(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s no secret that Montgomery, Alabama like all other cities is a city that’s divided economically and socially because downtown, there’s rapid development with high rises and condominiums being built at the expense of urban neighborhoods throughout the city.
When you ride through the predominant urban areas on the north, south, and especially the west side of the city, you see imposed poverty, very little resources, horizontal violence, hopelessness, despair, no real jobs, no economic self-reliance, our kids are constantly being terrorized daily by colonial (mostly female teachers) and even being assaulted, pepper sprayed, and tazed by armed thuggish police officers in The Montgomery Public School System. 
When you ride through the predominantly colonial east side of Montgomery, they have better schools, no police containment, having wealth and resources that’s sitting on top of our continuous oppression, lavish expensive homes, a playground for the wealthy colonial elitists at the expense of the urban communities across the city.
Speaking of the heavy police containment that’s in our community, this week alone as I was on the public transportation bus, I saw three police squad cars and several officers searching a brother who they stopped-n-frisked and then yesterday, I saw a brother being stopped-n-frisked again by police. This heavy military occupation of our community by the police is the norm because the state not only doesn’t want us to rise up and rebel against them, but they want to also continue with their downtown rapid development plan with more high rises and condominiums.
The corrupt city government spends at least 45 million dollars a year on “public safety” which is a code word for putting more police officers into our community and also into the public schools to continuously terrorize, brutalize, and kill us with impunity. And that’s why I greatly advocate for Black Community Control Of The Police where we have the ability to discipline, fire, hire, and train police officers who come wanna into our community looking for trouble so that we can truly ensure the public safety of our community.
The police is an arm of a much bigger corrosive and corrupt force known as The State because their main job is to ONLY Protect and Serve the interests of the colonial ruling class at the expense of the poor, working class people. They are actually an occupying military force in our community and one example of that is these “raids” where they send in the SWAT team (aka Jumpstreet in street slang) to raid urban homes of “suspected drug dealers” while also blocking off that entire area for several hours.
Also, the school system also works as an arm of The State to make sure that urban kids not only don’t have the quality education that colonial kids get, but to also destroy the aspirations and dreams of urban kids that pushes them into the colonial judicial system aka the school-to-prison pipeline. I also advocate for Black Community Control Of Schools in which more black teachers, to provide a curriculum that boost up the morale and self-esteem of urban students and to create after school programs where our kids can showcase their natural abilities and talents without being harmed by colonial (mostly female teachers) and police officers.
The City Of Montgomery, Alabama came into existence off the massive exploitation of free labor from our ancestors during slavery. And like all other southern cities, Montgomery has a notorious history of slavery which dates back to the 1600 when the first of our ancestors were brought to Montgomery against their own will at The Riverfront and sold off to other colonial male slave owners at Court Square downtown.
Montgomery City Government does owe reparations to us for not only building this city off the massive exploitation of free labor, but also for Jim Crow, segregation, The War On Drugs aka The War On Us, mass incarceration, and all the other horrendous atrocities committed against our community by this corrupt city government here in Montgomery.
The Conclusion – Once we realize the type of power we have, we can overthrow this disgustingly corrupt system and create a new system where our kids in particular can experience a future outside of crime, poverty, and prison.
Staff Writer; Joe Davis
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