EDWIN "ZAKEE" HUTCHISON
P68859/CSP-5Q/1-N-34L
SAN QUENTIN, CA 94974

MAY 16, 2017

TOPIC: [underlined]RACE USED AS A CRIME[underlined]

HELLO WORLD,

MAY THIS FIND YOU ENJOYING ALL THAT IS PROBABLE
AND BENEFICIAL TO YOUR OVERALL WELL-BEING. TODAY'S TOPIC
IS HOW ONE'S RACE CAN BE USED AGAINST THEM AS A
CRIME. THIS WAS A SUBJECT OF INTEREST TO ME, LAST S
EMESTER, IN A CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY CLASS IN WHICH
I OBTAINED THE FINAL GRADE OF AN "A". THE FOLLOW-
ING IS ONE OF THE ESSAYS I SUBMITTED IN THAT CLASS:

[underlined, centered] RACE IS A PLATFORM OF FEAR [underlined, centered]

PRESIDENTIAL-CANDIDATE DONALD TRUMP PROMISED SO
MANY THINGS IF ELECTED, ONE BEING "TO BUILD THE WALL"
ALONG THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER. THIS RHETOTIC ONLY
CONFIRMS THAT WE ARE A DIVIDED NATION IS AN ALMOST
UNIVERSAL COMPLAINT SURRONDING THE BITTER 2016
ELECTION YEAR. HOWEVER, THE EXACT PROPERTY THAT
DIVIDES THE NATION-[double underlined] RACE [double underlined] - THOUGH IT IS SAID TO BE,
STILL REMAINS A MATTER OF CONTROVERSY IN "[underlined] MAKING
AMERICA GREAT AGAIN ?![underlined]"

IN THE BOOK ENTITLED, "[underlined] FRESH FRUIT, BROKEN BODIES [underlined]"
BY SETH M. HOLMES (2013), ONE OF HIS RESEARCH INTERESTS
CENTERED UPONG SOCIAL INEQUALITIES RELTATED TO CATEGORI-
ES OF RACE, INCLUDING IMPACTS ON SOCIAL CLASS, GENDER,
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CITIZENSHIP, ADN SEXUALITY. HOLMES CONCEDES THAT "MUCH
OF THE STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE IN THE UNITED STATES TODAY
IS ORGANIZED ALONG THE FAULT LINES OF CLASS [AND]
RACE..." (P.43) AS WITH DONALD TRUMP WHO INDEED
WON THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION ON THE SOCIAL
AND POLITICAL PLATFORMS BASED UPON "FEAR"; A CORREL-
ATION CAN BE MADE THAT, INCREASINGLY, THROUGHOUT
THE NATION, A PERSON'S SKIN COLOR OR CITIZENSHIP
CAN BE CRIMINALIZED. THIS ESSAY EXAMINES THE KEY
THEORY OF ONE'S RACE AND HOW THE NATION'S TOUGH-
ON-CRIME MOVEMENT IS CENTERED ON RACE AND, MORE
IMPORTANTLY, FUELED BY [underlined] FEAR [ underlined]. THIS IS A CAUSATIVE
FACTOR TO MY CURRENT IMPRISONMENT TO A [underlined] THIRTY [underlined] (30)
[underlined] YEARS [underlined] - [underlined] TO [underlined] - [underlined] LIFE [underlined] "DEATH SENTENCE IN SLOW MOTION " UN-
DER CALIFORNIA'S THREE STRIKES LAW FOR A [double-underlined] NONVIOLENT
CRIME [double underlined].

WHAT THE AVERAGE AMERICAN IS UNAWARE OF IS THAT
MOST PRISONERS ARE INCARCERATED NOT BECAUSE THEY ARE REPEAT
OR CAREER CRIMINALS; BUT BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN ACCUED
OF BREAKING ONE OF AN EVER-INCREASING NUMBER OF LAWS
DESIGNED TO EXERT TIGHTER SOCIAL CONTROL AND INCREASE GOV-
ERNMNETAL REPRESSION USING THE PLATFORM OF FEAR. FOR EX-
AMPLE, THE NATION'S "THREE STRICKS AND YOU'RE OUT" SENTEN-
CING SCHEME AND LAW CAME INTO FRUITION DURING THE APEX
OF THE U.S. LOCK THE UP MOVEMENT THAT SWEEP THE NATION
IN THE EARLY TO MID-1900'S. COINCIDENTLY, THIS MOVEMENT
ALSO CONCURRED WITH THE "[underlined] CRACK COCAINE EPIDEMIC [underlined]" WHICH
RAVAGED URBAN INEER CITIES ACROSS AMERICA. I, TOO, FELL
VICTIM TO THE HIGHLY-ADDICTIVE CRACK COCAINE THAT FOLLD-
ED THE MEAN STREETS OF LOS ANGELES, AND WHILE CAUGHT
IN THE WEB OF ADDICTION, I COMMITTED MY FIRST FELONG
OFFENSE (AT THE AFE OF 30), WAS CONVICTED, SENTENCED, AND
SENT TO PRISON FOR AN EIGHT YEAR TERM. I SERVED EXACTLY
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FOUR YEARS, ONE MONTH, ONE DAY AND SIX HOURS OF THAT FIRST
FELONY CONVICTION, BUT, BECAUSE OF MY SKIN COLOR, I WAS
SENTENCED TO A PRISON TERM FOR MY FIRST FELONY, WHEN
OTHER WHITE MEN AND WOMEN WITH SIMILAR OFFENSES
RECIEVED "DRUG DIVERSION TREATMENT PROGRAMS." GO FIG0
URE? AS A RESULT, CALIFORNIA TAXPAYERS' SPENT $25,000
ANNUALLY (OVER $100,000) TO IMPRISON ME WHEN THE TOTAL
COST FOR DRUG TREATMENT CONSTS WERE ONLY $4,000. THIS
EXEMPLIFIES AND COLLABORATES HOMES HYPOTHESIS
THAT "THE POWERFUL TEND TO BELIEVE THEY DESERVE THE
SUCCESSES THEY HAVE HAD AND THAT THE POWERLESS HAVE
BROUGHT THEIR PROBLEMS ON THEMSELVES." (P.44)

i WAS RELEASED FROM CUSTODY IN 1994, AND I RELOCATED
TO MONTEREY, CA, WHERE I RESIDED AND WORKED FOR
TWO YEARS. IN 1996, I RETURNED TO LOS ANGELES AND WAS
EMPLOYED AT PARAMOUNT PICTURES IN HOLLYWOOD AS A COM-
PUTER SUPPORT TECHNICIAN. HOWEVER, TO MY DEMISE, AS I
NEVER ADDRESSED MY ADDICTIVE IMPULSIVENESS; WORKING
UN L.A.'S MOVIE INDUSTRY WHICH IS ALCOHOL AND DRUG
FRIENDLY, I QUICKLY FELL BACK INTO HIGH0RISK SITUATION'
S AND ADDICTIVE BEHAVIORS. SOON THEREAFTER, CRACK COCAINE
ONCE AGAIN, DERAILED MY LIFE AND WHILE HIGHLY INTOXI-
CATED ON THIS MIND-ALTERING DRUG, I COMMITTED A NON-
VIOLENT ROBBERY OF A RESTAURANT, WAS SUBSEQUENTLY
ARRESTED AND ON [underlined] JANUARY 28, 2000 [underlined], I WAS CONVICTED
OF THIS OFFENSE AND SENTENCED UNDER CALIFORNIA'S HOR=
RIBLE "THREE STRIKES LAW", EVEN THOUGH THIS WAS ONLY
MY [underlined] SECOND [underlined] FELONY CONVICTION. I HAVE BEEN BURIED ALIVE
EVER SINCE. HAVING SPENT THE PAST 18+ YEARS IMPRISON-
ED (I WAS ARRESETED IN APRIL OF 1999.), I HAVE AN UNIMAG-
INABLE 11 MORE YEARS OT DO BEFORE I REACH MY EARLIEST
POSSIBLE RELEASE DATE (EPRD) FOR THIS NONVIOLENT, DRUG
INDUCED CRIME THAT NORMALLY CARRIED [double underlined] 2, 3, OR 5 YEARS [double underlined]
WITHIN EVERY OTHER JURISDICTION IN THE UNITED STATES.

ONE NEEDS NOT TO BE A ROCKET SCIENTIST TO SEE HOW
THIS FORM OF [underlined] STRUCTURAL [underlined] AND [underlined] SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE [underlined] PROVIDES
A FRAMEWORK FOR THE WAR OF SOCIAL CONTROL AGAINST THE
PEOPLE OF COLOR IN AMERICA. SADLY, A PERSON'S RACE
CAN, AND WILL BE, USED AGAINST THEM IN OUR CRIMINAL
JUSTICE SYSTEM TO SCAPEGOAT AND CRIMINALIZE THEM.
A PRIME EXAMPLE IS TO SIMPLY WITNESS THE INCREASED
NUMBER OF AFRICAN AMERICANS, HISPANICS, NATIVE AMERICAN
AND ASIAN YOUTHS NOW DETAINED PURSUANT TO JUVELINE
CRIME AND AND "ANTI-GANG" LAWS, OR THE INCREASED
NUMBER OF FOREIGN NATIONALS (EXCULDING MOST EUROPEANS)
WHO ARE IMPRISONED DUE TO HATE/ FEAT INSPIRED IMMIG-
RATION LAWS. WHAT ABOUT PRESIDENT TRUMP'S U.S. - MIX-
ICO BORDER MILITARIZATION DISCOURSE, OR THE ON-GOING
"WAR ON DRUGS" IN WHICH HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS HAVE
BEEN KIDNAPPED FROM THIER COMMUNITIES BY LOCAL POLICE.
THROUGH THE [underlined] NATURALIZATION [underlined] AND [underlined] NORMALIZATION [underlined] OF
THESE SOCIAL HIERARHCIES TO CREATE MORE POLICIES
TO CRIMINALIZE AND DECIMATE THESE TARGETED DARK SKIN0-
ED DEMOGRAPHICS AND TO KEEP THIRD WORLD AND WHITE
WORKING-CLASS WAGE LABORS INCARCERATED BY THIS FORM
OF STRUCTURAL AND SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE, HEREFORE, MOST
PRISONERS, INCLUDING MYSELF, ARE IMPRISONED BY VIRTUTE
OF THEIR ETHNICITY AND/OR CLASS STATUS, AND ARE INDEED
THE VICTIMES OF ETHNIC CLEANSING POLICIES.

IN CONCLUSION, BY NARROWLY [double underlined] FOCUSSING ON THE EFFECTS [double underlined]
OF ETHNICITY AND CITZENSHIP HIERACHIESL HOLMS OVER-
LOOKS THE MUCH DEEPER PROBLEMS OF RACISM IN AMERICA
WHICH IS CONSIDERABLY MORE VICIOUS SINCE PRESIDENT DON-
ALD TRUMP TOOK OFFICE, NOT TO MENTION HOW THE NATION'S
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CITIZENS ARE MORE CONFUSED THAN EVER ABOUT RACE, REL-
EGIONS, OR SOCIIO-ECONOMIC CLASS STRUCTURES, AND CONSEQ-
QUENTLY THE LEVELS OF SOCIAL ATOMIZATION IN AMERICA
HAVE NEVER BEEN GREATER. PRESIDENT TRUMP'S PRI-
MARY MECHANISMS FOR ISOLATING US FROM ONE ANOTHER
AND THE WORLD IS [double underlined] "FEAR". [underlined] AND THE FEAR OF CRIME IS THE
GREATEST FEAR OF ALL, WITH NO OTHER DOMESTIC SEGMENT
OF SOCIETY MORE DEMONIZED THAN THE ONES CONSISTING
OF "DARK-SKINNED" CRIMINALS, YOU SEE, THE REASONING
IS SIMPLE: THE ALLEGED CRIMINALS ARE NO LONGER A PART
OF [double underlined] "US" [double underlined], BUT HAS SUDDENLY BECOME ONE OF [double underlined] "THEM" [double underlined], OR
THAT [double underlined] "OTHER" [double underlined] PERSON UPON WHOM ANY EVIL CAN JUSTLY
BE INFLICTED. NOT ONLY ARE THESE DEMONIZED PEOPLE
POLITCALLY AND SOCIALLY DISENFRACHISED AND IMPRISONED
UNDER "CONSTITUTIONALLY-SANCTIONED;" CONDITIONS OF
MODERN DAY SLAVERY, THESE HAPLESS CRIMINALS OF SKIN
COLOR ARE ALSO SUBJECTED TO ENDLESS FORMS OF
TORTURE. SO ALWAY REMEMBER, "MIND ARE A TERRIBLE
THING TO WASTE", BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, MINDS ARE
LIKE PARACHUTES, THEY ONLY FUNCTION CORRECTLY
WHEN OPEN...

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