Papyrus Collective
@Golgotha with the Grade B'z

vox populi vox Dei
The voice of the people is the voice of God

There exists a documented conversation between men hanging on crosses after being given the death penalty. One of those men is still a major figure in the lives of people all over the world, and yet there are now thousands of people on death row around the world. Go figure.

For far too long, the media and other agencies have represented captives on death row from a narrow window, from the outside, and the results are often one-sided, misleading, and straight up false. Papco inspires the world to experience unedited conversations between the souls still hanging on the cross at the place of the skull—Golgotha.

The institutional Instruction Manual for Legal Murder has not changed. When the people are forced to focus on the person on the cross, by default, the condition itself forces the people to focus on the systematic overthrow of the underclass, a scheme to silence the people. Hidden in plain sight.

Gone are the days of just executing old child molesters and serial killers. There now exists a new type of political prisoner being held captive on death row: the New Generation of targeted inner city youth accused of committing "street level crimes" who are given death sentences for the political and capital advancement of corrupt law enforcement agents, attorneys, and judges.

The discussion at Golgotha continues...

Date: March 2012
Location: California death row, San Quentin State Prison
Golgotha, The place of the skull
Questions by XZYZST
Responses by The Grade B'z@death row

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AT GOLGOTHA
by
Xzyzst

XZ: First and foremost, let me greet your brothaz as true solid and comrades, heirs to the throne of our kings. New Generation rising. Young Piankhi got this new wind project out. Did ya'll see the first Write or Die Zine?

Jab: Nawh.

A.D.: I ain't seen nothing. What's up with that website thing?

(Xzyzst explains Piankhi's papyruscollective@creativewriting-project.)

XZ: It's a few of them floating around here. I'll see to it that ya'll check it out. Right now, we dropping Issue #2 strictly for the ladies. Because, as ya'll know, we got a gang of females also on lock around this world, and how many females are on death row in California? And where in the hell are they?

Jab: Wouldn't they be in Chowchilla?

A.D.: Like Ad-Seg, huh? But I don't know how many of them are in there.

XZ: Shit. Shouldn't none of them be there. Feel me?

A.D.: Now, now. What about ol' girl that rolled the windows up in her car and drowned her kids in a lake or shit?

Eddie: Oh, that's Susan Smith, and I don't think the state she was in gave her the death penalty.

A.D.: It's all politics anyway.

Eddie: Hell yeah. It's people on the mainline with the crazier crimes, man.

XZ: Real talk. Because they got females on lock for smokin' fools that put hands and feet on them. I mean, it's like...

Eddie: Yeah, they should never go to jail. That's my opinion.

Jab: Yeah, and that's what we are for. Because a muthafucka do something to mine or my daughter, I'm like, she got every right to catch his ass asleep. Or slippin'.

A.D.: They got shit like this so fucked up because, if you want to be a killa, come join the military. If you wanna sell dope, become a pharmacist. Wanna be a liar and deceiver? Become a politician. A gambler? Play the lottery. For everything they go after people for, they got a so-called justifiable legal way to do it. If not, you're an outlaw.

Jab: No shit, huh. (laughs) Outlaw... he said outlaw. (laughs)

A.D.: Shit, some of those lawmen back in the Western days was outlaws and shit before they got...

Jab: Them Tombstone fools. But you're right. They only give the death penalty to females and us when we independent minded.

XZ: Let me go Travis Smiley on ya'll for a second. I'm glad you said that, speaking of independent minded. Get ready for this question. Do you believe that in about 4-8 years Michelle Obama will run for president? Think about that realistically. A female US president?

A.D.: Of course. They done already tried with Palin and Clinton. Women want to show their dominance. Hell, I would rather see a female become president. Because she got that strong emotional side so she may be more qualified to handle national and international affairs better than most of the hardheaded, stubborn old fools on some personal ego shit instead of having the nation's interests at heart.

Jab: Behind every strong man there's a strong woman, a better woman. I get like a nurturing national instinct from her. I can see her turning down a nomination because I saw an interview from 60 Minutes, I think, where she was like, it's hard to sneak in a night out or intimacy with her husband without cameras, and secret service agents, and shit. I think she's more of a, "I'm going to have my man's back in whatever he wants to do." Now don't get it twisted. With or without Obama, she was going to be the shitz. Her pop's and her family already had community status. One brother is a college basketball coach.

A.D.: Didn't he work under her at first?

Jab: Pop's said education was a must. We not just going to accept racism and shit. It's not that I can't see her as president... Wait, let me finish. I just can't see her saying, "When you're done as president, you bring your ass home?"

A.D.: Michelle can see them playing puppet master with her husband. She sees an opportunity to show family values. She understands if you don't work, you don't eat, and ya'll know those old types of sayings. But she on some. Everybody can't work. Some have disabilities and all kinds of circumstances and situations that prevent people from shit. So she, like the nation, need to help each other more like a family.

Jab: yeah, she has it in here. But from what I see in her, she's like, "Our kids need to get active," due to the rising, alarming rates of diabetes in our kids. And she's right. Because when we was young, we went outside to play. I mean, basketball, streetball, all kinds of shit just in the hood. But now, we get computers, and kids sitting up playing computer games all day, and not getting out and exercising is creating a great health risk for our future. You know what? We saying the same thing. I agree with you, but just for different reasons.

A.D.: She's up on their political deception, build, give, sacrifice. She seeing the cutthroat lifestyle, and that can be a turn-off for her as well.

XZ: Are you saying she's on a higher moral standard? She can't speak out? Hell, I heard she was a better public speaker than Obama. And right now, the Republicans may need to go dig up Abe Lincoln because I can't seen nobody out debating POTNA right now. If they can't fuck with him, they ain't ready for her.

A.D.: She's smart enough to know that being the president is like being a representative. And she may not want to represent the hundred of years of foul shit that this country was built on.

Jab: I agree with him about her not wanting no part of it. She be tryin' to sneak out of interviews and TV shows, and shit like, "Ya'll muthafuckaz can ask me about obesity and cancer and shit, but don't ask me about no policies. Ya'll ain't about to be playing me and my answers against my husband." She's like that movie John Q, when the wife of this military personnel had to straight check they asses about them trying to do-low her husband. That's Michelle right there. Strong man, strong woman. From what I see, she's the anchor.

A.D.: And another thing, I think Michelle can see into the future because they got foolz taking potshots at the White House. Air Force One all of a sudden got security issues. They not protecting them like they should.

XZ: And the Secret Service just let some mayor—

A.D.: Governor of Arizona.

Jab: What happened?

XZ: She got all up in Obama's face after he got off Air Force One, pointing her finger in his face like, "You nigger!" She didn't say that, but ya'll know the business.

Jab: Oh, yeah, yeah. Now you see how he handled that? Cool as fuck. They disrespected him on the house floor with that "Liar." He wanted to call him a nigger, but already know he'd been a thuvo!

XZ: Trying to force him off his square, huh?

A.D.: If that was a king of another country, ole girl would've been tossed up. They would've took her racist ass down.

XZ: Did Michell respond to that at all? Because I can see a sista like, "Bitch, I'll cut cho ass. You put yo hands on my man!" (laughs) Real talk, make that heffa touch everything in that Walmart parking lot.

(all laughs)

Jab: And you see, that's what I mean. Malcolm, Betty, Martine, Corretta—it's females out there that I'm used to who're straight up holding down shit because you got to give it to the Clintons for keeping Chelsea out of the media as a kid. Unlike the Bush girls. So Michelle and the family got them girls stable. I mean, when they step off that plane, not a barrette is out of place. Because that position comes with image as well.

A.D.: Them Bush girls and a lot of others think since they were born with a silver spoon in they mouth, they don't give a fuck.

Jab: They all alcoholics. But that's old money, I'm saying. See, I tried to show ya'll with Michelle, but ya'll ain't getting it. So now I'm going to have to get ghetto on ya'll. (laughs) Whitney Houston, they say it's Bobby's fault. She was about the church and Arsenio tried to get her to sit on his lap. But she was like, "Oh hell no. You ain't about to play me like that." Now, we all know just being related to Dione Warwick, all at the airport with that sticky icky in her shit, Whitney was already exposed to shit. But she at least had strong females around her to keep her grounded.

A.D.: That's Hollywood. Hollywood demonizes people.

XZ: What about Amy Winehouse? Plus, Whitney had Cece Houston back then as well.

Jab: That's a whole other story. I'm saying Michelle is more of a private maternal figure. A.D. is like saying the same thing but as if Michelle can somehow incorporate those family values into the country on a national level. And I don't see that. But who knows.

A.D.: I do.

XZ: So the bottom line here is we all can see Michelle Obama as president, but Michelle herself may decide not to fuck with it. I agree with you both. However, I believe that somewhere in all of us, male and female, there is something intriguing, attractive, and tempting at the office to rule the world. Both of you remember me when you come into your kingdom. I'm late for my group, and here comes Babylon.

A.D.: Man, we don't need them. This was cool right here. We having our own group.

XZ: (yelling) Alright now. Eddie!

Eddie: (in the distance) Alright, now see ya next yard!

THE END