Content: 1. Family Struggle 2. Family Hustle 3. Closing: Spoken Word “Cycle Reincarnated”
Family Struggle
Imagine your wrists being wrapped in handcuffs, a judge imposing long math numbers and iron bars being slammed shut in the face of the man of your household. The man who once was the financial back-bone can no longer support his family. This changes your Family Hustle to a Family Struggle.
Prison can financially damage ex-prisoners and their families. The families suffer from financially fighting the case and the expenses that follow once they are convicted. An independent man is now dependent on the state and whatever family he has. Once released after doing numbers, with no corrections, help or training, who’s going to hired him? Where is he going to go, home to Mama? He is still dependent depending on the system. Illinois Department of Corrections is not a department of corrections but, instead a department/system of obstacles to make you a dependent.
As a prisoner soon to be an ex-prisoner, we all face a reality check of the following questions: 1. Where am I going? 2. What am I going to do (financially)? 3. Is there any other option other that following a broken corrupt system that’s proven to fail? 4. How can I dream again and have success? I can’t come back!
Family Hustle
You must overcome your environment. Even with IDOC’s strict discouraging rules and regulations for business ventures, you can still overcome. Stop depending on the department systems and programs. It’s good to have a plan for success once released, but statistics show most plans are not executed upon release for various reasons. Your plan starts now for you to step into once you get home. Get books sent in to self-educate on ventures. Sell your business ideas to your family to start. Invest whatever you have with your family and start now, not later. Your ideas alone could ease the strain.
I decided to overcome my environment by educating myself which led me to writing books and giving my family many business ideas to start. Turning it all over and giving them full control turned strain into gain. It also allowed me to have plans for a successful future upon my transition from prisoner to ex-prisoner.
Closing
“Cycle Reincarnated”
Why do I feel like I have been here before?
Because I have!
I was a nigger in my past life and now I have been reincarnated to a nigger again.
What odds!
I was a slave 300 years ago and now I’m a prisoner;
Why not a lion or some jewelry so I can shine?
Lord, why me?
Well look aye here!
Well, I’ll be,
Masta Lynch has also been reincarnated to the Warden.
What a life this gone be.
He ain’t changed a bit, still missing hair off the top his head and that pot belly.
Old mean lazy bastard!
These chains on my hands and feet ain’t changed much either.
I don’t have to drag that ball no mo but a nigger still can only take a half a step at a time.
Hold on, I just been informed we not niggers no mo,
we niggas, and it’s cool!
I see these Niggers, I mean Niggas, still dumb as ever and can’t find their way out a wet paper bag.
Well, ain’t much changed.
Still being fed no good scraps we barely surviving off of.
The huts, I mean cells, still disease infested as they pile us up tight in them.
Still breaking our backs laboring for scraps while they profit big.
Niggers, I mean Niggas, you must excuse me, I got to get use to the change we are now cool with;
but niggas still coming up with ideas and inventions that they take credit for like it’s their own.
Niggas who do gain freedom still being recaptured!
The tactics pretty much the same how they turn us against each other and put the fear of God in us.
A nigga still running to tell Masta the plots and plans of the revolution
the dogs still sniffing out the escape nigga running wild in the woods;
and those that own us still watching over us with that old shot gun!
Hold on, the nigga who chained, I mean cuffed up to me, trying to tell me something:
I just been informed the powers that be just massed and beat another nigga to death!
Yup, I got some luck to come back reincarnated as a Nigger again,
especially while we still repeating this cycle.
Lucky me!
When will my people take hold of the truth, return and call out to God, break the chains,
and be free my people?
To no longer have this cycle reincarnated!
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