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| Martin Sostre |
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Martin Sostre was born on March 20,1923 and he died on August 12, 2015, at the age of 92 after a life existence experiencing, the various circumstances and conditions of American Imprisonment, practiced by the New York Department of Corrections. His Pops was Black and Moms Puerto Rican. As you're noticing I'm not getting all into his so-called Biographical details, because generally I don't see the relevance of a specific biography of Human Beings, born into the victimization, usurpation and circumscription of the specific, Post 1400's, because such details are not true, correct and an authentic account of ones Human condition, but simply the narrative of how we all handle, deal with, oppose and resist the brought into existence conditions of, post 1400. [but if you seek the typical and conventional biography, there is a documentary on Martin Sostre, FRAME UP! THE IMPRISONMENT OF MARTIN SOSTRE, that you check out]. What I'm saying is this imagine someone in handcuffs and shackles and your account of their existence can only be about movement due to the chains?.So how many different ways can you say, they adjusted a wrist or an ankle in response to the chafe of the metal?. Or how about this, let's take the guy who is the focus of this work, Martin Ramirez Sostre. He is accounted for in history because of his opposition and resistance to the materialization of post 1400's conditions and circumstances. In other words the effects of the post 1400 cause, imposed a detour on his Life that he never seeked nor sought, but was born into. Another example, let's take a couple of personalities we all know. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, both Black men, who are accounted for in history because of their oppositionary and resistance work against the effects of the post1400 Cause. Can you the reader imagine any number of endeavors all of these men, who are accounted for in history because of their confronting, impositions that they had no role in creating would have instead focused on, were they not detoured by circumstances and conditions which they had no role in creating yet now had to expend their humanness confronting?.So unless the determinative logic is that every subject-victim of the post 1400's effects, according to Biblical dicta came into existence to expend their life force in opposition and resistance, then there cannot be any authentic appreciation and attention to so-called Biographical details of a subject-victim of post 1400.Now as a quick aside for those readers whose reasoning are brimming with the counter, that existential detours occur in life and are to be understood and accepted as part of the dynamic of the Human Condition, you are correct, that doesn't however mean, that when assessing Biographical details we should act like and be blind to the reality that there are two aspects, which are the enslaver owns agency (in itself) and is indicted on such, while the enslaved owns resistance (for itself) and is understood within its defining parameters. With this said let me get into why we should know who MARTIN RAMIREZ SOSTRE was. Sostre comes to us as a Prisoner being subjected to the dehumanizing depravity of the State of New York's Imprisonment scheme, at a period that isn't unlike this contemporary period, which analytically, every single moment, post 1400, has for its subject-victim, whether or not the circumstance and condition is imprisonment, the operative of dehumanization and depravity. What Sostre gave us is that legal frame work, demanding accountability and transparency of the Imprisonment scheme. So as much as the status quo want us ignorant, we reclaim him.
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
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