Rampant police brutality against United States citizens of color

Agony, grief and particularly anger

roil these lovely bones

life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness

exempts those graced with darker skin tones.

Rather than raucously riot,

I craft emotions courtesy poetry

mine feeble attempt to agitate and protest

sublimated thru scathing poetic indictment

lame contrasted against violent protests.

Peaceable methodology,

(viz printed word) versus war

preferable mode to conflict resolution

opposed to explosive uproar

angry frenzied mob scenes as seen online, or

alternate mass communication medium

valiantly, yet vanely attempt to even out score.

Tipping point evincing breached injustices,

(whereby persons sporting greater melanin)

triggered spontaneous outbursts

(bedlam witnessed while safely sequestered

within Highland Manor apartment

unit B44 May 31st, 2020).

Innocent lives, particularly
those who proudly identify themselves

purportedly black targeted merely because

genetics crafted them darker hued skin

unwittingly and unfairly

site them in crosshairs

where strong arm of the law

indiscriminately takes their life.

Despite genetics bequeathing me Caucasian

(predominantly Eastern European - Semitic features)

with one percent Neanderthal man

thrown in for good measure),

yours truly dispirited,
dismantled, and disgruntled

née disenchanted linkedin
with Homo sapiens.

Neither railing nor ranting
can alleviate injustice

visited upon heads and torsos of innocent

Americans, whose genealogy traced to

Africa, Australia, Haiti, Melanesia, Papua

New Guinea and South Asia.

Because they and/or forebears

hailed from areas with highest ultraviolet
radiation in the world,

subsequent generations automatically

serve as fodder stigmatized cradle to grave.

Prejudice, inferiority and abuse

maligned, hashtagged, and dogged

heels of peoples uprooted peoples

south of the equator, or elsewhere

whose epidermis strongly hinted

fifty plus shades of ebony.

They found themselves in debasement

within complex edifice housing

facade of equality

ofttimes receiving punishment

their sole supposed crime

accentuated, heightened, perpetrated

courtesy born swarthy complexion

even if prominent features

(think European) quite apparent.

Two hundred and thirty three months

into twenty first century

bias toward slave descendants

wracks western civilization in general,

and United States of America in particular

i.e. land of the free and the home of the brave

keynote doth ardently heard far and wide,

yet many nth generations removed
since slavery abolished

still remain shackled, especially

when men/women in blue

subject random person of color

to physical assault

frequently culminating with death

of falsely accused

whereby police person acquitted.

Day after day, week after week,
month after month... brutish and nasty

thuggish haughty uniformed cops

create deadly merciless altercations

begetting livid rage among populations

anonymous brethren beaten, shot, strangled...

ensuing hatred particularly endemic

within lower income poorer neighborhoods

where bedlam runs amok!