WHAT THE CODE SWITCH PODCAST GETS WRONG OVER WHY WE INSIST ON AFFIXING FELON, TO THE 34 COUNT FELONY, SEX ASSAULT ADJUDGED CONVICTED FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP By William Thorpe

If we understand the insidiousness of the 13th Amendment to The United States Constitution, which is, prior to the Civil War, enslavement of Black People was limited to certain States and acceptance of newly minted States into the Union was contingent on positions on slavery, and if the Civil War was an effort at abolishing the enslavement of Black People as political-economy fact and a way of life, requiring the death of over 700,000 Black, White, Native Americans and others, then what the 13th amend. achieved (which was also a craven betrayal of the War intended to cauterize the gangrene of slavery), is the Nationalization of slavery, with its..."except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction", qualification or as I've indicated a nullification of the amendment itself. What this, "except as punishment..." with a wink and a nod, permitted was the continuation of slavery under other euphemisms i.e convict leasing, prison labor (which a recent article in The Texas Standard underscored by revealing a Texas prison official saying and I paraphrase that the difference between the slavery practiced on the plantations which are now converted into Texas prison units, talk about irony, is Texas prisoners who are now slaves use tractors). I've developed this to say, the primary objective of The Nations justice infrastructure post-Civil War is to keep Black people in particular as close to conditions of enslavement as possible, as such every aspect and facet of Society and the political-economy are deployed and work in concert towards it. Our human condition and ensuing societies are constructs of language, concepts and definitions. Here is a quick example, a prison official assaults, beats the crap out of a prisoner who by the way is handcuffed, violates the prisoner. Now if your local or National corporate media speaks on it, the prison official's assaultive behavior is described as "abuse" or prison guard "brutality".Now were a prisoner to assault and beat the crap out of the prison official, media would report on the behavior as prisoner assaulting prison official. The instances of this sort of editorializing, description manipulation, event sanitizing go hand in hand with status quo supremacy and rule. In other words, words are either in support of or anti something. So when we now see that those who have historically been subjected to and in many cases destroyed by the weaponization of the word as descriptive label, FELON, applying it mightily and consistently at the former President Donald Trump, it serves a primary purpose, which contrary to the idealistic intellectualism in its purported analysis by the folks at CODE SWITCH, that forever its subjects and their organic base have clearly understood that the label "FELON" has a malevolent utility that has nothing to do with any speculations on "justice" and by saturating its smear over Donald Trump, its users are compelling the American establishment in whose services its historical deployment has benefited, that you either treat Donald Trump as you historically have us, if its usage against us has the same meaning and purpose. Now because the label felon, is exposed not just for its subjects to bemoan but for those neo-enslavers and neo-feudalist, a la Project 2025 in whose employ the label felon has labored to face up to the fact that the jig is up, we now interrogate The American Justice Infrastructure on equal footing without any sanctimony.

By William Thorpe

I'm William Thorpe Virginia exiled me to the Texas prison system. I'm solitary confined at the Wainwright Unit and if you feel any kinda way about this work contact me by Securus email using the Texas prison number #2261982