{"id":322,"date":"2017-05-10T22:33:48","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T22:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/?p=322"},"modified":"2017-05-10T22:33:48","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T22:33:48","slug":"changing-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/2017\/05\/10\/changing-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"magicdomid32\" class=\"primary-author-a-1sz68zz86zkz67zqz70z6txhz78zz74zz72zv\">\n<div id=\"magicdomid32\" class=\"primary-author-a-1sz68zz86zkz67zqz70z6txhz78zz74zz72zv\"><span class=\"author-a-1sz68zz86zkz67zqz70z6txhz78zz74zz72zv\">Changing Times<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid33\" class=\"primary-author-a-1sz68zz86zkz67zqz70z6txhz78zz74zz72zv\"><span class=\"author-a-1sz68zz86zkz67zqz70z6txhz78zz74zz72zv\">Melvin Jackson, Jackson<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid34\" class=\"primary-none\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid35\" class=\"primary-author-a-1sz68zz86zkz67zqz70z6txhz78zz74zz72zv\"><span class=\"author-a-1sz68zz86zkz67zqz70z6txhz78zz74zz72zv\">This is my 35th year of incarceration.\u00a0 The inmates are using the same old rhetoric, &#8220;the white man this&#8221; or &#8220;the white man that&#8221;.\u00a0 I&#8217;m located a Georgia&#8217;s Diagnostic &amp; Classification Prison in high max.\u00a0 Tier III total lockdown in Jackson, Georgia.\u00a0 No white man is denying me my rights!\u00a0 Not many hired in this area any more.\u00a0 When even I can see outside of my cell or go to medical, I see an ocean of black executive and jr executive administrator faces.\u00a0 The entire executive and jr executive staff is all black.<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid36\" class=\"primary-none\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid37\" class=\"primary-author-a-1sz68zz86zkz67zqz70z6txhz78zz74zz72zv\"><span class=\"author-a-1sz68zz86zkz67zqz70z6txhz78zz74zz72zv\">We have black apartheid &#8211; purposeful black segregation.\u00a0 I guess all that marching and protesting in the 60&#8217;s and 70&#8217;s worked!\u00a0 The white folks gave us what we requested.\u00a0 He gave us more: A black president, black mayors, senators, etc.\u00a0 Inmates rioted in prison begging for black staff.\u00a0 Here at GDCP 25 minutes from the central office in Forsyth we now have black wardens executing us!\u00a0 Where is the NAACP?\u00a0 Tier III superintendent M. cannon, Deputy Warden Security W. Powell, Population Counselors K. Forts and J. Goody, Chief Counselor, Dep Warden Care &amp; Treatment, Captain, Grievance Coordinator, all African Americans &#8211; blacks &#8211; negroes, etc.\u00a0 Yet I&#8217;m being denied access to the grievance system which violates my access to the courts.\u00a0 My cell is boycotted by these staffers &#8211; no grievance in dorm violating IIB05-0001 of state policies.\u00a0 Where are the GDOC investigators?\u00a0 Oh, did I not tell you, they&#8217;re also black.\u00a0 Black security guards now do the assaulting, the lying.\u00a0 Where is the white man when the few black judges dismiss your case on a whim.<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid38\" class=\"primary-none\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid39\" class=\"primary-author-a-1sz68zz86zkz67zqz70z6txhz78zz74zz72zv\"><span class=\"author-a-1sz68zz86zkz67zqz70z6txhz78zz74zz72zv\">Black mental health workers monitor and document your endurance to discover new methods of control and brainwashing.\u00a0 Inmates given cell restrictions 6 months or over a year.\u00a0 Which means no yard or outside of cell activities.\u00a0 Although this violates international law of the Geneva Convention code for prisoners &#8211; and the US Constitution.\u00a0 Because the staff is black and brown, they are able to get away with it.\u00a0 The black administrators deny us access to regular library and is creating more illegal customs to make it harder for us to access novels.\u00a0 There is a &#8220;no passing&#8221; staff rule so those without funds either go crazy or figure out a way not to.\u00a0 As long as the negro warden continues to execute (kill) inmates and the NAACP ACLU and others find it&#8217;s no longer newsworthy, these blacks will continue to abuse us without investigations.\u00a0 Inmate executions are only newsworthy if it is done by a white warden.\u00a0 The Georgia prison system, especially most medium security systems, has become your Haiti, or your Uganda.\u00a0 The black administrators are our Papa Docs, Baby Doc, and Idi Amins.\u00a0 Why is it we very seldom hear about prisons in Montana, Idaho, these mostly white states?\u00a0 All I read or hear in these protesting news alerts is &#8220;Trump this! Trump that!&#8221; Has everyone forgotten history?\u00a0 It was the Clintons that granted billions of dollars nationwide to build prisons in the 90&#8217;s.\u00a0 It was also the Clintons that changed US 1983 rules for inmates filing lawsuits in federal courts.\u00a0 It is almost impossible to file assault, mental cruelty and then your awards are minial.\u00a0 Thank you Bill and Hillary!\u00a0 Abraham Lincoln was an admitted racist and it was he that freed us.<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid40\" class=\"primary-none\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid41\" class=\"primary-author-a-1sz68zz86zkz67zqz70z6txhz78zz74zz72zv\"><span class=\"author-a-1sz68zz86zkz67zqz70z6txhz78zz74zz72zv\">Thomas Jefferson loved you, really wanted you free :) but he kept his slaves until he died, raped Sally Hemmings because as a slave she could not say &#8220;no massa!&#8221;.\u00a0 Let the inmates re-examine who their oppressors are.\u00a0 History tells us different. Many Afrikan tribes sold and gathered other blacks to be sold into slavery.\u00a0 Also white people do not appreciate taking instructions from many of these unprofessional blacks &#8211; and we find white flight.\u00a0 The GDOC is overwhelmed with blacks.\u00a0 Hayes and Valdosta may be a little different &#8211; would someone inform me how to get these helpless ex-slaves investigated, for they are killing me.<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid42\" class=\"primary-none\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid43\" class=\"primary-none\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid44\" class=\"primary-none\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"magicdomid45\" class=\"primary-author-a-vnz79zz85zz82zz80zbz88zz90zz66z9z87zoz68zz85zv\"><span class=\"author-a-vnz79zz85zz82zz80zbz88zz90zz66z9z87zoz68zz85zv\">Peace &amp; Respect<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changing Times Melvin Jackson, Jackson This is my 35th year of incarceration.\u00a0 The inmates are using the same old rhetoric, &#8220;the white man this&#8221; or &#8220;the white man that&#8221;.\u00a0 I&#8217;m located a Georgia&#8217;s Diagnostic &amp; Classification Prison in high max.\u00a0 Tier III total lockdown in Jackson, Georgia.\u00a0 No white man is denying me my rights!\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/2017\/05\/10\/changing-times\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Changing Times<\/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":[15,3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-black-liberation","category-letters-from-prisoners","category-prison-conditions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","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=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.atlblackcross.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}