In Florida prisons, will so-called street thugs find the courage to confront corporate thugs?

by Shabazz M. Muhammad (Eric X Wilridge)

The Florida Department of Corrections is a system that’s operated by the children of slavemasters and Uncle Toms. The system is designed to break the once so-called street thugs when they enter the confines of hell.

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To kick off #OperationPUSH, the statewide work strike planned by Florida prisoners to start on Martin Luther King Day, IWOC (Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee), with Black Lives Matter and other groups, demonstrated outside Department of Corrections headquarters, prisons and work camps around the state.

The so-called street thug will tell you how many dudes he whacked on the streetz. But the slavemaster’s children who work for the oppressor will tell you to “bend over, boy,” and shine a flashlight up your ass!

The fake gang members (not all) are hiding in these organizations that were built upon the backs of soldiers who sacrificed blood, sweat and tears, went toe to toe with the slavemaster’s children and against his Jim Crow laws.

Malcolm X would be ashamed of the mindset of the original man. He said prison is the next best thing to college. He stayed up at night to study. He was an example of a real soldier who didn’t kill his own kind for the oppressor.

These young so-called street thugz don’t want to get educated or organized to help shut down the corporate thugz – the investors – in FDOC (Florida Department of Corrections). They’re scared as hell to not go to the canteen, kitchen, etc., etc.

The agenda is to shut down this corporate business with the tactic of non-violence unless we are attacked first. These so-called street thugz will quote “Lil Boogie” but can’t tell you shit about the 1971 Attica Prison Uprising that changed and challenged the Eighth Amendment on cruel and unusual punishment, or about Gen. George Jackson or the history of the Black Panther Party that was founded by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. But yet, the street thugz claim they follow the foundation of these soldiers – get the hell outta here!

On MLK Day in Florida there was a demonstration at the slavemaster’s house, the FDOC headquarters, by the real street thugs, the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC), to protest the injustice that’s taking place within the Florida prison system – calling out the outrageous canteen prices, package permits and the medical department fees, as well as demanding the reinstatement of parole and restarting the educational programs.

The corporate thugz continue to drain the budget, which is kickbacks by the investors and privately run medical. These corporations have a net profit of millions. J-Pay last year, 2017, made $98 million with a profit of $50 million. The prices in the inmate canteen are insane.

These young so-called street thugz don’t want to get educated or organized to help shut down the corporate thugz – the investors – in FDOC (Florida Department of Corrections). They’re scared as hell to not go to the canteen, kitchen, etc., etc.

The so-called street thugz won’t even boycott this injustice, but rely on family members to send money and get pimped by the corporate thugz. A real man will stand up against oppression.

People are struggling to send money and you so-called street thugz let a robber rob you, but let you tell it, you were doing all the robbing on the streetz – probably within the hood against the poor and probably against your own kind.

I heard one young brother say he don’t write grievances – that’s for women. See how messed up their minds are! Don’t know nothing about paper trails. This is how lawsuits get set up.

But oh yeah, you’re a street thug, an uneducated brother. Malcolm X was also a street thug, but educated. That’s what made him dangerous.

The so-called street thugz won’t even boycott this injustice, but rely on family members to send money and get pimped by the corporate thugz. A real man will stand up against oppression.

The number of young Black men in college is one third the number of young Black women. The Black Lives Matter movement was started by three college sisters in the wake of the Trayvon Martin murder.

There are 100,000 inmates in the FDOC, but we have no unity. But oh, let a brother owe a so-called street thug a soup, he might get killed. But the same slavemaster’s son will disrespect the so-called street thugz and he will tuck his tail.

Boy, go to the canteen and spend your mama’s money! Because you so-called street thugz ain’t got shit! You won’t even fight to get paid like other slave plantations (prisons). In the North, at least the brothers and sisters can be independent instead of dependent.

A real man will fight for a job. This was the agenda of Martin Luther King Jr. The (IWOC) is fighting to abolish the clause in the 13th Amendment that says you’re a slave if you’re in prison.

If you so-called street thugs commit a crime, you’re sold back into slavery in prison. Slavery was abolished in 1863, but corporations have always kept these hands in bondage.

The so-called street thugz had choppers, sticks, all kind of ammo on the streetz, but once on the plantations (prisons), they’re scared to pick up a pen! “Oh shit, hell no! That pen carries 10 to 20 to life. It’ll get me in trouble with the slavemaster’s children (prison guards).”

A real man will fight for a job. This was the agenda of Martin Luther King Jr. The (IWOC) is fighting to abolish the clause in the 13th Amendment that says you’re a slave if you’re in prison.

At this particular plantation, Hamilton Correctional Institution, the conditions are so bad, but the so-called street thugz don’t even care. In particular I Dorm Wing 3: Raw sewage overflows in the TV room and the showers. No dishwasher in the kitchen to wash utensils. Fire hazards all over the building.

On Dec. 23, 2017, it caught on fire, and guess what? The slavemaster’s children (prison guards) said: “All right, cattle, go back in the cage” the same night – without a proper investigation. Our lives were in jeopardy, yet the so-called street thugz once again tucked their tail.

The real revolution has to start within. A coward has no business on the front line fighting for freedom, justice, and equality. The women within the FDOC stand up stronger against the slavemaster’s children (guards) than the men. Now, so-called street thugz, who is the real bitch?

Oh, you say you ain’t down with the struggle. Well, you’re just another lost brother that depends on your mama instead of standing on your own 10 toes.

The corporate thieves will continue to bleed the people if the so-called street thugz don’t stand up and unite and help redistribute the pain. Starting Feb 1, 2018, these prison guards will panic.

The real revolution has to start within. A coward has no business on the front line fighting for freedom, justice, and equality.

Last year, in August 2017, the secretary of FDOC ordered all prisons locked down for five days, and guess what the slavemaster’s children did? They fed the population good – that old tactic to get the so-called street thugz to go against the vanguards of the revolution.

Though the so-called street thugz forgot about the struggle, it’s IWOC that didn’t forget! Corporate thugz will continue to keep their boots on the necks of the so-called street thugz as long as we don’t unite.

The corporate thieves will continue to bleed the people if the so-called street thugz don’t stand up and unite and help redistribute the pain. Starting Feb 1, 2018, these prison guards will panic.

We’re all in blue. Don’t give a damn if you’re a Blood, Crip, Folk, King, BBP, KKK, MS-13, Five Percenter, Muslim, Hebrew, Christian – we’re all being taken advantage of by corporate thugs who the slavemaster’s children work for. Capital is what generates the economy.

So what we gonna do, so-called street thugs? Fight for our rights with the help of Gainesville IWOC or let the slavemaster’s children (prison guards) continue to shine a flashlight up our buttz? You like that? I don’t.

Shout out to Brother Shaka Shakur and Brother Keith Soanes at Charlotte C1 in Florida.

Power to the People!

Send our brother some love and light: Eric Wilridge, 107390, Hamilton CI, MU I3106L, 10650 SW 56th St., Jasper FL 32052-3732.