“For Freedom: Kim Kardashian West Strikes Again” by Kerry “Shakaboona” Marshall.
Reality TV star Kim Kardashians West is surprising everyone by championing the cause of freedom for incarcerated Black women and men serving mandatory death by incarceration sentences, whom have become targets of a white supremacist U.S. domestic policy of mass incarceration and social control of Black and Latino American populations.
Last week, Kim Kardashian West strikes again for prisoners’ freedom by appearing at the White House with her team of law professors and criminal justice reform advocates. To meet with top advisors Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner to discuss criminal justice reform and a presidential pardon for Chris Young, a Tennessee man serving a mandatory death by incarceration sentence in federal prison for drug trafficking.
Kim Kardashian West seems to be outdoing herself, for in May 2018, he obtained a presidential pardon from Trump for Alice Johnson, a 63-year-old Memphis grandmother serving a mandatory death by incarceration sentence for drug offenses. And now, Kardashian West is seeking to overhaul the entire rotten criminal justice system in America. Whoa!
When, why and how did Kim Kardashian West catch the activist bug, who knows? But what we do know is that she’s got it. She also gets it. Kim Kardashian West may have not taken a knee, sat down, or raise the clenched fist protest over police murder and mass incarceration of black Americans during the U.S. National Anthem at sports events as many Black and Caucasian athletes have done, but she has gotten a black grandmother serving a mandatory death by incarceration sentence released from prison by a presidential pardon.
Is attempting to get a second incarcerated person serving a mandatory death by incarceration sentence released about presidential pardon. And is at power meetings with her legal team at the White House seeking to overhaul the criminal justice system. Can Black celebrities say the same? Again, Kim Kardashian West gets it. Symbolism without substance and struggle ain’t hush your mouth.
From the belly of the beast at Prison Radio, I am Shakaboona. Thank you for listening.
These commentaries are recorded by Noelle Hanrahan of Prison Radio.
![Prison Radio is sharing an abbreviated version of a press release covering recent racist incidents at SCI Rockview in PA and the organizing to demand accountability. We are reaching out to people incarcerated at Rockview as well as recently transferred folks, inviting them to call, in hopes of hearing commentaries from them.
Benner Township, PA.-
On November 24th, 2023, imprisoned people at SCI Rockview found two nooses hanging in the CO’s office, displayed visibly for many prisoners to see. When the prisoners asked the staff why the nooses were hung, they were told it was a joke.
By December 4th, prisoners filed a grievance to document what they saw, noting that the hanging of the nooses was “unethical, racially motivated, hateful, [a] deliberate debasement of black inmates" and “unsafe for inmates, staff, [and] the whole prison in general.” In the grievance, they demanded that Sgt. Mosser and CO Richard be fired and investigated for a hate crime, and for CO Kirchner to get therapy. Captain Andrews, the head of security, denied the grievance.
The sergeant and COs are still working in the prison to this day, with no repercussions...
As of March 10th, prisoners have reached out to Pennsylvania officials at the Dept. of Corrections in a letter campaign, sending 100 copies of the grievance. Copies of the letter also were mailed to Governor Shapiro, Senator Fetterman, Senator Street, and various advocacy groups. The demands for relief in the original grievance have now become the platform of demands for this campaign. About 20 of the 100 letters were withheld by the prison.
Activists on the outside are joining forces with prisoners to elevate their demands, flooding the phone lines of DOC offices, assisting with outreach to media, and circulating the stories of prisoners who have found unity in opposition to the facility's virulent institutional racism.
In any other workplace, hanging a noose would be grounds for immediate termination. However, Nicki Paul, the superintendent's assistant and "grievance coordinator" informed the public that they self-investigated their staff and found they did nothing wrong.
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