No more can you compensate a deprived
people from their bereavement of hundreds
of years of enslavement, deprivation and
discrimination than will nature reverse the
endowments she has gifted to humanity
of traits and emotions both useful to their
possessors and of harm to others but through
the deliberate and painstaking reversal of
institutionalized denials of human rights to
restore both civilizational merits and dignity
of the person with calm intent. In the process
unleashing the poignancy of victim-pain finally
recognized, culminating in blind resentment
and blame, for once the admission of fault and
the intention to repent are clear, vulnerability
looms near. So was born Black Lives Matter, a
declaration both defiant and pleading yet one
that has been transformed into a raging clarion
of recrimination turning the fury of the wronged
into an inchoate mob intent on tweaking guilt
and shame upon all those not like themselves
wreaking havoc through violent excesses in a
mirror reflection of past suffering as gangs
gather motivated by vengeance and the urge to
wreak chaos as they march on a mission of
exacting 'reparations' entitling them to plunder
and physically violate all those identified as
hostile to their wholesale rejection of civility.
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