All Eyes On US

All eyes are on us. All elders must remain focused on the youth during the month of Black August and come strong with teaching. From behind enemy lines in the belly of the beast, in the California state prison system, which is part of the Amerikan injustice system, I greet you and call your attention to the annual commemoration of Black August.

I invite you in society to participate with us fellow prisoners and families throughout the world to join us in honoring our beloved martyrs with fasting, studying, sharing Panther love and knowledge in the spirit of Hasan Shakur, Oxar Grant, Jean Bell, Gus Rugley, Kenneth Harding, Trayvon Martin, and all who have laid down their lives in the struggle to give humanity a brighter future.

Comrade George Jackson was a founder and the field marshal of the original Black Panther Party Prison Chapter. He was gunned down in the yard by guards at San Quentin.

Hashan Shakur was the original minister of human rights of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party Prison Chapter (NABPPPC). He was executed by the state of Texas for a crime he did not commit.

We also remember our comrade Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old Afrikan man whom the Oakland police handcuffed behind his back, forcing him to lay face down on a subway platform. Then they shot him in the back. This cold-blooded murder was caught on cellphone videos, and millions have seen it on the Internet. People in Oakland immediately took to the streets in righteous protest and protests continue.

Just like in the Trayvon Martin case, where a 17-year-old Afrikan child ran from a neighborhood watch. They continued to pursue him after a 911 dispatcher told him not to. Then they just shot him in the scuffle.

We shed tears for our fallen comrades and for the masses brutally victimized by the racist, Fascist murdering police. We have a right to cry over our dead for every life is precious beyond measure. This loss of each who has been killed by the oppressor in this land of our exile and enslavement is intolerable.

We consecrate this month to those who have been taken from us but who will never be forgotten. For the love of freedom which their lives were dedicated to.

Our grief is real, and so is our determination to continue the struggle. Until all are free and the oppression of our people is no more. Our grief and our pain makes us more human, and gives us more strength. Because it is based upon love. Our love fuels our determination to win our liberation in this country.

To clear our minds, I propose that we eat one meal a day throughout the month of August and fast completely on August 7 in honor of Johnathan Jackson who attempted to liberate prisoner revolutionaries, William Christmas and James McClain, in 1970. He was fatally gunned down by snipers once outside the Marin County courthouse.

Again fast on August 21 in George Jackson and all other true revolutionary comrades who have fallen in the struggle. We should strengthen our commitment to practicing Panther Love and throw away old grudges and resentments. We should initiate new friendships. We draw those around us closer and build bonds of brotherhood and sisterhood between us.

All power to the people!

Suggested reading:
* Revolutionary Notes by Julius Lester
* Race and Ideology: Language, Symbolism, and Popular Culture by Arthur K. Spears
* The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors by Dr. Frances Cress Welsing
* The New Jim Crow by Professor Michelle Alexander
* Blood in My Eye by Comrade George L. Jackson

Comrade Tee
a servant of the people

Terrance E. White #AG8738
N.K.S.P. A4-222
P.O. Box 5000
Delano, CA 93216