Black Plague

Some will say

That the officers were racist.

Some will say

That he wasn't properly complying with the officers.

Some will say

I am not suprised

And don't have the capacity for sadness.

Some will say

That this is because of the white supremasist post-slavery society we live in.

Some will say

That this is because of improper police training.

Some will say

It's because of the war on drugs.

Some will say it's just one bad seed that did this.

Some will say

Change is needed.

Some will say

Their message not through a speaker phone but through a barrel pointed at blue hoping for red.

Some will say

Their message in the form of a ten second hashtag.

Some will say

Their message via a long rant on how bad this all is.

Some will say

Their message as a talking point to fit their agenda.

Some will say

That nobody cares about the white kid that was unjustly killed at the same time by police officers.

Some will say

Some will say

Some will say

But two black people won't say anything

And five police officers won't say anything

And there is a rally in my city today

A city known for shootings

A city with a cop on every corner

A city with black people in every other shotgun house

A city with guns out the whazoo

A city with alcohol sold like lemonade

A city an hour away from Baton Rouge.

And nothing will be said that is worth anything.

And there will never be a moment of silence

Because anytime there is

There will just be another gunshot ringing somewhere else in this country

And another bombshell going off in somewhere else in a country likely full of sand.

And the news will cover it when it's new

And they won't when Trump retweets something from a white supremacist group

And they won't when Clinton needs someone to lie for her

And they won't when nobody talks about it except when giving cheap prayers of condolences

And talked only in the off time by a movement without a leader or concise message and full of people that are sometimes proudly racist towards white people and view it as justified.

People.

We are people.

Our well being depends on each other.

Our survival depends on helping one other.

Stop speaking in worth of specks.

And stop fucking killing each other,

because bullets will just keep ricocheting

and there will be nothing left to say in the end.

-J.W.