Michigan
3-22-2020
Dear Comrades,
Allow me to open these few select words extending my most sincere condolences to everyone that has been affected—directly and indirectly—by this horrific pandemic that is ravishing the world at this moment. As i write this letter, i am currently trapped inside the oppressive confines of a torturous segregation chamber where i am relatively safe from this rampant virus at the moment—that is, of course, until covid-19 decides to find its way inside the oppressive bowels of this beast and ravish our bodies because as it stands today, we are currently forced to live on recycled air and in very close quarters. However, just because my immediate circumstances may render me safe at the moment, it doesn’t exclude me—or my fellow comrades for that matter—from the extent of destruction and devastating dark times that covid-19—and the oppressive and corrupt ruling class structure—has inflicted upon the entire population of the world.
In reality, we are actually tormented mentally by the effects of this rampant virus more than the average person should be because we are currently rendered physically incapable of insuring that our families are taking the necessary steps of precaution to protect theirselves against covid-19. Even more importantly, from the looks of the major economic failure and the lack of response from government officials to appropriately address the financial hardships that this virus has put on people living in urban communities, it’s a struggle for me to imagine how the lives of my poor and oppressed peoples will look after this pandemic passes. I personally do not operate in fear, because this flawed way of thinking only tends to lead to a life full of stress. However, i am very much worried about the sanity and well-being of my peoples living throughout these government manufactured ghettos across amerikkka.
The totality of this pandemic is getting out of control and although covid-19 has devastating effects, this is a stark reality that amerikkkans so desperately needed. This virus has knocked amerikkka off its "high-horse"—for the lack of a better term—as it has exposed the underlying workings of this system—a system which operates through racism, oppression, and corruption. A particularly astonishing contradiction of this system it likes to propagate is the belief that it is the greatest country in the world. While the U.S. has the largest economy in the world, why is there a major lack of resources—i.e. medical supplies and the whole health care infrastructure—to alleviate the spread of covid-19 throughout the world? Even more importantly, amerikkka likes to consider itself the "leaders of the world," "Big-Brother," so why is there virtually no cooperation between the "Big Brother" and its "subservient siblings"?
This nation has been exposed and the time is ripe for us to declare our revolution against these corrupt leaders. In order for us to achieve our true liberation from this corrupt system, we need an actual revolution which overthrows this system and replaces it with a radically new and far better one that will allow us to live in a society in which production is actually organized to meet the needs of all peoples—black, brown, yellow, red, and white. This revolution needs to happen now while this beast is tormented with the confusion and destruction of covid-19, and i challenge you brothas and sistas to honestly ask yourselves.
We are heading for turbulent times either way it goes, doing something or not, we are still heading "that way," so to speak, because the system dictates it to be "that way." The reactions of the fascist is but a reaction to the already failing system and the consequences the capitalist-imperialist system brings. So it is better to act and do something about our struggle to change things no matter how hard it may be. And if we fail, the coming generations would know that we tried and the remnants of our attempt will still be there and that alone will encourage them to pick up where we left off, you feel me? To pick up the flag from our dying hand, so to speak, and continue the struggle to emancipate humanity, just as we picked it up from our fallen comrades of the past. So win or lose, it is better to get out there and do something than to do nothing and get ran over.
I appreciate you brothas and sistas for your time and for listening to everything that i had to say. Once again, i appeal to all of you comrades to rise up with arms and unite under the same common goal of being free or being ready to die fighting for the emancipation of all oppressed peoples everywhere.
Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win! All Power to the People!
Your comrade in arms, xxx
p.s. you comrades asked how the corona virus is being approached by prisoners, prison officials and prison guards at my location... well first let’s start with these oppressive prison officials. As i stated earlier in this letter, i am currently being held captive inside the oppressive confines of this torturous segregation chamber and as of now, these corrupt prison officials are not considering anyone to be released from these confines because they are claiming to need the bed space in the general population for prisoners who may need to be quarantined in response to covid-19. So in that sense, we are basically being held indefinitely until either the virus passes or until another prisoner comes to the hole in which they'll take our room in exchange for theirs.
In regards to the prison guards, of course they love to play games just like the majority of these convicts do—some of which are inmates, there’s a big difference. These guards tend to act like they have the virus just to render a response from prisoners in hopes of disturbing our sanity. However, our only security of knowing that these reactionary pigs isn’t infected is because—from what the administration officials are telling us—they are taking every officers temperature before allowing them to enter the facility and if it reads 101°F or higher then they're not allowed inside the compound. However, we all know that this method isn’t sufficient enough to insure the prevention of covid-19 amongst prison because people have been testing positive for the virus without showing any symptoms. So at this point, it is basically a matter of time before this virus reaches us.
In regards to the day to day activities of prison life, everything is basically being ran the same with one exception so far that i am aware of. The "Big wigs" have restricted all visitations inside of Michigan prisons but as a substitute to this crisis, they are allowing everyone to receive two free 5 minute phone calls a week which is a rarity considering the capitalist nature of these tyrants. To receive anything for free from these capitalist bastards is unheard of, however, the oppressiveness in which they clearly operate is still very evident as i am a victim to these very corrosive measures that’s carried out against the nature of my being everyday. Finally, my fellow comrades tend to believe that these walls makes them exempt from this rampant virus but in reality they’re just trying to downplay their fears because often times i hear these same individuals expressing their concerns about this pandemic with their closest confidants.
It’s all about an image behind these walls and gates of oppression and that’s exactly what these inmates—notice my use of this word here—tend to try to portray when we're openly discussing the severity and totality of this horrendous pandemic. Just the fact that these capitalist bastards are giving us free phone calls attests to the severity of this situation, nevertheless all of the school closings, deaths, unemployment claims, etc. that the nation is experiencing right now. But since these things/realities doesn’t immediately effect these brothas, the only thing they tend to say is, "Free phone calls? I hope covid-19 never leaves." This isn’t true for all of the prisoners that’s trapped behind these iron curtains, especially not the comrades that’s associated with the nature of my being—however, the overall state of consciousness of my fellow convicts is disheartening. Nevertheless, i try not to give up on them—because you'll never know who can be redeemed from the deteriorating destruction of psychological warfare that these capitalist-imperialist bastards waged against our people, you know? So i hope these truths allowed you brothas and sistas a glimpse into the daily life of prison during this coronavirus pandemic. I really look forward to hearing from you comrades very soon.
On another note, I’ve asked you comrades for a few materials in my previous letters of which I’ve never received. So in regards to this, i am once again requesting to ascertain the following materials respectfully or at least be provided with a response so i can know if i should be looking forward to receiving these materials or not.
The Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America
The New Communism
Science and Revolution
BAsics
Breakthroughs
The "American Crime" feature as i do not have access to revcom.us I would like the complete series of this feature - #1-#100 - please.
Thank you comrades once again for your time and for listening to what i had to say.
Uhuru