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Forever "cockroach", has been used as slur, epithet, insult and also deployed as a psychological weapon in the work of committing genocide. I'm not sure whether it's in use against the Palestinians in the ongoing genocide against them. But it's last prominent use, that I can recall was during the Rwanda Genocide of April 1994, where the Hutu perpetrators, prepared their populations with it for the imminency of genocide on the Tutsi, by firstly desensitizing the would be Hutu actors to the work of killing their neighbors, as was it's granular event, to the dehumanization of the Tutsi, so they would be seen as no more than cockroaches, to be exterminated. I've said this to establish that, "cockroach", has generally served a metaphorical negative contextual purpose and function. So, it truly and really is a "shift", not just self-styled revolution, but a true sapient shift, meaning establishing a social repurposing of context. When an abjectly negative metaphor, that has historically provided an immoral permission, to pursue systematic, methodical and administrative slaughter of fellow human, for the specific purpose of extermination, can be claimed, descriptively embraced, by those it was deployed against under its pre-repurposing, metaphorical negative contextual function, as it has by those hundreds of thousands maybe millions of India's Young People, its youth, Students ala those Black South African Young People, its youth and also Students, who in 1976 took to the streets enmasse, protesting another educational directive, which quickly transformed into Speech against their then White Nationalist Apartheid Government. Just as India's Young People currently in its streets are also protesting an educational action, by the Minister of Education, but has also quickly transformed into Speech against their Nationalist India Government. This phenomenal and earth shaking shift occurred after a Judge on India's Court referred to students who were initially airing out their suffered harm by the action of the Minister of Education, as "cockroaches", under the pre-shift formulation and its entire World view of desensitizing, then dehumanization, which under the pre-shift, the deployment of cockroach as dismissiveness by the status quo would have been it. For one the Indian mainstream media behaves just as the media does here, in America and for purpose of this work, Virginia's corporate media. It's default is status quo critique, so naturally it amplifies whatever the stated narrative of the status quo, it might rehab some of the verbiage, but the sentiment and intent of the critique will remain. Well that isn't what happened this time, India's status quo ,its establishment deployed what once upon a time worked and those smart and ingenious Young Indians went Judo on 'em, they flipped the dismissal, the slur, the epithet, the insult, repurposed it repackaged it, into an organizing motive force, into calling their protest movement, THE COCKROACH PARTY, which has now matured into a materially opposing Speech against not just the Minister of Education but the very Government of India. Here is where I see relevance with our Prison Reform work and holding the Virginia Prison Official accountable or making real the Accountability-Function of Virginia's governance, which Governor Abigail Spanberger by certain minuscule moves indicates solidarity. The Virginia Prisoner is currently defined by the world view of status quo dismissal and dehumanization. We need to "shift it".
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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