Today's Empire Is Tomorrow's Ashes...

Many Claim That It Is Insane To Resist The System; But Actually, It Is Insane Not To.

Very Few People In Prison Have Voices That Go Beyond The Wall. It's My Job To Do The Work For Them Because They Have No One.

At The Risk Of Quoting Mephistopheles I Repeat: Welcome To Hell. A Hell Erected And Maintained By Human-governments, And Blessed By Black Robed Judges. A Hell That Allows You To See Your Loved Ones, But Not To Touch Them. A Hell Situated In America's Boondocks, Hundreds Of Miles Away From Most Families. A White, Rural Hell, Where Most Of The Captives Are Black And Urban. It Is An American Way Of Death.

I Think Because I Came Into Journalism By Way Of The Black Panther Party - And Not J-school Or A Corporate Bourgeois Institution - I Tried To Do News, Writing And Reporting That Had Social, Political And Racial Content And Context.

When A Cause Comes Along And You Know In Your Bones That It Is Just, Yet Refuse To Defend It--at That Moment You Begin To Die. And I Have Never Seen So Many Corpses Walking Around Talking About Justice.