"Trump 2.0 has only confirmed my fears, my dread, and my anger. Make no mistake about it: This administration is unapologetically and shamelessly hellbent on establishing a violent white fascistic state. I know that some are surprised, but the truth of the matter is that the horrible reality of anti-Black fascism is not a new formation. The soul of this country was founded upon white power, white greed, and white violence."
"So, I am not surprised by the likes of Trump; he is a product of a vicious poison, a historical legacy, that predates his abominable presidency. But this isn't mere speculation or exaggeration. Our bodies and psyches are a record of this history: chains, enslavement, dehumanization, scarred backs, raped bodies, castrated bodies, broken necks, broken family ties, denied rights, denied citizenship, mass incarceration, and slow death. Indeed, there are those Black voices who not only recorded this history, but who understood its fascistic logics."
The connection between abolition and Black anti-fascism crystallizes in writings and activism of political prisoners and prison abolitionists. The Attica prison uprising of 1971 stands as a major inflection point in that history. Contemporary white supremacist political movements, exemplified by Trump-era politics, pursue a violent white fascistic state. The nation's foundation in white power, greed, and violence has produced generations of bodily and psychic trauma: chains, enslavement, dehumanization, scarred backs, raped and castrated bodies, broken family ties, denied rights, mass incarceration, and slow death. Black poets and activists such as Langston Hughes recorded and recognized the fascistic logics of American racial violence. Prison abolition and Black anti-fascism together aim to counter state-sponsored racial terror and dismantle carceral systems.
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