Do We Really Want Peace, or Just Hidden Violence?
I wonder if those who say they want Peace and an End to Violence really understand how much of their lives and comforts depend on...
Day: December 19, 2014
Diallo’s Conspiracy Corner: US Opens Up to Cuba.
In the 1960s when the US started making concessions to the Black internal Subjects of it’s Empire (aka: African-Americans), there were many interesting factors at play. Africa was decolonizing because the Western powers couldn’t hold them after the orgy of White-on-White violence we’ve come to call World War II, Latin America was also heavily flirting with Communism and Socialism after decades of direct Imperial imposition and...
A Criminal is a Rebel with an Individual, Materialistic Goal. A Revolutionary is a Rebel with a Collective, Ideological Agenda. I will work with our brothers (and sisters) to make that turn. Diallo Kenyatta
On the Rikers Island Prision Report….
The Justice Department is suing New York City and Rikers Island for ongoing abuses against (Black) teens incarcerated there.
(http://www.nytimes.com/…/08/05/nyregion/05rikers-report.html)
I worked on Rikers Island for 3 years, in the prison infirmary and I saw first hand abuses, physical and psychological torture. I once overheard Corrections Officers joking about turning high powered hoses on inmates as they were locked in their cells....