MIM Notes 186 May 15 1999

Prisons are part of a Master Plan
by a prisoner in Georgia

Prisons are part of a "Master Plan." A plan that is designed and 
directed against New Afrikans and People of Color. In the 60s, in 
nearly every prison throughout the United States, the New Afrikan 
population was five, ten or 20 percent, with the exception of a 
few southern states, such as MS, AL, GA. Now, prisons all over 
Amerikkka are full of New Afrikans. There has been a diametrical 
change in the racial make up of the population of prisons, exactly 
opposite of what it was 25 ago. Now New Afrikans are 60, 70, or 
even 80 and 90 percent of the prison population, totally out of 
proportion with the percentage of New Afrikans in the general 
population of society. Why is this?

The starting point to answering this question commences with the 
fact that the racist white power structure of this society, who 
has carefully studied the manufactured nature of New Afrikan 
people, has come to realize that New Afrikan people will so easily 
and quickly adapt to captivity. For four hundred years in this 
kkkountry, New Afrikans, our culture, and our physical and 
psychological behaviour patterns, have been put under the 
microscope and the power structure has determined that New Afrikan 
people will so complacently abject to, accept, and in some cases, 
appreciate prison life.

Prisons have become an enterprise. It is more profitable to have 
New Afrikans, and people of color, behind bars, rather than 
walking the streets, demanding jobs that are reserved for white 
society. Prisons have become so profitable that many large 
corporations, such as Goldman Sachs and Company, Prudential 
Insurance, Smith Barney Shearson Corporation, and Merrill Lynch 
are investing in prisons. These companies are underwriting prison 
construction bonds. Westinghouse Electric Company, Minnesota 
Mining Company, and Alliant Techsystems are adapting and selling 
their technology to fight crime. It must be recognized that the 
existing prison system as a big business, is making people of 
color and the poor their largest commodity. The reality is 
incarceration is not just the exploitation of New Afrikans, but 
part of the "Master Plan" of complete modern day genocide of New 
Afrikan people.

So, this government (which is the racist white power structure 
regardless of the color of the skin) initiated legal policies and 
statutes through legislative acts of congress, under the disguise 
of the "War on Drugs: in order to put in motion the "Master Plan" 
that we see at work now (sweeping thousands of young New Afrikan 
men and women off the streets and into crowded prison kkkamps.) 
The "War on Drugs" has a more compact meaning, it means that the 
u.s. Constitution, in time of "War" is suspended. At one time in 
the legal history of this kkkountry one could merely prove that 
his/her constitutional rights were violated and justice would 
demand that he/she receive redress. But now, constitutional 
violation is not quite enough. There are technicalities involved 
in the law that makes it almost impossible to receive justice. The 
whole purpose of prisons nowadays is to isolate, exploit, and 
eliminate by any means necessary.

If we are going to be successful in overcoming obstacles which we 
are constantly confronted with, we are going to have to start 
forming united fronts and establish bases of support through which 
we can collectively support each other and combat enemy 
aggression. Those who are reading this article, I'm asking for 
your help and support to fight in the kkkolonial arena that's 
founded on racist politics and white supremacy. I also request 
that you become involved in or with the prison struggle. Strength 
is ours and victory is only certain when guided by the people. If 
there is no resistance to downpression, there will be no progress 
towards revolution to overthrow babylon. All power to those who 
don't fear freedom! Let's be up and doing.

Stiff resistance, in struggle till death.

MIM replies:  The Amerikan society has always been good for 
whites. It's legal rules and constitution worked out OK for white 
male landowners from the beginning. Females also benefited through 
the family ties of whites. We agree with the Georgia prisoner that 
once the United $tates started counting Blacks as people, it 
stopped applying the U.S. Constitution. The struggle for white 
supremacy was conducted through biased enforcement, and not openly 
by making Black people slaves or non-voters.

There is a lull in the struggle right now. The Black Panthers 
proved that Blacks are not always passive, so we agree it's time 
to be "up and doing." No matter how bad it may seem, repression 
will breed resistance. That's a law of dialectics.

To be completely accurate--Blacks are imprisoned at a rate that 
exceeds apartheid South Africa. The last time a ruler imprisoned 
people at this rate for Blacks was during World War II. The Soviet 
Union was in a desperate situation with hundreds of thousands or 
millions of traitors and Hitler almost took over the whole country 
before Stalin and the Soviet people prevailed. Peoples are not 
imprisoned at this rate during peace time, so the writer is 
correct that there is a war of the imperialists against the 
oppressed nation being waged.

It's time for the Black middle-class to wake up too and take a 
look around in history. The white nation is not showing Christian 
love for the Black people; this is not a situation appropriate for 
MLK's thought. His thought on non-violence and love won't become 
relevant until the causes of white violence are eradicated. They 
call it the "War on Drugs," but the cops look the other way when 
it comes to white users. As MIM Notes pointed out before:

"In the United States, whites account for over 67% of people who 
have ever used crack (2.3 million out of 3.4 million total) and 
53% of those who used crack in the last year (488,000 out of 
906,000). But less than 4% of the defendants prosecuted in federal 
courts for crack- related offenses in 1994 were white. Whites 
accounted for 51% of crack users in the Los Angeles metro area, 
but not a single white has been convicted of a crack cocaine 
offense in Los Angeles federal courts since 1986, and only 4% of 
those prosecuted in state courts were white."

Source: Los Angeles Times 21 May 1995; full article MIM Notes 
#102.