Monday, October 26, 2020

indefensible

If the only people voting were white men

The most racist politicians would always get in

So they make laws and use deceptions to that end 

Designed to suppress the vote of everyone else 


With a government created by them of them for them

This is white male minority rule and always has been

In this country where all dollars are created equal 

And corporations have full legal rights as people 


The advances won in the struggle too soon subverted

Like the racist stars and bars flag taken down quickly replaced 

With that sinister blue stripe flag supporting police brutality 

Defending criminal cops and systemic racism 


I see them parading in their oversize pickup trucks

Pushing up close behind to intimidate other cars 

Weaving around in traffic spewing diesel fumes

Reveling in their white male antisocial privilege


As a white man myself the cops rarely bother me

Though anyone could be charged with some infraction 

I don't fit the profile of who gets harassed and hassled 

Which no one should if we abolish the police 


In these times of mass incarceration of people of color 

Under a constitution that allows slavery in prisons

With police functioning as modern day slave catchers 

To supply the labor to the prison industrial complex 


Getting rid of them and the courts and laws and judges

Means replacing all of it with a true justice system 

That gives everyone the opportunity to live a good life 

Though it will be awhile before all people come around 

Sunday, October 25, 2020

Townsend Trail October 25, 2020

 

Saturday, October 24, 2020

Skylands October 24, 2020

 

Friday, October 23, 2020

McFaul October 23, 2020