As Covid cases across the nation continue to surge, the cases within these razor-wire plantations do so as well. Despite North Carolina’s Department of Public Safety (DPS) being under a court order to take steps to protect the lives of prisoners in their custody, prison administrators and their subordinates have failed to comply with these… Continue reading Deliberate Indifference
A Man that is Still a Boy
I sometimes daydream that I will have a normal life, that I would somehow face my demons with the protective shield of your soft words and comforting smile that I would need on my road to redemption. I give myself to this feeling of being lost, to this anguish imagination of hopeless. I give myself… Continue reading A Man that is Still a Boy
I Am John Brown
Is it an identity crisis some call me a wannabe,Why because I see the significance of Juneteenth?Just because my skin is pale and my eyes are blueI should treat blacks as you do?My Ancestors raped and enslaved the land of the free.Created racism enabling capitalism to breed.Nah they’re no ancestors of mine, I derive from… Continue reading I Am John Brown
White Accountability
Illustration by Roger Peet, justseeds.org “The actual foundation of racism is not ignorance and hate, but self-interest, particularly economic and political and cultural.”– Ibram X. Kendi All Power to the People, If white people avouch to be thunderstruck at what’s happening in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd, thin we are eluding… Continue reading White Accountability
Phone Zap: May 7th, 2020
Publishing Fundraiser
As many of you already know, writing has allowed me to reach far beyond these windowless concrete walls, to feel loved outside of this razor-wired slave plantation. I am working on a book titled, "Through the Eyes of a White Panther". Please support me during these particularly difficult years of my life. Your contributions will… Continue reading Publishing Fundraiser
Seeing Ghosts, Hearing Voices
Confined to a 6x9 tomb, a prison within a prison that was built in 1889. I hear the voices of the past captives or is it just my mind? I can hear the screams, the pleas, the cries caused by loneliness, neglect, deprived of liberty and life. Am I really hearing these walls talk? Walls… Continue reading Seeing Ghosts, Hearing Voices
Nothing has been done to protect people incarcerated from contracting this deadly virus
All power to the people! Several of my komrades beyond the walls of this razor wire plantation have written asking me why haven’t I wrote nothing about the novel covid19 virus, asking me to report on what the conditions are within these walls and what precautionary steps have been taken to prevent spread of the… Continue reading Nothing has been done to protect people incarcerated from contracting this deadly virus
Nationwide Grievance Campaign to the DOJ & BOP
Revolutionary Greetings, to all resilient, dedicated front-line warriors who sacrifice daily to ameliorate the living conditions for all prisoners held captive within the many Razor-Wire Plantations across the nations. As Minister of Defense for the White Panther Organization it’s my duty to strategize and implement the most effective strategy, which would ensure redress, into my… Continue reading Nationwide Grievance Campaign to the DOJ & BOP
Knockin’ Doors Down to End Solitary Confinement Pt II
“In recent years, a diverse range of international and national bodies, advocates, federal and state policy makers and corrections practitioners have called for prisons and jails to reform their use of segregation, also known as solitary confinement or restrictive housing. Whether citing the potentially devastating psychological and physiological impacts of spending 23 hours a day… Continue reading Knockin’ Doors Down to End Solitary Confinement Pt II