KIMBERLY SNODGRASS YOU SHOULDN'T BE THANKING ME, INSTEAD IT IS THE OTHER WAY AROUND, US, THE VIRGINIA PRISONER THANK YOU AND ALL OUR WOMEN WHO IN ONE WAY OR THE OTHER ARE IN OUR LIVES By William Thorpe

I started the day, today 8/19/26 listening to a call in Radio Show on Houston, Texas KPFT and the topic was on masculinity, something about how men are "dominating and putting women in their place". When I was growing up the term for that sort of thinking was "chauvinism", now its misogyny, both describe, what our ancients said, and I paraphrase, that philosophers have described the World, now its on us to change it. Because as I was listening to the various voices, female and male expressing ill formed, idiotic, backwards, with the thoughtful and enlightening thinking sprinkled in between, it captured that world description, minus the change it part. Even though I was able to reflect on when I have also been demeaning and derisive towards females as a cultural normalcy, I still, then recognized distinction, that yes I demeaned or insulted a specific female, even a clique of females, still I knew that WOMAN was to be respected and accorded dignity. Of course, my level of the respect and acknowledgement of dignity, reflected and was an expression of, what I then knew. I say all of this to say, the attitudes and perspectives I was hearing coming through my headphones this morning were to put it simply, alien. Especially when I juxtapose what I know about the typical Woman in the life of the American Prisoner, which to be specific, for purpose of this work, the Virginian Woman in the life of the Virginia Prisoner, against the ridiculous caricaturization of females, on the airwaves of Texas this morning. Before I begin, when I talk about the Woman in the life of the American prisoner. Let's take the legendary champion Women Basketball Player, MAYA MOORE, who is now Maya Moore-Iorns and if you're not familiar with her story, please take the time to delve. Because Maya Moore was an exceptional basketball player. She won Championship after Championship at the University of Connecticut and she continued winning when she turned pro with the Minnesota Lynx of the WNBA, whatever descriptive you can come up for her won't be enough. Then she gave it all up, she quit everything to devote and dedicate herself, the totality of her humanness, towards the work of freeing, JONATHAN IORNS a Missouri Prisoner, who she had come to the realization was falsely imprisoned. So Maya Moore did what the human being focused on a task does. As an end note to her story, not only did she accomplish her intention, but her last name is now, IORNS and they have to my knowledge a child. The behavior of Woman in the American Imprisonment Scheme isn't limited to Maya Moore as anecdote, but stories abound in all sorts of ways that speak to the incalculable strength of WOMAN to the American prisoner and this brings me to Virginia and KIMBERLY SNODGRASS. Recently Kim thanked me and,even though I understand where she's coming from, I still can't let it stand like that. Kimberly Snodgrass is a Mother who is dealing with the hell of having a Son imprisoned, while still having the mental, spiritual and emotional capacity to speak for us the Virginia Prisoner and she isn't by herself. From Stacey Thorpe, Michelle Griffin, Natasha White ,Fatimah Muwahhid, Dawn Bryant, Gaye Gardner to name just a pin drop of all our Virginia Women, who in small and large ways, with unfathomable strength, do what their humanness ask of them, not withstanding the tremendous obstacles thrown,tossed at them.The dehumanization they're subjected to because they dare say, Virginia prison official perform your duties lawfully. WE THANK YOU. 

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 

Prison Is Speech By The State and It's Organized Violence By William Thorpe

The colloquialism "The only thing prison provides is time and what the prisoner does with the time is solely his choice."

On the surface and superficially it sounds commonsensical making all the sense in the world because it fits the narrative of the national status quo and its pursuit of a supposed responsibility and its individual accountability. But upon scrutiny, we find it is just another gibberish and idealistic utterance in the employ of the controlling functions of the state and its national status quo. And why should we simply stop with prison being the only environment requiring the accountability of individual responsibility        Lets expand it to general life, beginning with the argument point from our political and religious reactionary brethren, the life begins at conception demagoguery and let's hold that construct of life responsible and accountable for itself independent of the mother and humor at its collapse in the objectivity of its anticipation. Which by the way as much as our reactionary brethren push for life at conception, the fact it is still based on the responsibility and accountability of the mother as an independent anticipation, in no uncertain terms mocks the responsibility and accountability supposition.

And it makes the same point, that as much as the controlling mechanism of the status quo expects a self-policing imperative with our buy into a superficial and speculative grasp of individual responsibility and accountability. The fact remains, prison provides more than time. Prison is speech by the state and it's organized violence. Prison as function of the state assumes responsibility and accountability for and of the imprisoned in dicta to provide.

Thus the responsibility and accountability of the state to the prisoner as it exercises it's organized violence speech of imprisonment should not be excused nor apologized away with the naive and delusional observation that the prisoner in and for theirself should have the presence of mind and ambition to experience the passage of the imprisonment time in a supposed manner when the very lack or bias of the supposed is what resulted the prisoners confinement to begin with.

The adage "the devil is in the details" isn't sophistry and society and its inherent relations cannot escape its scrutiny and consequences of those relations will compel such scrutiny regardless of whether we are intellectually-material enough or still indulging in the intellectual-liberalism of our subjectivity. Because even the sun bows down to reason as the practice of our brethren in 1789 reminded us and again we were taught from 1818-1828 that colloquial traditions and culture are just that mechanisms of the supposed, to be brushed aside as feeble articles of backwardness while new realizations in the employ of progress enable the emergence of a new culture and tradition which in the prison context is reform and holding state and it's organized violence responsible and accountable.

By William Thorpe