you over the next person. people with no skills are a dime a dozen. when u get a skill or education it sets u apart from the pack. the higher the education- the more valuable you become.
@FIDDLA!, YOUR NAME FITZ PERFECT ..YOU ARE THAT FIDDLING, TAP DANCING AZZ KISSING NIGGR THAT CORPORATE AMERICA LOVES…..LOL, SELLOUT ***** OFF!
@facefacts,
Welcome to the pysche of the black American of which black females are the architects.
I never liked Angela Davis and her type. She will not be honest about incarceration and the prison system.
If you want to keep black men and an increasing number of black women out of jail black mothers need to have black fathers around. Black men raised with a father in the home will go to jail at the same rates as white men with a father in the home, which is quite low. Having a father in the home ameliorate the very factors that lead black men and an increasing number of black females into prison.
So again black females get married before you have children and raise your children with your husbands so your sons and an increasing number of your daughters will not go to jail or have children too early.
It is sad that a man like Glok can have kids and actually teach them to think like him. Glok’s take on this world is ghetto and small minded. Not saying an education will answer all problems 100%, but life will be a lot harder without it.
@glok
see what happens when you have no facts to stand on. U resort to some dumb sht. I feel bad for you brotha. you couldnt face what I was sayin to you, so instead you had to make a play at somethin so elementary. Thats sad, man. i was hoping you would came correct.
NOW,I dont want none of your niggrz to think that im saying that everybody should drop out ..but colloege isnt for everybody..ok,and I am not saying that all professors have no educational value either .What I am saying iz that we must start to think independently.Dont depend on the collge or university to educate you itz a business like everything else in America..you’ll come up short just like these educated negroes thatz out of work now,if you do decide to go take advantage of the education and aside from that learn more than what they expect from you.Use thier resources to the maximum.Live in their libraries. Live in their laboratories.You must encourage yourself and do for self ..Fiddla!
ARE SO PUNKISH THAT YOU CANT SAY IT IN ONE SCREEN NAME YOU HAVE TO COME UP WITH ALL THESE DIFFERENT SN TO ADDRESS ME, ***** OFF PATNA!
@Amazing
Thank you for standing up brotha! I feel what you’re saying. it is very sad!!!
Glok9n: The real glok !!!
Keep duckin homeboy! You’re good at it. i got nothin else for you brotha.
I have seen many “dumb” ppl graduate from universities with so-called “masters” degrees.But what have they these dumb niggrz mastered? They mastered the method of memorization.they have mastered the art of taking a test.They think that they have recieved an education,but in fact they recieved nothing but higher certification and cant find a job for ***** in this crisis.Ppl pay big money these degrees and *****ume that education ia completed.This could not be futher from the truth of fact !
FIDDLA! GOOD MY MAN CUZ YOUR NOT SAYING ***** ANYWAY!
I know you might not agree but the truth hurts and i might as well say it because i will never get the chance to say it AGAIN
One person amongst us all about power back to the black person said this before what i am about to type now and i never knew what he meant until now he was right so i am now agreeing with you
The real Panther movement died as soon as it was established when it was infiltrated by the FBI and other secret groups that own their black *****es now No wonder BEYONCE is playing her in a film it really does not matter they have no real intellectual power or respect
all the power has all now but gone to rhetoric just to make traitors save face i listen to what she had to say and i still do not know what the F**K she is talking about
You can’t abolish the prisons i don’t want some dumb murdering/rapist fool living in my street indefinately without controls in place how the hell is education gonna work it does not now when it is FREE why would it help if you offer MORE of it, are you stupid or just crazy i figure both
it’s more intelligent to reform them for better rehabilition in order to reduce the number of people going back there and it is mainly black folks because it is the minority going there no one cares to reform it but if the majority KNEW it was a problem and prisons are there to reinforce re-offending then maybe there would have to be a change
THIS obviously does not need a freedom fighter just simple common sense so what does angela davis really represent?
@Glok
My friend there are a lot more uneducated black males out of work than there are educated black males out of work. That number speaks for itself. And using possibly one of THE worst economic periods in American history as proof for your case is a bad idea because whites are getting hit just as hard and according to you it’s THEIR system.
I’m blesed to have my job but I know my education played a big part in getting it and will play a big part in getting ANOTHER one if I lose my job. I don’t know maybe I am being too hard on you or you might be too hard on some parts of the university experience. I’ve got technical degrees and with fields of study like these you HAVE to go to school and you HAVE to get certified because you are not going to learn it any other way even if you picked up the books you probably aren’t going to have access to the equipment to learn what you need to. Almost all highly technical jobs are like that. I.T.,medical,mechcanical, engineering, arcitecture etc…those jobs and fields you don’t just “pick it up”. Now some of the more business oriented fields where basically you dress up in a suit all day but don’t really DO much…yeah I might agree with you there stuff like that is mostly just step and fetch and get in line like a cog.
They have actually only scatched the surface, im high and am making more sense than your college educated azz ..dumb niggrz!Basic knowledge you have that the Most High gave you that already!Black ppl please dont stop with mere certification Continue with independent education.Let your mind continue to grow beyond that whiteman basic knowledge..I call it basic,becase it iz the base or foundation for your real education.That iz why they put a *****king square on your stupid azz at graduation time.That square repesents just a mere base upon which you should build your pyramid of real education!
BLOODSHOT! I did say whites are getting hit hard YES ITZ THEIR SYSTEM, brother way up there some where!
Angela Davis is an idiot let’s not incarcerate child molestors and killers black people wake up
@ Glok9n: The real glok !!!
I get what you’re saying, and I agree. I went to Duke University, majoring in English with a minor in Psychology. Graduated in the top percent of my cl***** and went on to law school at Howard. I graduated, p*****ed the bar and started looking for work, all the while being in about $80,000 worth of debt. While racking up this debt, I thought to myself, “it’s ok, I’m going to be a lawyer and I’ll be able to pay this off in 3-5 years.”
Boy, was I wrong! I wasn’t able to get a good paying attorney job in the D.C. area so I relocated to Houston. I found a great paying job as a real estate attorney just to get laid off 2 years after starting because the downfall in real estate these days. Good thing I paid down my debt to about $28,000.
I’m now a criminal justice professor with a law degree that I’m not even using. Funny how I could have been doing the same job I’m doing now YEARSSS ago after graduating undergrad without going into thousands of dollars of debt.
Another thing, being a professor is much more rewarding. Law was great but the hours I had to put in was ridiculous. I wouldn’t recommend anyone be a lawyer unless that’s your only p*****ion and you’re completely dedicated to your work.
With that being said, I do realize the importance of education-I’m a professor!
But I also believe in finding a trade as well. Bottom line, make your money– The legal way and take care of yours!! Save! Save! Save! But keep more in a safe at your house (that only you know about) than in the bank. Get trained as an electrician, get your RN certificate, etc… College isn’t for everyone and NOT everyone can afford to go into thousands of dollars in debt for college.
Angela Davis is an original VICTICRAT…and has been stuck on the same misguided message almost 40 years now.Here is my plan for making prisons obsolete:
1)Want the children you have.Raise them WITH someone who wants to be a parent with you.Be a parent.
2)Your face should be buried in a book.Your hands should be filled with tools that produce & create.
Your brain should should be figuring a way to profit from what you know.Your soul should be in a place where you want to p***** positive knowledge on to others.
3) Don’t break the law.
I LOVE ANGELA DAVIS. ORIGINAL BLK WOMAN.
I’M BLACK AND I’M PROUD!!!
ABOUT GETTING RID OF THE PRISONS:
1)Want the children you have.Raise them WITH someone who wants to be a parent with you.Be a parent.
2)Your face should be buried in a book.Your hands should be filled with tools that produce & create.
Your brain should should be figuring a way to profit from what you know.Your soul should be in a place where you want to p***** positive knowledge on to others.
3) Don’t break the law.
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I CONCUR WITH DR.FUNK
BP!
Just Popping In
With that being said, I do realize the importance of education-I’m a professor!
But I also believe in finding a trade as well. Bottom line, make your money– The legal way and take care of yours!! Save! Save! Save! But keep more in a safe at your house (that only you know about) than in the bank. Get trained as an electrician, get your RN certificate, etc… College isn’t for everyone and NOT everyone can afford to go into thousands of dollars in debt for college.
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Bless you.Even in a bad economy-a skilled tradesman
(plumber/electrician/HVAC/metal fab) can pull down SIX FIGURES between his/her regular gig & side accounts.With time to go play after.I’ve done it.
Glad there are articles besides Chrihanna, or what someone is wearing, latest fashion or song…..
We need substance.
Whoever came up with this article,as topic for discussion, I applaud you! Brains and wit, keep it coming…
@Just Popping In
With that being said, I do realize the importance of education-I’m a professor!
But I also believe in finding a trade as well. Bottom line, make your money– The legal way and take care of yours!! Save! Save! Save! But keep more in a safe at your house (that only you know about) than in the bank. Get trained as an electrician, get your RN certificate, etc… College isn’t for everyone and NOT everyone can afford to go into thousands of dollars in debt for college.
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Very true! And although both my parents wnt to school and got doctorates, my Daddy still hd his journey man’s card. He specialized in electricity, fixing fighter aircraft, business and always kept business running, even way back in the day.
I get some of my aspirations and goals, from my father. I follow his example. Daddy’s been gone since 2000, but I am still running to keep up or catch up, he ha done so much in his life, and I am PROUD to be his daughter.
EXCELLENT ADVICE. GET YOUR EDUCATION AND TRAINING,
NO MATTER WHAT THEY CAN”T TAKE WHAT YOU KNOW..
has done so much *- excuse typo
@ always knew and DR.FUNK
Exactly! And there’s nothing wrong with learning more than one trade. I’m also going to get into a teacher certification program to get certified as a early education through 12th grade teacher. I’d also like to take cl*****es for a “trade” sometime in the future and get an apprenticeship.
People, educate and empower yourselves, please! No one can take your knowledge from you.
I’m kinda worry that our civil rights leaders have chosen to become the advocates for the criminal population. Like The NAACP is campaigning for equality in drug sentencing, but they haven’t addressed how the influx of ex-cons would affect our communities. For decades, drug culture has made our neighborhoods uninhabitable. as a child, I lived in a chicago project then in one of the worst neighborhoods in San Diego. In both neighborhoods, I have witnessed gang shoot outs in the street. Once our school at to go on lock down for two hours while the gangsters had a shoot out. We were in school a whole hour past quitting time, sitting on the floor listening to gun fire. T
My solution to this problem is a complete restructuring of our education system. In urban areas, we need to realize that the educational model designed for sheltered middle cl***** kids doesn’t fit poor kids. First of all, the focus has to be put on giving these children what they are missing at home. I think this means schools just may have to start clothing and feeding these kids more. We also need some serious counseling and group therapy in our schools. –But once a child turns into an adult and starts committing crime, we need to stop baby sitting them. They are ruining it for the rest of us, kids can’t walk down the street, our old people are afraid to leave their homes, and we can keep businesses in our neighborhoods. Its time to turn our backs on our criminal element, start thinking about those who want to do right.
lol clearly glok ur a rebel without a cause…in fact a lost cause…I ASKED U WHAT ARE U DOING ABOUT IT!! AND U AINT SAYING NOTHING…HOW CAN U JUSTIFY HAVE A RAP SHEET THATS LONGER THAN A RESUME??HAVE U MADE ANY ATTEMPT TO LEARN ANOTHER LANGUAGE OR ARE U STILL TRYING TO GRASP ENGLISH…HOW CAN U TALK DOWN THE WHITE AND UPLIFT BLACK PEOPLE BY USING THE WORD NIGGEZ…NO MATTER HOW UR SPELLING IT???by black azz wont be the first to go because i know my rights homey so if i go it wont be quietly or empty handed. but are empty handed and empty headed..so u look so lost right now
i wonder when people say college isn’t for everybody…WHO IS IT FOR???!!! LET ME TAKE A STAB it’s for those who are serious about learning about the world around them.. and actually willing to contribute to future generations by leaving their mark.. and it for those who aren’t afraid to sacrifice and have not given up!!! Because you think ur mad about what the white man has done in ur high school and grade school history books just get to the medical field and see the extint of some that hatred…Maybe after taking cl*****es like BLACK HISTORY STUDIES U WILL BE ABLE TO NAME AS MANY BLACK INVENTORS AS U CAN RAPPERS AND ATHLETES….START WITH THE MAN IN THE MIRROR GLOK!!
@leeha,
More bull***** from you. Schools arent supposed to be supplemental families. If blak families were intact to begin with, schools would be able to get on with the business of doing what the tax payer, pays them to do… educate. Not baby sit, not break up fights, not having armed security gaurds. etc.
Black folks need to stop looking for the state to raise their families. Sorry, black females need to stop…
You want “true knowledge” go pick up a book. You want a job? Go to cl*****.
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Very true.
I am all for education, but let’s not forget that you are learning to perpetuate the white man’s, hyper-capitalist, corporate-socialist, Anglo-American world. If you are okay with that, fine, but don’t brag about your six-figure salary. When the elite say no more (AND YOU ARE NOT ONE OF THEM), your six-figure salary BECOMES A FOUR FIGURE SALARY IN INDIA.
If you are let’s say, in the medical profession, don’t brag, you are pushing poison because BigPharma has decided that is the best way to make money. Treatment, not curing makes money. This is not decided in research labs or med school, but the medical INDUSTRY — and you doctors and nurses fall right in line (so much for the hippocratic oath). Every once and a while a true miracle will take place, or the usual allopathic cures (broken ankle, etc.) will happen. But please don’t think you are making a difference in this world, be it in BigPharma, Big Military, BigBanking, BigOil, BigFarming. Don’t talk about being an oncologist when you know damn well that chemo kills and you won’t be calling out the chemical and food INDUSTRIES.
I’m not defending violent crime in our communities. WE ARE NOT THIS WAY BECAUSE WE ARE STUPID, WE ARE THIS WAY BECAUSE WE ARE SPIRITUALLY WEAK SO WE TAKE ANY THING WE ARE GIVEN – Drugs, Alcohol, Gangsta Rap, the Down Low, violence, hip-hop clothes below your ***** gear, McDonalds, etc.
Since when did Black folks get all this weaponry to use on each other? Since someone figured out that the prison system can be an INDUSTRY. This is the oldest trick in the book — to create a problem and then appear to solve it. And the problem doesn’t stand alone, co factors are created, i.e., lack of funding to schools, inferior housing, inadequate public transportation, no services. Then an INDUSTRY is made out of solving the problem you created.
Angela Davis is not saying to destroy the prison system. She is saying that lack of resources and funds in poor communities for health, education and welfare work in tandem with the prison INDUSTRY. No one is saying, violent criminals should not be in jail for a long time, but the prison system is now an INDUSTRY and your taxes are making someone rich.
Leeha: Hi, how is my favorite utopian today?
@Kigali: you mean like Columbine, right?
@About it,
Guns dont Kill people, people kill people. I prefer to live in a country that protects my right to defend myself and my family.
Its HARD to believe that in the 21st CENTURY and in this ERA of the GLOBAL MARKET that there are STILL some people that are STILL refusing to ACQUIRE the TOOLS that will make them MARKETABLE and COMPETITIVE.
YES, there is a GLOBAL RECESSION right NOW.
AND there are some certain professions that are SUFFERING more than others
BUT will things always remain the SAME? I PRAY NOT.
If you do not ARM yourselves or YOUR children with different SKILLS and AN EDUCATION do not be SURPRISED when FOREIGNERS come in and take those JOBS.
NOT everybody THINKS that ACQUIRING an EDUCATION and VARIOUS OTHER SKILLS is A WASTE OF TIME.
ITS BRUTAL out there ONLY the SKILLED and the TOUGH SURVIVE .
Those that are BUILDING these PRISONS are doing so because they cannot RENNOVATE the PLANTATIONS.
Its up to each INDIVIDUAL to ENSURE that they do not end up in ONE and become a STATISTIC.
@Kigali: you were talking about blacks causing gun violence in the educational system. And now you jump to the Second Amendment? That would mean guns don’t kill just black people, all people kill all people.
What she’s saying is right! And let’s stop with all the “extremism,” people.
Angela says: Structural Racism. I say Institutionalized Slavery
How can a brotha pay child support behind bars?
How can a sista take care of her child(children) behind bars?
Some of these crimes they committed or (alleged)are misdemeanors, which mean half of these offenses mean Probation! 1 day this foolishness will End
I feel like reading thru these posts to find an f-ing idiot that will blame rap music. Shame what rap did to Dafur. I will say that they should issue treatment for drug position more and time less. But violent offenders need to be locked up.
I’m black and i’m proud
@Glok
They have actually only scatched the surface, im high and am making more sense than your college educated azz ..dumb niggrz!Basic knowledge you have that the Most High gave you that already!Black ppl please dont stop with mere certification Continue with independent education.Let your mind continue to grow beyond that whiteman basic knowledge..I call it basic,becase it iz the base or foundation for your real education.That iz why they put a *****king square on your stupid azz at graduation time.That square repesents just a mere base upon which you should build your pyramid of real education!
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On this you will not get an arguement from me. You should never stop trying to learn and better yourself. Which is why the whole love of self kind of also fits in there. A man who loves himself will not let his natural curiousity stagnate. This natural curiousity and study is how we have what we have now. As I said earlier you only slave yourself to a job by your own willingness but in the end you control your own fate for the most part and just because one job closes it doesn’t mean it is over diversify and go at it again at another angle. That’s what a lot of people don’t get. They think they do whatever studying they can do to get a job as an adult and think ok that’s it. Well that may be it or that job might vanish. But if it does you man up and go back to school. Period. *****ody stops you unless you help them.
I love this topic!
BLOODSHOT! BELIEVE ME I INHALED ALL YOU TYPED IM LIKE OTHERS WHO JUST WANNA BE HEARD, THANK YOU FOR AND INTELLIGENT DEBATE ..I LOOK FORWARD TO MANY MORE ..SHALOM!
FACE FACTZ! LOOK IM JUST LIKE YOU WHEN IT COMES TO NOT HAVING THE *****ION IM NO JESUS OR ANY OF GODZ MESSENGERS,I CANT ANSWER THE PROBLEMZ THAT ALE US…Just be thankful I gave you the truth! Be thankful for those who speak the truth. Because only the will make you free of your own ignorance.The truth exposes that which you previously were ignorant of,but now you know.Now you know what wrongz must be corrected regardless of my use of the word “niggr”.
Black Family …Attack your problems, not the truth,Attack your faults not the trtuh sayers! Attack the weakness in yourself instead in others beside you.Dont be a crab,trying to pull everybody else down just because your weak misery loves company…If you choose to walk the straight and narrow path of truth towards the light you will be exposed! You should expect to be exposed!You should be thankful to be exposed!! Do not resist your purification,lest you remain impure Do not resist the truth lest you remain in the midst of lies..im done ppl this too them azzholes who hate on the factz, ***** you ..Keep hope alive!
***** what she talkin bout this ***** crazy…we need prisons but we dont need this privatized/ prison industrial complex/mosern slavery system thats in place now….but i guess if you cant fix something destroying it is the next best thing right?
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@kigali
U said IF…our families were together. Well guess what our families aren’t together and our schools and neighborhoods are getting worse. So what are we, as a society, going to do to stop the cycle. Yeah, we can demand parents raise their kids. But what are we as a society going to do about those kids that are falling through the cracks. Your solution seems to be to keep pointing fingers and let the kids who are already in bad situations suffer. –The problem is and have always been the kids who don’t have solid families. These kids turn into our criminals and baby mamas. So if we can reach those kids maybe we can save some of them. That means giving these kids some things they are missing at home.–which our schools are starting to do. 1)Your favorite-Birth Control-In some school girls can access birth control. yeah u can now get a voucher for birth control from your school nurse. In cali, after 16 u can get this birth control without parent permission. 2)Food-A school district in Boston maintains a food pantry so students can take home food for their family. The school district figured out that some kids have ***** for parents. These babies go home with empty stomachs and because they don’t want to be taken into foster care, they hide their hunger. 3)Families in the cl*****room–In chicago there is a program that recruits and hires grandparents as teacher aids. They figure if some of these bad kids had their grandparents in the cl*****room they would act better. 4)Counseling–Living in violent ***** neighborhoods is stressful on the little ones. Half our kids are suffering from post traumatic stress syndrome, no fault of their own. I don’t feel its too much for our school to respond to their needs. –Another post u said that black males are failing. Don’t u think better schools could help black males do better? Don’t u think that it is just as important for black males to learn how to control their anger?
jail is horrible and everyone who is there does not derserve to be there
the black race in terms of males ans females is totally lopsided and thats why these women are out here fighting over men like there are only 100 more left…
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It’s all about socio-economics…poor people, who come from disadvantaged homes, schools, etc. have a more difficult time saying no to drugs and alcohol and which often lead to violence and crime, which-of course– lead to jail. It’s not just black people in the U.S., think globally, do some research…people in India, Australia, England, China, Japan, France, Ethiopia, Yugoslavia, Argentina, Morocco… Look into poverty and crime. There is a tremedous link. I live on a outer island in Hawaii where there are very few black people, I work for a Criminal Defense Attorney, the majority of our clients are “local” meaning Pacific Islandler (Hawaiian, Samoan, Tongan, Fijian) mixed or Asian/Filipino mixed. There are many white or “haoles” criminals as well. 95% of the crimes are drug related and the majority of the criminals never left island or went to college. We need better school systems, free colleges (a progressive thought but interesting) and all people on equal footing–no more ghettos and poor neighborhoods. If we can somehow eliminate inequality, poverty and addiction we are 75% of the way to solving the solution.
So what are we supposed to do? Let the out of control n!ggers run free? Idiots!
I got a better idea how about MFer’s STOP commiting crimes. So they won’t have to go to prison.
@glok9…How are white people “the real white American’s” when whites stole America from the Indians? Then whites brought blks over here by force not by choice, so now we here damn it, so deal with it!
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Oh, as I am thinking I did not answer the question. I think prisons are needed but they need stricter guidlines. I know a single mother of 3 (blk of course) with a job and all, that did 3 months in prison for parking tickets? WTF? Yet you have white wall street execs, bank execs, etc. stealing billions from poor tax payers and the government and they get a slap on the wrist. The system is set up for blk folks to fail, period. I know blk men in there right now for shyt they did not do. How can the blk men sale drugs? Drugs come from over seas…how we gonna get them to the hood? We don’t have boats? It’s a set up, the white man brings it to us, puts it in our community, puts are fathers in jail, so the streets end up raising our young blk men and tell them that saling drugs is the way to go. It’s a cycle and I could go on and on! I hate what they do to us. We have to stop the cycle. I understand we have to take responsibility, but we are still enslaved in the minds. If you take the father away from our families who teaches our young blk men to be men? See the cycle? It’s all planned!
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I got a better idea how about MFer’s STOP commiting crimes. So they won’t have to go to prison.
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I have read the whole article that bossip has submiited to the site. Davis u make some valid points and could not agree more, but what I cannot seem to get a grip on is if u are suggesting that we rid the world of prisons , what do you suppose we do with them m***** murders, kingpins, rappist, terrorist. We will not put them in dungeons and hang them we are in America the land of the free so what do you anti*****te we do with them. I fyou can come up with a justifiable location other than prisons or jail then let a sister know and I wlil support u to the fullest. To me your arguement is just beginning far from over so you started something so please do finish but when doing so please think about what is the worst that can happen and be prepared to reply to it.