Wednesday, August 13, 2014

It Took Us Over One Hundred Years

We were lynched daily in this country practically from the day slavery, ended until
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. got President Kennedy and his Attorney General Robert Kennedy to
begin slowing it down.
In those days, people didn't attempt pretend those killings were lawful.They tried to stay out of court.
These days, people who thirst for the blood of the young black male fail even to evade trials. Are they
earning new kinds of badges.
Will it take us another one hundred years to get street killers who are justifying their murderous crimes off our backs?
Meanwhile, do we consent to quietly get picked off one by one?
And how many can we lose who aren't already compromised by drugs, alcohol, and prison before the
numbers of the remainder of us become absolutely insignificant.

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