Unsettle Frederick

"Despite rhetoric that anyone can get ahead if they work hard enough, a girl child in the U.S., for example, especially if she is poor and black, is still unlikely to imagine herself as president. I do not believe Hillary Clinton’s 2016 bid for the highest elected office, win or lose, will significantly alter that. That is because oppression denotes structural and material constraints that both purposively shape the group-being-oppressed’s life chances and sense of possibility. Oppression restricts self-development and self-determination."

Oppression, the language to illuminate the complex working of gender inequality | Unsettle Frederick 6 Jul 2015 Oppression, the language to illuminate the complex working of gender inequality by Lacino | posted in: Dissenting Opinion | 0 I can hardly think of a subject more strained by denial than the oppression of women. Our denial about this matter goes much further back than the current clash in…

"I assure you that being a student, in prison, is extremely more difficult than most people realize, considering that most people are unaware of the priority of staff and guards to limit when it cannot be stopped, but ideally prevent altogether, any prisoner from recognizing a sense of their own agency as well as their sense of social responsibility toward and with others, their society, and the broader world in which we live. After all, the first rule of prison is “mind your own business.” The second rule of prison is “mind your own business.” And the third rule of prison is, when in doubt, “revert back to rules one and two.”"-Lacino Hamilton

Why I am a student | Unsettle Frederick 15 Jun 2015 Why I am a student by Lacino | posted in: Dissenting Opinion | 0 On a day-to-day basis I am a student of life, and in particular of social justice. Though it should be included that I am a student of an education rooted in the great tradition of radical black politics. But since I have b…

"We should never forget the harm that is inflicted on the mind and spirit of prisoners. Mind and spirit suffocate in the context of prison, hegemony, domination. Which only allows for two possibilities: fossilization of infinite capacities, or the forced appropriation of the jailer’s theory of innate inferiority."
http://unsettlefrederick.org/2015/05/25/a-wager-on-which-i-shall-stake-the-meaning-of-my-life/

Put your hands in a fighting position!


http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/20/death-in-custody-of-baltimore-man-freddie-gray-sparks-call-for-independent-inquiry

Death in custody of Baltimore man Freddie Gray sparks call for independent inquiry Family of black man who suffered a broken neck after his arrest demand that the inquiry into his death be taken away from the city police