Rampant and endemic police brutality...

rew4er2nail

flourishes against United States citizens of color

going on three years

post George Floyd

short lived heightened awareness

when #blacklivesmatter

in conjunction with 1619 project

wrought upwelling of progressive surge

hinting at positive transformations.

 

Despite random throw of dice
proffering gifting, blessing, et cetera

yours truly as Caucasian

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.

 

Almost two hundred and sixty five 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!

 

  • Author: rew4er2nail (Offline Offline)
  • Published: January 26th, 2023 16:15
  • Category: Sociopolitical
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  • L. B. Mek

    'Rather than raucously riot,
    I craft emotions courtesy poetry
    mine feeble attempt to agitate and protest
    sublimated thru scathing poetic indictment'
    no dear cherished Poet, there is nothing lame
    in these words, you gift the world
    this is enough
    we need not all bleed, to affect change
    wisdom and insight disseminated
    within our society
    for generations to heed
    can move more boundaries
    and open more closed minds
    than any act
    of violence inducing, prostration or marching...
    those days
    of Thoreau heralded
    and MLK, adopted
    'civil disobedience'
    are quickly becoming as forgotten
    as the rest of history's, legacy
    for heuristic methods of evolving..
    modernity, instead
    increases societal bottlenecks
    of repressed tensions
    then lets them spark
    (in to shop window broken glass
    and the looting
    of the very neighbourhoods
    being marginalised and neglected)
    and then, all that self-righteous
    unthinking fury, as energy
    simply dissipates, with futility
    once in a while, with a timely
    news break or two
    with imagery and words, angled just right to insure
    such an impotent reactionary
    blind zeal, to take hold
    of embattled minds..
    then
    its, pseudo social movements
    with tax exempt charity status
    and clickbait branding hats n shirts
    to fraudulently steal millions
    from wannabe, money pledging
    reactionary
    @ # trending fashionably topical
    feigning empathisers..
    to shovel out of sight
    centuries of complex
    and regurgitated, subjugation tactics
    far away, beneath
    their pristine Persian carpets
    out of sight
    till those volcanoes of strife, once more
    threaten to their way of life
    and
    its back to the old, tried n tested
    methods of appeasement
    distractions and evermore feigned
    insidiously, subtle
    subjugating, systemic tactics
    (no dear Poet
    were we to live in a time
    when words could be heard
    your sincere words, would have achieved
    far more
    than any modern day fruitless
    march of anarchy and riot...)
    you should be Proud
    and humbly, I thank you!
    for daring, for caring, for sharing
    permit me to name you brethren
    in this endless fight
    for humanity, to not lose
    all its ambitions, of humane
    oneness
    and genuinely empathetic togetherness...



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