Tales from the Pen

history of kumbaya:

Am I willing to let solidarity with people actually cost me something?

Would I fight for a cause that doesn’t benefit me, or may even result in me losing privilege?

Do I even know what that privilege actually looks like, in my every day life?

Though they make at least $7.25 an hour, the state siphons 40% off the top of all wages and also levies fees, including $5 a day for rides to their jobs and $15 a month for laundry.

Turning down work can jeopardize chances of early release in a state that last year granted parole to only 8% of eligible prisoners — an all-time low, and among the worst rates nationwide — though that number more than doubled this year after public outcry."

Prison Abolition

Police Abolition

Abolitionist Toolkits

Abolition and Coronavirus

Origin Stories

Criminalizing Blackness

Sexual Violence and Anti-Carceral Feminism

Restorative and Transformative Justice

Disability Justice

The Perils of Reform

Prison Organizing, Past and Present

Private Prisons and Prison Labor

Mutual Aid and/as Abolition

Child Welfare and Family Regulation

The Nonprofit Industrial Complex

Climate (In)Justice and Prisons

Crimmigration

LGBTQ Criminalization

Christianity and Prison Abolition

Abolition for Parents and Young People

Abolition, Surveillance, and “(Counter)Terrorism”

Should Killer Cops Go To Prison?

Abolition and Gun Violence/Control

“Sex Offenses” and Civil Commitment

Sex Work Decriminalization

Hate Crimes and White Supremacist Violence

Abolition and Universities

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Burkina Faso is not a country; it is an idea. Right now, many African youths want to travel to Burkina Faso to be part of this idea.

No booth? No posture? No problem.

Marvin Gaye is lying down on a couch rehearsing his song “I Want You” with his talented band in 1981.

no vocal booth, and no theatrics.

Yet he sounds exactly like he does on the record.

The band is hypnotized by their own united groove. No force, all feel.

That’s the part people miss when they talk about “vibes” from that era.

When your fundamentals are that strong, you don’t need perfect conditions to deliver.

You don’t need to stand up straight. You don’t need a million takes. You don’t even need “studio magic.”

You just perform.

Creative takeaway: If your skill only shows up when everything is ideal, it’s not fully yours yet.

Mastery travels with you.

💂🏿💂🏿‍♀️💂🏿‍♂️A lot of what people call tradition like the Queen’s Guard and those tall bearskin hats is presented as normal, but it’s rooted in imitation. Those hats resemble exaggerated versions of natural Afro-textured hair, which many connect symbolically to earlier cultures and identities tied to African and Moorish history.

Read books like Ancient and Modern Britons by David MacRitchie and Making of the White Man by Paul Lawrence Guthrie. These works discuss ancient populations, identity, and how cultural narratives have shifted over time. Showing hair as a symbol of identity, spirituality, and connection something that’s been reshaped by modern standards and social conditioning.

The white-washing of history wasn’t just a metaphor; it was a biological and legal coup. After the **New Madrid Earthquake of 1811** and the **Act of Congress in 1871**, they flipped the maps and the story . Everything you think happened in Europe actually started right here in the Americas, the true “Old World” and **Empire of Morocco** . Even **Montezuma** was recorded in 1596 as a “Moorish King” before they switched the word to “Indian” in 1621 to steal the allodial titles to the land .

Don’t let **Hollywood** and movies like *Gods of Egypt* distract you with actors in wigs . That “theater of replacement” is used to hide the **castrato class the gilded Mameluke and Janissary slaves who were ritually castrated and lost their hair, becoming the “Crazy Baldheads” **Bob Marley** (a descendant of the **Breakspear** line) sang about . These bloodlines still align with the banking cartels and entities found on the **Epstein list** today.

Whether you agree or not, the core message is this: question what you’ve been taught, look into primary sources, and do your own research. Understanding identity and history requires curiosity, critical thinking, and a willingness to explore beyond surface-level narratives.

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