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THE BATTLE FOR MODeRN 1923


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abolition now – not decades from now

I’m re­al­iz­ing something.

Peo­ple that want the world to be a bet­ter place, con­cede that it has to hap­pen in steps be­cause they think they have to con­vince oth­er peo­ple of it.

And sure, some peo­ple need new ed­u­ca­tion and to have their eyes opened up.

But you know who sets the pace for things hap­pen­ing in slow steps?

Peo­ple who are giv­ing you “change takes time” as a plat­i­tude, who ac­tu­al­ly think the world op­er­ates fine as it is —

com­plete­ly aware that it is need­less­ly cru­el and unfair.

They hope the cold syrup pace will make you give up, so they can keep ben­e­fit­ing from the suffering.

 

 

Six years ago,
I went to a col­lege that taught me about prison abo­li­tion when it was an in­sane con­spir­a­cy the­o­ry about the ma­te­r­i­al con­di­tions that im­pact people’s lives and lim­it their abil­i­ties to excel —

And then the mo­ment I got a job at the school they hand­ed me a copy of The Oz Prin­ci­ple and were, like,

good luck, we’re about to fuck you so hard and then blame you for not ex­celling im­me­di­ate­ly in pro­gres­sive­ly more im­pos­si­ble circumstances!”

 

 

This is why ABO­LI­TION is important.

Abo­li­tion is not about end­ing cops, it’s about ul­ti­mate­ly end­ing the prison model.

We should not be tak­ing free­dom away from sur­vival crim­i­nals, sex work­ers, the men­tal­ly ill, ad­dicts, etc. be­cause we’re afraid of the one in every thou­sand se­r­i­al killer.

Piv­ot­ing away from pun­ish­ment and con­tain­ment, piv­ot­ing away from pa­ter­nal­is­tic con­trol, piv­ot­ing to­wards com­mu­ni­ty care, pre­ven­tion of so­ci­etal woes by ad­dress­ing in­di­vid­ual needs, rad­i­cal forgiveness. 

Yes, you might still have SOME RARE peo­ple who have to be sep­a­rat­ed from so­ci­ety. But as­sum­ing ‘crim­i­nals’ (which is a class of peo­ple that ex­pands be­yond just law break­ing, don’t even start me on how so­cial groups over­lap and form each oth­er) are per­ma­nent­ly marred by mis­takes or ill­ness, that they can’t re­deem or re­cov­er tru­ly, is a mod­el that only seems to ben­e­fit peo­ple hun­gry for pow­er over those types of people.

 

Like se­ri­ous­ly,
let me for ar­gu­ments sake ac­cept the most lib­er­al de­f­i­n­i­tion of de­fund­ing po­lice, where we don’t elim­i­nate po­lice, but we shrink them down dra­mat­i­cal­ly and fo­cus on oth­er, most­ly so­cial work­er-based so­lu­tions for crime.

What im­pact ex­act­ly do you think that’s go­ing to have on ar­rests, on head counts of prisons and jails, on head counts of peo­ple in the le­gal system?

I don’t think any of us are en­vi­sion­ing a so­lu­tion where EMTs, men­tal health work­ers, so­cial work­ers, etc. get ar­rest­ing priv­i­leges. Are we? Is that re­al­ly the out­come any of us want?

We know on some lev­el that the prison in­dus­tri­al com­plex is com­plete­ly out of fuck­ing hand.

We know on some lev­el that its im­ple­men­ta­tion is bi­ased and cruel.

If we aren’t sit­ting and con­sid­er­ing the out­comes we want, if we aren’t go­ing to an un­com­fort­able and rad­i­cal place to seek it, and if we aren’t sit­ting and lis­ten­ing to the out­comes black peo­ple want, we aren’t go­ing to com­mit a rev­o­lu­tion. We’re go­ing to com­mit a small re­dis­tri­b­u­tion of pow­er that ul­ti­mate­ly repli­cates what is dis­gust­ing and out­ra­geous about the sys­tem al­ready at play.

We will leave an­oth­er gen­er­a­tion to clean up what we were sup­posed to clean up and didn’t be­cause we weren’t brave enough to have vi­sion for a new world.

 

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Note to self: fin­ish in the morning:

 

—mel­ony ppenosyne

Flom­mist Mel­ony Ppenosyne is a writer and weird artist type. In the last year alone, she’s trav­eled to Vir­ginia as a com­pet­ing poet, co-writ­ten a play on men­tal ill­ness that is present­ly be­ing pro­duced, and craft­ed a pub­lished es­say check­ing the priv­i­lege and scope of art gal­leries. Copy­right © 2020 Mel­ony Ppenosyne.

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