"CAMARERO WHERE IS MY THOTGHERITA?"

You light up the room

You have the best laugh

You inspire me

I love how passionate you are

You make the world better just by being in it

You make me feel comfortable being myself

You make this world so much more beautiful just by being in it.

You’re an amazing friend and you always support me

I love hearing from you! 

Other fun facts about prison labor corporations:

-Federal and state-run prisons usually pay their slaves minimum wage; some states, however, like Colorado, pay $2/hour.

-Private prisons pay $.17-.50/hour. The highest paying private prison is in Tennessee, which pays $.50/hour for “highly-skilled labor.”

-You think that hasn’t affected wages in the US? You think that hasn’t removed manufacturing jobs from the economy?

-Companies that contract with private prisons for their slave labor include: IBM, Boeing, Motorola, Microsoft, AT&T, Wireless, Texas Instrument, Dell, Compaq, Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard, Nortel, Lucent Technologies, 3Com, Intel, Northern Telecom, TWA, Nordstrom’s, Revlon, Macy’s, Pierre Cardin, Target Stores. Many, many products that say “Made in USA” were made in prison.

-Private prisons often have quotas with the states, wherein the states contractually guarantee that they will provide a certain number of prisoners to fill the beds of a private prison, and if they don’t then they owe the private prison millions of dollars. I’m not making this up. It happened in Colorado after they legalized weed.

-States have a financial incentive to lock up their citizens.

-All of the above corporations have a financial incentive to see citizens get locked up.

-This is why Jeff Sessions is going after weed. The prison industrial complex needs slaves.

-To the shock of absolutely no one, private prisons have even more disparate racial demographics than federal/state prisons.

-Where do you think they send undocumented immigrants who have been rounded up? That’s right, private prisons. That’s why so many of them are in the South. So they take immigrants who are earning some kind of comparable wage and paying income tax to the government, and put them in prison where the wages are absurdly depressed and the prison pays virtually nothing in taxes.

-Oh yeah: private prisons pay virtually nothing in taxes. Because they technically manage real estate (prison as housing), they get all sorts of tax breaks and subsidies.

Tl;dr the prison industrial complex removes jobs from the economy, depresses wages, cheats the tax system, and ENSLAVES PEOPLE, usually people of color.

Sources:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-prison-industry-in-the-united-states-big-business-or-a-new-form-of-slavery/8289

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/09/private-prisons-occupancy-quota-cca-crime

http://mfgtalkradio.com/s7-e15-manufacturing-jobs-lost-prison-slave-labor/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/19/private-prison-quotas_n_3953483.html?1379606057

http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/03/13/289000532/why-for-profit-prisons-house-more-inmates-of-color

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/02/27/immi-f27.html

Body and Soul (1925) dir. Oscar Micheaux

The Scar of Shame (1929) dir. Frank Perugini

note the director was white but the cast is all-black

Portrait of Jason (1967) dir. Shirley Clarke

note that I’ve seen this and the doc itself is a bit exploitative and hard to watch in the director’s treatment of Jason but imo still worth a watch for Jason alone

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One (1968) dir. William Greaves

Interesting concept but be warned of rampant homophobia esp. use of the f slur

Black Panthers (1970) dir. Agnès Varda

Again white director but she gives the party room to speak for itself

A Well Spent Life (1971) dir. Les Blank

Suzanne, Suzanne (1982) dir. Camille Billops, James Hatch

Cane River (1982) dir. Horace Jenkins

Losing Ground (1982) dir. Kathleen Collins

My Brother’s Wedding (1983) dir. Charles Burnett

Daughters of the Dust (1991) dir. Julie Dash

The Watermelon Woman (1996) dir. Cheryl Dunye

Down in the Delta (1998) dir. Maya Angelou

And When I Die, I Won’t Stay Dead (2015) dir. Billy Woodberry

•Lincoln believed white people were the superior race

“Lincoln initially recognized that slavery was a bad institution but one that was accepted and necessary for the South’s economy. In Bloomington, Illinois, he stated “that southern slaveholders were neither better, nor worse than we of the north, and that we of the north were no better than they. And we never ought to lose sight of this fact in discussing the subject.” Additionally, he appeared to support the belief that blacks did not deserve equal treatment of whites.”

•Gandhi hated black people

“In 1906 Gandhi had participated in a war against Blacks. The Gandhian literature either keeps quiet on the subject or tries to paint him as a great humanitarian who actually helped Blacks by rendering to them urgent medical care. Had he not done so, we are told, many Blacks would have died. While researching the historical documents, however, I found that Gandhi’s participation had nothing to do with “humanitarian concerns” for Black people. He was more concerned with “allying relationships” with the colonial Whites living in Natal colony. Driven by his racial outlook, he went out of his way to enlist Indians to join the army under him to fight for his cause against the Blacks. He also considered Indians living in South Africa to be “fellow colonists” along with the White colonists, over the indigenous Blacks.”

•White people mutated from the Dravidian Albinos 

 •The laws written 15 years ago where pushed and backed by the KKK 

(What laws? I can only find the Klu Klux Act, which was passed so the Ulysses S. Grant could use the military to suppress them.) 

 •Black people explored the world before white people were civilized and whitewashed history

“Of the various people who reached America before Columbus, Black Africans appear to have made the most contacts and to have had the greatest impact. During the 19th and 20th centuries, several scholars wrote books and articles about this subject and urged the academic establishment to change primary and secondary curricula across the country to reflect the great contributions of African people to early America.”

•Christopher Columbus was racist and a liar. 

“Dr Sims was born in South Carolina in 1813, the son of a county sheriff. He received his medical training at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. After graduation, he practised medicine first in Mount Meigs, Alabama, and later moved to Montgomery where he developed an interest in surgery (7). It was in Montgomery that he conducted experiments on slave-women which resulted in the perfection of a surgical technique for the repair of fistula.”

*The government was successfully sued for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.

After four weeks of testimony and over 70 witnesses in a civil trial in Memphis, Tennessee, twelve jurors reached a swift unanimous verdict on December 8, 1999 that Dr. King was assassinated as a result of a conspiracy, the NY Times reported at the time. 

*The CIA introduced crack/cocaine into inner-cities across the US

*The US had been sterilizing many WoC 

“Sterilization abuse includes situations in which a woman does not know she is being sterilized as well as when she is coerced or deceived in order to obtain her consent to the procedure. Misinformation is a common tool; women are often told that their status — related to immigration, housing, government benefits, or parenting — will be negatively impacted if they do not consent to the procedure. Many women are told that the procedure is temporary or reversible.”

*In the Tuskegee experiments, the US gave STDs and other diseases, including syphilis to unknowing black men.

“The study is well known, because of the tragedy it caused for many people and also because of the sheer lack of ethical consideration shown by the scientists concerned.The subjects (participants) were mostly illiterate blacks from Tuskegee, Alabama (USA).”

*Japan was already in line to surrender when we bombed Nagasaki and Hiroshima

“Even before the Hiroshima attack, American air force General Curtis LeMay boasted that American bombers were “driving them [Japanese] back to the stone age.” Henry H. (“Hap”) Arnold, commanding General of the Army air forces, declared in his 1949 memoirs: “It always appeared to us, atomic bomb or no atomic bomb, the Japanese were already on the verge of collapse.” This was confirmed by former Japanese prime minister Fumimaro Konoye, who said: “Fundamentally, the thing that brought about the determination to make peace was the prolonged bombing by the B-29s.”

*The US created the Taliban

To all my black followers and friends, stay safe.

Also, I would like to add that black lives have always mattered, will always matter.

It’s awful that we even have to say that because it should be a given. However, we need to say it loud and clear for the racists.