Sunday, June 18, 2023

George Floyd's Legacy


No, Justice is not blind and nor is it always just.

It knows, as a reflection of the public weal that

within a population there are groups disadvantaged 

through their own lack of integrity and the disinterest

of those not of their kind who view themselves as

victims feeling justified in a vituperative culture 

of violence that mostly targets its own in murder

and mayhem, the spillover lapping at the edges of 

the hated general public. Black Lives Matter, as an

example, but not to those inwardly turned in self

hating snarls of violence. Spite and hatred as the

most basic of human passions is infectious. When 

a known felon in the grip of law and order resists

catapulting an arrest into manslaughter Black rage

erupts in alarmingly violent dimensions urging shame

and blame beyond their own communities for a man

has died not at the hands of his own but that of a 

White community and a cry of 'defund police' echoes

across the world where in cities scattered everywhere

councils vote down police funding and crimes

of every dimension explode in prevalence for

there are insufficient forces to apprehend the

felons and a relaxed system of justice sees fit to

release violent offenders in recognition of their

inalienable human rights -- while the cities cower.

 

 

 

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