Black and White Views

black and white views In this era Of extreme polarization We have lost our sense Of humanity Seeing the same event A black man walks to his car Confronted by five cops Guns drawn He tries to get in his car To check on his three children As he is pulled out of his car He was tazer then shot Seven times in the back At close range While his three young children Sit in the car Look on terrified As they see their dad Shot by the police Many whites think Well he must have done something To deserve this Fate On that date Perhaps he had a criminal record Had a knife or gun Talked back to the police Perhaps used curse words Perhaps not showing proper respect To law enforcement Which should be a crime After all And it does not concern me I don’t care About this at all Not my problem Will not ever Happen to me But in any event People will hit the streets Protesting yet again Why can’t they just shut up And leave it be It is what it is Black people brown people Think of course He was shot dead Shot seven times His crime Being a black man In Trump’s America A white person would not have been shot Would have been treated with respect But he is just another In a long line of people Shot by the police Many of them Turned into ghosts Because black lives Do not matter at all The truth is lost In the shuffle The facts are clear The police over-reacted Using deadly force As a first response Not as a last resort After talking to him Trying to calm things down If that did not work tazing him Should have been the end Of the confrontation If he was indeed A violent criminal But he was a black man That is all the cops saw Black lives still do not matter They have never matter Will this change anytime soon I doubt it As longer as old white men Are in charge of our society And black and brown lives Do not matter at all It is what it is