A Black man is paralyzed in prison
The prison official in charge gets a promotion
Hiii, I went out to nature to remind myself that skyscrapers do not grow from the ground. This week I’m sharing my feelings about a Black man being paralyzed in prison. Onto the news…
News that made me say Joe Biden is right…eww, I know
A Black man, Carlton James, was paralyzed by correction officers at the Vernon C. Bain Center jail. The super villain, Ned McCormick, who ran the jail when the brutality occurred, got promoted. Of course he did. The purpose of prison is violence, so when you do violence, well, you get a raise and a promotion. If you never want to get a promotion or a raise as a prison overseer, then be nice to the prisoners. That’s how our world operates. If you are in power and you are nice, you will lose your job. Do you think Joe Biden would have been promoted to president if he wasn’t taking orders directly from Satan?
Incidents like this is why I say we should abolish prisons. Incidents like these are also why I’m not paying attention to the election theater. I did not watch the presidential debate because I don’t like bad movies. I also don’t care about two old white men yelling at each other to trick us into believing we live in a democracy. To clarify, I don't like bad movies starring old white men. I do love a bad romcom because I love love.
What I don’t love is living in a world where a Black man is paralyzed in a prison and it’s not national news. Meanwhile a white man grazes Trump’s cheek with a bullet and everyone panics. Joe Biden says, “There’s no place for this kind of violence in America.” Joe Biden is right. I bet you never thought you’d see me write that in a million years. Don’t worry, I haven’t gone to the dark side. Unless you describe the dark side as making vegan smores with dark chocolate. I ate smores for the very first time and they were so delicious. Who knew sugar sandwiched with more sugar would taste so good?
Nonetheless, let’s go back to Biden being right for the first time in his life. Joe is right when he says there is no place for this kind of violence in America because violence in America is not supposed to happen to rich white men. Especially if that rich white man is doing his best Mussolini impression. The kind of violence that America has plenty of room for is violence against Black people. When it comes to violence against Black people, America is like a club with infinite space and no VIP lines.
I don’t care about whether Joe Biden drops out of the race or he drops up the stairs. Okay, I do care about the latter because I want to see all the footage to lull myself to sleep. What I do care about is the millions of incarcerated people who are being brutalized and murdered by the state. What I do care about is a billion dollars being spent on one prison in Alabama! Do you know how far in the depths of hell we have to be living in for a state to spend a billion dollars for a torture chamber? Alabama is always trying to come with worse things than Jeff Sessions and I think it’s succeeding.
Voting for Biden or Trump isn’t going to bring an end to prisons. The only thing that will do that is we the people deciding to work with each other to build a better world instead of tweeting at each other.
That’s it for the news but don’t go yet
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