Who Protects the Forgotten

This week on Da Urban Conservative Presents: Disenfranchised Voter, we pull back the curtain on a system that’s got more cracks than concrete in the projects. We talk about justice, or better yet, the lack of it — the kind that don’t make the news for long but should make your blood boil and your soul stand up. Because these stories? They ain’t just headlines. They’re proof of a deeper sickness.

Let’s start with Rush City Prison — where the Minnesota Department of Corrections says an inmate’s death is now being investigated as a possible homicide. A man dies inside state custody, and all we get is a press release. No name. No details. Just another body behind the wall. You ever notice how when someone dies in the system, the first thing they say is “we’re investigating”? It’s the state investigating the state — fox watching the henhouse. We’ve seen this movie too many times: “inmate found unresponsive,” “no foul play suspected,” then months later it’s quiet.

See, this ain’t about being “tough on crime.” It’s about being honest about accountability. Because if the state can’t protect the people it’s holding, what makes you think they care about protecting you? If a man can be killed under state supervision, then that’s not just his death — that’s the system’s failure.

Then we got the story out of St. Paul — the 22-year-old man who posed as a high school student in White Bear Lake. That story alone had folks talking, right? But before the memes stopped trending, he got jumped. Beaten. Assaulted. People laughed, shared the video, joked like it was content — but nobody asked how a 22-year-old man even got enrolled in a Minnesota high school in the first place. Nobody asked how a man so lost in the system thought pretending to be a student was his only way forward.

That’s what happens when a generation grows up with no trust in institutions. When young men stop seeing a path to redemption, they start improvising survival. It’s not excusing it — it’s understanding it. Because behind every wild headline, there’s a deeper story about policy, poverty, and pain. And the system don’t fix broken people — it just processes them.

And then there’s Kingsley Bimpong.

A postal worker. A Black man. Died after police mistook a stroke for drug impairment. Let that sit with you. The man was suffering, his body shutting down — but instead of getting help, they cuffed him, booked him, and threw him in a cell. Guards watched him suffer for hours. Didn’t help. Didn’t care. Because in their eyes, he wasn’t a human in medical distress — he was a suspect.

Kingsley was a public servant. A man who wore the uniform, delivered mail, served his community — and the system still looked at him and saw “threat.” That’s the America a lot of us know too well. Where the badge can’t tell the difference between a medical emergency and a stereotype. Where being Black and in distress means you don’t get paramedics — you get patrol cars.

And that’s why Disenfranchised Voter ain’t just about ballots or elections. It’s about the everyday disenfranchisement of people who can’t even trust the systems meant to protect them. It’s about the man in the cell, the man in the street, the man in the uniform — all facing the same truth: this system don’t see us as worth saving until it’s too late.

We’re told to “vote like our lives depend on it.”

But what happens when your life does depend on it — and the people you voted for stay silent? When the policies they write don’t reach the prisons, the precincts, or the hospital holding cells?

This is what “law and order” looks like when justice is selective. When accountability is optional. When the system values image over integrity.

So yeah, Da Urban Conservative gon’ keep talking about it. Because the real conservatives — the ones who believe in responsibility, family, faith, and community — we can’t be quiet when the state keeps failing the people.

Justice shouldn’t depend on your zip code, your skin tone, or your status.

Accountability shouldn’t stop at the badge or behind the prison wall.

This is more than politics.

This is the fight for humanity.

Because when the state stops protecting its citizens — it’s the citizens who must remind the state what justice really looks like.

🎧 Tune in to “Da Urban Conservative Presents: Disenfranchised Voter — Who Protects the Forgotten?”