Category Archives: Education

A Constantly Evolving Lifespan: A Review of “This Life” by Quntos KunQuest

Posted on February 8, 2023 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

A life sentence in prison is life, that is, there is living to do in prison, even under a life sentence. Quntos KunQuest, in his novel, This Life, demonstrates that life goes on inside of prison. Since 1996, KunQuest has … Continue reading →

Posted in crime, Education, Growing Up, Justice Chronicles, Life Sentences, race, raising black boys | Tagged Alexandre Dumas, American Studies Association, Angola State Penitentiary, Bell Gale Chevigny, Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing, Edmond Dantes, In the Belly of the Beast, Jack Henry Abbott, Jailhouse Journalism: The Fourth Estate Behind Bars, Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Normal Mailer, PEN America, PEN International, Prison Writing Program (PWP), Quntos KunQuest, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Executioner's Song, This Life | 3 Comments

Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass: Remembrance of Things Past and Present

Posted on February 2, 2023 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

This Black History Month, read by award-winning book. It’s available on Amazon.

Posted in Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, Education, ezwwaters, race | Tagged #BlackHistoryMonth, #BlackLivesMatter, Black history | 2 Comments

She Invited Me into the Red Tent

Posted on March 16, 2022 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

Shawnee Benton Gibson has a special place in my Hall of Heroines, for two reasons. First, we share the same Born Day, different years. I can always expect a call or a text from her on our special day! How … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Family, Lest We Forget, Mother's Messages, raising black boys | Tagged S.O.W., Shawnee Benton Gibson, Womanpreneur | Leave a comment

Let There Be Light!

Posted on March 11, 2022 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

Prison is a place where there is an absence of light. The little bit of light that exists is generated from and emanates from the people imprisoned there. There is a strange architecture around the design of prisons, beginning with … Continue reading →

Posted in crime, Education, ezwwaters, Growing Up, Justice Chronicles, Life Sentences, Osborne Association, Reentry | Tagged A Little Piece of Light, Donna Hylton, Jeremy Bentham, Panopticon, Reentry, utilitarianism | 2 Comments

Masquerading as White

Posted on February 20, 2022 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

Given my book recommendation yesterday, that is, Black Robes, White Justice, by Judge Bruce Wright, it seems natural to recommend this book by Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks. In many respects, this book explains Black jurists’ administering “white justice,” … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Lest We Forget | Tagged Black Skins White Masks, Carter G. Woodson, Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth | 2 Comments

A Brief History of How “Black History” is Seen

Posted on September 6, 2020 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

What is called “Black History” in the United States of America is American history. In categorizing and cataloging “Black History” as such, and relegating it not only to one month of the year, February, but also the shortest month of … Continue reading →

Posted in Black patriotism, Black Shadows and Through the White Looking Glass, Education, Lest We Forget, Patriotism, race, Revolution, Slavery | Tagged American Civil War, American Revolutionary War, Black history, Confederacy, Confederate icnoography, hyperincarceration, immigration, racial reckoning, Segregation, Slavery, treason, W.E.B.DuBois | 1 Comment

Dear Daddy: A Love Letter to Your Beloved South

Posted on July 15, 2020 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

July 15, 2020 Dear Daddy, Last night I dreamt of you for the first time since your death. I woke up with tears in my eyes. Although you have been dead for a little more than 38 years, in the … Continue reading →

Posted in being a teenager, Education, Family, Fatherhood, Fathers, Growing Up, Lest We Forget | Tagged Benin & Togo, Cameroon, Civil War, Confederate memorials, Confederate monumnets, Confederate statues, Congo, discrimination, Ellis Island, Emmett Till, Four White Men Kidnap and Rape Black Girl in Tylertown MS, Ghana, NC, Nigeria, racial reckoning, Segregation, slave ships, Southern Bantu peoples, the South, Township of Bath, Virginia, white supremacy, WW I, WW II, Yeatesville | 1 Comment

This day in history — April 21, 2007 — Turner County High School in Ashburn, Georgia, Holds First Racially Integrated Prom

Posted on April 21, 2018 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

On April 21, 2007, Turner County High School students attended the school’s first racially integrated prom. Located in Ashburn, Georgia, a small, rural, peanut-farming town of 4400 residents, the school’s racial demographics reflected those of the local community: 55% black … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, Justice Chronicles, Lest We Forget, race | Tagged Breakaway, Racially integrated prom, segregated proms in the 21st century in America, Turner County High School in Ashburn Georgia | Leave a comment

Willie Lynch, On Language

Posted on December 28, 2017 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

I am a self-styled language cop, especially as it relates to criminal justice language, how it has been used not only to dehumanize and stigmatize people with criminal justice involvement, but also to control the narrative, how such people with … Continue reading →

Posted in crime, Education, Justice Chronicles, Revolution, Slavery | Tagged criminal justice language, Denmark Vesey, Eddie Ellis, French Revolution, Gabriel Prosser, Haitian Revolution, hyper incarceration, Mass Incarceration, Nat Turner, Slavery, The WIllie Lynch Letter: The Making of a Slave, Willie Lynch, Willie Lynch Letter | 3 Comments

Words Matter: Another Look at the Question of Language, by Eddie Ellis, President, Center for NuLeadership on Urban Solutions

Posted on December 17, 2017 by William Eric Waters, aka Easy Waters

We need to be constantly reminded about this language: Words matter. They shape perceptions and understanding, both of past and present events and of future possibilities and, therefore, future events. Semantic and public acceptance of terms like “formerly incarcerated” or … Continue reading →

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