A one day suspension seemed about
right.
Trayvon just smelled of the
stuff.
Half the teachers won’t go into
the john.
Enough said.
He might have been guilty of
rape, burglary,
Drug running, auto theft and
masturbation.
He might have been a good kid.
He is dead because he is black.
Can we hold the thought and
deal?
Have we reached the point where
economics,
The result of a flattening
world is the next best hope;
Where a better idea will
preclude a racial statement?
If so, the irony will be
perfect.
From the “Invisible Man” that we
refuse to see
To the invisible man hidden
behind the algorithm,
Too clever to be ignored.
What of the ideology that
encourages
Confrontation over negotiation,
That prefers “Stand Your
Ground”
To a considered response?
Must we wait for evolutions answer,
Knowing that change does not
denote enlightenment,
And that imprisoning the “other”
for his skin-tone
Makes us keepers of slaves, and
slaves to fiction.
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