{"id":263,"date":"2016-10-11T02:49:08","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T02:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/?p=263"},"modified":"2016-10-11T02:49:08","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T02:49:08","slug":"a-slave-without-chains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/2016\/10\/11\/a-slave-without-chains\/","title":{"rendered":"A Slave Without Chains&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>8-3-2016<br \/>\nBy: Willie &#8220;King Coe&#8221; Coe<\/p>\n<p>The whips have been exchanged but at the end of each day I&#8217;m still a slave. The shackles have been removed but I&#8217;m still a slave. Free labor where they work me for my food; my wages are paid dues&#8230; It&#8217;s called my debt to society but my acknowledgment of my subjugation remains denied. They lie to me and my people and say that it will be alright but it&#8217;s been over 100 years and there&#8217;s still no light in sight. Punished if I fight and a fool if I don&#8217;t. I just pray when the bell rings that I don&#8217;t choke. I smoke to give me hope and sleep so that I cannot think. To cloud out the life of a slave without chains&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I dream strange things but none of them seem to set me free, these visions of death I see only bring me closer to the God-I-Be. Because I&#8217;m a slave that&#8217;s free! A slave without chains, that&#8217;s me&#8230; That&#8217;s we; so how can a king be at peace? With Willie Lynch&#8217;s divide and conquer still combating me? They worked me for free and say; &#8220;good job!&#8221; Damn!! Suicide is so hard. It&#8217;s what they want. To break me and make me, and I fight and fight with no avail, why must they rape me? The slave without chains I be&#8230; That&#8217;s me, that&#8217;s me, that&#8217;s we; our enemy is longer massah, but it&#8217;s we. The prison is our plantation. The menu is our slop. Work the detail or rot in a cell, but only time will tell if I single-handedly fail&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The women were planted to distract us. But the fact-us is they can&#8217;t break us or make us&#8230; Or can they? Because daily my people fold and break the mold, change the code and alter the mode. So, I ask myself, do I really wanna live and grow old? Or can I decipher the code and force the world to see the vision, themselves through the eyes of the Great king Coe?? Enter my realm of thought and realize that we&#8217;re slaves without chains&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Respect and power to the Fallen comrades of the 1971 Attica Rebellion. Long live the revolution&#8230; September 9th&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8-3-2016 By: Willie &#8220;King Coe&#8221; Coe The whips have been exchanged but at the end of each day I&#8217;m still a slave. The shackles have been removed but I&#8217;m still a slave. Free labor where they work me for my food; my wages are paid dues&#8230; It&#8217;s called my debt to society but my acknowledgment &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/2016\/10\/11\/a-slave-without-chains\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Slave Without Chains&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,22,3,11,14,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-liberation","category-hays-state-prison","category-letters-from-prisoners","category-poetry","category-prison-conditions","category-social-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}