{"id":1069,"date":"2012-09-09T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T18:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/?p=1069"},"modified":"2012-09-13T09:14:49","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T17:14:49","slug":"words-you-understand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/2012\/09\/09\/words-you-understand\/","title":{"rendered":"-Words You Understand- by Abdul Haqq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/scream.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1187\" style=\"border: 0px none;\" title=\"scream\" src=\"http:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/scream.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"317\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/scream.jpg 317w, https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/scream-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"role_document\" style=\"color: #400040; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: small;\" lang=\"0\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">Constantine wire, grey walls, fences and bars. Locked in a cage,<br \/>\ndehumanized. Like an Animal, as if they deserve this hell anymore than<br \/>\nI do.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Talking to the Outside is like shouting down an empty well. You<br \/>\nimagine there is someone at the other end, or something listening to<br \/>\nyou. But in your heart you know that if there is, it\u2019s so foreign, so<br \/>\nstrange, that there is no communicating, just superficial sounds<br \/>\nechoing. Echoing down an empty corridor. Not an Eco-Warrior.<\/p>\n<p>You give your heart and soul, you bleed and fold, you fight in court<br \/>\nand live in isolation. You stand and demand until your life is a<br \/>\ndemonstration.<\/p>\n<p>They interview you and pretend to care about the movement\u2026.The state.<\/p>\n<p>They interview you and steal your glory\u2026. The fakes.<\/p>\n<p>To one\u00a0 your a terrorist, equated with evil. A quick blurb to smear a<br \/>\nmovement with a brushstroke. To the other your a college thesis or<br \/>\npolitical statement, or somehow related\u2026. To a vicarious life.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, the Earth dies. The Animals lost in a holocaust. While you<br \/>\ntype, you stare at screens. Where is communication between us?<\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t relate to a human in a cage, out of sight but speaking words<br \/>\nyou understand. You will never relate to the Animals plight, a<br \/>\nthousand times worse than that of any man.<\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t want the truth. You want me to console you, don\u2019t you? After<br \/>\nfighting with fire and losing my everything , you want me to counsel<br \/>\nyou, oh stranger\u2026. and for free. What else would you like, the<br \/>\nfillings out of my fucking teeth! Now I\u2019m in the zoo and on display so<br \/>\nthat you can see me the way you imagine, because everything really is<br \/>\nthat way\u2026. No it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s ugly and you can\u2019t stand it, cause you can\u2019t fix it, so you don\u2019t<br \/>\nwant to see it, but I\u2019m gonna write it and I hope you don\u2019t like it!<\/p>\n<p>Age- 6 months, Mom is divorced Daddy sells drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Age- 2 years, Mom is remarried new Dad is a drunk.<\/p>\n<p>Confusion, pain, feeling deserted. Eating cans of condensed milk for<br \/>\ndesert. That was age 8, aint it great.<\/p>\n<p>Molested by age 10, depression setting in.<\/p>\n<p>Now, age 12. I\u2019m angry, hostile and confused as hell! Living in a<br \/>\nduplex with 8 Puerto Ricans I\u2019ve never seen, that\u2019s my\u00a0 family.<\/p>\n<p>Age-13. What can I do? Fight, Fuck, Destroy! Get high, get drunk,<br \/>\nDestroy! Vandalize, drop out, Destroy! Turn on everyone\u00a0 and<br \/>\neverything. Make them pay for giving birth to me, DESTROY!<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to my twenties. A felon, no education\u2026. A Straight Edge<br \/>\nVegan. Work day labor and temporary services. 8 hours of bubble sheet<br \/>\ntests before you can shovel shit for minimum wage. Worked my fingers<br \/>\nto the bone until my back was wrecked. Off to ace check cashing, to<br \/>\ncash my check.<\/p>\n<p>Age-30, I learned how to kiss the right ass, to land a pointless job<br \/>\nin the middle class. Hurdle the homeless on your way to the bus and<br \/>\nnever forget you got one foot in the gutter. If you don\u2019t smile at<br \/>\nwork. If you don\u2019t pick up on your bosses every cue, as fast as the<br \/>\nhipsters from college in skinny jeans do.<\/p>\n<p>For over a decade I helped Animals because they helped me. they<br \/>\ntreated me better than any person ever will, better than my family.<br \/>\nThey loved me for being alive, they taught me what a relationship was<br \/>\nwithout any lies. So I spoke and I wrote and I protested. I even ate<br \/>\nfancy Vegan food with a bunch of stuck up white people. I watched<br \/>\npeople weep and wail about how much they cared (as long as others were<br \/>\nwatching) and then watched those same people succumb to their apathy.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of white guilt, it\u2019s anthropomorphic guilt. Pissing and<br \/>\nmoaning not because of feeling their pain, just sad because they wish<br \/>\nthey could motivate their own lazy asses to care about innocent life<br \/>\nas much as their money, their cars, their dick, their face book page.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, did I strike a nerve? are you offended yet? Good, so am I.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m offended by those that pretend to care but lie! I\u2019m offended by<br \/>\nthe billions upon billions of innocent lives that senselessly die! I\u2019m<br \/>\noffended by an incarceration that keeps my words censored, my hands<br \/>\nand feet tied, hog tied! Have you ever gone to bed to the sound of<br \/>\ncell doors slamming? Have the police ever come to your house to search<br \/>\nevery body cavity? Have you ever had to spread your butt cheeks and<br \/>\nvigorously cough, while some redneck stares at your asshole?<\/p>\n<p>Do you even know what real oppression is besides some historical idea<br \/>\nyou read about in text books? Or are you just another privileged<br \/>\nanarchist shitbag that doesn\u2019t like mean old Walter Bond because his<br \/>\ntheoretical ideas weren\u2019t expressed with the proper preferred pronouns<br \/>\n(and his rhetoric sounds wrong)? Has a white man ever called your mom<br \/>\na nigger while you waive goodbye to her from the school bus? Have you<br \/>\never been shoved so far into the Federal Prison System that your<br \/>\nlosing touch, with every imaginable context the outside world has to<br \/>\noffer?<\/p>\n<p>So where is there communication between us?<\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t relate to a human in a cage, out of sight but speaking words<br \/>\nyou understand. Then you will never relate to the Animals plight , a<br \/>\nthousand times worse than that of any man.<\/p>\n<p>by Abdul Haqq (formerly known as Walter Bond)<br \/>\nALF POW<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/supportwalter.org\/SW\/index.php\/2012\/09\/01\/words-you-understand\/\">http:\/\/supportwalter.org\/SW\/index.php\/2012\/09\/01\/words-you-understand\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Constantine wire, grey walls, fences and bars. Locked in a cage, dehumanized. Like an Animal, as if they deserve this hell anymore than I do. Talking to the Outside is like shouting down an empty well. You imagine there is someone at the other end, or something listening to you. 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