the brown bag prophet was sitting at a computer station in the main library when i inquired about what he was working on the prophet said i’m writing a proposal for amending the tax code he said since people of color and women are prevented from earning comparative salaries and wages as white males i am proposing a racial and gender tax credit equal to the disparity ratio in a geographic area since discrimination varies by state seems reasonable to me that if one is not considered equal in practical terms for example not only how much you can earn but where you can live who you can love how you can conceive and whether it’s safe to be stopped by the police you should only have to pay for those services and products accessible to you and therefore said parties should be given an appropriate tax credit since it’s more than obvious they’re not equal under the law to white males
what if all the souls on earth had cellophane skin and we could see every organ and watch the blood flow to and fro from the heart as it beats steadily beneath the ribs what then would we choose to hate for surely man cannot live without hate would we choose how a voice sounds oh i suspect not we’d probably rely on color again except now the color of one’s eyes
my soul will not bleed you may tear away my flesh torture these old bones scream obscenities but i have learned of the truth and understand my self-worth so your words and deeds cannot penetrate my soul centuries of lies used as societal chains no longer bound my future to your perspective of life without breath or pulse i would rather be than forced to live as a slave to your will
what color is death
its robe is black but its face
is a chalky white
and as death approaches you
you’re told to walk towards the light
it seems one should avoid white
was just suspected although no clear evidence but thought that freedom was never attainable even with the chains removed since shackles of laws were formed
the brown bag prophet
was busy writing
at a park bench
when i was
on my way home
when i inquired
as to
what he was writing
the prophet
said
i’m preparing
some questions
to replace
those removed
by
the college board
about
real
american history
regarding blacks
what do you
think about
this one
what does
the name
desantis
have in common
with the following words
racist
homophobic
fascist
apartheid
maybe this one
should also
be
included
how is
mussolini
to
hitler
as
desantis
is to
trump
oh hell
maybe we should
do away
with the whole
college board
since
it seems
just to be
another
political entity
and
god knows
we don’t need
another
one
of
those
uac crossing the border are apprehended by dhs’s cbp cbp and ice detain uac routinely for longer than six months then cbp transfers uac to hhs’s orr orr operates icfs to house the uac and if by now you’re saying omg this all seems like tfh shouldn’t we be irl talking about the almost 7 thousand children separated from their parents at the border then ygtp
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