1: #MalcolmX said that black people were born in jail. I’ve really been thinking about this reality. When you are charged with a crime (in our case born black), it’s easier to fight your charge after bonding out. You can hire an attorney, negotiate a plea or prove...

2:... your innocence from the safe space of freedom. However, when you are black you can’t “bond out” from that. So you try to fight for your freedom from a place of lockup where, let’s face it, your rights are infringed upon and you don’t have equal access...

3:... to good representation. These politicians today aren’t giving us their “bond out” strategy instead we get ways to make the jail more comfortable. Better beds, food, rec and healthcare, but at the end of the day, we were still in jail.

We don’t need jail to be...

4:... “fixed up” for us. We want our freedom. We want to be acquitted of our only sin, our skin. We want to see life outside of the handcuffs of slavery impact, discrimination, racism, and microagressions.

5:... Don’t dress up our jail because at the end of the day, I’m still wearing a black jumpsuit, eating unacceptable food, and not getting equal access to healthcare.

@MitchGayns @amyvaz3 @RaiNotWheat y’all will appreciate this thread.