{"id":321,"date":"2017-05-10T22:34:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T22:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/?p=321"},"modified":"2017-05-10T22:34:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T22:34:52","slug":"black-tape-of-the-mournful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/2017\/05\/10\/black-tape-of-the-mournful\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Tape of the Mournful"},"content":{"rendered":"
Black Tape of the Mournful (from 2016)<\/span><\/div>\n
by King Coe<\/span><\/div>\n
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The elevation of the degrading verbal and physical abuse that we receive on a daily basis is becoming too much, almost unbearable…individuals will only stand for so much whether it be singlehandedly or as a whole.\u00a0 The “tipping point” is approaching sooner than the rulership thinks.\u00a0 I wonder myself: will I be the sacrificial lamp for the oppressed people?<\/span><\/div>\n
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I’ve examined my life and it may be worth the pain, agony, and death.\u00a0 But it may not?\u00a0 Who knows?\u00a0 That’s the question I ask myself daily…is it worth dying for?\u00a0 The respect, pride, honor, what about suffering of my forefathers?\u00a0 Was it all in vain?<\/span><\/div>\n
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I know that I cannot continue to take this subjugation and not respond with brute force.\u00a0 I watch everyday as the correctional officers harass and abuse my fellow brothers, mostly black men, but there are some white and even latinos too.\u00a0 I avoid any interference as best I can, but I begin to feel like a slave who is afraid to look “massah” in his eyes, fore a whipping may occur…slavery was abolished over 120 years ago.\u00a0 Segregation, 50!\u00a0 Raised through the crack epidemic.\u00a0 I survived that.\u00a0 I fought for my survival daily in those mean streets, so why will I bow now?\u00a0 Take my life if you will, but my mothers, sisters, brothers, son, grands and greats will know that I did no kneel to these oppressors of derogatory, degrading, corrupt entities.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Fuck the “establishment”, because they will not be satisfied until they wear “the black tape” over their badges to mourn the death of their own.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Black Tape of the Mournful (from 2016) by King Coe The elevation of the degrading verbal and physical abuse that we receive on a daily basis is becoming too much, almost unbearable…individuals will only stand for so much whether it be singlehandedly or as a whole.\u00a0 The “tipping point” is approaching sooner than the rulership … Continue reading Black Tape of the Mournful<\/span> »<\/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":[15,3,14,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-liberation","category-letters-from-prisoners","category-prison-conditions","category-social-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","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=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}