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| December 15, 2006 Convenient Racism by Brian Anderson, insurgent49 this system of checks and balances balances only the bank books of a class of people who won a race that exists on another rung of a ladder than those who lost so that those who won smile down as if victory were hard fought with blood spilt and wounds still sore but in reality the only battles that occurred were found on the pages of documents crafted without a thought as to the repercussions and if history began to change so too did the document fitting into a nice Styrofoam cup that holds the guilty soup handed from guilty hands to the innocent victims unlucky enough to have skin the color of dirt, piss, and blood who ask why and find only rhetoric tangled up in a system that is conveniently racist promoting change and prosperity stringing along those who could have been happy and prosperous had they simply known the rules of the game and which rung they stood on and instead they feel the bite of a system purported to be grand but instead cannot stand on its own two feet without the generosity of the rich who are given tax cut after tax cut until they no longer understand what 5 dollars means or what losing an identity card can truly mean when misfortune keeps a steady pace with those living on the street or from paycheck to paycheck with one family spending time with another so that they can keep a two bedroom apartment hoping for a tax break so they can feel like a family who owns two houses and a third being built on a deserted island where they can escape it all and forget about the wars that their forefathers lost and make believe that no one exists but them and their race is the pure one with kings and queens and gods that permit all people to dance, sing, and praise one another for simply being alive and standing beside them in this grand circle instead of the one shackled to rules crafted by the victors who cannot understand why other people cannot succeed starting from the lower rungs when we have a system of checks and balances keeping everything on a teeter-totter barely kept alive until one day a bank book is not balanced and we all watch in dread as the childhood plaything begins to rock too much way too much. |
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