Tag: Kevin ‘Rashid’ Johnson

This is what commitment looks like – day to day, every day – Truth to Power, by any means necessary.

One held in deep integrity, respect, authenticity and commitment, Kevin ’Rashid’ Johnson expresses the importance of his weighing in on the Keith “Malik” Washington conversation.

Kevin ‘Rashid’ Johnson’s illumination about the creation of race for the purpose of capitalism’s necessity to control the masses could not be more clear.

Bold, courageous and brilliant freedom fighter Kevin ‘Rashid’ Johnson finds the humor in the deadly chess game of holding pigs’ feet to the fire.

The People rise again, 70 years after the historical 1951“We Charge Genocide” indictment against the U.S. government, to bring the International Jurists again to the 2021 International Tribunal again charging U.S. government and their states with genocide, civil and other crimes against humanity, and Black, Brown and Indigenous people specifically.

Kevin ‘Rashid’ Johnson is ‘bent as ever on being that “asshole” who helps lift the veil’ on corruptions and tortures against Western slave society behind the walls of U.S. prisons.

Kevin ‘Rashid’ Johnson welcomes Black August in tribute, recognition, fortification, consciousness-building and inspiration, embracing community socialist values of mutual aid and support.

Determined not deterred, Kevin “Rashid” Johnson continues to be the brilliant flame of the candle on the cake that can’t be blown out.

Another look at the U.S. government’s imperialist relentless crush of genocide against the Navaho Nation, and all First Nations, illuminates the extreme challenges set before the Navaho people to fight the COVID-19 pandemic in the face of the government’s deliberate denial of resources and criminal neglect of the people.

Revolution is complicated, and more so when personalities protrude into the process. Kevin ‘Rashid’ Johnson expresses the pain of fissures and fractures in the life force of the revolutionary movement. It is energy, and passion and brilliance will continue to light the way as it reflects off the walls of the breach.

This horror story is unique to Phillip Littler – but not. Kevin ‘Rashid Johnson has told the story again and again, and as a revered artist, he lays bare these atrocities in drawings, exquisite in the pain they reveal, imploring us to listen, feel and act to abolish the existing evil culture killing our fellow human beings.

Socially and politically charged labels have long been used – or misused – by officials as a cover for abusing and discriminating against Black and Brown people and suppressing political views that challenge or question the status quo. This tactic is deeply imbedded in the prisons caging our community members resulting in intentionally perpetrated pain and suffering.

Among the US soldiers captured in the Abu Ghraib torture photos were Amerikans who worked as prison guards in their civilian lives, linking the culture of abuse that pervades US prisons with the sociopathic mindset of military officials trained to deliberately torture other humans. That interplay is still very much alive today.

Although KB’s housed in the cell next to me, we hadn’t talked for about a week. He expressed frustration with me. Feeling years in segregation has affected my mind – negatively – in that I don’t seem interested to use my “wits” to get out: of segregation and ultimately prison. He goes for the “be a good boy and they’ll let you out” line. Had to correct him.

Demand justice! Demand respect! Demand humanity! Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, made a target of abusive and retaliatory practices back in May for publicizing the dangerous, inhumane and unsanitary conditions perpetrated upon himself and fellow prisoners at Pendleton Correctional Facility, continues to suffer retaliation for speaking truth!

On April 30, 2020, at least half of the nearly 300 prisoners in my assigned cellblock (J-housing unit) here at Indiana’s Pendleton Correctional Facility refused to accept meals in protest of our treatment, or lack thereof, related to the coronavirus pandemic and it’s spreading within PCF.

Since the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in the U.S., officials have demonstrated incompetence and indifference in response to the growing pandemic.