Saturday, June 20, 2020

Twisted History: A Legacy of Shame

RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR:  GEORGE FLOYD SERIES



Twisted History

400 years since slaves arrived on the American shore
220 years since the birth of the Underground Railroad
200 years since the Missouri Compromise
163 years since Dred Scott
159 years since the inception of the Civil War
157 years since the Emancipation Proclamation
156 years since the burning of Atlanta
155 years since the 13th Amendment
154 years since Lincoln’s assassination
154 years since the birth of the KKK
153 years since reconstruction
150 years since the dawn of Jim Crow
124 years since Plessy V. Ferguson
99 years since the Tulsa Massacre
83 years since the death of Bessie Smith
81 years since Billie Holiday’s Strange Fruit
75 years since the Civil Rights Act
65 years since the lynching of Emmett Till
56 years since Nina Simone’s Mississippi Goddamn
55 years since the killing of Malcolm X
55 years since the summer of Watts
52 years since the assassination of the King
51 years since the Hampton and Clark
29 years since Rodney King
7 years since the nullification of Voting Rights
7 years since Black Lives Matter
6 years since the murder of Michael Brown
6 years since Tamar Rice and Eric Garner
5 years since Jamar Clark
4 years since Philando Castile
3 years since Charlottesville
2 years since Botham Jean
1 year since Danquirs Franklin
4 months since Ahmaud Arberi
3 months since Breonna Taylor
2 months since Sean Reed
1 month since George Floyd
1 day since Rayshard Brooks

After 400 years of twisted history
False promises exploitation
And brutality
Atlanta burns
America wonders why

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