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Did Their Lives Matter, Part I

You see all of these protesters out chanting and screeching on the TV, convinced that we’ll solve all our problems Ii we just get rid of the police. They claim that they’re targeting people merely of the color of their skin, though by the per capita numbers whites and Latinos tak it one the chin. But they keep screaming about privilege in a strangely religious fervor, and use it as a helpful excuse to release all their pent-up anger. But when it comes to dark-skinned people, whose interests they claim to pursue, they all proclaim that ‘Black Lives Matter,’ but they sure don’t’ act as if they do. First let’s look at all the businesses that the rioters torched and destroyed, they were mostly in inner cities, so the end result we can’t avoid is that the people they claim to help were the same people who worked those stores, which means countless folks with much melanin won’t have productive jobs anymore. Their own siblings, mothers, and fathers bow have no method to bring in cash. Basically, their lives have been ruined, I wonder did they care about that? Did looters realize that their actions would make their communities much worse? they all proclaim that ‘Black Lives Matter’ …except for those they put out of work. And then there is the late David Dorn, a dark-skinned grandfather, former cop, who saw the evil burning his town and went outside to protect the block, hoping to provide security for the pawn business of a good friend. For wanting to protect his hard work vile looters brought him to his end. But strangely you do not hear his tale when you watched the evening news at night, the rioters get interference but a good man’s death is not in sight. Not one of these damn ideologues care that a hero’s life now is done, I guess that black life didn’t matter, since his narrative was the ‘wrong’ one... CONCLUDES IN PART II.

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Date: 6/28/2020 4:45:00 PM
Your writing, recently posted, receives numerous reads. Inescapable current truths, few comments. Select protesters have dramatically demoted themselves. Poem puts what's painful on a plate.
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