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Anarcho-Brocialist
1st May 2012, 02:49
I have a black friend that I met a while back. He's a community activist, and wrote this poem : Welcome to our lives. The streets have witnessed war. SWAT teams at young man's door, screaming "get on the floor". The reason for such actions were being caught on camera stealing milk from the corner store.

I invite the world to observe our lives through our doors. I could wager that you couldn't survive in these sub-slandered conditions. We're a product of the oppressors plan and economics; and you ask why we aren't afraid to provide for ourselves with violence?

We have nothing to lose and nothing to gain. Stagnant growth is offered to our minorities youth today.

Schools here don't have modern equipment, but we can purchase 100 million dollar modern fighter war planes. The crime rate has only the system itself to blame.

Welcome to our lives, where the men of color are enslaved. In the 21st century it's not constraint by whips and chains, rather, by depriving us the knowledge to self-liberate.

TheRedAnarchist23
2nd May 2012, 19:25
Sounds good!:laugh:

Book O'Dead
2nd May 2012, 19:40
Here's something I wrote some years back around the time of Amadou Diallo's killing in NYC:

"Police, police!"
clamored the man.
"Police, police, Diallo's killers are on the loose!"
The man screamed to all and to no one in particular.
"Police, police, Diallo's killers are free and they may come after me!"
Cried the frightened man to a frightened populace peering from darkened rooms and drawn curtains.
Just then, the police arrived.
Four in all.
They shot the man dead.

TheGodlessUtopian
4th May 2012, 00:42
Will move thread to Lit&Films...