Jill couldn't stop thinking about the blacks
she was just so hot and red so mad
But she could never forget the feedback
That morning, Jill was shocked by the sack
She had to calm herself with a tread
Jill couldn't stop thinking about the acts
Those acts of violence against her African-American friends
Later, Jill was spooked by a plaque
She tried to focus on the sacks (over their heads)
But she could never forget the feedback
Boxes filled with rags
Marching wit flags, White supremacist
Jill took action like a crack
The black was like a toxic head
But she could never forget the feedback
tried to distract her with a packs
Said her mind had become too overhead
Jill nosedived like a bad stack
Her mind became dangerously dread
By those people colored medium dark brown
Jill couldn't stop thinking about the blacks
But she could never forget the feedback
Why? Her father was a southern governmental segregationist
12/16/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2021©
Categories:
segregationist, analogy, anxiety, discrimination, hate,
Form: Villanelle
Do not the ones who preach diversity create the same conundrum as the ones who preach segregation?
To whom must I defer to define what or how society should look like or be organized as?
What are the standards by which diversity is to be judged and who are the arbiters of the standards?
Is my diversity allowed to differ from yours?
How do diversity mandates differ fundamentally at the core than segregation mandates?
All laws or constructs that force the individual citizen or corporate citizen to comply with edicts restricting choice of human association are an anathema to freedom!
Freedom being the ideal to strive for, diversity being a natural biproduct of freedom.
All men secretly yearn to be free, but many are willing to abdicate the freedoms of their fellow man in order to lord power over them.
Power to control others the true aim of both the segregationist and the diversity devotees.
Both being willing to use government power to control their fellow citizens right to free association.
It is by definition a Godly Patriot who will stand up and fight for their fellow man’s freedom!
Categories:
segregationist, america, courage, history, humanity,
Form: Free verse
a knee, a neck, a symbol, a tool
the segregationist would be proud
fighting to breathe is a fight where
Vegas is covering all odds
let's lay our money and him down
the spittle, the pool on the ground
does not need to be explained, cleaned or vilified
this is America dammit where change
is not always the objective
where the unwritten far outweighs
the written rule of law
families bleed albeit slowly
that merciful hemorrhage
some swear isn't normal
let's riot shall we
let's set ablaze the constitution
that Letter from a Birmingham Jail
our Holy Bible
Categories:
segregationist, america,
Form: Free verse