[ BLM ] #BlackLivesMassacred

          
Yes, it happened            
           
here in the United States          
a mere 100 years ago            
yet the bulk of Americans          
are just now learning about it          
           
Oklahoma          
           
Tulsa          
           
Greenwood          
           
---up to 300 Black lives            
and billions in wealth          
by todays standards---          
an entire neighborhood          
erased by jealous people          
bent on creating a world            
where only Whites prosper[ed];          
           
this dark chapter of our often          
fairy-taled storybooked nation            
about supposedly created equal men      
wasn't overlooked, but was instead          
systematically scribed indelibly          
with invisible inking          
           
More than ever these days    
it seems easier for ego    
to accept whatever appeals most          
while rejecting the rest        
as if those events never were        
       
or simply revise the Past            
with malwared content            
           
No, the Democrats of 2021          
are not of the slave-owning          
Democratic party of 1863          
no matter how many times            
you imbecilically repeat history          
with conflations engineered        
impurely for modern political gains          
           
Ignorance is forgivable          
           
but blatant disregard            
for what factually occurred          
is evil, a breed of stupidity          
not to be tolerated regardless          
of when or where          
           
And over there            
over there, my father served          
more than his country        
in a world war fought to put a halt        
to similar strains of virulant      
thinking-disease          
           
Yet here we are, here we are        
on another world wide stage;        
the conflict is still ongoing      
fraught with omissions  
and inaccuracies       
           
Regardless of when or where          
power is in the knowing          
that memory remains          
and Truth will be heard:          
           
#BlackLivesMassacred