#453. Breaking out of Prison

Our civilization finds virtue in those wrongfully imprisoned for a crime they never committed and the valiant effort to then retain dignity and sanity inside the cramped, soul-confining walls of the jail cell, while they plot a grandiose escape from the penitentiary.

Sir Walter Raleigh, Alcamenes, James the First and Alexander Solzhenitsyn are all men who were wrongly incarcerated and became figures of admiration for the endurance of grave injustices they survived.

The Shawshank Redemption is purely fiction, but a film of deep emotional brilliance as it solidifies Morgan Freeman firmly in the ranks of best Black History Month Hero actors. He plays the philosophical mentor to Tim Robbins who musters the courage to not only endure the hardships of prison, but triumphantly break out in a cathartic scene of emancipation.

No man desires imprisonment and especially the wrongfully confinement into a state-sponsored dwelling should encourage feelings of resentment, only counterbalanced with the determination to ameliorate the situation by escaping.

Though the film The Great Escape centers around POWs, it illustrates what every man alive who faces the cruel fate of iron bars as walls must attempt to do when thrown in jail. To be locked away for a crime one did not commit is an injustice to humanity and to acquire equilibrium, one must plot escape.

The novel and 2002 film The Count of Monte Cristo illustrates the drive to survive in prison and finally remove oneself from the eternal damnation of the jail cell by escaping and exacting revenge upon those who put him there to begin with.

Yet fiction and film represent a false sense of reality. Escaping prison is no longer a noble goal for the wrongly imprisoned, but an of pure insanity.

Black people, wrongfully imprisoned at an alarmingly rate because of their steadfast refusal to cooperate with police, have a strikingly limited desire to escape from prison.

Targeted by police because they dare drive while Black and - of course - because police operate in a climate of entrenched racism and intrinsic hatred of all things Black, the percentage of Black people in jail has reached staggering proportions:

Real life is more complicated, of course, but this simple model illustrates an important truth. In the marriage market, numbers matter. And among African-Americans, the disparity is much worse than in Mr Harford’s imaginary example. Between the ages of 20 and 29, one black man in nine is behind bars. For black women of the same age, the figure is about one in 150. For obvious reasons, convicts are excluded from the dating pool. And many women also steer clear of ex-cons, which makes a big difference when one young black man in three can expect to be locked up at some point.

Black people never commit crime and are only imprisoned at alarming rates because of the dogmatic, entrenched racism of the police, which is rampant in every precinct of the nation. Everyone knows Black people are targeted by the police (as we learned from the horrific Henry Louis Gates incident and the Beer Summit) and never commit crime.

This is merely a left-over conspiracy from the odious world of Pre-Obama America, a ephemeral vestige that will soon be removed. White people want you to believe the Color of Crime is Black, and though statistics might prove this theory, it is of minor consequence.

Cooperating with the police isn't a sane policy as the enforcers of the law are automatically prejudice and agents of a corrupt, fascistic system that hates Black people.

Are police racist, you might inquire half incredulously at the axiomatic stupidity of the question. The answer is undoubtedly yes, if only because of the high incarceration of Black males.

But what to make of the story of a Black man breaking into prison after breaking out to get cigarettes, completely destroying the noble idea of the wrongfully accused prisoner valiantly fighting for freedom and plotting a grand escape?:

Authorities say an inmate who broke out of jail, then returned after stealing 14 packs of cigarettes, has been sentenced to 20 years.

Prosecutors told The Florida Times-Union inmate Harry Jackson, 26, escaped his cell at the Camden County Jail last year and went to the exercise yard to retrieve cigarettes he had expected would be tossed over a fence.

They say that when the contraband wasn’t there, Jackson scaled the fence, broke a window at a convenience store and grabbed cigarette packs only to be arrested upon his return.

Jackson pleaded guilty to burglary and escape charges Monday. Prosecutors say he had been jailed on charges including driving with a suspended license. His lawyer, William Ashe, didn’t immediately return a call seeking comment.

Why would a Black person break into prison, willingly playing the role of Frightened Inmate No. 2 from Arrested Development that Tobias portrayed, and risk getting caught?

This could be arrested development in action and it could throw the whole notion of the judicial system being awash in racism asunder. Black people willingly and voluntarily returning to prison antiquates the idea of nobly escaping the big house for a crime one didn't commit.

But wait, it happened last year as well, as a Black person found freedom intolerable and tried to sneak back into prison without first committing a crime:

SHARPES, Fla. — A former inmate in Florida was injured while trying to sneak back into jail. Sylvester Jiles suffered severe cuts from barbed wire while trying to climb a 12-foot fence at the Brevard County Detention Center Monday night. The 24-year-old former inmate was released last week from the jail after accepting a plea deal on a manslaughter charge.

He showed up at the jail Monday night and asked to be taken back into custody because he feared family members of his victim would retaliate against him. Jail officials said they couldn’t take him in and told him to file a police report.

Instead, he tried to climb over the barbed-wire fence and fell in his attempt.

He remained hospitalized for his injuries Tuesday.

Is prison a better living situation for millions of Black people that those given the choice of freedom or lock-up would choose the latter by breaking INTO prison?

The Great Escape is a forgotten film in the world we live in now, as the new title would be The Great Return, a film loosely based on the reality of Black people desiring prison so badly that they decide breaking in will be quicker than committing a crime and waiting for sentencing.

Stuff Black People Don't Like includes breaking out of prison, for the desire to break into prison is a much nicer proposition for Black people now.

Are cops racist? If Black people are breaking into prison, the answer to that query should be obvious.

#49. Criticism of "Mein Obama"

The United States of America in July 2009 is a much different place then it was in July 0f 2008. For one thing, we live in a land liberated from the racist stranglehold of white people as the glorious day of Nov. 4, 2008 came and washed away the sins of the Pre-Obama America, with the election of Mein Obama.

November 4th, 2008 is the holy day now for Black people and for many disingenuous white liberals, who view the coronation of Barry "Barack" Hussein Obama with admiration, awe, tears and a day worthy of celebration and holy sacraments.

They view the man - Mein Obama - with unwavering loyalty and unquestionable belief in his gracious omnipotence. Obama's supporters view Mein Obama the same way that the God-King Xerxes in the film 300, viewed himself: as a divine God, who merely walks among the mere mortals of the world, dispensing wisdom and guidance for the masses to follow.

It was Xerxes, in 300, who demanded of the traitor, Ephialtes that:

"Unlike the cruel Leonidas, who demanded that you stand, I require only that you kneel."

However, unlike the fictitious words of Xerxes, Mein Obama has yet to make it mandatory to kneel before him, yet Black people have already fallen to two knees in submission to their leader. Disingenuous white liberals have followed suit, and like Ephialtes, decided to put their faith in a more benevolent faction:

"Newsweek editor Evan Thomas brought adulation over President Obama’s Cairo speech to a whole new level on Friday, declaring on MSNBC: "I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God."

Mein Obama stands above the country and looks down upon with incredulous eyes that all of the country - the world - for that matter, hasn't fallen in line with Black people who worship him as a God. After winning 96 percent of the Black vote on that glorious November 4th day, and standing firmly behind the uncooperative Henry Louis Gates in his battle with the relic of Pre-Obama America - white racism - Mein Obama has clearly positioned himself as the leader of Black America only.

Mein Obama and his supporters view all members of Pre-Obama America that are not Black, as still harboring views that almost kept November 4th - the holiest of holy days for Black people - from occurring.

Those views were on full display to Black people and Mein Obama, when Sgt. James Crowley arrested Gates. Regardless of the facts, Mein Obama and his minions view any action taken against them as racist and an attempt to reinstitute Pre-Obama America.

That is why criticism of Mein Obama is Stuff Black People Don't Like, for only a racist could criticize Obama and his divine rule. Although his poll numbers are beginning to sink to levels that remind people of George W. Bush's porous approval ratings, Black people stand firmly behind Mein Obama:

"Released on the same day was a demographic breakdown of that rating: only 41 percent of white Americans approve of the job he’s doing, while 97 percent of blacks approve and 58 percent of all other ethnicities combined approve."

97 percent of Black people approve of the job Mein Obama has done in his role as President of the United States, which is a jump from the 96 percent of Black people who voted for him on that holy day, November 4th.

The United States stands on the verge of financial collapse and ruin, yet Black people equate any criticism of their ruler, Mein Obama, as casus belli against their ruler and the new world he is working to create.

It is important to remember the lines of Xerxes from 300, when telling the Spartans of his plans for Sparta due to their opposition to him:

"There will be no glory in your sacrifice. I will erase even the memory of Sparta from the histories! Every piece of Greek parchment shall be burned. Every Greek historian, and every scribe shall have their eyes pulled out, and their tongues cut from their mouths. Why, uttering the very name of Sparta, or Leonidas, will be punishable by death! The world will never know you existed at all!"

This speech is how Black people view Pre-Obama America and anyone who dare defend it. They have already begun to dismantle Pre-Obama America, through the renaming of schools that once featured Washington and Jefferson with names of non-slave owning people nor "Dead White Males". Black people wish to erase the memory of Pre-Obama America from the memory and replace it with Mein Obama.

Pre-Obama America is dead, to Black people. Mein Obama is above criticism and any defamation of him is grounds for war and ridicule as a racist and defender of the old, white rule in America.

Stuff Black People Don't Like includes criticism of Mein Obama, for even though America is headed for third world status and financial ruin, it will at least be lead there by one of their own.

#402. Being Dragged From Meetings

Black people in 21st century America have it pretty well. The media is completely on their side in every issue and will do whatever possible to try and agitate Black people against white people when given the chance.

Take for instance the case of two stories, separated by days. Black children were denied the right to swim at a private club, because they couldn't swim and represented a hazard to the pool. Black people screamed about the trauma that would be inflicted upon these kids in the future for seeing racism up close.

Then, in Akron, Ohio on July 4th, a family of white people were attacked by scores of Black people, who chanted, "This is a Black world". The father was hospitalized.

Now, try and ascertain which family or group of people will actually be traumatized by the experiences. Being denied swimming or being attacked and injured by scores of people who hated them?

Still though, the media's handling of the stories listed above should alleviate any notion of the media being pro-white: as the Henry Louis Gates episode has shown all Black people, the media is firmly the friend of Black people in Post-Obama America.

However, one thing that Black people are not fond of is being accused of something and then having to be held responsible for that in a subsequent meeting:

"Leland Alderwoman Mala Brooks was dragged screaming for a Board of Aldermen meeting last week.

Last year, former Leland Mayor Barbara Brooks and her daughter, Mala Brooks, wrote several checks totaling nearly $12,000 without approval from the Board of Aldermen, current Leland Mayor James Lowe said. The two went to the Mississippi Coast and stayed at the Beau Rivage Casino and Resort for a conference, but the Board of Aldermen hadn’t given approval to the trip, Lowe said.

Two weeks ago, the city asked the two to pay the nearly $12,000 back. Mala Brooks said the checks involved payments for legitimate expenses."

Brooks, who is Black, refused to cooperate with the police and instead carried on like a child denied chicken wings and caused a major scene. She even called the people - all are Black - who were responsible for her undoing:

"racists evil Black ni**ers in here"

Once again, had Brooks visited Stuff Black People Don't Like, she could have followed the advice that Rodney King, Henry Gates and countless other Black people have failed to do: cooperate with the police.

Instead, Brooks has been another example of Stuff Black People Don't Like: being dragged from meetings.

#99. Cooperating with Police

Black people don't like to be told what to do. This is a fact and an irrefutable one. They were told to sit in the back of the bus, and refused. They were told to not eat at the same restaurants as others, and they refused.

They were told not violate the anti-miscegenation laws of states and they refused. They have been told not to violate the laws of the United States of America, and yet, they refuse steadfastly.

More so, Black people have been told to cooperate with the police, the only protection that law abiding citizens have from the miscreants of society, and yet Black people retain that stubborn streak and refuse to comply with police demands.

Rodney King, the man who started one of the biggest riots in the past thirty years, could have avoided his fate - and absolved Los Angeles from over $1 billion worth of damage - but he failed to cooperate with police:

"The truth is more complicated. There were three people in King's car that night. After the 8-mile high-speed chase on which King led the California Highway Patrol and the Los Angeles police, a CHP officer demanded that everyone get out of the car with his hands on his head. King's passengers did as they were told. King, for reasons that remain mysterious, refused to comply and did not speak intelligibly to the officer. An ex-con on probation, King certainly knew the arrest drill. He says he smoked dope and drank malt liquor that night. The police were convinced that he was high on PCP.

The whole world thinks that the police next engaged in an orgy of violence. But that is because the first 13 seconds of the tape -- which showed King charging at Officer Laurence Powell -- were edited out. The first jury saw the whole tape.

King simply would not get down. The police accordingly escalated their violence. They attempted a maneuver called the swarm, in which four officers would overcome King. He was able to throw them off. Sgt. Stacey Koon, the officer in charge, next attempted to subdue King with a Taser. It had no effect. Frightened now of this large and seemingly preternaturally strong suspect, the officers began to hit him with their batons, all the while shouting for him to get down on the ground. King continued to stay up on all fours. Powell told the first jury that he feared King was going to wrest his gun away from him, leading to a shooting."

Had Rodney King just acknowledged the police officers with a simple 'yes sir', instead of being obstinate, he wouldn't have been beaten, sent to jail and then directly caused a massive riot that left many devoid of their lives.

Another recent example of a Black person failing to cooperate with the police is Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, a Black man who is perpetually incapable of dealing with any situation without finding the acrid scent of racism attached to it. He is a vital part of the Black community in America and respected for his strong stances in defense of his people, and yet, in a recent incident with police, he showed himself to be yet another SBPDL example of not cooperating with police.

Gates was trying to enter his home, and to his neighbors it appeared a Black person was breaking into his home. They called the police. What follows is a great example of why you should cooperate with the police and also why you should not berate them, regardless of your skin color or your stance in the professional race racketeering industry:

"As soon as Officer Crowley arrived and got to the front door, he encountered, standing inside the door, none other than Gates, who instantly began yelling at him in an extremely loud voice that he was a "racist police officer." Instead of defusing the situation by cooperating with the officer, who was, after all, only doing his job, instead of simply explaining politely that he lived in the house and that his house had not been broken into (though it's still not clear who the two young men were), Gates continued his "tumultuous," threatening ("you don't know who I am, you'll be sorry for messing with me"), and extremely insulting behavior for a long time, first inside the house, where his voice was so loud that the officer could not conduct a conversation over his police radio, then outside the house, alarming passersby, until, after warning Gates twice that he was behaving disorderly, Crowley arrested him. And during the whole time Gates kept bellowing that Crowley was a "racist police officer."

Also, from early on in the incident, Officer Crowley repeatedly began to leave Gates' house, but Gates stopped him, insisting that Crowley first tell him his name. But each time Crowley gave his name, Gates kept shouting so loudly that he couldn't hear the officer's answer. And when Crowley would again start to leave the house, Gates would again demand his name."

Gates was of course arrested, sparking national coverage of the victim hood of Mr. Gates at the hands of the racist police. In a world run by evil white supremacists - as so many Black people believe America is run by - Mr. Gates would have had a black bag put over head and shot for his insolence. Instead, the truth of Gates' uncooperative attitude with the police has been silenced and the supposed racial angle of the profiling of a Black man - even more so one who is a 'respected' Black scholar - has been the focal point of the story.

Black people do not yet understand that in Post-Obama America, they run the show and call the shots and have a complicit media prepared to cover up any negative portrayal of Black people. The media will showcase only positive images of Black people, even when a prominent Black person does not cooperate with the police. White racism will always be the culcript, not a Black person failing to cooperate with the police and yelling at him and calling him a racist for daring to arrest a great Black scholar.

They can in turn make the story one of racial profiling, instead of yet another example of Stuff Black People Don't Like; cooperating with the police. Even in Pre-Obama America, as evidenced by the Rodney King affair, the truth of any crime and not cooperating with the police was made to look like another example of white racism, not Black people failing to cooperate with the police.