What’s good bro. It’s T.... u probably don’t remember me.. I lived on 59th right around the corner from you. I think you caught a raw deal and I know the person u are and what they claimed YOU did, u didn’t do. I knew Kayson and his brothers. They were always bad news ... and that wasn’t you.. u jus got caught up. Keep fighting for your freedom. Hold it down
Thanks for writing! I finished the transcription for your post. I appreciate your writing me back and am so sorry to hear you have COVID-19. My family and I are doing well and have not gotten sick. I hope your recovery keeps getting better. Keep writing as your story is great! Sincerely, Teri
Parallaxboi - Let me ask you, if you did know, would you are your Mom to put you in another school?
Jeff - Back then, no, because all of my Family and Homies went to Locke, so, no.
Parallaxboi - What about today, now that you know, because you sounded upset earlier, or aggressively surprised?
(crowd LOL)
Jeff - I ain't with that gayshit homie, and... I just never, and...
Parallaxboi - And... and name me one teaching at your school, at Locke High that came at you on some "gayshit."
Jeff - Nobody, I'm just saying, why didn't they tell us that our Black schools was named after Homosexuals?
Parallaxboi - As a gay black boy, that would've been very empowering for me to know, so I agree with you Brah, why didn't anybody tell me that my Elementary School was named after somebody just like me? Carver Elementary School, it probably would've inspired me to ask my mama to send me to Locke High School, and me and you would've probably met before we met on a prison yard, so I feel as deprived as you do.
Swervo - Wow, thats crazy, and deep.
Jeff - Fosho, I wonder how much shit they didn't tell us, and now you got me wanting to have my wife Google search and show my step-son all of this.
Parallaxboi - So, you have a Parallexboi in you house?
Jeff - About to go to Locke High.
(crowd loud gasp)
Parallaxboi - But kids are more open now.
Jeff - He said He didn't want to go to Locke because of Gang violence, but now, let's see what he says about this, I ain't gon lie Brah, I was about to leave before, but Im glad I stayed over here because I never know what to talk to my step son about.
Swervo - We gon get back at this tomorrow, somebody thank Uncle Eric for me and I got my own Q to end for today. Jeff, if you stop saying step, the boy might hollar at you. What do you tell Black parents about trying to tell kids to stop being gay?
Parallaxboi - Best Q ever, because thats really heavy in our Community. I would say that it's as equally crazy, if Gay Black Kids would start telling Black parents to stop having gay kids. Then our Black parents will realistically engage the word "impossible," and only then will they truly view the parallax in the hood, as, valuable.
da Kid - Hey, Im here, what did I miss? Where y'all going? Y'all comin back tomorrow?
(Crowd slowly dispercing Universal Flound and Daps) End Scene.
Swervo - Ok, ohmm, so, Yesterday, we was all outhere on the yard and met this new Brotha named Parallaxboi, Parallax is a cool def, y'all should look that up, matter of fact, dis kid should be comin in a few, y'all know he always got a dictionary, but, lets keep this straight up, one person at a time, get your Q in, feel free to debate the Az, while I swerve up da homie, its about 35 of y'all, so who's first.
Amaad - I'm Muslim, O.G. Eric said you might be pretty good to hear so let me ask you, they said that yesterday you dated the word Homosexual fo 1868, what about Africans before that date? Can you name any word from any African Tribe that is equal to Homosexual? and if you can, also name the source, because I haven't seen it.
Parallaxboi - First off, I ain't no expert, Im a Brotha just being me, but let's see if I can get at you. #1 Like you, as a kid, I had never heard of it either, its like Homosexual Africans was erased from History, or said to be from the White man, so I forgive our Black Historians and Authors, now that Im grown. #2 Linda Ngoobo and Hugh McLeon wrote a report called DEFIANT DESIRE after interviewing 20 African males around Johannesburg, and they said the word "skesana" is "bottom," and "Injonga" is not only "top," but "he," "top" also made the first move. Get that report, it's good stuff. You also ask me to be Tribe specific, and I do know that Bantu Pouhain in Gabon and Cameron call gay sex "bian nkuma," they say it's medicine for wealth. Azande warrior Tribe male lovers call each other "badiare" Get the Azande Press Line Issue #4 titled Liberated Facts, where we layout a lot more of what you just asked for, and, in fact, take mine here, keep it, and you will be surprised that what you're looking for is a reality. Share it.
Swervo - Who's next, uhmm, D.
Daron - Yeah so, you're saying that Booker T. Washington, Martin Luther King JR, Malcom X, A.J. Rogers Diop, Franz Fanon all intentionally left homosexuals out of Black History?
Parallaxboi - Great Q, yet, did you see it when you read them each?
Daron - Nope, only Bayard Rustin.
Parallaxboi - Brah, both MLK and Malcom X know that James Baldwin was gay, yet they was all friends, and Booker T. Washington knew that George Washington Carver was bi-sexual , and Franz Fanon was bi-sexual.
Jeff - What tha fuck you just say man? Franz Fanon and Carver?
Parallaxboi - And Allain Locke, yeah as in Locke High School, and Carver Elementary School, and Carver Park, sound familiar?
Jeff - I gotta Google dat Shit because, and why are we taking your word for this anyway? and why are we just now hearing about this? I went to Locke High, and aint nobody said that nigga was gay.
da-Kid - whoa, this is crazy, like to said, I'm a loud reader, thanks, Bro, let me get at it.
Parallaxboi - Like Pac told Danny Boy, "do yo thang son". Background you up with the Egyptian trap type beats, let's get it.
da-Kid - reading outloud.....
Parallaxboi - With this Epilogue, we draw attention to the difference between sexual deviance, and sexual identity, and the sexual morality disposition that we hold unfairly against gay people, for example, we are so confident that male child molesters are homosexual, yet, when a male molest a female child, or rapes a female, nobody says that he did it because he's heterosexual, nobody, no police, no judge, no pastor, no psychologist, no parent, no Iman, no homie, not even you, and that's a liberated fact.
This play is based on a collection of real-time experiences throughout incarcerative culture in the State of California I specifically extracted the multiple acts of violence that has been normalized here, and left the portions of dialogue that remain invisible.
Names have been changed to maintain the clarity of trust, as we debate, play sports, do hair, study hard, teach, learn and be free, in the land of the slaves, broken, and at the end of the day, still sleep. I love you, and know that I mean you no harm, that's not who I am, my wings, my wings may get tired with pain most of you are unable to stand, so when you see me coming, don't flinch brotha, for I'm merely looking for a place to land.
Parallaxboi - I think somebody said they are about to lock us all down over this COVID-19 virus spread, so if we came out tomorrow, I'll be out there cool?
da-Kid - I was hella late because I just got a new cellie, they made me move because my old cellie just got paroled, and a bus just pulled up. I ain't met my new cellie yet, I just moved in, left at one time for him and got out there, this is me, see you tomorrow.
Parallaxboi - Or more like right now because I'm in this cell, I'm your new cellie?
da-kid - I already know, I ain't got no hang ups on the gay thang so...
Parallaxboi and da-Kid are locked in the cell when they overhear the guards over the P.A. system announce that the entire prison is on quarantine due to the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
da-Kid - We all should've seen that coming, wile I get situated I should tell you that I snore, bust down at 4, and I read out-loud, and I love to read, so hope you get some good headphones. I'm about to get into Egypt, oh, snap, was it gay people in Ancient Egypt?
Parallaxboi - Gotta few thangs you can read on that and you have a lot of quick energy, let me chill, lay back while you take the floor to get situated, that shower earlier before I spoke on the yard was soooo cool, I'll catch some zzzzz's.
da-Kid - I should be done by standing count time at 4.
Parallaxboi - You ain't gotta tip toe, I'm chillin, but I will doze off. Oh, here it is, some pages copied out of Gay Gods of The Ancient World, or 54 Gay Gods, not sure, it's in here, so at 4, you read, I'll cook up something bet?
da-Kid - Bet, ooooh, what tha?
ACT 5
After sleep, count time and a short meal, da-Kid jumps down from his bunk.
da-Kid - When we was coming in from the yard, I noticed SWERVO watching you with me, soooo, will he be all up in here? Ok...
Parallaxboi - Nope, not a mind reader, we good, but not like what you mean.
da-Kid - Don't nobody knew about me, well, now, except for you, most people just see me as "The Young Nerd" and the older dudes be on some anti-homo shit, so I just stay at my books, and I got something to ask you that I don't feel OK asking them about.
Parallaxboi - don't tell me, Ancient Egypt?
da-Kid - Fouuurrr the Life of me, I've been lookin in everything around here, the library, zero, not one word about gay Egyptians.
Parallaxboi - Look, I got something for ya, check this out right here, Young Bro, it's sad because when black people come to prison, they make Egyptians Black Kemetic without adding to vast evidence of all sorts of sexual situation-ships that they spend years trying to say "the White Man" imported into Africa.
Hello Kelly So what if you’ve gained 15-20 pounds. That just means there’s a bit more of you to love!!!! Glad to read you are behaving yourself, and playing nicely with others. I’m a Brit and I sort of hate ABBA, I was young enough to remember how they were inflicted on us in the seventies. Still, the scene in the movie, Muriels Wedding when she walks down the aisle towards her apoplectic groom to the refrains of I do I do I do I do. If you get a chance to watch it, I highly recommend it. Hope you get your cellie back T
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Jeff - Back then, no, because all of my Family and Homies went to Locke, so, no.
Parallaxboi - What about today, now that you know, because you sounded upset earlier, or aggressively surprised?
(crowd LOL)
Jeff - I ain't with that gayshit homie, and... I just never, and...
Parallaxboi - And... and name me one teaching at your school, at Locke High that came at you on some "gayshit."
Jeff - Nobody, I'm just saying, why didn't they tell us that our Black schools was named after Homosexuals?
Parallaxboi - As a gay black boy, that would've been very empowering for me to know, so I agree with you Brah, why didn't anybody tell me that my Elementary School was named after somebody just like me? Carver Elementary School, it probably would've inspired me to ask my mama to send me to Locke High School, and me and you would've probably met before we met on a prison yard, so I feel as deprived as you do.
Swervo - Wow, thats crazy, and deep.
Jeff - Fosho, I wonder how much shit they didn't tell us, and now you got me wanting to have my wife Google search and show my step-son all of this.
Parallaxboi - So, you have a Parallexboi in you house?
Jeff - About to go to Locke High.
(crowd loud gasp)
Parallaxboi - But kids are more open now.
Jeff - He said He didn't want to go to Locke because of Gang violence, but now, let's see what he says about this, I ain't gon lie Brah, I was about to leave before, but Im glad I stayed over here because I never know what to talk to my step son about.
Swervo - We gon get back at this tomorrow, somebody thank Uncle Eric for me and I got my own Q to end for today. Jeff, if you stop saying step, the boy might hollar at you. What do you tell Black parents about trying to tell kids to stop being gay?
Parallaxboi - Best Q ever, because thats really heavy in our Community. I would say that it's as equally crazy, if Gay Black Kids would start telling Black parents to stop having gay kids. Then our Black parents will realistically engage the word "impossible," and only then will they truly view the parallax in the hood, as, valuable.
da Kid - Hey, Im here, what did I miss? Where y'all going? Y'all comin back tomorrow?
(Crowd slowly dispercing Universal Flound and Daps)
End Scene.
Act 4
Swervo - Ok, ohmm, so, Yesterday, we was all outhere on the yard and met this new Brotha named Parallaxboi, Parallax is a cool def, y'all should look that up, matter of fact, dis kid should be comin in a few, y'all know he always got a dictionary, but, lets keep this straight up, one person at a time, get your Q in, feel free to debate the Az, while I swerve up da homie, its about 35 of y'all, so who's first.
Amaad - I'm Muslim, O.G. Eric said you might be pretty good to hear so let me ask you, they said that yesterday you dated the word Homosexual fo 1868, what about Africans before that date? Can you name any word from any African Tribe that is equal to Homosexual? and if you can, also name the source, because I haven't seen it.
Parallaxboi - First off, I ain't no expert, Im a Brotha just being me, but let's see if I can get at you.
#1 Like you, as a kid, I had never heard of it either, its like Homosexual Africans was erased from History, or said to be from the White man, so I forgive our Black Historians and Authors, now that Im grown.
#2 Linda Ngoobo and Hugh McLeon wrote a report called DEFIANT DESIRE after interviewing 20 African males around Johannesburg, and they said the word "skesana" is "bottom," and "Injonga" is not only "top," but "he," "top" also made the first move. Get that report, it's good stuff. You also ask me to be Tribe specific, and I do know that Bantu Pouhain in Gabon and Cameron call gay sex "bian nkuma," they say it's medicine for wealth. Azande warrior Tribe male lovers call each other "badiare"
Get the Azande Press Line Issue #4 titled Liberated Facts, where we layout a lot more of what you just asked for, and, in fact, take mine here, keep it, and you will be surprised that what you're looking for is a reality. Share it.
Swervo - Who's next, uhmm, D.
Daron - Yeah so, you're saying that Booker T. Washington, Martin Luther King JR, Malcom X, A.J. Rogers Diop, Franz Fanon all intentionally left homosexuals out of Black History?
Parallaxboi - Great Q, yet, did you see it when you read them each?
Daron - Nope, only Bayard Rustin.
Parallaxboi - Brah, both MLK and Malcom X know that James Baldwin was gay, yet they was all friends, and Booker T. Washington knew that George Washington Carver was bi-sexual , and Franz Fanon was bi-sexual.
Jeff - What tha fuck you just say man? Franz Fanon and Carver?
Parallaxboi - And Allain Locke, yeah as in Locke High School, and Carver Elementary School, and Carver Park, sound familiar?
Jeff - I gotta Google dat Shit because, and why are we taking your word for this anyway? and why are we just now hearing about this? I went to Locke High, and aint nobody said that nigga was gay.
Parallaxboi - Like Pac told Danny Boy, "do yo thang son". Background you up with the Egyptian trap type beats, let's get it.
da-Kid - reading outloud.....
Parallaxboi - With this Epilogue, we draw attention to the difference between sexual deviance, and sexual identity, and the sexual morality disposition that we hold unfairly against gay people, for example, we are so confident that male child molesters are homosexual, yet, when a male molest a female child, or rapes a female, nobody says that he did it because he's heterosexual, nobody, no police, no judge, no pastor, no psychologist, no parent, no Iman, no homie, not even you, and that's a liberated fact.
This play is based on a collection of real-time experiences throughout incarcerative culture in the State of California I specifically extracted the multiple acts of violence that has been normalized here, and left the portions of dialogue that remain invisible.
Names have been changed to maintain the clarity of trust, as we debate, play sports, do hair, study hard, teach, learn and be free, in the land of the slaves, broken, and at the end of the day, still sleep. I love you, and know that I mean you no harm, that's not who I am, my wings, my wings may get tired with pain most of you are unable to stand, so when you see me coming, don't flinch brotha, for I'm merely looking for a place to land.
- Parallaxboi
The End
ACT 4
da'Kid - Where is everybody going Brah?
Parallaxboi - I think somebody said they are about to lock us all down over this COVID-19 virus spread, so if we came out tomorrow, I'll be out there cool?
da-Kid - I was hella late because I just got a new cellie, they made me move because my old cellie just got paroled, and a bus just pulled up. I ain't met my new cellie yet, I just moved in, left at one time for him and got out there, this is me, see you tomorrow.
Parallaxboi - Or more like right now because I'm in this cell, I'm your new cellie?
da-kid - I already know, I ain't got no hang ups on the gay thang so...
Parallaxboi and da-Kid are locked in the cell when they overhear the guards over the P.A. system announce that the entire prison is on quarantine due to the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
da-Kid - We all should've seen that coming, wile I get situated I should tell you that I snore, bust down at 4, and I read out-loud, and I love to read, so hope you get some good headphones. I'm about to get into Egypt, oh, snap, was it gay people in Ancient Egypt?
Parallaxboi - Gotta few thangs you can read on that and you have a lot of quick energy, let me chill, lay back while you take the floor to get situated, that shower earlier before I spoke on the yard was soooo cool, I'll catch some zzzzz's.
da-Kid - I should be done by standing count time at 4.
Parallaxboi - You ain't gotta tip toe, I'm chillin, but I will doze off. Oh, here it is, some pages copied out of Gay Gods of The Ancient World, or 54 Gay Gods, not sure, it's in here, so at 4, you read, I'll cook up something bet?
da-Kid - Bet, ooooh, what tha?
ACT 5
After sleep, count time and a short meal, da-Kid jumps down from his bunk.
da-Kid - When we was coming in from the yard, I noticed SWERVO watching you with me, soooo, will he be all up in here? Ok...
Parallaxboi - Nope, not a mind reader, we good, but not like what you mean.
da-Kid - Don't nobody knew about me, well, now, except for you, most people just see me as "The Young Nerd" and the older dudes be on some anti-homo shit, so I just stay at my books, and I got something to ask you that I don't feel OK asking them about.
Parallaxboi - don't tell me, Ancient Egypt?
da-Kid - Fouuurrr the Life of me, I've been lookin in everything around here, the library, zero, not one word about gay Egyptians.
Parallaxboi - Look, I got something for ya, check this out right here, Young Bro, it's sad because when black people come to prison, they make Egyptians Black Kemetic without adding to vast evidence of all sorts of sexual situation-ships that they spend years trying to say "the White Man" imported into Africa.
So what if you’ve gained 15-20 pounds. That just means there’s a bit more of you to love!!!!
Glad to read you are behaving yourself, and playing nicely with others. I’m a Brit and I sort of hate ABBA, I was young enough to remember how they were inflicted on us in the seventies. Still, the scene in the movie, Muriels Wedding when she walks down the aisle towards her apoplectic groom to the refrains of I do I do I do I do. If you get a chance to watch it, I highly recommend it.
Hope you get your cellie back
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