AFRIKAN D.R.U.M. (DIALECTIC REVOLUTIONARY UNITY AND MOVEMENT)


JAILING FOR DOLLARS
by
David Padgett M.S. and Nikitah Okembe-RA Imani M.A., M.A.

White world supremacy is getting rich by capturing and imprisoning millions of young Afrikan men.  Reportedly, the construction and maintenance of correctional institutions is becoming a "growth industry."

With money and jobs at stake, it is not difficult to determine that it is in the best interest of the white supremacy system to continue the flow of Afrikans into penal systems.

After looking at the numbers, Black people should realize that "20th century slavery" is in full effect in prisons across the globe.  As Dr. Huey P. Newton wrote in Revolutionary Suicide:

"I have often pondered the similarity between prison experience and the slave experience of Black people.  Both systems involve exploitation: the slave received no compensation for the wealth he produced, and the prisoner is expected to produce marketable goods for what amounts to no compensation."

Thus, we should be shocked at learning that nearly 75 percent of ex-"convicts" are soon arrested again and returned to prison.  White supremacy has no interest in rehabilitating Afrikan men; it instead chooses to maintain a police state in Afrikan communities upheld by occupying law enforcement squads whose primary function is to control, coerce, and capture Afrikan men for profit!

White supremacy is using the media to perpetuate the stereotype of the "dangerous, animal-like negro with super-human strength" who must be controlled at all costs.

Because of white supremacy, the overrepresentation of Afrikan men in prisons, police brutality, and unjust court decisions are justifiable to "whites".  "Whites" believe that it is in their best interest to pay millions of dollars to imprison Afrikan men. Many "whites" have become, in fact, economically dependent upon prison "industry".  If efforts to reduce the numbers of Afrikan male prisoners were successful, "whites" would lose jobs and money. Afrikans are physically enslaved by penal systems because "whites" are economically dependent upon them. Slavery again!

It is our ultimate responsibility to keep Afrikan men out of prison. Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu states that where a young Afrikan male is between 10 at night and 3 in the morning will determine where he will spend the rest of his life.  Afrikans must keep their male children off of the streets and out of the hands of this "20th century slave trade."

Copyright remains with the Authors
(C) 1996 By Nikitah Okembe-RA Imani and David A. Padgett



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