While reading MIM Theory 11: Amerikkkan Prisons on Trial about
how all United $nakes prisoners are political prisoners, and most all of
these are oppressed nations, it made me question if maybe these
statistics differ much in the state of Utah?
The Utah population is mostly white, so much so that over half of us
convicts in these chambers are white. This statistic must really be an
anomaly in the overall U.$. percentage rate of those incarcerated. Of
course it’s poor whites who can’t afford lawyers who are caged here. But
what saddens me to my very soul is seeing these whites running around
with swastikas saying they love Amerikkka. Saying it’s not the unjust
in-justice system that targeted them for slavery but it was because they
chose this path, they chose not to work and slang drugs. Did they choose
too to have their fathers and uncles institutionalized, I ask? Where was
your father growing up, where was your dad when you were starting to
buck the system that you supposedly love so well? Not in prison? So your
son is now destined for the very same fate as you and your father…and
you love this system?!
We were served hot dogs for the fourth of July and these people, my
peers, were happy. Yelling out on the tier, “Happy fourth of July.” I
screamed back, “Fuck Amerika!” If we wasn’t all in solitary, the looks
on their faces would of made the Mona Lisa frown. The audacity of this
Communist to say “fuck Amerika.” We got hot dogs and fireworks, they
say, we have it much better than prisoners elsewhere.
Is this what we’ve come to now? Even though our families are ripped
apart, severed from each other like so many heads from chickens. Now
it’s our fate to run around headless, knowledge-less, happy that our
captors (with swastikas too under sleeves and on hearts) feed us a damn
hot dog!
As a child I remember visiting my father here at the Draper prison and
even then I felt anger at him and a sort of disgust. Isn’t that how they
feel on T.V. about criminals? Isn’t that how I should feel, too? Well I
did. I hated him. His very own son. And why? Because that’s what I was
“taught” to do. I was mind-fucked into hating my very own father the
same way these lumpen racists are mind-fucked into loving a country that
takes everything from you but a damn hot dog.
Now I’m the one that’s hated when mail call or visiting comes around,
(“Whats wrong with you?” looks hidden behind what could have been
smiles). I see my nephew’s face and the hostility there masked, just
barely, and I want to grab the little guy and tell him, whisper, don’t
listen to them man! Little buddy wake up! Wake up! But visiting is over
and mother and grandmother won’t allow any of that “revolution” talk in
front of the child, let alone any truth in letters. Return to sender.
Return to ignorance. Is this how you felt, pops, at our visits? Was that
why you looked at me that way? Was it pleading? As you sit in
“population” or “Lone Peak work release” and I struggle here in solitary
supermax, my brother in county jail, uncles and aunts in CUCF, I
understand now. But it took me twenty seven years to do so, twenty seven
years of self-hate, suicidal thoughts, homicidal anger, clouds of drug
smoke and alcohol fog.
All I ask you sick, demented, money hungry, cold, imperialist nation is
one hour. You and me alone in a dark alley. Put down that fascist
oppressive stick and take off that bullshit white power mask. We’ll see
who is the better man. Even with my malnourished body and soul, you’d be
the one on the cold concrete, Uncle Sam. You’d be the one eating
garbage, unable to get up. Every fiber of my being is now tied up with
the Maoist Internationalist Movement. I, or my son, or my son’s son will
take up the gun beside the people when revolution calls. It’s not going
to stop until we stop it.
Most of the time we don’t even realize anything’s going on. Hell, how
could we when we have hot dogs?! We must find a way to wake everybody up
to what’s happening. It’s up to us, the youth of today’s generation, to
figure out how best to halt the ignorance, to wake them up! The old to
teach the new and the new to redo or reinvent strategy, reinvent new
agitations, new minds who maintain the same line and disciplines but
with a spin on dissemination, essays, and politics.
Of course the world knows what time it is but in order for our part of
the revolution to have enough strength, enough firepower and muscle to
take down the bourgeoisie, we need all hands on deck. We can’t be having
our own family and peers wearing the wrong colors and waving the wrong
flag. In my eyes those who won’t listen to the truth, who won’t take
their eyes off the Seinfeld reruns, family included, those are the ones
who will first trip up the movement. They’ll give the pigs the momentum
to take us down. Personally I’m in prison because a family member called
the kops. The more I’m learning, the more I understand the underground
status, and believe it applies universally. And that’s what makes it
difficult to lead by example or spread the word. This contradiction is
an important one and I think the answer or solution is right here in us,
in the youth. We just have to realize this.
I send strength to all comrades worldwide. As one!
{Saved by the bell
we are made this way,
then punished for being this way!
be afraid
motherfuckers
its back to school today.}
MIM(Prisons) adds: Yes, Utah is an anomaly. The Black
nation makes up half of the U.$. prison population, while representing
about 12% of the overall population. And that is one legacy of the
material basis for building socialism among Blacks and not whites. We
should try to ally with all who can be allied with, but as we see
Amerikans “waking up” they are too often turning to fascism.
Actually, this is a good test case for the “re-proletarianization” of
the United $tates. Some argue that we must organize Amerikans now in a
mass movement for socialism because as imperialist crisis advances they
will become proletarian again. First of all, Amerikans have never been a
proletarian nation. They began as an oppressor nation over the
indigenous people of the Americas, followed soon after by African slaves
and countless other peoples throughout history.
Utah prisons are an interesting example because we actually have a
majority white population losing their economic privilege as well as
facing extreme repression. And technically, a portion of them are even
being
economically
exploited. An economic collapse in the u$ will not suddenly cause a
boom in industry, so a lumpenization is a more accurate description of
what will occur than a proletarianization. In this sense, the Utah case
study parallels the hypothetical future Amerika pretty well.
So, what is the result? A minority of whites, like our comrade here,
will become radicalized towards finding solutions to the inherent
contradictions in the system. The majority of whites will cling to their
heritage and wave Amerikan flags and scream white power.
All U.$. citizens are criminals–accomplices and accessories to the
crimes of U.$. oppression globally until the day u$ imperialism is
overcome. All U.$. citizens should start from the point of view that
they are reforming criminals. Comrades like the writer are already well
on their way to becoming contributors to a brighter future for humynity.
