Tuesday, December 7, 2021

Breathe Easy, Folks

A Black Lives Matter protest held in Ottawa in June 2020. Jean Levac/Postmedia

What's new on the local scene you ask? This city is 

growing, it's getting a little crowded. The budget for 

social services is seriously groaning. The police budget 

is growing spurring agitation from communities 

claiming racial harassment raising banners to defund 

the police. Shootings and deaths on a steady rise. The 

latest two 16-year-olds; score one dead one struggling 

to live. Local residents need not fear the police chief says.

This was a targeted hit. You know, criminal disputes.

Street gangs, moving drugs and illicit weapons. So

nothing to worry about. The residents living in their

crowded assisted housing can breathe a sigh of relief.

They're not targets, just those who live among them

like the two 16-year-olds. The dead boy an aspiring

rap artist, beloved by all. Such a nice kid, friendly

to everyone, kind and gentle. Someone wasn't thinking

kind and gentle when he was targeted. Not a word

from the Black Lives Matter folks. Makes sense;

black lives matter when the instrument of death is

white; when it's black, it's just people in disagreement

working out their frustrations. Don't get in the way.

 

 


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