Cesar Polito

Illustration by Kevin 'Rashid' Johnson

The high independence of the rich only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which they this day rejoice are not enjoyed, in common. The rich's inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity, and independence: it's only shared in the rich society and not in the oppressed society.

The sunlight that has brought life and healing to the capitalists has brought to us stripes of pain and death. The Fourth of July belongs to them, and not to us. They may rejoice and we must mourn, because this day only reveals to us the gross injustice and cruelty to which we're the constant victim: the racist capitalist society.

An Interview with Cesar Polito, CF 7444
by http://commonstruggle.org/blog/6679 ">Jake

Cesar Polito is a prisoner at SCI Greene, in Greene county, Pennsylvania, serving a life sentence for murder. When you meet him, however, it is hard to imagine this man killing anyone. Instead, his eyes hold the pain of a human being whose entire life has been stolen. Cesar's childhood was robbed from him, snatched away by a world of poverty and violence in Colombia. His brief adolescence was lost to the danger, precariousness, and frustration of the immigrant's life in the United States. The entirety of his adulthood, from the time he was eighteen, he has spent in prison. Now at the age of thirty-nine, Cesar shares his story in the hopes of catching the attention of anyone who can help him finally gain a reprise from the countless injustices he has faced since he took his first breath.