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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.samorapinderhughes.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Samora Pinderhughes\u003c/a> spent the past eight years exploring two questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One is, how do we survive in America? And the other is how do we heal on a daily basis?” says the Bay Area-raised composer, pianist, filmmaker, singer and activist in an interview with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result of his investigation is \u003ca href=\"https://ybca.org/event/the-healing-project/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>The Healing Project\u003c/em>,\u003c/a> a kaleidoscopic, highly collaborative creative endeavor comprised of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.last.fm/music/Samora+Pinderhughes/GRIEF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">15-track album\u003c/a>; an exhibition at San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://ybca.org/event/the-healing-project/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yerba Buena Center for the Arts\u003c/a> (YBCA); an audio archive of interviews with more than 100 people across 15 states who’ve encountered structural violence like incarceration, detention or community shootings in their daily lives; and a concert series, including a performance \u003ca href=\"https://live.stanford.edu/calendar/april-2022/samora-pinderhughes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on Saturday, April 2, at Stanford Live\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The project as a whole is about the experience of dealing with American institutions that create poverty,” says Pinderhughes. “Because I think a lot of times, we don’t ask people about their experiences with these systems, like, ‘What’s your day to day reality? 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While the chorus highlights the failures of the prison industrial complex across the spectrum (“Holding cell, holding cell / I can’t get well while you hold me”), the second verse points to a more healing future:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>I want a quiet\u003cbr>\nlife In a flat\u003cbr>\nwith Church on a Sunday I got a voice\u003cbr>\nAnd I got a laugh\u003cbr>\nAnd I’ll use it one day\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_12059349']\u003cem>The Healing Project\u003c/em> involves dozens of collaborators, among them Pinderhughes’ own sister, the renowned flautist and vocalist \u003ca href=\"https://nyphil.org/about-us/artists/elena-pinderhughes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elena Pinderhughes\u003c/a>. Elena is featured on the album and will appear in live performances alongside her brother; filmmaker \u003ca href=\"https://christianpadron.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Christian Padron\u003c/a> collaborated on several music videos based on songs from the new album and additional films; and weaving/fiber artist \u003ca href=\"https://ybca.org/artist/nnaemeka-emeka-ekwelum/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nnaemeka Ekwelum\u003c/a>‘s series of brilliantly-colored, intricate “Grief Cloths” adorn the walls of the YBCA exhibition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>“When I was weaving the ‘Grief Cloths,’ I wasn’t just thinking through my own personal grief,” says Ekwelum, who started making the flowing sculptures from plastic lacing, yarn and other materials in response to his father’s death in March 2021. “I was also thinking about the collective grief of this moment we’re all living through, with so much despair, dysfunction and structural damage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ekwelum says the “Grief Cloths” not only embody personal and systemic grief, but also point towards healing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m coming into weaving from a place of anxiety or a deep sadness. 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Left-hand wall. ‘The Healing Project,’ installation view, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2022. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Photographs by Charlie Villyard. )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Healing Project\u003c/em> also includes significant contributions from incarcerated people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A small, blue-colored room in the corner of YBCA’s galleries is devoted to select voices of the many people Pinderhughes interviewed for the project, heard via a looped audio feed. One is activist and artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.keithlamar.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Keith LaMar\u003c/a>, a death row inmate in Ohio, who’s been in solitary confinement for the past three decades. 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Elena is featured on the album and will appear in live performances alongside her brother; filmmaker \u003ca href=\"https://christianpadron.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Christian Padron\u003c/a> collaborated on several music videos based on songs from the new album and additional films; and weaving/fiber artist \u003ca href=\"https://ybca.org/artist/nnaemeka-emeka-ekwelum/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nnaemeka Ekwelum\u003c/a>‘s series of brilliantly-colored, intricate “Grief Cloths” adorn the walls of the YBCA exhibition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003c/b>“When I was weaving the ‘Grief Cloths,’ I wasn’t just thinking through my own personal grief,” says Ekwelum, who started making the flowing sculptures from plastic lacing, yarn and other materials in response to his father’s death in March 2021. “I was also thinking about the collective grief of this moment we’re all living through, with so much despair, dysfunction and structural damage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ekwelum says the “Grief Cloths” not only embody personal and systemic grief, but also point towards healing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m coming into weaving from a place of anxiety or a deep sadness. And then by the end of the weaving process, I have this beautiful object that I’ve created from these difficult feelings being reflected back at me,” he says. “I’m modeling a way to transform pain into something beautiful that doesn’t eclipse the significance of what you’re feeling, but can memorialize it in a way where you can look at it and accept the lessons from it without feeling totally deflated or intimidated by what it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13911249\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13911249\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/RS54838_grief-cloths-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/RS54838_grief-cloths-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/RS54838_grief-cloths-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/RS54838_grief-cloths-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/RS54838_grief-cloths-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/RS54838_grief-cloths-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/RS54838_grief-cloths-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Grief Cloths’ by fiber artist Nnaemeka Ekwelum. 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He is scheduled to be executed next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The truly tragic element of my situation is that it’s not personal,” says LaMar (whose meditations can also be heard in a series of videos on social media featuring a sparse musical tracks by Pinderhughes). “This could happen to anybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13911248\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13911248 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/RS54839_pitt-panther-2-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/RS54839_pitt-panther-2-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/RS54839_pitt-panther-2-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/RS54839_pitt-panther-2-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/RS54839_pitt-panther-2-qut-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/RS54839_pitt-panther-2-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/RS54839_pitt-panther-2-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A selection of images by Pitt Panther. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Pitt Panther)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then there are the hand-drawn, black-and-white works on paper by Pitt Panther, such as representations of George Floyd and Black Power symbols. Panther is currently serving a prison sentence in Virginia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pitt Panther sends me these pieces through the mail,” says Pinderhughes. “He’s one of my favorite artists in the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>YBCA’s Chief of Program Meklit Hadero says one of the powerful things about \u003cem>The Healing Project\u003c/em> is that it centers real human lived experiences at the same time as exploring massive and seemingly intractable societal problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of times when we talk about these big systems, we talk about them from places of statistics or numbers or ways that feel so impersonal that things can get brushed aside,” Hadero says. “It becomes real when it’s about people.”\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinderhughes hopes \u003cem>The Healing Project\u003c/em> will create space for people to come together to grieve, and mend, and ultimately imagine a more equitable future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s my attempt,” he says, “to communicate an abolitionist vision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12904247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"39\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-160x16.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-240x23.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/03/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39-375x37.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘The Healing Project’ runs through June 19 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. \u003ca href=\"https://ybca.org/event/the-healing-project/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More information here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Samora Pinderhughes performs with Elena Pinderhughes, Howard Wiley, Marcus Shelby, and Bobby Gonz at the Bing Studio at Stanford on Saturday, April 2. \u003ca href=\"https://live.stanford.edu/calendar/april-2022/samora-pinderhughes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13906504\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13906504\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/7BF815C4-7B0E-46C8-8A94-F82A096555B3-800x601.jpg\" alt=\"A young man stacks rocks in a riverbed\" width=\"800\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/7BF815C4-7B0E-46C8-8A94-F82A096555B3-800x601.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/7BF815C4-7B0E-46C8-8A94-F82A096555B3-1020x766.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/7BF815C4-7B0E-46C8-8A94-F82A096555B3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/7BF815C4-7B0E-46C8-8A94-F82A096555B3-768x577.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/7BF815C4-7B0E-46C8-8A94-F82A096555B3.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">My nephew, Reggie Cole, stacking stones in a dry riverbed near Auburn, CA. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>fter I enter my debit card information into my nephew’s phone, confirming the purchase of a Sacramento-to-Oakland Greyhound ticket so he can attend the funeral of a friend who’d passed from fentanyl poisoning, I hand the phone back, asking if this was the first close friend he’s lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No, he replies—another buddy of his died at the start of the pandemic. COVID-19 related. Damn. I offer my condolences, and really didn’t know what else to say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 18 years old, my nephew Reggie is a struggling high school super-senior who has dreams of being a mechanic—and even bigger dreams of racing the Le Mans in France. But right now, he’s staying on my couch, trying to figure out life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I place myself in his shoes: At 18, I was working multiple jobs and was headed to college. But a number of my close friends who weren’t going to college were dying of gunshots, losing their minds while popping pills, and/or being hit with charges that would start them on a path of living in and out of incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13906505\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13906505\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_4697-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Reggie at the SFMoMA, posing in front of a sculpture of stacked fake human brains. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_4697-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_4697-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_4697-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_4697-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_4697-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_4697-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_4697-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reggie at SFMOMA, posing in front of a sculpture of stacked fake human brains. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I can help my nephew understand gun violence and mass incarceration. But I don’t know what it’s like to deal with deaths from fentanyl and COVID. I don’t know what it’s like to be 18 right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The morning after our convo we grab breakfast, I pass him a few bucks, and drop him at the Greyhound. Then I sit down for work, opening my phone to read an Associated Press story about overdoses reaching a record high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My nephew’s friend is one of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/overdodse-deaths-fentanayl-health-f34b022d75a1eb9776e27903ab40670f\">the estimated 100,000\u003c/a> people who’ve died of an overdose in the past 12 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">M\u003c/span>y nephew represents the story of so many young people right now. Trying to figure it all out from a couch, a cot, a passenger seat in a car or a park bench. And the worst part: the guidance of older folks, such as myself, doesn’t quite fit what they’re experiencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re dealing with a school system that was dysfunctional pre-pandemic, and was all but obliterated when learning became “distanced.” They’re looking for a job in a market where employers are reportedly seeking workers, but it gets tricky if you don’t have a GED or a driver’s license; the latter is basically a necessity for joining the gig economy. And a number of development resources, like trade schools, are either shuttered or aren’t accepting new students. I know, I’ve called.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The way the cost of housing has impacted Reggie’s generation, I’m happy he isn’t living in his car, like some of his peers. But by definition, he is functionally “homeless.” Despite floating from couch to couch, he wouldn’t be counted on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2020-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">official government homeless assessment report\u003c/a>. And to think: African Americans already make up a disproportionate amount of homelessness in this country. I wonder how steep of an undercount that is?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there’s the issue of increasing \u003ca href=\"https://inequality.org/great-divide/updates-billionaire-pandemic/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wealth inequality\u003c/a>. California, the land of economic disparities, is the place where the food that feeds the world is grown, but people who pick it are paid pennies. There are a multitude of millionaires and a heap of homelessness homies. What’s to become of an undereducated, informally skilled young Black man?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m a student of this stuff—you know, this whole “Black man in America” thing. During my late teens and early 20s, I worked as a resident assistant in Howard University’s largest freshmen male dormitory, and as a teacher in Oakland’s African Male Achievement program. I’ve read and written more pieces on the topic than I can count. Plus, shit, I’m a Black man in America. I live this too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But you don’t have to be Black, a man or even America to know that your late teens and early 20s are an extremely important period in life. It’s when a simple decision, or a set of them, can affect the rest of your life, and possibly even generations of your family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13906509\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13906509\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_5820-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Artist Dana King and my nephew Reggie met and instantly clicked on their shared love of racing.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_5820-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_5820-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_5820-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_5820-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_5820-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_5820-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_5820-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist Dana King and my nephew Reggie met and instantly clicked on their shared love of racing. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So I’m stressing him. Not just about finding a job, gaining skills and finishing school. But starting with making handwritten to-do lists that include the simple things. Because the failures he’s faced in life have left his self-esteem depleted, and now it’s on him to build himself back up through seeing his own incremental successes. Because that’s what I did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I encourage visiting the library and spending time in cafes, taking time to read books, because that mediative period is needed, even if it’s just a few minutes. Because that’s what I did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I push him to exercise and eat well, because we’ve been miseducated about the importance of a healthy diet, and need to make a drastic change. Because, again, that’s what I did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He dismisses my sermon about how Red Hot burritos and Cup O’ Noodles aren’t sufficient, and knocks me off my fake-vegan hill by telling me that I cook like a woke white man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s comedic. Sincere. A lil’ hard headed and forgetful. But he has potential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span> regularly talk to groups of students who are Reggie’s age and younger. In the past couple of weeks, I’ve led virtual discussions with students at Rudsdale High School about the importance of their worldview and telling their stories through photos, and I’ve talked to students at Madison Park Academy Elementary School about the importance of simply showing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This past Friday, I was underdressed as I sat on a panel about fatherhood at Contra Costa College’s African American Male Symposium. We answered questions about the metamorphosis that occurred when we found out we were having children, and our favorite thing to do with our kids. My five year-old daughter sat in the front row, spacing out on her tablet. My nephew sat next to her, and was surprisingly paying attention. He even asked a question: “How do you not repeat the mistakes of your father?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was funny, because the whole time I’m up there talking to this room full of over 100 high schoolers, I just wanted to blurt out that we adults don’t have it together either. We don’t have \u003cem>the answers.\u003c/em> With crumbling infrastructure, failing public schools, an unjust criminal justice system and an ongoing housing crisis, I’m sorry, but this generation, like the generation before mine, has failed my nephew and his peers. I have absolutely no idea how they’re going to deal with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13906510\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13906510\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_0400-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Aside from racing cars, Reggie loves fishing. In fact, he's taught me more about fishing than anyone. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_0400-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_0400-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_0400-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_0400-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_0400-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_0400-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_0400-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aside from racing cars, Reggie loves fishing. In fact, he’s taught me more about fishing than anyone. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yesterday, lightweight frustrated that my advice wasn’t helping much, I had a timely learning experience in the DMV parking lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My nephew is inside, taking a written driver’s license test—you know, so he can enter the gig economy and stop taking the bus back and forth to Oakland. Outside the building, another young Black man is in the parking lot, smoking a Black & Mild near the popped hood of a Honda. The young man calls me “OG” and asks for a jump. We try it, but my hybrid isn’t built for that shit, or maybe his car just isn’t receptive. Whatever the case, it doesn’t work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He calls a tow truck as I look up the nearest auto parts store; we talk the whole time. Well, he talks. I listen. He tells me about his automobile blunders, what music he listens to on his battery-draining sound system, and how badly he has to get to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tow truck comes, the young man thanks me and gives me a fist bump through my driver’s side window before leaving. Not long after, my nephew comes back from his test. I ask him how it went.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He didn’t pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During our ride home, we don’t listen to music—instead, I keep asking questions, and listen to him.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The morning after our convo we grab breakfast, I pass him a few bucks, and drop him at the Greyhound. Then I sit down for work, opening my phone to read an Associated Press story about overdoses reaching a record high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My nephew’s friend is one of \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/overdodse-deaths-fentanayl-health-f34b022d75a1eb9776e27903ab40670f\">the estimated 100,000\u003c/a> people who’ve died of an overdose in the past 12 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">M\u003c/span>y nephew represents the story of so many young people right now. Trying to figure it all out from a couch, a cot, a passenger seat in a car or a park bench. And the worst part: the guidance of older folks, such as myself, doesn’t quite fit what they’re experiencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re dealing with a school system that was dysfunctional pre-pandemic, and was all but obliterated when learning became “distanced.” They’re looking for a job in a market where employers are reportedly seeking workers, but it gets tricky if you don’t have a GED or a driver’s license; the latter is basically a necessity for joining the gig economy. And a number of development resources, like trade schools, are either shuttered or aren’t accepting new students. I know, I’ve called.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The way the cost of housing has impacted Reggie’s generation, I’m happy he isn’t living in his car, like some of his peers. But by definition, he is functionally “homeless.” Despite floating from couch to couch, he wouldn’t be counted on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/sites/default/files/pdf/2020-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">official government homeless assessment report\u003c/a>. And to think: African Americans already make up a disproportionate amount of homelessness in this country. I wonder how steep of an undercount that is?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there’s the issue of increasing \u003ca href=\"https://inequality.org/great-divide/updates-billionaire-pandemic/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wealth inequality\u003c/a>. California, the land of economic disparities, is the place where the food that feeds the world is grown, but people who pick it are paid pennies. There are a multitude of millionaires and a heap of homelessness homies. What’s to become of an undereducated, informally skilled young Black man?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m a student of this stuff—you know, this whole “Black man in America” thing. During my late teens and early 20s, I worked as a resident assistant in Howard University’s largest freshmen male dormitory, and as a teacher in Oakland’s African Male Achievement program. I’ve read and written more pieces on the topic than I can count. Plus, shit, I’m a Black man in America. I live this too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But you don’t have to be Black, a man or even America to know that your late teens and early 20s are an extremely important period in life. It’s when a simple decision, or a set of them, can affect the rest of your life, and possibly even generations of your family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13906509\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13906509\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_5820-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Artist Dana King and my nephew Reggie met and instantly clicked on their shared love of racing.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_5820-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_5820-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_5820-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_5820-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_5820-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_5820-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_5820-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist Dana King and my nephew Reggie met and instantly clicked on their shared love of racing. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So I’m stressing him. Not just about finding a job, gaining skills and finishing school. But starting with making handwritten to-do lists that include the simple things. Because the failures he’s faced in life have left his self-esteem depleted, and now it’s on him to build himself back up through seeing his own incremental successes. Because that’s what I did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I encourage visiting the library and spending time in cafes, taking time to read books, because that mediative period is needed, even if it’s just a few minutes. Because that’s what I did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I push him to exercise and eat well, because we’ve been miseducated about the importance of a healthy diet, and need to make a drastic change. Because, again, that’s what I did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He dismisses my sermon about how Red Hot burritos and Cup O’ Noodles aren’t sufficient, and knocks me off my fake-vegan hill by telling me that I cook like a woke white man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s comedic. Sincere. A lil’ hard headed and forgetful. But he has potential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span> regularly talk to groups of students who are Reggie’s age and younger. In the past couple of weeks, I’ve led virtual discussions with students at Rudsdale High School about the importance of their worldview and telling their stories through photos, and I’ve talked to students at Madison Park Academy Elementary School about the importance of simply showing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This past Friday, I was underdressed as I sat on a panel about fatherhood at Contra Costa College’s African American Male Symposium. We answered questions about the metamorphosis that occurred when we found out we were having children, and our favorite thing to do with our kids. My five year-old daughter sat in the front row, spacing out on her tablet. My nephew sat next to her, and was surprisingly paying attention. He even asked a question: “How do you not repeat the mistakes of your father?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was funny, because the whole time I’m up there talking to this room full of over 100 high schoolers, I just wanted to blurt out that we adults don’t have it together either. We don’t have \u003cem>the answers.\u003c/em> With crumbling infrastructure, failing public schools, an unjust criminal justice system and an ongoing housing crisis, I’m sorry, but this generation, like the generation before mine, has failed my nephew and his peers. I have absolutely no idea how they’re going to deal with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13906510\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13906510\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_0400-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Aside from racing cars, Reggie loves fishing. In fact, he's taught me more about fishing than anyone. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_0400-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_0400-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_0400-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_0400-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_0400-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_0400-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/11/IMG_0400-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aside from racing cars, Reggie loves fishing. In fact, he’s taught me more about fishing than anyone. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yesterday, lightweight frustrated that my advice wasn’t helping much, I had a timely learning experience in the DMV parking lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My nephew is inside, taking a written driver’s license test—you know, so he can enter the gig economy and stop taking the bus back and forth to Oakland. Outside the building, another young Black man is in the parking lot, smoking a Black & Mild near the popped hood of a Honda. The young man calls me “OG” and asks for a jump. We try it, but my hybrid isn’t built for that shit, or maybe his car just isn’t receptive. Whatever the case, it doesn’t work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He calls a tow truck as I look up the nearest auto parts store; we talk the whole time. Well, he talks. I listen. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond painting relatable portraits of people caught up in the criminal justice system, the Adachi Project champions policy change. Paul Redd, for instance, was released because of a change in California penal code section 1170(d), which allows district attorneys and sentencing courts to reevaluate prison sentences. His activism began behind bars, when he took part in a 2013 hunger strike; later, he became a plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit that forced the California Department of Corrections to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2015/09/01/436673728/california-prisons-to-limit-number-of-inmates-in-solitary-confinement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cut down its use of solitary confinement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redd calls much of the treatment prisoners experience “anti-human.” “I would like to see bills put in place that show more compassion, that give a second chance for redemption,” he says. To that end, during the 2020 election, he campaigned hard for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11845049/proposition-17-passes-restoring-voting-rights-to-parolees-in-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Proposition 17\u003c/a>, which restored voting rights for people on parole. He wants to see more programs that help get formerly incarcerated people employed and on their feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve never stopped working toward that objective of trying to organize, to get more people on board, talking to lawyers, students,” Redd adds. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While \u003cem>Forty Four Years Later\u003c/em> prompts the viewer to reflect on how incarceration tears apart families and communities, the other two films in \u003cem>Defender\u003c/em> take different angles. \u003cem>One Eleven Taylor\u003c/em> is shot from the first-person perspective of a resident of a halfway house, owned by private prison corporation GEO Group, at the height of the pandemic. In the film, he and other residents describe crowded conditions where COVID-positive and -negative people lived in close quarters. The facility’s many older people with health conditions faced a catch-22: exposure to a deadly disease or leaving and violating the terms of their parole.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For the public defenders and the films’ creators, the series is a way to draw attention to the way the United States over-relies on jails and prison to address problems often brought on by lack of access to opportunities, healthcare and housing. “I think that the San Francisco County Jail is the largest mental health facility in the city,” says Razzaq.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slowly, cities in the Bay Area are creating ways to treat mental health crises as public health issues rather than criminal issues. This year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/sf-expands-civilian-response-to-mental-health-911-calls/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco began a program\u003c/a> where behavioral health professionals now respond to non-violent, mental health-related 911 calls instead of police, and Oakland will soon pilot a \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2021/03/03/its-decided-the-oakland-fire-department-will-run-macro-a-new-non-police-emergency-response-program/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">similar program\u003c/a>. Oakland activist group Anti Police-Terror Project already runs an emergency response service called \u003ca href=\"https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/mh-first-oakland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mental Health First\u003c/a>, which is available to the public every Friday and Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why is one bad decision that was brought on by socioeconomic stress, desperation and hopelessness completely derailing not just one individual, but their entire family and community? What does punishment at large, the way we currently see it, contribute to a safer society in the first place?” asks filmmaker Mohammad Gorjestani.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hopes the Adachi Project can create a “deep emotional and informational baseline” for people, especially those with power and privilege, to reevaluate the role police and prisons play in society. While its next endeavors have yet to be announced, \u003cem>Defender\u003c/em> is far from its last project, and Gorjestani says that feature films and episodic series are also on the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In 1989, 15-year-old Yusef Salaam was one of five Black and Latino teenagers who were wrongly accused of assault and rape in the so-called Central Park jogger case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time of his 1990 trial, Salaam, then out on bail, felt confident that the truth would come out and that he and the other teens would be proven innocent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was on the phone with a friend of mine and I remember someone running up to me, [saying] ‘They got the verdict! They got the verdict!’ ” Salaam says. “And I told the person, ‘Hey, they got the verdict. I’ll see you in a little while. I’ll be right back. I’ll be home.’ And I didn’t come back until seven years later.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13858815']Each of the boys, then known as the “Central Park Five,” was convicted. It wasn’t until 2002—well after Salaam had completed his nearly seven-year prison sentence—that DNA evidence confirmed that they were all innocent. A serial rapist and murderer had acted alone in committing the crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the truth came out, that’s when we got our lives back,” Salaam says. “But for those of us who had five to 10 years prison sentences, we had done all of someone else’s time. … We will never know what our life would have been like had we not gone through this horrible experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salaam now refers to himself, Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise as the Exonerated Five. Their stories were told in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2012/09/08/160795008/tiff-12-the-central-park-five-revisits-a-storm-of-fear\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2012 documentary\u003c/a> by Ken Burns and in the 2019 Netflix series \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/06/01/728237648/horrors-and-humanity-in-ava-duvernays-gripping-when-they-see-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>When They See Us\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, directed by Ava DuVernay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the memoir, \u003cem>Better, Not Bitter, \u003c/em>Salaam reflects on his wrongful conviction and his efforts to forgive those responsible for his vilification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to be able to forgive so that you can cut yourself from the ball and chain that’s holding you back,” he says. “It has nothing to do with the individual who harmed you, but everything to do with yourself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13897994\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13897994\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/salaam_custom-415d0ecdaf53c7e35a483a9d6b901f20f893acbf-800x1203.jpg\" alt=\"'Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice,' by Yusef Salaam.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1203\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/salaam_custom-415d0ecdaf53c7e35a483a9d6b901f20f893acbf-800x1203.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/salaam_custom-415d0ecdaf53c7e35a483a9d6b901f20f893acbf-1020x1533.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/salaam_custom-415d0ecdaf53c7e35a483a9d6b901f20f893acbf-160x241.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/salaam_custom-415d0ecdaf53c7e35a483a9d6b901f20f893acbf-768x1155.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/salaam_custom-415d0ecdaf53c7e35a483a9d6b901f20f893acbf-1022x1536.jpg 1022w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/salaam_custom-415d0ecdaf53c7e35a483a9d6b901f20f893acbf-1362x2048.jpg 1362w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/salaam_custom-415d0ecdaf53c7e35a483a9d6b901f20f893acbf.jpg 1689w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice,’ by Yusef Salaam. \u003ccite>(Grand Central Publishing)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Interview highlights \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On how the boys were forced to give false confessions \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I remember when I was [at the precinct] with Korey [Wise] hearing him getting beat up in the next room. I remember hearing him yell out, “OK, OK, I’ll tell you!” And he made, if I’m not mistaken, four completely different confessions, four completely different ones. And the one that he implicated me in, they played at my trial and all we wanted to do was go home. This was a nightmare. We were delirious with hunger. We were delirious, because time was passing and we didn’t know what time it was, just a whole nightmare of the whole situation and I think what happened is, after a certain point, you break and in the breaking point, you say anything that will allow you to get out of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the advice his mother gave him—which led him to not initially agree to the police’s narrative \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[My mother] told me something that’s very important. And I think that the thing that she told me is something that I tell people often. She said to me, “Stop talking to them.” And then she said to me, “They need you to participate in whatever it is that they’re trying to do. Do not participate. Refuse.” And for me, it was one of the most powerful learning tools that I could ever imagine, because here I was on my own, being told to stand my ground and being told in many ways that it’s on me. “I can’t come into the room with you. I can’t fight for you. You have to fight for yourself. But I need you to know that whatever you do, they’re trying to get you to participate in your own destruction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On being in danger in prison because of how high profile his case was\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think all throughout our case, there was a knowledge of who we were. It was very difficult for us to hide. I’m saying “hide,” because we wanted to be anonymous, but we had been convicted of this heinous crime. We have been vilified in the media. Over 400 articles [were] written about us within the first few weeks. And our faces were on every single front page of every newspaper in New York City for a very, very long time. So by the time we got to prison, the inmates had already known who we were. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’re told the worst crime that you can go to prison for is rape. The only crime that trumps rape is child molestation. And then you feel all of the tension, all of the negative [energy] … you feel that, and you’re walking through that in these prisons and here are killers around you. Here are [rapists] around you. Here are child molesters around you, and they want justice. They want to do to you what you have been convicted of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13897995\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13897995\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/gettyimages-515328350-c683494613f64d22e90af6dd3dc5450e7371fa55-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Salaam appears with Rev. Al Sharpton during his 1990 trial.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Salaam appears with Rev. Al Sharpton during his 1990 trial. \u003ccite>(Bettmann/Bettmann Archive)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On his feelings toward the police and prosecutors who put him behind bars\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The overwhelming feeling that I have towards the police and prosecutors is that they knew that we had not done this crime. They knew it, but yet they chose to move forward. They built their careers off of our backs, and the law of karma caught up to them. And they never imagined that they would have to contend with these crimes that they committed—because these are crimes. They’re supposed to be the upholders of law and they have things like prosecutorial immunity. But they were involved in prosecutorial misconduct. No one wants to be in a situation where the people at the highest level in life are the ones who are the most criminal. We want those people to be the most upstanding. They have to hold that truth in their minds and hearts as they move in the justice system because they’re changing people’s lives. … The people who are supposed to uphold the law, it is criminal when they do the exact opposite of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On his healing journey\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_111499']We’ve been able to make leaps and bounds in our healing, in our adjustments into society, but at the same time, it’s still there lurking in the background. The awful experience that we should have never gone through is really always the cloud over our heads. But the cool thing about it is that we now know how to deal with those emotions. We now can say, “This is how you get through any prison that you may be going through,” whether you’re physically in bondage or not. Making the choices that are meaningful, taking the time to breathe, meditating, creating vision boards, all of those things are necessary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say the imagination is the precursor of what’s to come, and so if you can imagine a future that is brighter than the one that you’re growing through—and I’m saying “growing through” on purpose, because when you get to that point, you realize that you’re not just going through something, but that you’re being prepared for greatness, that you need to know the lows in order to appreciate the highs in life. I think that when I look at my story, being able to look at it from the outside gives me the tremendous opportunity to describe in full what it is that I had gone through, and then going back in and being a participant in my growth and development is important because you have to marry those two things together. And it’s that that causes you to step forward with tremendous hope in the future, with tremendous faith in the future, knowing that it can only get better and not get worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sam Briger and Thea Chaloner produced and edited the audio of this interview. Bridget Bentz, Molly Seavy-Nesper and Meghan Sullivan adapted it for the Web.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2021 Fresh Air. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fresh Air\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Central+Park+%27Exonerated+5%27+Member+Reflects+On+Freedom+And+Forgiveness&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salaam now refers to himself, Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise as the Exonerated Five. Their stories were told in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2012/09/08/160795008/tiff-12-the-central-park-five-revisits-a-storm-of-fear\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2012 documentary\u003c/a> by Ken Burns and in the 2019 Netflix series \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/06/01/728237648/horrors-and-humanity-in-ava-duvernays-gripping-when-they-see-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>When They See Us\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, directed by Ava DuVernay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the memoir, \u003cem>Better, Not Bitter, \u003c/em>Salaam reflects on his wrongful conviction and his efforts to forgive those responsible for his vilification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to be able to forgive so that you can cut yourself from the ball and chain that’s holding you back,” he says. “It has nothing to do with the individual who harmed you, but everything to do with yourself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13897994\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13897994\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/salaam_custom-415d0ecdaf53c7e35a483a9d6b901f20f893acbf-800x1203.jpg\" alt=\"'Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice,' by Yusef Salaam.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1203\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/salaam_custom-415d0ecdaf53c7e35a483a9d6b901f20f893acbf-800x1203.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/salaam_custom-415d0ecdaf53c7e35a483a9d6b901f20f893acbf-1020x1533.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/salaam_custom-415d0ecdaf53c7e35a483a9d6b901f20f893acbf-160x241.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/salaam_custom-415d0ecdaf53c7e35a483a9d6b901f20f893acbf-768x1155.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/salaam_custom-415d0ecdaf53c7e35a483a9d6b901f20f893acbf-1022x1536.jpg 1022w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/salaam_custom-415d0ecdaf53c7e35a483a9d6b901f20f893acbf-1362x2048.jpg 1362w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/salaam_custom-415d0ecdaf53c7e35a483a9d6b901f20f893acbf.jpg 1689w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice,’ by Yusef Salaam. \u003ccite>(Grand Central Publishing)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003chr>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Interview highlights \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On how the boys were forced to give false confessions \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I remember when I was [at the precinct] with Korey [Wise] hearing him getting beat up in the next room. I remember hearing him yell out, “OK, OK, I’ll tell you!” And he made, if I’m not mistaken, four completely different confessions, four completely different ones. And the one that he implicated me in, they played at my trial and all we wanted to do was go home. This was a nightmare. We were delirious with hunger. We were delirious, because time was passing and we didn’t know what time it was, just a whole nightmare of the whole situation and I think what happened is, after a certain point, you break and in the breaking point, you say anything that will allow you to get out of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On the advice his mother gave him—which led him to not initially agree to the police’s narrative \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[My mother] told me something that’s very important. And I think that the thing that she told me is something that I tell people often. She said to me, “Stop talking to them.” And then she said to me, “They need you to participate in whatever it is that they’re trying to do. Do not participate. Refuse.” And for me, it was one of the most powerful learning tools that I could ever imagine, because here I was on my own, being told to stand my ground and being told in many ways that it’s on me. “I can’t come into the room with you. I can’t fight for you. You have to fight for yourself. But I need you to know that whatever you do, they’re trying to get you to participate in your own destruction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On being in danger in prison because of how high profile his case was\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think all throughout our case, there was a knowledge of who we were. It was very difficult for us to hide. I’m saying “hide,” because we wanted to be anonymous, but we had been convicted of this heinous crime. We have been vilified in the media. Over 400 articles [were] written about us within the first few weeks. And our faces were on every single front page of every newspaper in New York City for a very, very long time. So by the time we got to prison, the inmates had already known who we were. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’re told the worst crime that you can go to prison for is rape. The only crime that trumps rape is child molestation. And then you feel all of the tension, all of the negative [energy] … you feel that, and you’re walking through that in these prisons and here are killers around you. Here are [rapists] around you. Here are child molesters around you, and they want justice. They want to do to you what you have been convicted of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13897995\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13897995\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/05/gettyimages-515328350-c683494613f64d22e90af6dd3dc5450e7371fa55-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Salaam appears with Rev. Al Sharpton during his 1990 trial.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Salaam appears with Rev. Al Sharpton during his 1990 trial. \u003ccite>(Bettmann/Bettmann Archive)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On his feelings toward the police and prosecutors who put him behind bars\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The overwhelming feeling that I have towards the police and prosecutors is that they knew that we had not done this crime. They knew it, but yet they chose to move forward. They built their careers off of our backs, and the law of karma caught up to them. And they never imagined that they would have to contend with these crimes that they committed—because these are crimes. They’re supposed to be the upholders of law and they have things like prosecutorial immunity. But they were involved in prosecutorial misconduct. No one wants to be in a situation where the people at the highest level in life are the ones who are the most criminal. We want those people to be the most upstanding. They have to hold that truth in their minds and hearts as they move in the justice system because they’re changing people’s lives. … The people who are supposed to uphold the law, it is criminal when they do the exact opposite of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>On his healing journey\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">O\u003c/span>ver the past year, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused millions of people around the world to die, and many more to suffer. Arguably, the most unnerving part is how this time period will affect generations to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, I don’t want to see some fluffy reflection on COVID-19.\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t care that you switched your wardrobe to be more comfortable while you worked from home, or that you successfully made sourdough bread. In this country alone, over half a million people have died directly from COVID-19, not to mention those dead from medical complications indirectly related to the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People are feeling down, suicides and overdoses are up, and depression is damn near expected. Children are falling behind in their studies, and elders are spending their golden years in solitude. You want the world to know about the beauty of an air fryer? Save it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The homicide count in a number of U.S. cities, including San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose and Stockton, has risen by \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/06/953254623/massive-1-year-rise-in-homicide-rates-collided-with-the-pandemic-in-2020\">significant percentages\u003c/a> over the year prior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late last spring, when that nationwide spark of activism jumped into people and had ‘em pouring into the street chanting “Black Lives Matter” from Philadelphia to Pleasanton, all it resulted in were minor here-and-there policy changes, including the highly flawed \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/04/the-george-floyd-act-wouldnt-have-saved-george-floyds-life-thats-says-it-all\">George Floyd Act\u003c/a>. There’s also an ongoing tug-of-war around defunding or decreasing the amount spent on police departments in a number of cities; despite the Minneapolis city council’s pledge last June to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/07/us/minneapolis-police-abolish.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dismantle its police department\u003c/a>, it just voted for $6.4 million to \u003ca href=\"https://www.minnpost.com/glean/2021/02/minneapolis-city-council-votes-to-spend-6-4-million-on-new-police-officers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hire more officers\u003c/a>. The TV show \u003cem>COPS\u003c/em> was canceled for a few months before \u003ca href=\"https://deadline.com/2020/10/cops-back-in-production-new-episodes-following-cancellation-1234590025/\">being reinstated\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trial for \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/09/975188994/george-floyd-case-jury-selection-begins-in-derek-chauvin-trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Derek Chauvin\u003c/a>, the officer who killed Floyd, is “tentatively” underway as of this week. Something tells me I already know the outcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13893771\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13893771\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/ESy-ITmU0AEh6dG-800x1067.jpg\" alt='March 10, 2020: the last \"regular\" day.' width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/ESy-ITmU0AEh6dG-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/ESy-ITmU0AEh6dG-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/ESy-ITmU0AEh6dG-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/ESy-ITmU0AEh6dG-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/ESy-ITmU0AEh6dG-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/ESy-ITmU0AEh6dG.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">March 10, 2020: the last “regular” day. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">L\u003c/span>ook, this year has been heavy. I get it. As a relief from this dark cloud, I wanted to write a fluff piece too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had this poetic idea to drop a column about my interaction with the skies over the past year. It all started with the photo I took exactly a year ago yesterday. The clouds were sorbet orange; lightweight majestic, especially that part that looked like a gaping hole in the sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below, on the banks of the east side of Lake Merritt, unmasked people stood within close vicinity of each other while taking photos of the airshow. I was there with them only because my final in-person interview of the past year had been canceled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the same time, KQED sent out the email telling us to work from home for the foreseeable future. And in the following days, I can’t tell you how many times I’d stare at the big blue beyond in frustration at the lack of leadership from the president and other elected officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spring turned to summer and my big-hook-head continued to turn upward, watching helicopters circling the city as people poured into the streets to protest police brutality—thousands of people motivated by the news of George Floyd’s murder and the extrajudicial killing of Breonna Taylor. (The case against Taylor’s boyfriend, \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kenneth-walker-shooting-criminal-case-closed_n_60476fe4c5b64433749f7655\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kenneth Walker\u003c/a>, was dismissed earlier this week.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I spent a few days this summer watching the sky as ashes from nearby wildfires landed on my little patio garden. Lack of investment in the state’s frail electrical infrastructure meant that, once again, it turned destructive under elevated temperatures and high winds. Fire season was a haze, but no one will soon forget Sept. 9, 2020: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13886045/people-are-surfing-under-smoky-orange-skies-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Day of the Orange Skies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the course of the year I looked up at fireworks, and nervously looked around after hearing gunshots. There was that one night in August when I stood on a hillside of the Yolo Bypass, watching the late summer sun dip below the horizon in the distance. Simultaneously, a full moon arose from the other side of California’s capitol city. As soon as \u003cem>la luna\u003c/em> showed her big beautiful face, a bunch of bats came out of nowhere. I instantly dipped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bats, though visually impaired, know it’s nighttime because of their \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/questions/how-do-bats-know-it-night-time\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">circadian clock\u003c/a>‘s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/questions/how-do-bats-know-it-night-time\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">suprachiasmatic nucleus\u003c/a>.” I read about that while laying on my back in my bed at 3am—my own internal clock thrown off because of COVID/stress/dietary decisions, and once again staring up: this time at my phone; as well as the ceiling, the sky, the universe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I thought writing about clouds and shit would be poetic. And then I’d bring it home by mentioning that just about everyone under the sun was dealing with the same issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then I got grounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13885203\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13885203\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Ef52QJUVoAY0kx0-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The sign outside of California Medical Facility state prison in Vacaville, on a smoky hot August afternoon\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Ef52QJUVoAY0kx0-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Ef52QJUVoAY0kx0-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Ef52QJUVoAY0kx0-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Ef52QJUVoAY0kx0-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Ef52QJUVoAY0kx0-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Ef52QJUVoAY0kx0-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Ef52QJUVoAY0kx0.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sign outside of California Medical Facility state prison in Vacaville, on a smoky hot August afternoon. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">W\u003c/span>hat about the stories of the \u003cem>actual\u003c/em> \u003cem>people\u003c/em>? Particularly the ones I haven’t had a chance to write about, because other issues in this high-paced news cycle demanded my attention?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last spring I got word that Alameda County’s food program wasn’t getting to a 67-year-old woman named \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OGpenn/status/1258993110320680960?s=20\">Paula\u003c/a>, so she looked up, down and all around, and found a neighbor or two to assist her with groceries. I wanted to write about her in May, but I was occupied by that whole national upheaval about racism and police brutality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/chris_tha_fifth/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chris Tha Fifth\u003c/a>, an author and rapper who was formerly incarcerated at Solano County State Prison in Vacaville, told me that prior to his release, he too spent time looking up—looking up at smoke filling the prison he was in. I wanted to write about him last fall, but got sidetracked by the sideshow of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13888677/as-famous-rappers-get-used-as-pawns-meet-the-black-men-doing-the-real-work\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">African-American male entertainers selling out\u003c/a> during election season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s one of thousands of people who’ve been released from prison this year. As of March 3, 2021, California’s prison population has \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/research/wp-content/uploads/sites/174/2021/03/Tpop1d210303.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">decreased by 28,454\u003c/a> over the past calendar year. We have the lowest number of prisoners here in California in three decades, and still the prison system is at 102.8% of its capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the state says it \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/covid19/frequently-asked-questions-expedited-releases/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tried to quell the spread of COVID-19\u003c/a> in its prisons, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/covid19/population-status-tracking/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">over 200 people have died\u003c/a>, and many more were sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prison officials tell me this decrease in population has led to the consolidation of incarcerated firefighter groups and the closure of at least one institution, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/news/2020/09/25/cdcr-announces-state-prison-closure/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deuel Vocational Institution in Tracy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keith Wattley, founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.uncommonlaw.org/keith-wattley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UnCommon Law\u003c/a> and an \u003ca href=\"https://www.obama.org/fellowship/2018-fellows/keith-wattley/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Obama fellow\u003c/a>, tells me there’s still more that can be done to alleviate California’s overcrowded prisons. “One of the most significant data points,” says Wattley via email, “is that people serving indeterminate terms (i.e., those whose release is dependent on the parole board and the Governor) now represent nearly 40% of California’s prison population! That’s because they’ve been systematically and consistently excluded from release consideration, even though they present by far the lowest risk of recidivism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had plans on writing that article in January, but instead I spent a solid portion of the first week of 2021 looking up the definition of “domestic terrorism,” and then looking skyward in bewilderment that it wasn’t being applied to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13890913/they-think-this-is-their-country\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the siege on the U.S. Capitol Building.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13893907\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13893907\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/SHelterInPlaceWithoutShelter-800x500.jpg\" alt='Graffiti on an underpass in Oakland: \"Shelter in Place Without a Shelter.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/SHelterInPlaceWithoutShelter-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/SHelterInPlaceWithoutShelter-1020x638.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/SHelterInPlaceWithoutShelter-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/SHelterInPlaceWithoutShelter-768x480.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/SHelterInPlaceWithoutShelter-1536x960.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/SHelterInPlaceWithoutShelter.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graffiti on an underpass in Oakland: “Shelter in Place Without a Shelter.” \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>here were also so many times this year I found myself looking down. Disconnected, distraught, disgusted and lost. Or over-connected, staring at my laptop, trying to write/right the wrongs of the world, or on my phone figuring out what’s going on with this planet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes looking down while jogging, running away from problems. Other times in a downward stare: inebriated, and sulking in my issues. On a few occasions I was punch drunk—walloped from family drama, unhealthy habits, and the fatigue of simply existing during a global pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In writing that fluffy piece about my interaction with the skies, I was going to end on some trite overused line from Tupac (“keep your head up”) or Earth, Wind, And Fire (“keep your head to the sky”).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s another overused popular piece of poetry that’s more applicable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You will not be able to stay home, brother/You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out,” says poet Gil Scott-Heron, in the opening lines of his most famous piece, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” published 50 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I thought about that line a lot these past 365 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That fluff is unplugging. It’s a mechanism for dealing with things by avoiding them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I get it. Again, I wanted to wax poetic about clouds and shit. But 50, 100 years from now, future generations will ask what happened during this time, and it’s important we don’t bury the lede: the country that invests the largest amount of money in defense couldn’t defend its most vulnerable people from a virus that impacted countries the world over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in this country, working class and poor people suffered while \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13882749/why-billionaires-got-more-hateable-in-the-age-of-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the rich got richer\u003c/a>. It was a continuance of the past, and predicator of what’s to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing fluffy about it.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">O\u003c/span>ver the past year, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused millions of people around the world to die, and many more to suffer. Arguably, the most unnerving part is how this time period will affect generations to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, I don’t want to see some fluffy reflection on COVID-19.\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-13833985\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_-160x184.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/05/OGPenn.Cap_.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I don’t care that you switched your wardrobe to be more comfortable while you worked from home, or that you successfully made sourdough bread. In this country alone, over half a million people have died directly from COVID-19, not to mention those dead from medical complications indirectly related to the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People are feeling down, suicides and overdoses are up, and depression is damn near expected. Children are falling behind in their studies, and elders are spending their golden years in solitude. You want the world to know about the beauty of an air fryer? Save it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The homicide count in a number of U.S. cities, including San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose and Stockton, has risen by \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/06/953254623/massive-1-year-rise-in-homicide-rates-collided-with-the-pandemic-in-2020\">significant percentages\u003c/a> over the year prior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late last spring, when that nationwide spark of activism jumped into people and had ‘em pouring into the street chanting “Black Lives Matter” from Philadelphia to Pleasanton, all it resulted in were minor here-and-there policy changes, including the highly flawed \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/04/the-george-floyd-act-wouldnt-have-saved-george-floyds-life-thats-says-it-all\">George Floyd Act\u003c/a>. There’s also an ongoing tug-of-war around defunding or decreasing the amount spent on police departments in a number of cities; despite the Minneapolis city council’s pledge last June to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/07/us/minneapolis-police-abolish.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dismantle its police department\u003c/a>, it just voted for $6.4 million to \u003ca href=\"https://www.minnpost.com/glean/2021/02/minneapolis-city-council-votes-to-spend-6-4-million-on-new-police-officers/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hire more officers\u003c/a>. The TV show \u003cem>COPS\u003c/em> was canceled for a few months before \u003ca href=\"https://deadline.com/2020/10/cops-back-in-production-new-episodes-following-cancellation-1234590025/\">being reinstated\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trial for \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/09/975188994/george-floyd-case-jury-selection-begins-in-derek-chauvin-trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Derek Chauvin\u003c/a>, the officer who killed Floyd, is “tentatively” underway as of this week. Something tells me I already know the outcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13893771\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13893771\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/ESy-ITmU0AEh6dG-800x1067.jpg\" alt='March 10, 2020: the last \"regular\" day.' width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/ESy-ITmU0AEh6dG-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/ESy-ITmU0AEh6dG-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/ESy-ITmU0AEh6dG-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/ESy-ITmU0AEh6dG-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/ESy-ITmU0AEh6dG-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/ESy-ITmU0AEh6dG.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">March 10, 2020: the last “regular” day. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">L\u003c/span>ook, this year has been heavy. I get it. As a relief from this dark cloud, I wanted to write a fluff piece too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had this poetic idea to drop a column about my interaction with the skies over the past year. It all started with the photo I took exactly a year ago yesterday. The clouds were sorbet orange; lightweight majestic, especially that part that looked like a gaping hole in the sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below, on the banks of the east side of Lake Merritt, unmasked people stood within close vicinity of each other while taking photos of the airshow. I was there with them only because my final in-person interview of the past year had been canceled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the same time, KQED sent out the email telling us to work from home for the foreseeable future. And in the following days, I can’t tell you how many times I’d stare at the big blue beyond in frustration at the lack of leadership from the president and other elected officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spring turned to summer and my big-hook-head continued to turn upward, watching helicopters circling the city as people poured into the streets to protest police brutality—thousands of people motivated by the news of George Floyd’s murder and the extrajudicial killing of Breonna Taylor. (The case against Taylor’s boyfriend, \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kenneth-walker-shooting-criminal-case-closed_n_60476fe4c5b64433749f7655\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kenneth Walker\u003c/a>, was dismissed earlier this week.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I spent a few days this summer watching the sky as ashes from nearby wildfires landed on my little patio garden. Lack of investment in the state’s frail electrical infrastructure meant that, once again, it turned destructive under elevated temperatures and high winds. Fire season was a haze, but no one will soon forget Sept. 9, 2020: \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13886045/people-are-surfing-under-smoky-orange-skies-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Day of the Orange Skies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the course of the year I looked up at fireworks, and nervously looked around after hearing gunshots. There was that one night in August when I stood on a hillside of the Yolo Bypass, watching the late summer sun dip below the horizon in the distance. Simultaneously, a full moon arose from the other side of California’s capitol city. As soon as \u003cem>la luna\u003c/em> showed her big beautiful face, a bunch of bats came out of nowhere. I instantly dipped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bats, though visually impaired, know it’s nighttime because of their \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/questions/how-do-bats-know-it-night-time\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">circadian clock\u003c/a>‘s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/questions/how-do-bats-know-it-night-time\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">suprachiasmatic nucleus\u003c/a>.” I read about that while laying on my back in my bed at 3am—my own internal clock thrown off because of COVID/stress/dietary decisions, and once again staring up: this time at my phone; as well as the ceiling, the sky, the universe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I thought writing about clouds and shit would be poetic. And then I’d bring it home by mentioning that just about everyone under the sun was dealing with the same issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then I got grounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13885203\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13885203\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Ef52QJUVoAY0kx0-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The sign outside of California Medical Facility state prison in Vacaville, on a smoky hot August afternoon\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Ef52QJUVoAY0kx0-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Ef52QJUVoAY0kx0-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Ef52QJUVoAY0kx0-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Ef52QJUVoAY0kx0-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Ef52QJUVoAY0kx0-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Ef52QJUVoAY0kx0-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/Ef52QJUVoAY0kx0.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sign outside of California Medical Facility state prison in Vacaville, on a smoky hot August afternoon. \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">W\u003c/span>hat about the stories of the \u003cem>actual\u003c/em> \u003cem>people\u003c/em>? Particularly the ones I haven’t had a chance to write about, because other issues in this high-paced news cycle demanded my attention?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last spring I got word that Alameda County’s food program wasn’t getting to a 67-year-old woman named \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/OGpenn/status/1258993110320680960?s=20\">Paula\u003c/a>, so she looked up, down and all around, and found a neighbor or two to assist her with groceries. I wanted to write about her in May, but I was occupied by that whole national upheaval about racism and police brutality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/chris_tha_fifth/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chris Tha Fifth\u003c/a>, an author and rapper who was formerly incarcerated at Solano County State Prison in Vacaville, told me that prior to his release, he too spent time looking up—looking up at smoke filling the prison he was in. I wanted to write about him last fall, but got sidetracked by the sideshow of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13888677/as-famous-rappers-get-used-as-pawns-meet-the-black-men-doing-the-real-work\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">African-American male entertainers selling out\u003c/a> during election season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s one of thousands of people who’ve been released from prison this year. As of March 3, 2021, California’s prison population has \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/research/wp-content/uploads/sites/174/2021/03/Tpop1d210303.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">decreased by 28,454\u003c/a> over the past calendar year. We have the lowest number of prisoners here in California in three decades, and still the prison system is at 102.8% of its capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while the state says it \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/covid19/frequently-asked-questions-expedited-releases/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tried to quell the spread of COVID-19\u003c/a> in its prisons, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/covid19/population-status-tracking/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">over 200 people have died\u003c/a>, and many more were sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prison officials tell me this decrease in population has led to the consolidation of incarcerated firefighter groups and the closure of at least one institution, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/news/2020/09/25/cdcr-announces-state-prison-closure/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deuel Vocational Institution in Tracy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keith Wattley, founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.uncommonlaw.org/keith-wattley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UnCommon Law\u003c/a> and an \u003ca href=\"https://www.obama.org/fellowship/2018-fellows/keith-wattley/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Obama fellow\u003c/a>, tells me there’s still more that can be done to alleviate California’s overcrowded prisons. “One of the most significant data points,” says Wattley via email, “is that people serving indeterminate terms (i.e., those whose release is dependent on the parole board and the Governor) now represent nearly 40% of California’s prison population! That’s because they’ve been systematically and consistently excluded from release consideration, even though they present by far the lowest risk of recidivism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had plans on writing that article in January, but instead I spent a solid portion of the first week of 2021 looking up the definition of “domestic terrorism,” and then looking skyward in bewilderment that it wasn’t being applied to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13890913/they-think-this-is-their-country\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the siege on the U.S. Capitol Building.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13893907\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13893907\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/SHelterInPlaceWithoutShelter-800x500.jpg\" alt='Graffiti on an underpass in Oakland: \"Shelter in Place Without a Shelter.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/SHelterInPlaceWithoutShelter-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/SHelterInPlaceWithoutShelter-1020x638.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/SHelterInPlaceWithoutShelter-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/SHelterInPlaceWithoutShelter-768x480.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/SHelterInPlaceWithoutShelter-1536x960.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/03/SHelterInPlaceWithoutShelter.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graffiti on an underpass in Oakland: “Shelter in Place Without a Shelter.” \u003ccite>(Pendarvis Harshaw)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>here were also so many times this year I found myself looking down. Disconnected, distraught, disgusted and lost. Or over-connected, staring at my laptop, trying to write/right the wrongs of the world, or on my phone figuring out what’s going on with this planet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes looking down while jogging, running away from problems. Other times in a downward stare: inebriated, and sulking in my issues. On a few occasions I was punch drunk—walloped from family drama, unhealthy habits, and the fatigue of simply existing during a global pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In writing that fluffy piece about my interaction with the skies, I was going to end on some trite overused line from Tupac (“keep your head up”) or Earth, Wind, And Fire (“keep your head to the sky”).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s another overused popular piece of poetry that’s more applicable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You will not be able to stay home, brother/You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out,” says poet Gil Scott-Heron, in the opening lines of his most famous piece, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” published 50 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I thought about that line a lot these past 365 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That fluff is unplugging. It’s a mechanism for dealing with things by avoiding them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And I get it. Again, I wanted to wax poetic about clouds and shit. But 50, 100 years from now, future generations will ask what happened during this time, and it’s important we don’t bury the lede: the country that invests the largest amount of money in defense couldn’t defend its most vulnerable people from a virus that impacted countries the world over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in this country, working class and poor people suffered while \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13882749/why-billionaires-got-more-hateable-in-the-age-of-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the rich got richer\u003c/a>. It was a continuance of the past, and predicator of what’s to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC9241183697&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/_tongogara_/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tongo Eisen-Martin\u003c/a>, San Francisco’s eighth poet laureate, says it’s not enough to simply be a poet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The poet needs to just come on down to the trenches\u003c/span>,” he says. Eisen-Martin’s suggestion for writers out there is to get involved in the community, whether that’s passing out flyers or organizing a mutual aid program. “\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That experience is what you synthesize good revolutionary poetry from.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a lifelong San Franciscan, Eisen-Martin has developed a unique perspective on how racism manifests in a liberal bastion like the Bay Area. In this episode, he addresses American militarism, state-sanctioned violence, and mass incarceration– as well as what can be done about these issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eisen-Martin joined me for a brief but powerful interview that includes a performance of his poem, “A Sketch of Genocide.” The piece was included in his book, \u003cspan id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-extra-large\">\u003cem>Heaven Is All Goodbyes\u003c/em>, which won a 2018 American Book Award. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 class=\"p1\">A Sketch about Genocide\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>A police chief says, “Yes, you poets make points. But they are all silly,” \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Police chief sowing a mouth onto a mouth\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Police chief looking straight through the poet\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Flesh market both sides of the levy\u003cbr>\nChange of plans both sides of the nonviolence\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem> On no earth\u003cbr>\nJust an earth character \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>His subordinate says, “Awkward basketball moves look good on you, sir… Yes, we are everywhere, sir… yes, unfortunately for now, white people only have Black History … we will slide the wallpaper right into their cereal bowls, sir … Surveil the shuffle.” \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>I am a beggar and all of this day is too easy \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cem>I want to see all of the phases of a wall \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Every age it goes through\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cem> Its humanity \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cem> Its environmental racism \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>We call this the ordeal blues \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Now crawl to the piano seat and make a blanket for your cell \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Paint scenes of a child dancing up to the court appearance\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cem>And leaving a man,\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>\u003cem> but not for home\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Atlantic ocean charts mixed in with parole papers \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Mainstream funding (the ruling class’s only pacifism) \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Ruling class printing judges (fiat kangaroos) \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Making judges hand over fist \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Rapture cop packs and opposition whites all above a thorny stem \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Caste plans picked out like vans for the murder show anglo‐saints addicting you to a power structure \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>you want me to raise a little slave, don’t you? \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cem>bash his little brain in \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cem>and send him to your civil rights \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>No pain \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Just a white pain \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Delicate bullets in a box next to a stack of monolith scriptures \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cem> (makes these bullets look relevant, don’t it?)\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>I remember you\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Everywhere you lay your hat is the capital of the south \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The posture you introduced to that fence \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The fence you introduced to political theory\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>If you shred my dreams, son \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cem>I will tack you to gun smoke\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The suburbs are finally offended\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: right\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>this will be a meditation too\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Below are lightly edited excerpts of my conversation with poet Tongo Eisen-Martin: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TONGO\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">: I feel like the primary generator of reality in the United States is military reality. It’s the organizations of violence or the monopolies of violence especially, wielded by the state. And a state wielded by a ruling class. Prison is evidence of this principle. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To be clear, you are living in a reality of organized violence. Along with the blood comes the culture of just, confined, compartmentalized living. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I don’t see how any of us walk around having normal days when the kids are still in cages. When you think about the individual adventure you’re on. How lovingly can I pat myself on the back when there’s some severe injustice going on.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>PEN\u003c/em>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">: What can you do about that injustice as a poet?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>TONGO\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">: The poet needs to just come on down to the trenches, come on down to whatever political efforts are already going on. 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"content": "\u003cp>To say that this nation’s criminal justice system is deeply flawed is to flirt with understatement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everything from the oversurveillance of Black and Brown communities, to police brutality, to stop and frisk policies, to a multibillion-dollar prison labor industry demonstrates how a system ostensibly designed for fairness is anything but.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13892127 alignright\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/Screen-Shot-2021-02-02-at-2.22.29-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/Screen-Shot-2021-02-02-at-2.22.29-PM.png 275w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/02/Screen-Shot-2021-02-02-at-2.22.29-PM-160x266.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\">Perhaps one of the most tragic aspects of this reality, as Reuben Jonathan Miller explores in his impressive new book \u003cem>Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration\u003c/em>, is that even those who leave incarceration are in many ways never truly free. They instead become members of the “supervised society”—and it is this uniquely disenfranchised population that is the focus of his book.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This indictment of the criminal justice system should trouble the soul of the nation. Miller writes in prose that is at once powerful and engaging—and combines an abundance of data with the lived experiences of the people the numbers represent. A sociologist, criminologist, social worker, and former chaplain at Chicago’s Cook County Jail, his insights are partly drawn from having spent 15 years interviewing nearly 250 people caught up in the prison industrial complex. This work included a research project during which he spent three years engaging with 60 men and 30 women after their release from incarceration in Michigan. Miller can also claim far more experiential expertise, because he was “born black and poor in the age of mass incarceration” and, like every Black person he knows, “was stopped by the police a number of times.” He is a scientist armed with statistical information, and he is the son and brother of incarcerated men.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller is thus more than adequately equipped to make the observation that “no other marginalized group—not poor black people without criminal records, not mothers on welfare, not even undocumented immigrants—experience [the] profound level of legal exclusion” that the formerly imprisoned do. The breadth of these restrictions—which can include everything from being ineligible for student loans or public housing to living in a home that has a foster child—is remarkable. As Miller notes, “Forty-five thousand federal and state laws regulate the lives of the accused…. 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If an employer wanted to fire Sabrina because of her race or gender, they would be in violation of the law, and she could file a lawsuit. If, however, they wanted to fire her, or anyone else with a felony conviction for that reason alone, they would be completely within their rights to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are among the many reasons that Miller has concluded that:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“…the problem of mass incarceration is really a problem of citizenship. This is because citizenship isn’t just about whether or not someone has a set of legal rights. Citizenship is something each of us practices in everyday life. It is made through everyday exchanges and people at every level, because citizenship is about belonging.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>It is long past time we reexamine who we deem as perennially other, and why. When we consider, that “of the 2.3 million people who are incarcerated, 40 percent are black, 84 percent are poor, and half have no income at all” we have to agree that it should be “clear to anyone paying attention that the legal system does not administer anything resembling justice but instead manages the nation’s problemed populations,” Miller writes. [aside postid='arts_13889157']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One member of that population is Miller’s older brother Jeremiah, whose present-day experiences with the carceral system are woven throughout the book. Their relationship brings the frustrations and fickleness of the system into sharp relief. It demonstrates the psychic and financial costs of loving someone who is incarcerated and shows how difficult it is to do something as essential as finding a place to lay one’s head. It’s hard not to see the restrictions on members of the supervised society as intentionally inhumane when considering that homelessness can be a violation of parole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Halfway Home\u003c/em> shines a light on a wide range of absurdities baked into an inherently unjust system. Even though the book’s primary focus is on life after incarceration, Miller makes clear that the problems with the criminal justice system are grounded in history. He tackles everything from 15th-century racial slavery to Bacon’s Rebellion and the invention of whiteness to gentrification and the dramatically reduced life expectancy that results from incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This seminal work tracks the path of how we got here, recognizing that “to live through mass incarceration is to take part in a lineage of control that can be traced from the slave ships, through the Jim Crow South, to the ghettoes of the North, and to the many millions of almost-always-filled bunk beds in jails and prison cells that make the United States the world’s leading jailer.” If we are truly a nation that believes in democracy and freedom, it is incumbent on us to chart a better path forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Ericka Taylor is the popular education manager for Take on Wall Street and a freelance writer. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://designingjustice.org/love-building-campus/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Deanna Van Buren\u003c/a> is an architect, but she goes far beyond just designing buildings. She uses her craft to demonstrate new structures for justice in our society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Van Buren is the co-founder and Executive Director of \u003ca href=\"https://designingjustice.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Designing Justice\u003c/a>, an organization that\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> she says focuses on\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> “ending mass incarceration through innovations in the built environment, using both finance and design together.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13889165\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13889165\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/Architectural-Associate-Shelley-Davis-left-and-Co-Founder-and-Design-Director-Deanna-Van-Buren-of-Designing-Justice-Designing-Spaces-800x484.jpg\" alt=\"Architectural Associate Shelley Davis (left) and Deanna Van Buren\" width=\"800\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/Architectural-Associate-Shelley-Davis-left-and-Co-Founder-and-Design-Director-Deanna-Van-Buren-of-Designing-Justice-Designing-Spaces-800x484.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/Architectural-Associate-Shelley-Davis-left-and-Co-Founder-and-Design-Director-Deanna-Van-Buren-of-Designing-Justice-Designing-Spaces-1020x618.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/Architectural-Associate-Shelley-Davis-left-and-Co-Founder-and-Design-Director-Deanna-Van-Buren-of-Designing-Justice-Designing-Spaces-160x97.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/Architectural-Associate-Shelley-Davis-left-and-Co-Founder-and-Design-Director-Deanna-Van-Buren-of-Designing-Justice-Designing-Spaces-768x465.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/Architectural-Associate-Shelley-Davis-left-and-Co-Founder-and-Design-Director-Deanna-Van-Buren-of-Designing-Justice-Designing-Spaces-1536x930.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/Architectural-Associate-Shelley-Davis-left-and-Co-Founder-and-Design-Director-Deanna-Van-Buren-of-Designing-Justice-Designing-Spaces-2048x1240.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/11/Architectural-Associate-Shelley-Davis-left-and-Co-Founder-and-Design-Director-Deanna-Van-Buren-of-Designing-Justice-Designing-Spaces-1920x1163.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Architectural Associate Shelley Davis (left) and Deanna Van Buren \u003ccite>(Emily Hagopian )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Designing Justice has launched projects across the country: They’re behind a Peace Making project \u003ca href=\"https://designingjustice.org/near-westside-peacemaking-project/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in Syracuse,\u003c/a> a restorative justice project \u003ca href=\"https://designingjustice.org/rj-city-detroit/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in Detroit\u003c/a>, and they’re looking to convert an\u003ca href=\"https://www.fastcompany.com/90515296/this-atlanta-jail-will-transform-into-a-center-for-justice-and-equity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Atlanta\u003c/a> jail into a community center. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Locally, they’ve refurbished a MUNI bus to create a mobile school \u003ca href=\"https://www.fivekeyscharter.org/mobile-school\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://restoreoakland.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in East Oakland\u003c/a>, they’ve built a community center based in restorative justice practices.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week on Rightnowish, Deanna Van Buren discusses what it means to design for a more equitable society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC8472605540\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Below are lightly edited excerpts of my conversation with Deanna Van Buren.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deanna: Recently we finished Restore Oakland… And Restore Oakland is the country’s first Center for Restorative Justice and Restorative Economics. And that inspired another project just like it in Detroit, called the Love Buildings. We’re also doing more community organizing work in L.A. County to create a restorative care village… We’re creating a tool that’s building out the entire infrastructure that we believe is necessary to end mass incarceration, so that communities can plan their neighborhoods differently. So it’s a huge range… I could keep going but [laughs]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: It’s a lot, It’s a lot, that’s a lot of balls in the air.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deanna: I got more, I got more [laughs]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: And you’re traveling even during this time, this crazy time?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deanna: Yeah, Pen cause we’re essential workers. Dismantling racism and unbuilding racism is essential work. I can’t stop. I mean, we go safely. We’re really safe. We social distance. We wear masks. 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The whole thing’s chopped up with a bunch of concrete walls. You’ve got to get rid of all that. All that’s got to go. Sometimes it’s cheaper to tear the thing down and start again. And you got to engage the community in that. You gotta repair the harm by engaging folks and reimagining it so it’s some place they’d actually feel comfortable going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deanna: I mean, one initiative we have is to turn them into trade schools, welding schools. We call it the welding justice project. You know, if you’re going to repurpose these facilities, you have to bring restorative economics into it. How does this actually generate revenue and bring jobs into the community that are living wage and growth jobs? 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>In 2020, the United States faces an election like no other. Citizens will vote in the midst of a global pandemic, severe climate change, an uprising for racial justice and an administration that has eroded the norms of democracy. In ‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/whats-on-your-ballot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">What’s on Your Ballot\u003c/a>,’ KQED checks in with ten different artists, activists and cultural figures about the issues on their minds and their hopes for the country.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">A\u003c/span>dnan Khan is the executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://restorecal.org/author/adnan/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Re:Store Justice\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that he co-founded in 2017 while incarcerated in San Quentin State Prison. The organization offers resources to survivors of violent crimes, leads transformative justice workshops to those who’ve committed crimes and holds restorative justice discussions between offenders and survivors of violent crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time of the organization’s inception, Khan was serving a sentence of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11720792/my-intentions-were-not-to-kill-adnan-khan-is-first-to-be-released-from-prison-under-new-law#:~:text=He%20was%20convicted%20of%20felony,of%2025%20years%20to%20life.&text=Khan%20spent%20nearly%20half%20of,in%20and%20committed%20a%20robbery.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">25 years to life\u003c/a> under California’s felony murder rule, after participating in a robbery in which his accomplice killed a person. While behind bars, Khan researched and contributed to the efforts that led to the passing of Senate Bill 1437, which allows people charged under the felony murder rule, like himself, to have their cases revisited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khan was the first person re-sentenced under the new law, and subsequently released that day. Out of San Quentin for just over 18 months, Khan now lives in Los Angeles with his partner and newborn child, Aidan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Aidan took a nap, Khan recently took time to answer questions about this fall’s election, national politics and how to make a difference in a country where most people feel as if they have no say.\u003cem>—Pendarvis Harshaw\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"From KQED's California Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/,All the State Props, All the Bay Area Measures' hero=https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/2020/10/KQED-Election-2020-Aside-CA-Voter-Guide.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Coming from your background, how do you look at the two presidential candidates that we have now, and say, ‘One of them might benefit me and the community that I come from?’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know, I think that a lot of focus can go to the presidential election, and I believe that there is a huge importance there. But as many of us do know, mass incarceration is a systemic problem, it’s a new form of slavery… And what I’ve learned is that when it comes to mass incarceration or prison, \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2020.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">90% of the people are in state prisons and local jails\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, when it comes to this voting cycle, it’s really important to know who your governor is, who your state senators are, who your state assembly members are, who your mayor is, who elects the police chief, and who’s your city council, who are your people who can defund the police and reallocate that money. Once I started learning more of the process, I learned that [those] can be very important pieces to focus on the larger pictures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, when it comes to the big debate of the lesser of two evils: Kamala Harris, what she’s done toward the contribution of mass incarceration, and Joe Biden, the ’94 crime bill, and what he’s done with the contribution to mass incarceration is horrible. So a lot of people, morally, feel like they can’t vote for them. But not picking the lesser of two evils, and just settling with the larger evil? I personally can’t do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last thing I want to add to this—I’ve constantly reflected on this a lot—is as a person who has experienced many losses, and done 16 years in prison, and starting at a maximum security prison as a young adult, I \u003cem>lived\u003c/em> in losses. So, we learn how to maneuver around loss, and what that looks like, how to survive another day, if not a moment, with the correctional staff. I lived under an authoritarian state for 16 years, I lived in autocracy for 16 years. And I’m seeing the parallels with the Trump administration. For me, I can’t see voting for Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13887822\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13887822\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Adnan.Inside-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"Adnan Khan, pictured here while incarcerated at San Quentin.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Adnan.Inside-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Adnan.Inside-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Adnan.Inside-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Adnan.Inside.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adnan Khan, pictured here while incarcerated at San Quentin. ‘My amends now would be incomplete if it was only telling someone that I’m sorry,’ Khan says, ‘without preventing a child from committing the same harm that I did.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy Adnan Khan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How did you get inspired enough to do something to change your situation? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, I took the steps to educate myself. As you know, in prison, access to information and knowledge is very limited, and it’s done intentionally. I think that gave me more of a hunger, more than anything. Early on in my incarceration, I wanted to investigate my conditions. And as I started to investigate my conditions, I learned that, whoa, there’s a whole systemic thing going on here. And as I kept digging and digging, while living what I’m reading, it was just enlightening. Not in a good way, but in a frustrating way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another thing that’s very personal to me, as we talk about agency, is that I take full responsibility for my crime and for the harm that I’ve caused. And in order for me to take full responsibility, one, I have to acknowledge what I did, and then two, I have to make a living amends. Which means, how do I repair the damage that I’ve caused? But then, in order for me to even do that, I have to understand: how did I go from an eight-year-old little league baseball player to an 18-year-old with a life sentence?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And once I learned how that happened, my amends now would be incomplete if it was only telling someone that I’m sorry, without preventing a child from committing the same harm that I did. And that is rooted in policy, and how our society is structured, and how marginalized children are criminalized in schools. So my amends and my remorse can be there, but it’s incomplete unless I learn about the conditions that led me to commit my crime in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>That’s tight—it’s like, looking at yourself, and taking agency within your own path and your own experience, and also seeing how society failed you. And then seeing that no one else falls through that same crack.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think it’s very misleading to society for someone to take 100% responsibility for the wrong that they’ve done. There are, as you know, societal factors, contributing factors. Like I said, I was 17 years-old. Parentless, homeless, high school dropout. The police showed up after I committed a crime. And so, school: nothing there. Parents: didn’t have any. Didn’t have literally any place to stay. I slept in cars and parks and friends’ houses for like a year. I can take full responsibility—which, I do take full responsibility, for me—but public safety is still at risk if we don’t change conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>To people who feel removed, people that don’t see themselves represented right now by this two-party system, or by local politics, or people who just feel disenfranchised, and don’t have agency—to my young homies who are 18 years-old and have that mindset like, ‘America ain’t mine’—what do you tell them? How do you tell them to get involved?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, I feel like America wasn’t mine either, right? It’s true. The inception of this country is built on property, wealth, and land. Built quite literally over bodies, on genocide. And then enslaving people and then bringing them here. When the constitution was written, they didn’t think about abolishing slavery at that time. So everything they built was to protect themselves, or to protect property. And policing was to protect the property-owning people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13887821\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13887821\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Adnan.Oakland-800x590.jpg\" alt=\"Adnan Khan stands in the Re:Store Justice transitional home in Oakland shortly after his release from San Quentin.\" width=\"800\" height=\"590\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Adnan.Oakland-800x590.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Adnan.Oakland-1020x752.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Adnan.Oakland-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Adnan.Oakland-768x566.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Adnan.Oakland-1536x1133.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/10/Adnan.Oakland.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adnan Khan stands in the Re:Store Justice transitional home in Oakland shortly after his release from San Quentin. \u003ccite>(Hope McKenney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To the young people, I want to say that this is your time. Because more young people are starting to think like you, and are activating. Activation is physical, it’s a verb. You gotta do. Doing, not meaning talking, but going and doing. And more people are doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What country do you want to live in the next 20 years? Next 15 years? I’ve got a little boy here, and what happens in the next four to eight years is going to be his future. We can set that. You want it, it’s yours. There’s a commercial with an athlete saying that “Greatness isn’t given, it’s taken—you gotta go get it.” Don’t feel like power comes from not participating. Because once you give power away, then you let someone control you, and that’s what’s been happening forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Building off of that, after the election, no matter how it goes, what are your hopes and goals for the future of the country? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most important thing to me is strategy. And as we organize and mobilize, it’s important to educate people on what to do and how to do it. A lot of people’s advocacy is what they read on the 280-character tweet. There’s a lot of people who are more interested in abolition, new systems, or whatever, that have come out in the past six or seven months than there have been in my entire life. To organize means to collect people, and then make sure the mobilizing is mobilizing toward a direction. So the next few years is going to be rooted in strategy for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If we choose to go through what we have, the democratic process, let’s start electing our own. I truly feel like, based on QAnon and all this nonsense that’s happening, this is probably the end of the Republican party. And the Democratic party is more like center-right. Meanwhile there’s this entire party that’s emerging—or has always been around, but it’s being added to, as we’re seeing across the nation—what people are calling the progressive party. 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But as many of us do know, mass incarceration is a systemic problem, it’s a new form of slavery… And what I’ve learned is that when it comes to mass incarceration or prison, \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2020.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">90% of the people are in state prisons and local jails\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, when it comes to this voting cycle, it’s really important to know who your governor is, who your state senators are, who your state assembly members are, who your mayor is, who elects the police chief, and who’s your city council, who are your people who can defund the police and reallocate that money. Once I started learning more of the process, I learned that [those] can be very important pieces to focus on the larger pictures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, when it comes to the big debate of the lesser of two evils: Kamala Harris, what she’s done toward the contribution of mass incarceration, and Joe Biden, the ’94 crime bill, and what he’s done with the contribution to mass incarceration is horrible. So a lot of people, morally, feel like they can’t vote for them. But not picking the lesser of two evils, and just settling with the larger evil? I personally can’t do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last thing I want to add to this—I’ve constantly reflected on this a lot—is as a person who has experienced many losses, and done 16 years in prison, and starting at a maximum security prison as a young adult, I \u003cem>lived\u003c/em> in losses. So, we learn how to maneuver around loss, and what that looks like, how to survive another day, if not a moment, with the correctional staff. 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