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Upset

mr. buffet can’t believe that so much “inequality exists without people really getting upset” & as he & some of his richest friends in the world start to give up some of their moola to cause that they see fit, the fact remains that enough are not upset--- it is time to get upset it is time to get in the streets it is time to do more than occupy it is time to refuse to settle for the crumbs it is time to get more than upset it is time to get this empire to squeeze more than blood from the stone it is time to stop ignoring people who are sick of being ignored it is time to listen to ALL the voices being screamed at night time & in the day it is time to indict those who run the empire it is time to squeeze the rich dry of what they have gained from stepping on the rest of us it is time to stop pretending that putting bandages & ointments on our wounds is going to heal the gashes inflicted by the history of classism, racism, ethnocentrism, sexism, homophobia & flat out violence to those who may seem a bit different than the rest of the abiding, ridiculous, flock, baaaaaaaaa-ing the whole time whilst breaking their backs for the banks of others it is time to put an end to all that has been unsettling the majority it is time to put an end to all that has been oppressing the majority it is time to break down the walls built in front of those just trying to survive, smothered in the belly of the most threatening empire on the planet, who wields the club upon the domestic population as well as the international--- it is time & you know it, to be more than upset.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2012




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