A Bad Day...

 

People view a makeshift memorial to several people - most of whom were of Asian descent - at a massage parlor on Friday, March 19, 2021, in Atlanta, Georgia, the United States [Candice Choi/AP Photo] Al Jazeera

© March 18, 2021, the Griot Poet

 

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” Bishop Desmond Tutu

 

Robert Aaron Long, 21, had a “bad day.”

At least that’s what the Atlanta Captain Jay Baker said,

Who on social media called the pandemic a racist epithet,

And tried to sell merch on it,

Tried to humanize a murderous miscreant,

At the press conference after a three massage parlor shooting spree,

Leaving eight women dead,

Six of the victims of Asian descent,

 

He blamed it on a “sex addiction,”

The workers were his temptation,

A product of his Neanderthal Christian upbringing,

That stifled normal development and healthy sexual expression,

A new version of the excuse: “the devil made me do it,”

Over a two-county rampage,

 

He said it wasn’t “racially-motivated.”

Yet, he missed all the blue-eyes, blonde-haired, voluptuous vixens,

At majority attended strip clubs in the ATL metroplex,

It wasn’t “racially-motivated,”

But, Mr. Long missed all that,

 

Bill O’Reilly

On one of his Fox Propaganda shticks,

Threw out the missive,

“Tiller, the baby killer,”

Until Dr. George Tiller,

Legal provider of medical services,

Was gunned down by Scott Roeder,

An insane anti-abortion terrorist,

While Dr. Tiller acted as a servant

Usher in his church,

 

Sarah Palin’s

“Don’t retreat: RELOAD!”

Comment,

With gunsights on her website,

Inspired Jared Lee Loughner,

To do JUST that,

Maiming Congresswoman Gabby Giffords,

Killing six people,

Including nine-year-old Christina-Taylor Green,

On her ninth and last birthday,

 

The Russian puppet,

Since he couldn’t admit his misstep,

And bungled handling of the Coronavirus,

South Korea took our plan: “Pandemics for Dummies,” and implemented it,

More countries are back to some normalcy,

Before they administer vaccines,

 

The failed Putin puppet,

Decided to go full-on racist,

Using an epithet,

To reframe the virus,

On its origin place:

All zoonotic diseases

So far, it occurs on the same planet,

We all happen to inhabit,

Putting a target on our fellow earthlings’ backs,

There’s been a 150% increase in violent attacks on Asians,

Almost 3,800 reported,

Against citizens and immigrants,

That had NOTHING to do with this pandemic.

 

If you think you’re in a particular class,

Please don’t act with smugness, and show your ass,

Fascism has fungible soft targets,

Ask “First they came” author,

German Lutheran Pastor Martin Niemöller what I meant,”*

It just hasn’t happened in your neck of the woods yet!

 

Michael Cohen said to Congress,

He talks like a mob boss: in code,

He makes suggestions,

And, like the confident head of a personality cult,

He knows he has followers who will carry it out,

 

I’m guessing I know who Long voted for,

Did you ping his phone IP

At the January 6 act of treason?

We’re going from insurrection to insurgency,

Hitting soft targets,

Is the playbook of terrorists,

Not patriots, Ron Johnson!

 

Ask the senator

Where he was

July 4, 2018:

He was in Moscow,

With seven others,

Receiving instructions,

Directly from Vladimir Putin,

Before the 2018 midterms,

Despite this,

The “gang of Putin” was defeated,

Making all the changes, we’ve seen possible,

Not only is Portman an idiot for his continents,

He’s known for spouting Russian propaganda,

In the senate chamber,

Quoting Brian Williams of The Eleventh Hour:

“Translated from the original Russian,”

 

The Republican National Committee

For the first time in its history,

Scrubbed strong opposition to Russia,

From its platform in 2016,

 

The Republican National Committee

For another first in its history,

HAD no platform in 2020,

Except for fealty to a demagogue,

A mirror image of Moscow,

Showing its middle finger to democracy,

Wanting power not because they have great ideas:

But power for its own sake,

Incels like Long,

Loathe themselves,

Not once thinking

The reason their date calendar

Is empty, and forlorn,

It MIGHT just be them,

And their bizarre behavior around women,

It is not just a hate crime because many of the victims are Asian,

It’s a hate crime BECAUSE they’re women,

 

Robert Aaron Long, 21, had a “bad day.”

At least that’s what the Atlanta Captain Jay Baker said,

Who on social media called the pandemic a racist epithet,

And tried to sell merch on it,

Tried to humanize a murderous miscreant,

At the press conference after a three massage parlor shooting spree,

Leaving eight women dead,

Six of the victims of Asian descent,

 

But: no one’s asked up to this tragedy, how the women’s days went!

 

* First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—

     Because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—

     Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—

     Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

 

Martin Niemöller was a German Lutheran pastor and theologian born in Lippstadt, Germany, in 1892. Niemöller was an anti-Communist and supported Adolf Hitler’s rise to power. But when, after he came to power, Hitler insisted on the supremacy of the state over religion, Niemöller became disillusioned. He became the leader of a group of German clergymen opposed to Hitler. In 1937 he was arrested and eventually confined in Sachsenhausen and Dachau. He was released in 1945 by the Allies. He continued his career in Germany as a clergyman and as a leading voice of penance and reconciliation for the German people after World War II. Wikipedia