You Have To Be Carefully Taught
"You have to be taught to learn how to hate before you are five, six, seven or
Eight. To hate all the people your relatives hate, you have to be carefully taught in your dear little head...." South Pacific song. ***
The word is all out in the city streets.
To reform society you have to learn
To hate the police. The police target
And profile people of color. And
Practice racism!
What is the solution? Defund the
Police by 50% and give certain jobs
Over to civilians and mental health
Professionals. Take their money
And put it into community housing
And community projects.
The police department of Toronto
Canada went on strike the year
I turned 15! What happened?
An increase in violence and crime!
Toronto passed a law right away
Forbidding their police departments
The rights to strike!
I lived in a housing project in their
Shoreline school district Ballinger
Homes housing Project. My
Life and my family's was in
Constant double jeopardy!
They made us an offer we
Couldn't refuse. "We said go
To hell we will blow your brains
Out! "You will wish to God you
Were dead!" They replied.
We did not want to become drug
Addicts and prostitutes!"
I am not against more affordable
Housing. I l myself am on
Section 8! I just am telling
You these people tried to
Kill my family with rocks!
We need the police department!!!
We need to all get together right
Now. We need both justice and
peace!
Love as always,
Roxanne Lea Dubarry
Roxy Lea 1954
Roxy 1954/ October Country
July, 23, 2020
Copyright © Roxanne Dubarry | Year Posted 2020
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