Attention, strict constructionists.
Only white men could vote back in the good old days
and African-Americans were property, bought and sold.
Like NFL players.
For many years, driving while black, brown,
any color but white,
reason enough to get pulled over.
Hell, for white guys,
might’ve even made some sense.
A few years ago, blacks were worried
– rightfully –
about getting shot by the cops for being,
well, hard to see at night unless smiling.
That wasn’t good enough.
No. Now, our paleness-challenged brethren
can’t even go about a normal day…
Holy Frantz Fanon!!
Not like I wasn’t already scared shitless of the police,
now my white neighbors be crazy.
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Attention, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions,
leader of the, ahem, Justice Department.
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Attention, stalwart Christian
Mike “Trump is so Awesome” Pence.
Attention, Mitch McConnell.
Oh, hell, forget that fascist tool.
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Attention, Tucker “There Is No White Privilege” Carlson.
Just ask Bill Reilly.
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Attention, I have been outraged
when Latin lesbians were hogging a table.
Just sayin.’
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Attention,
Barker Ajax has been –
not once but twice –
profiled.
Once as a drug dealer
and another time
as a man who might
molest a stewardess
at an airport VIP lounge.
I was let go
both times.
Almost forgot. Another time, broad daylight, a long-haired man wearing a black leather jacket was walking in an area of expensive homes. A student of architecture, the sheriff’s deputy explained, can look a lot like a burglar casing his next home.