Paul and Lidia Marino
Paul and Lydia Marino were ambushed.
While paying respects to their son.
Even a place of final rest isn't safe anymore.
The killer was BLACK; the elderly couple were WHITE.
That's why it moved at the speed of light...
to the back of the news breadline.
BLACK on WHITE crime doesn't sell well,
Ratings won't pop as it does for a poor BLACK man
Paul and Lidia couldn't breathe either.
Where is the outrage?
Where are the civil rights activists?
Where are those two rabid reverends?
Why do we not ever call BLACK-on-WHITE crime
a hate crime?
Nobody is taking banners to the streets
for Paul and Lidia.
Nobody is breathing for them.
Somebody must breathe for them.
Toss kindling atop this stack of complacency.
Rest in peace, Paul and Lidia Marino.
Killed by a Black racist in a veterans' cemetery.
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