If we had to think about every incident of violence, and its causes, and the mental state of the person who committed that crime, we couldn’t function as a society. America has so internalized the logic of the prison state that this logic has become the de facto justification of our civilization. But there’s a pathology in the constructed behaviors of our society. On 6 March 2014 AD, XXXTentacion tweets: “so fucking happy , my dad called me , asked me to rap for all his homies on the cell block , and them niggas freaked out” And follows it up with: “nigga told me he was proud of me” This
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