Sham(e) full travesty regarding fourth of July celebration

rew4er2nail

American independence day

linkedin severance from English crown

Continental Congress representatives

parlayed courtesy thirteen original colonies

yielding Declaration of Independence

immediately rendered null and void

established vassalage courtesy British rule.

 

Fast forward two hundred and forty six years

Indigenous nations, people of color,

and so called illegal immigrants still yoked

to the whims of White Anglo Saxon Protestant,
(albeit patriarchal paradigm)

imposing invisible shackles to deny
purportedly inalienable rights
of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.

 

Before figurative birth of this nation

vested gentry men (namely wealthy landowners)

unwittingly decreed unknown mockery,

when countless generations after Founding Fathers

expedited dissolution with English monarchy

as inherited freedom(s) affect descendents

of former slaves and their harsh task masters.

 

Enlightenment experienced within

western civilization in general

and United States in particular

witnessed manifestation

of supposed inherent equality,

whereby oppressed peoples

forced into human bondage

at emotional, physical and spiritual cost
being yanked from African brethren.

 

Emancipation Proclamation helped spur

realization of vast souls cruelly abused

and held chained by Jim Crow laws

to claim ownership of sacred promises

vouchsafed within the document

crafted by Thomas Jefferson.

 

No occasion prevailed to celebrate

abilities afforded sons and daughters

of those whose privileges denied

despite codified words

etched for all eternity of those born

within contiguous United States

plus Alaska natives,

whose former self sufficient lifestyle

before encroachment of exploiters

subsequently severely crimped and crippled

which group of people

once collectively known

and referred to as "Eskimo"

rent asunder their webbed wide world.

 

Even at present time when yours truly

valiantly tries to encapsulate

disheartening abuses exacted

upon the heads of those
soberly awakened to being

subordinated, manhandled, conscripted...

into lowest rung on hierarchical

free enterprise paradigm

 

simply because self decreed

so called white privilege

(sofa as I know couched

as critical race theory -
yet mere writing such loosely

suggestive notion could find

hounds of hell unleashed

upon me scrawny tushy).

 

Contrary ranting, scathing,

tearing at the very meat of the matter

viz that U.S. social institutions

(e.g., the criminal justice system,

education system, labor market,

housing market, and healthcare system)

are laced with racism

embedded in laws, regulations,

rules, and procedures

 

that lead to differential outcomes by race

sorely contested by
diametrically opposed polemics

to aforementioned taboo idea

undermining healthy discussion

and allow, enable, and provide

a more thorough manumission

to be realized, cuz

not everybody experiences equality.

 

  • Author: rew4er2nail (Offline Offline)
  • Published: July 3rd, 2022 12:23
  • Category: Sociopolitical
  • Views: 10
  • User favorite of this poem: L. B. Mek.
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Comments1

  • L. B. Mek

    'imposing invisible shackles to deny
    purportedly inalienable rights
    of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.'



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