Tag: Policy

Video: The Video Appears to show Another Day, Another MDOC Death #MSPrisonReformNow

CJ Lawrence

In the early Sunday Morning Hours we received a video purporting to show another man who appeared to not be breathing or moving and who the men on the video stated was dead. They banged on the windows attempting to get the attention of guards stating that the man had been laying unresponsive for hours. Over $345 million is spent on MDOC each year by taxpaying citizens of the state of Mississippi and in less than a month this would be the 11th reported death with other injuries and possible…

Dear Future Black Presidential Candidates..

lmclemore23

Dear Future Black Presidential Candidates, Your blackness will have to shine like a diamond chain in an early 2000’s Cash Money video. Your blackness will have to be authentic and organic. Your blackness cannot be a steroid induced two-piece from Church’s. Your blackness must not be something you can turn on when you visit the local fried chicken joint or the Soul Train Awards, then turn off when you visit farmers in Iowa. When you visit those white folk farmers in Iowa, you need to remind them that you are…

Elijah Cummings Loved Black Folks

lmclemore23

Elijah Cummings loved black folks before you could be verified on Twitter for loving black folks or get love likes on Facebook because you wrote a post about loving black folks. Elijah Cummings loved black folks in in 1950’s and 60’s segregated Baltimore, Maryland, where he was born and raised. He was raised to love black folks because Baltimore showed Elijah Cummings first hand that black folks needed to be loved. In elementary school, Cummings was part of a group of black folks who helped to integrate swimming pools in…