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If Thirteen Gets you Forty, Take the Bet! - Sonnet Thirty-Nine
If thirteen gets you forty, take the bet!
‘Cause in this case, it’s damn-near a sure thing!
For centuries in deed these odds were set,
Though you will scream, “liberal posturing!
When “de facto” and “de jure” meet as one,
Oh wait, just let me dumb that down for you,
It means that both the facts and laws are spun
To make a crime of being the wrong hue.
I hear your hate in hater’s screams resist,
I would say that you can’t deny the facts,
But that’s precisely why the “crime” persists,
Because white screams its ignorant attacks.
So riddle me: with legal weed's advent,
How will you keep up your four-oh percent.
‘Cause in this case, it’s damn-near a sure thing!
For centuries in deed these odds were set,
Though you will scream, “liberal posturing!
When “de facto” and “de jure” meet as one,
Oh wait, just let me dumb that down for you,
It means that both the facts and laws are spun
To make a crime of being the wrong hue.
I hear your hate in hater’s screams resist,
I would say that you can’t deny the facts,
But that’s precisely why the “crime” persists,
Because white screams its ignorant attacks.
So riddle me: with legal weed's advent,
How will you keep up your four-oh percent.
Published 8th Jun 2019
Author's Note
African Americans constitute 13% of the population... except in prison where they constitute 40% of the population. You see how the odds have been set.
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8th Jun 2019 6:35pm
thats 4 %
by anscestry.com testing my dad at 8%
now that could be less. i dont know.
loving someone has nothing to do with crime.
by anscestry.com testing my dad at 8%
now that could be less. i dont know.
loving someone has nothing to do with crime.
8th Jun 2019 8:19pm
“de facto” and “de jure"
How these two terms have crept into the English language makes me suspicious. Especially the former, de facto. Not to long ago, I headed up a committee to rewrite the corporate constitution and bylaws for a non profit. I insisted they omit the term 'de facto.'. Such a suspicious clandestine term.
I digress. What a courageous write. We need more thought provocative social commentary poetry just like this.
How these two terms have crept into the English language makes me suspicious. Especially the former, de facto. Not to long ago, I headed up a committee to rewrite the corporate constitution and bylaws for a non profit. I insisted they omit the term 'de facto.'. Such a suspicious clandestine term.
I digress. What a courageous write. We need more thought provocative social commentary poetry just like this.
9th Jun 2019 2:36pm
9th Jun 2019 9:05pm
