Juneteenth
I remember reading
the statue of liberty
was first a slave breaking free of chains.
The horrible Irony to an anti-racist
comes right back as I think of this,
the dread of the racism our friends are effected by all the time
The blacks expect it and the whites think it does not exist.
The old white guy's society
changed the statue,
decided to make history their myth,
throwing out the facts;
The Woman Slave went from being
dragged from their homes and enslaved
then becoming free..
Into an Icon of welcoming immigrants.
who were not arriving chained in the bottom of a boat.
Did the white supremist
see the evil Irony?
I will not blame victims
of a system that has built in hurdles in their rat race.
Like the white guys who cannot understand
why a lot of black guys are out of work.
Never put two and two together or haven't seen enough
whatever
the Institution of Racism seems 150 years ago
when this country had slaves.
I do not argue with them anymore
they are too ignorant of too much
if they are racist, Islamophobic, filled with hate.
White guys who did not get checked for weed all the time
like the blacks
who filled the prisons,
lost the ability to vote.
Became cheap state labor.
Diminished expectations destroying genius's
Now that weed is legal
all those years in prison?
Wasted lives, the singer sings.