During one of the U.S Senate's recent idealistic hearings on "wokeness", a former Chairman of the JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF, immortalized this rejoinder and I paraphrase, that he had read and studied Marxism, so did that make him a Marxist?. I begin this work with it as illustration, to show how everything is about, who is saying what and at what point in time, because Justness, in its presence as Accountability, in the business of human existence as the Human Condition, is about ferreting out "interest". What I mean by interest is simply that revelation of to what extent will the always present latent and inherent corruption of a system be tolerated. I titled this work with the reminder of the role Southern Evangelical Christianity played in the political-economy of chattel slavery and I need not quote this or that in it's defense, because the indictment is well established and fully developed, not just on the terms of their very own faith and tenets, but their historic inability to repudiate the behavior, which segues into the other half of the title, which is: VIRGINIA'S MENTAL HEALTH ESTABLISHMENT IS COMPLICIT IN THE VIRGINIA PRISON OFFICIAL'S DEHUMANIZATION OF THE IMPRISONED VIRGINIAN. I BEGIN: Whereas Southern Evangelical Christianity's complicity with the chattel enslavement of Black People has been comprehensively derided and exposed for what it pathetically was, Virginia's Mental Health Establishment hasn't been subjected to an equally comparative examination of its behavior and participation in the dehumanization of the Virginia Prisoner. Which stands as example of that, who is saying what and at what point in time, which isn't critique of inability, but, it speaks to the mechanics of Virginia's Social Contract benefitting from that adage of hiding something in plain sight, which in turn speaks to the narrative dynamic of what is needed to maintain and ensure the orderly function of the business of human existence. In other words Society "tolerates", that which isn't being exposed as patently antagonistic and forever the Mental Health Establishment, whether locally or Nationally has exploited that tolerance. Because we cannot talk about and endeavor to hold the Prison Official accountable and subordinate him to the accountability-function of governance and ignore the role the Mental Health establishment plays in the imprisonment scheme. In 2019, I put together some work, titled, WHEN NOTED "EXPRESS INDIFFERENCE": RED ONION STATE PRISON,MENTAL HEALTH and IT'S PRACTICE OF SOLITARY CONFINEMENT, the work was published on January 10, 2019.I showed how a number of Court rulings starting with the Supreme Court of The United States, as far back as 1890, had indicted the Mental Health impact on imprisonment. What is salient is this: the Imprisoned Human Being, is purely a creation of law, nothing more nothing less. However there is that tendency, where we see the effect of again, tolerance of how that fact is glossed over and People naturally begin to accept the narrative from the beneficiaries of the imprisonment scheme, that the prisoner is something else and one of the co-conspirators in the transformation of the legal circumstance of the prisoner into an ad hoc extra-judicial circumstance are the Mental Health Establishment. Who overtly and covertly provide cover for the prison officials dehumanization of the Virginia Prisoner, which wasn't and isn't part of the Prison Sentence, but due to our silence, we don't point it out, by exposing the complicity.
By William Thorpe
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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