Tag: modern day lynching

The Rev. Jesse Jackson had a special place in his heart for prisoners. Here, despite the disease that would take his life three years later, on Jan. 21, 2023, he made his customary annual visit to the Cook County Jail with his son, Congressman Jonathan Jackson, pushing his wheelchair as prisoners rushed to welcome him. – Screenshot: WGN News

Alabama Department of Corrections is the “worst of the worst” of present day criminal capitalist slave plantations and they have this week attempted to murder prisoner leader Kinetic Justice to silence his constant exposure of the ADOC’s inhumane brutality of those in its “care.” As a society, we must speak our outrage, or be utterly shamed.

“Y’know things get funnier every day you live. They don’t get no better. Dig? But they sure as hell get funnier.” This week I keep hearing those words in the back of my mind, as spoken by a Black journalist named “Roosevelt,” a character who works for a Black New Orleans newspaper in the 1960s film “WUSA.” Critics trashed WUSA when it came out in 1970 and it bombed at the box office, but Paul Newman thought it was the most important film he ever made.

It’s personal because your actions against the oppressed were calculating, premeditated and strategically targeting New Afrikans and other oppressed, poor citizens of this nation. Not only did you wickedly abuse the trust of the people who believed in you, but you demonstrated what hatred looks like in policy. Yes! Your charisma, accompanied with your oiled up tongue, allowed you to work your charms on the people while all the time preying on them like a wild, mad predator.

October 22nd, National Day of Action – after weeks of planning, the day had finally arrived. Today we would gather in groups big and small all around the country to speak truth to power: “Black lives matter!” “Stop killing us off!” “We demand a stop to police violence and police brutality!” “We demand an end to mass incarceration!” My National Day of Action started in San Francisco.