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My name is Charles Karim Diggs. I'm at Graterford prison in Pennsylvania. And the name of my, uh, essay is "America Addicted to Trauma, Cncompromising Violence, and Abuse." In 1968, and before a pattern of police killings of African-American people, in the South and in all parts of the nation created a collective justified resistance. CSPAN today, 9/4/18, had a celebration of 1968. Kathleen Cleaver, the wife of Eldridge Cleaver, leader of the Black Panther movement, was a guest on the show and another law professor from Texas University. And they were answering some of the questions the callers came in. The heart of the show was the overview of what the 1968 movement and how Dr. King and others played their part in the struggle for injustice and equality in this country. The 50-year review shows the nation remained sick with an intrinsic passion for oppression and violence against people of color and poor people. The civil rights movement, the Black Panthers, and other college movements, as well as the war mo