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Title
Crime in black community
Author
Harris, Dewayne L.
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Crime in Black Community Crime first originates in the mind which encompasses many factors that, across all social, economic and racial barriers. Its causes and effects have racial barriers. Its causes and effects have long been studied by sociologist and debated by scholars abroad, but it all derives from the wrong application of thought. There is no crime free communities, but in most tight knitted communities crimes are more infrequent and less violent as a child growing up in the inner ci...
PID
apw:12358380
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T18:57:41.779Z
Title
Free my mind
Author
Harris, Dewayne L.
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Free My Mind You may have incarcerated my body, but you’ll never arrest my mind. With each passing day I am free though different recessed of time. I am able to spend time with my deceased mother, hug and kiss my loving granny, play ball with my child, and visit the rest of my extended family. Where if I so choose, I can even visit other states, or travel up to the moon to see the aliens face to face. You’ll never be able to blind my spirit, therefore I remain free on this slave plantation. N...
PID
apw:12358410
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T18:58:22.55Z
Title
Gangstas lifestyle
Author
Harris, Dewayne L.
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Gangstas Lifestyle What it about "gangsta lifestyle" that's so alluring and enticing, that draws and pulls so many youths to commit their lives to a world of disorder and destruction? That compels them to defy their parents? That enables them to become disrespectful and belligerent towards those that care about them? How can it so easily steal youth from normal lives, involving them in a path criminal activities, alcohol and drug use? What does it possess that makes it a very p...
PID
apw:12358403
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T18:58:12.731Z
Title
I have seen the angel death
Author
Harris, Dewayne L.
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
I Have Seen the Angel Death I have seen the face of life and I have seen the grip of death and I have seen interesting sights in between and I have seen good times in the world I have seen bad times on those street corners I have seen time of death’s life fly by I have seen the red sun rise high and I have seen the orange sun set low and I have seen the full moon and I have seen the eclipse of the moon and I have seen the clouds cover the whole sky I have seen the seasons change One hundred f...
PID
apw:12358388
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T18:57:53.24Z
Title
Imprisonment blacks
Author
Harris, Dewayne L.
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Imprisonment Blacks Does it have to be a waste of time? I posed this poignant to myself after a recent exchange with a fellow prisoners whom I hold enormous respect. On this particular day, I overheard him lamenting having spent the last 20 years in prison. A recent sentence reduction leaves him with less than two years remaining. However, what caught my attention was his statement that, “all of this time has been wasted. At this point, I was moved to interject my perspective. I stressed to h...
PID
apw:12358384
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T18:57:47.807Z
Title
Incarcerated inmates lives matter
Author
Harris, Dewayne L.
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Minister Khalil Shabazz Muhammad AKA Mr. Dewayne Lee Harris #[ID] The system as well the Civil Rights Movement illustrates the potential of a coalition between a disadvantaged group working with allies from a wide range of people colors. Everyone brought their own perspective and moral commitment to the struggle; and willingness to risk their own perspective and moral commitment to the struggle; and willingness to risk their lives that forced American society as a whole to confront the ugly t...
PID
apw:12358371
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T18:57:27.638Z
Title
No choice
Author
Harris, Dewayne L.
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
The American Writing Archive 198 College Hill RD Hamilton College Clinton, NY 13323 To Whom this Letter May Concern: My name is Minister Khalil Shabazz Muhammad A Washington State prisoner. I am writing concerning your writing program. I am interested in your writing program itself. No Choice: I feel the restraints that society brings the sorrow, pains and the extreme chaos it gains why do we “the misunderstood” stand accused of these things labeled as incorrigible then locked up in chains? I...
PID
apw:12358395
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T18:58:02.607Z
Title
Our voices
Author
Harris, Dewayne L.
Pages
3 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Our Voices The word “innocent in the criminal justice system” is often mentioned when one individual is telling another individual about someone they know who did not commit a crime individual have been accused of. When an individual innocent is exonerated for being wrongfully convicted, he or she gets the public’s sympathy - which they should - but those individuals who are seeking help to prove theirs get ignored. To allow someone you know is innocent to linger in on the slave prison planta...
PID
apw:12358492
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T19:00:31.839Z
Title
Slave plantation prison D.O.C
Author
Harris, Dewayne L.
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
Slave Plantation Prison D.O.C. I Am The Forgotten Locked Away in A Plantation Prison Box Punishment From The Human Minds of Men Them Wanting Me To be Who I'm Not I Am The Sins of My Fathers A Child of The Lost To Hear My Voice No One bothers Put Away in A Pen, Silenced At All Costs I Hear Curses From The Mouths of Men As They Make Money From Mistake Their Pockets gets Fat As They Sit Back And Grin Stirring Up Torment And Pain For Me As Much As They Can Make Through Their Soulless Eyes Th...
PID
apw:12358390
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T18:57:55.624Z
Title
The Stockholm syndrome
Author
Harris, Dewayne L.
Pages
4 pages
Text (TR_WF)
The Stockholm Syndrome The Stockholm Syndrome is an emotional attachment to ones captor formed as a result of continuous stress, dependence, and need to cooperate for survival. This malady come to for after a 1973 incident in Stockholm, Sweden during which a bank employee became romantically attached to a robber who was holding her hostage. After seven years of imprisonment, I have noticed this same pattern of behavior manifested especially in long-term prisoners. Individuals who were incarce...
PID
apw:12358375
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T18:57:32.796Z
Title
Truth is
Author
Harris, Dewayne L.
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Truth Is Keeping it real: Keeping it real is a phrase which is often used callously in our daily discourses. However, the concept underlying the concept of keeping it real is one enormous gravity, indeed, keeping it real requires one to accept and deal with the truth wherever truth may lead us. In keeping real, we are precluded from embracing fantasy, idealism, and illusion. As I sit here reflecting over the past year, I would like to share my musing on [crucial?] it is to keep it real in unn...
PID
apw:12358398
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T18:58:06.789Z
Title
Wasted time death sentence
Author
Harris, Dewayne L.
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
Wasted Time Death Sentence The time that I wasted is my biggest regret Spent in the plantation places I will never forget Just sitting and thinking about the things that I've done The crying, the laughing, the hurt and the fun Now it's just me and my hard driven guilt Behind a wall of emptiness I allowed to be built I'm trapped in my body, just wanting to run Back to my youth with its laughter and fun But the chase is over and there's no place to hide Everything is gone, i...
PID
apw:12358392
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T18:57:57.144Z
Title
What is a Washington state inmate
Author
Harris, Dewayne L.
Pages
1 page
Text (TR_WF)
What is a Washington State Inmate A inmate is a individual alone on an island of despair, a drifting sea of disgrace with little or no hope of survival, suspended in time with no meaning, helpless to help himself, turning more bitter towards society with the passing of time, unable to reach out through the bars to family or friends, slowly losing touch with the reality of life. Being slowly turned into animals with the passing of time. Destroying all sense of fair play and morality being educ...
PID
apw:12358401
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T18:58:10.597Z
Title
Why African American should vote
Author
Harris, Dewayne L.
Pages
2 pages
Text (TR_WF)
'Why African American should vote as citizens living in America, voting is the only African American individual power guaranteed to us by the constitution of the United States. Every decision that governs African American lives was decided from a single individual vote. This is why voting is so essential, because it changes our way of life. When an African American individual says "I do not vote," he is really saying, I don't care who governs my life. My family and the Afr...
PID
apw:12358407
Date Uploaded
2020-06-18T18:58:18.887Z