 |
| Image source: Facebook meme. |
Misdirection…
© August 27, 2025,
the Griot Poet
August 28: 70
years after the lynching of Emmitt Till by southern terrorists, who were
acquitted by an all-white jury.
Also, 62 years
after the March on Washington, a protest for Till’s lynching, the intro to “I
Have a Dream.”
August 23, 2005:
Hurricane Katrina formed in the Atlantic. By the 30th, we were
aghast that income disparity was in the fabric of our republic. 20 years later:
“One nation,
under gun.”
Where are all the
2nd Amendment bros now that we HAVE a tyrannical government?
“Jackbooted
thugs,”
Cosplaying like
masked ninjas,
Spiriting away
people in unmarked cars to hell holes in El Salvador,
I thought masks
were “tyranny” during the pandemic?
“1984,”
“Fahrenheit
451,”
“Animal Farm,”
“Brave New
World,”
“The Handmaid’s
Tale,”
“Parable of the
Sower,”
“Parable of the
Talents,”
They were intended
to serve as warnings.
They were not
meant to be “how-to” manuals!
This is
misdirection.
He doesn’t want to
release the Epstein files.
He’s going to
pardon Ghislaine Maxwell, a pedophile.
“Robin
Westman’s leftover writings and videos laid out a hate-fueled plan: he idolized
Adam Lanza, covered his weapons with slurs and phrases such as “6 million
wasn’t enough,” “Israel must fall,” “Kill Donald Trump,” and “Free Palestine!”
and the names of previous killers on his guns.”
Two children, ages
8 and 10, are dead.
17 injured, 19
families affected.
The usual
reflexive “thoughts and prayers” were sent,
By the 34-count
convicted felon,
This latest
massacre happened in a Catholic School where “thoughts and prayers” were
already being uttered by children.
That’s the only
thing you’re going to get out of “Texas Ted,” and the John Wayne cosplay wing,
(See Chuck D and
FLAVA FLAV for Public Enemy’s biting commentary)
The Senate used to
be the world’s “most deliberative body,”
Debating laws and
writing policies,
Now, it’s the
chamber of bought prostitutes and podcasters,
Where Ted and his
spineless compadre of feckless senators,
Get their blood money
from “Citizens United.”
A “Christian
nation,”
Would actually
follow the tenets of Jesus,
And his
predecessor, John the Baptist,
Clothed in animal
skins, eating grasshoppers and honey,
Yelling at the top
of his lungs for his nation, Israel, to “repent!”
(As in Gaza)
We like to say
that slavery was this nation’s “original sin.”
Without evidence
that we repented from it.
Repentance
involves “the action or process of repenting, especially for misdeeds and
moral shortcomings.”
And recompense: “making
amends to someone for loss or harm suffered; compensate.”
That sounds a lot
like reparations.
Maybe if America
actually repented of its “original sin.”
We wouldn’t be
mourning another gun massacre at a church school in Minneapolis, Minnesota,
called “Ascension.”
He’s deployed the
National Guard in Los Angeles, DC, and soon Chicago, New York, and Baltimore,
Maryland.
Instead of
Maryfield, Tennessee, home of Smith and Wesson.
Whose stocks went
UP the day afterwards.
Or the
headquarters of the National Rifle Association in Fairfax, Virginia.
The US is the only
comparable Western nation with the highest number of people murdered by
firearms by its own citizens.
Keeping this
original sin in the political closet has only led to its metaphorical
metastasis.
The founding
psychopaths were monsters with British accents,
Who engaged in
genocide, rape, and human trafficking.
Who didn’t want to
pay their taxes,
Writing a property
document ensuring its posterity would be wealthier than Midas in perpetuity.
They didn’t just
START hiding the depravity of our history,
This propaganda
has been propagated as “Social Studies.”
History by
“whitewashed sepulchers,”
The same who Jesus
turned tables over for,
Our ancestor,
James Baldwin, said:
“I love America
more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist
on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
“American
exceptionalism” never lets you repent of your “original” or any sin.
It gives you
plausible deniability and perpetual “innocence.”
A nation cannot
claim to be Christian without repentance.
A religion of white
supremacy is state-sanctioned violence.
America is like
Sisyphus,
Pushing a boulder
to a singular avalanche,
More rocks are
starting to fall down the slant.
Lying to ourselves
and misdirecting, “innocence,” causing our obliteration:
“It is no
longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it is a choice
between nonviolence and nonexistence.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., March 31,
1968, four days before his assassination in Memphis, Tennessee.
Repent!
No comments:
Post a Comment