This, infortuanately, is something, having been a jail house teacher in Richmond for 2 years, about which I know more than I'd like to know...

Things haven't radically changed since those days... And a disporportionate nuber of incarecerate folks are black anf male...

There have been and continue to be are folks in power, mostly white males, who set the rules. I'd like to think of them as "Rule Boys". But worse than setting the rules, they also own the media, they own the advertisers, they own the proaganda machines, they own purdy much everything... And so rather than use their power to make fir a faier and just America, which scares the Hell out of them becuase it threatens theie power base, they just do what ever is needed to keep Americans at *WAR* with themselves. And it works just fine.... for them. No, not for America, but for them... And it keeps their frontline brownshirts ready to take up arms and defend their little game...

The prison idustrial complex exploits blacks folks to keep white folks from rebelling. Yeah, if you incarcerate enuff black folks then white folks, who because of the PR work that has been done about white folks gettin' beat up and raped by black folks in the joint, well, these white folks will become very good little brownshirt foot souldiers for the Ruling Class...

So, the Ruling Class (Rule Boys), makes all kinds of rules that send a lot of *scarey* black folks into the joint to scare whitey to tow the line...

But in doing this, Boss Hog and his Ruling Class do something else which very much keeps them in power. They divide!!! Yeah, they divide folks and keep folks scared of each other and that's all part of their plan to stay in power... And it works quite nicely for them...

Oh, I can hear the usual cast of characters sayin' "Yeah, but drugs are illegal, Bobert. Yer all wrong!!!"

Oh yeah, if we are so concerned about drugs then why would we turning a blind eye to all the poppis that are being grown in Afganistan???

Any of the usual cast of character want to answer that one???

No, didn't hink so...

But, fast forward to the 16 year ol' kid in any inner city in America and all of a sudden that poppi plant is like real bad, bad, bad... And so the kid inevitabily ends up in Boss Hog's "PRISON/INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX" and the beat goes on...

This system has not one thing to do with Chrisatianity or morality or any of them other things that Boss Hog's spokesmen and women in Government run their mouths about on Boss Hog's TV stations but a well thought out way to keep Boss Hog from having to share his wealth...

And that, sadly, is the way it is...

Bobert