WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.740 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.740 --> 00:00:01.410 align:middle line:90% I got a piece-- 00:00:01.410 --> 00:00:04.410 align:middle line:84% I wanted to read a few of these definition pieces there. 00:00:04.410 --> 00:00:09.270 align:middle line:84% And so see if I can find them right quick. 00:00:09.270 --> 00:00:12.660 align:middle line:90% Maybe I got them, maybe I don't. 00:00:12.660 --> 00:00:14.430 align:middle line:90% Yeah, here we go. 00:00:14.430 --> 00:00:16.830 align:middle line:84% And so if you notice, I try to refrain 00:00:16.830 --> 00:00:21.600 align:middle line:84% from using the word prison, formerly incarcerated, felon. 00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:22.830 align:middle line:90% I don't believe in-- 00:00:22.830 --> 00:00:24.930 align:middle line:84% I don't believe in those things because I 00:00:24.930 --> 00:00:27.660 align:middle line:84% have met many bad people who are not felons. 00:00:27.660 --> 00:00:30.270 align:middle line:84% And so that holds no weight with me. 00:00:30.270 --> 00:00:31.320 align:middle line:90% It just doesn't. 00:00:31.320 --> 00:00:33.960 align:middle line:90% I mean, I had to start feeling-- 00:00:33.960 --> 00:00:35.610 align:middle line:84% I had to stop thinking about that 00:00:35.610 --> 00:00:38.010 align:middle line:84% because I think when one gets out of-- 00:00:38.010 --> 00:00:40.600 align:middle line:90% one gets comes like-- 00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:43.110 align:middle line:84% is returning citizen, that's a better way of looking at it. 00:00:43.110 --> 00:00:46.470 align:middle line:84% You return back to society, and you're 00:00:46.470 --> 00:00:49.560 align:middle line:84% given the stigma as like a formerly 00:00:49.560 --> 00:00:51.540 align:middle line:90% incarcerated or a felon. 00:00:51.540 --> 00:00:56.370 align:middle line:84% But I don't necessarily buy that because there are many-- 00:00:56.370 --> 00:01:00.180 align:middle line:84% because if you live long enough, and if you talk to people, 00:01:00.180 --> 00:01:02.220 align:middle line:84% and you just live the life, you know 00:01:02.220 --> 00:01:05.430 align:middle line:84% that everybody got something that they're not 00:01:05.430 --> 00:01:07.710 align:middle line:90% proud of that they've done. 00:01:07.710 --> 00:01:09.660 align:middle line:84% And they might not be that they went-- 00:01:09.660 --> 00:01:12.990 align:middle line:84% they was locked up for it, but still. 00:01:12.990 --> 00:01:17.040 align:middle line:84% And so I refuse to succumb to that. 00:01:17.040 --> 00:01:22.200 align:middle line:84% And so for me, I was trying to write a few things about what 00:01:22.200 --> 00:01:25.410 align:middle line:90% I call dangerous misnomers. 00:01:25.410 --> 00:01:28.260 align:middle line:90% So we'll read a couple of them. 00:01:28.260 --> 00:01:34.440 align:middle line:84% 289-128, dangerous misnomers, "Prisoner." 00:01:34.440 --> 00:01:36.960 align:middle line:84% And they're like this definition piece of something, 00:01:36.960 --> 00:01:38.520 align:middle line:90% but I flipped the definition. 00:01:38.520 --> 00:01:41.220 align:middle line:90% 00:01:41.220 --> 00:01:44.650 align:middle line:84% "Trapped within a carceral state a bird, a person, or a thing, 00:01:44.650 --> 00:01:47.220 align:middle line:84% but mostly your thing involuntarily 00:01:47.220 --> 00:01:50.580 align:middle line:84% held under restraint, as in human beings combined 00:01:50.580 --> 00:01:52.710 align:middle line:90% to borderlines. 00:01:52.710 --> 00:01:56.220 align:middle line:84% Derivative of prison, apprehension from old French 00:01:56.220 --> 00:01:58.920 align:middle line:90% prisonnière is a detainee. 00:01:58.920 --> 00:02:03.120 align:middle line:84% Colored or a gender given a namesake used to be called-- 00:02:03.120 --> 00:02:05.850 align:middle line:84% used to be called indentured or slave, 00:02:05.850 --> 00:02:08.789 align:middle line:84% living in detention unable to resurrect. 00:02:08.789 --> 00:02:11.280 align:middle line:84% Caught in the revolving door without exit. 00:02:11.280 --> 00:02:14.550 align:middle line:84% Stamped with labels, often inaccurate. 00:02:14.550 --> 00:02:17.310 align:middle line:84% Regulated not necessarily to four walls. 00:02:17.310 --> 00:02:20.100 align:middle line:84% Could be urban, also from rural district. 00:02:20.100 --> 00:02:24.690 align:middle line:84% Cage in a body, an idea as conceptual." 00:02:24.690 --> 00:02:26.730 align:middle line:90% "Convict." 00:02:26.730 --> 00:02:30.420 align:middle line:84% "Sentenced as criminal without a release, never ever. 00:02:30.420 --> 00:02:32.550 align:middle line:84% Immoral might be more applicable. 00:02:32.550 --> 00:02:35.100 align:middle line:84% The con is the conviction itself, 00:02:35.100 --> 00:02:38.640 align:middle line:84% a trickster for defendants who without sin is a juror. 00:02:38.640 --> 00:02:41.820 align:middle line:84% In the mirror, a judge on the bench, 00:02:41.820 --> 00:02:45.780 align:middle line:84% a DA, all doppelgangers, interchangeable bodies, 00:02:45.780 --> 00:02:49.050 align:middle line:84% declared guilty by those with guilt, a verdict 00:02:49.050 --> 00:02:53.370 align:middle line:84% within a paradox of secreted legal secrets. 00:02:53.370 --> 00:02:57.570 align:middle line:84% Inescapable now, held by dead weight. 00:02:57.570 --> 00:03:00.300 align:middle line:84% Waiting in forever quicksand, hypocrites 00:03:00.300 --> 00:03:03.060 align:middle line:84% who could be, but are not deemed corrupt in the state 00:03:03.060 --> 00:03:04.530 align:middle line:90% within the statement. 00:03:04.530 --> 00:03:08.100 align:middle line:84% Sanctions on the x cannot never be a good thing. 00:03:08.100 --> 00:03:12.630 align:middle line:84% Label me legend by the original colonials." 00:03:12.630 --> 00:03:14.930 align:middle line:90% "Felon." 00:03:14.930 --> 00:03:17.480 align:middle line:90% "Assigned to bad people but not. 00:03:17.480 --> 00:03:21.830 align:middle line:84% Limited or this malice thing in cage habitat. 00:03:21.830 --> 00:03:25.520 align:middle line:84% A shady character, a cruel misnomer, could be prison, 00:03:25.520 --> 00:03:28.880 align:middle line:90% but ordinary people are cruel. 00:03:28.880 --> 00:03:32.540 align:middle line:84% Uncertain ethical character should be prerequisite 00:03:32.540 --> 00:03:33.740 align:middle line:90% not a record. 00:03:33.740 --> 00:03:37.010 align:middle line:84% From medieval Latin, the evildoers, felo, 00:03:37.010 --> 00:03:40.160 align:middle line:84% a delinquent, but not necessarily legal 00:03:40.160 --> 00:03:42.380 align:middle line:90% or the greatest lie ever. 00:03:42.380 --> 00:03:45.620 align:middle line:84% Told as stigma, meant as a life long. 00:03:45.620 --> 00:03:48.740 align:middle line:84% After debt paid, all is never forgiven. 00:03:48.740 --> 00:03:52.430 align:middle line:84% Classification, of course, without expiration, 00:03:52.430 --> 00:03:56.780 align:middle line:84% a fate some say lose or a lifer, but what is lost. 00:03:56.780 --> 00:04:01.180 align:middle line:84% The evil, the moral good do in the open."