Mr. Reginald Dwayne Betts and Specific Injustice: The Divide and Conquer Dynamic of Tokenism As Status Quo Ally by William Thorpe

Lets see: Since Mr. Reginald Dwayne Betts made it out of Virginia's prisons in 2005; over a dozen prisoners have committed suicides. Scores of prisoners have been assaulted by prison guards along with bites from prison dogs at Red Onion, Wallens Ridge, Sussex 1 and Sussex ll state prisons to name the most egregious all in violation of the Constitutions of the United States, the Commonwealth of Virginia, Statutes of the Commonwealth of Virginia and more immediately Virginia Department of Corrections Operating Procedures.

Philosophers and locomotives of history, men who challenge status quo reaction have instructed that there cannot be specific claims of injustice at the expense of its generalized causal basis. Because it is evident, acts that run afoul of status quo established acceptances are reflective and consequences of systemic and endemic contradictions and antagonisms. So notwithstanding Mr. Betts experience and particular criminality, his actions causing his imprisonment within the Virginia Prison Experiment cannot and should not be seen as independent and exclusive of the greater environment and its generalized causal basis. A greater environment which we encounter and experience through the actions of its Virginia Prison Official and guards as engaging in the deviant and lawless behavior and criminality that resulted Mr. Betts imprisonment.

In his October 16, 2018 essay "Could An Ex-Convict Become an Attorney? I Intended To Find Out." Mr. Betts shares his experience and presumptive triumph. A presumption which Mr. Betts and his apologist would rather we focus on the exclusivity and specificity of his story and its incidentals as metric of "his" efforts. In so many words, his fit in the general environment as a success and triumph which in fact underscores the injustice generality, or there wouldn't be anything noteworthy to share, but as incident of the injustice generality typifies it's systemic and endemic contradictions and antagonisms. Yet as rote-example of the typical status quo mythical expectation of its subordinated and one-dimensional classes which renders humans to a pathetic alienated caricature ala' Clarence Thomas Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Mr. Betts is unaware of the fact if there is a story to be told, it is that of An Expose of the Injustice Generality  Because there is nothing triumphant in the social emergence of an articulation of humaness whose measure is based solely on the ignorance and superstitions of the human condition. This fact underlines and emphasizes this point: enough with the tokenism validation of the political-economy construct whose motive-force is hypocrisy in all measure of itself. Because had the Clarence Thomas's of this divide and conquer dynamic of tokenism as status quo ally, practiced their historical duties, the Reginald Betts of history is only to be realized within the hypocrisies of the national social-contract. If Mr. Betts Virginia Prison Experience taught him nothing, he should have come away from the experience understanding Jeffersonian dialectic of speculating, theorizing on the liberty of man while applying and practicing a political-economy of enslaving man is alive and well with the legatee Virginia Prison officials violating the rule of law with impunity, while practicing a political-economy of imprisoning those convicted of violating the rule of law.

American-political economy, which Virginia is a component requires injustice and it's hypocrisy medium as any parasite demands a host. This fact of the American political-economy isn't a unique exclusive critique instead it is a fact of the rife ignorance and superstitions of the human condition. The problem with the narrative of the Reginald Betts as inspirational testimonials is historical because it distorts and relegates the necessary insight required to hold the status quo accountable. Because it supports and enables injustice not only as an experiential tolerance but intellectual speculations sealed with that wink and nod of the classic hoodwink. Which has taught is the hallmark of the collaborator.

William Thorpe is held in Solitary Confinement at Virginia's Red Onion State prison since 1998