Not “against the flag;”
Against injustice against our equally created fellow man. Against injustice to citizens: of this country and the world.
Not disrespect;
Disappointment and grief
over generations of oppression,
educational, economic, and social,
of the vulnerable, the huddled masses, the vanquished, the ex slaves,
through the empowerment
of the lighter skinned and fairer haired; made the vanguard of the established
power for a crumb.
Sadness
And unresolved grief over a young woman killed in a jail
over a traffic ticket,
Or a twelve-year-old kid killed by a scared man with a badge
and gun over a toy weapon. A boy killed over candy.
Unresolved grief and loss over choke holds; unresolved
bodies riddled with bullets from cowardly franchise enforcement taught that they
must put others down like the animals they have been made into by oppressive
policy and law.
Inter-generational
despair from churches bombed, men lynched, hate crimes unresolved, hate groups,
and animal factory slums where the manufactured animals are vilified even
further as frauds and cheats and mentally inferior after their education is denied
them; their inalienable right to pursue happiness equally, symbolized by a
flag, as elusive as the wind that makes it wave.
Not against the flag.
But against pretend virtue
That turn law enforcement officials into law oppressionists;
Statesmen into demagogues;
and turn innocent children into orphans of mothers and
father jobs for a dollar with
No day care money, all becoming beasts unrecognizable in
slums of noise, violence, temp agencies, corner stores with “forties”,
prostitutes, pay day loans, and cops who would just as soon shoot them as stand
for the law which created them. It is
the same thing.
Not against the flag;
But against the evolution from self-evident truths, the
spirit of the foundation, to national self-hatred, the neurosis of guilt. Evidenced
by hyper sensitivity to dialogue on this taboo subject and shames
the masses to self-censorship in a toxic co-dependent ritual.
Not against the flag,
but against divisive manipulation by powerful forces in media and legislature
and their corporate benefactors;
And it isn’t.
For the
animal factory of oppressive social, economic, and racial culture is efficient;
and passed on casually with almost each word and deed, generation upon generation.
Not against the flag
But a bent knee asking humbly for redress of decades of
humiliation and second-class citizenry.
A prayer.
A bent knee
For the flag.
For the dream.
A service for a dream still believed in; a dream worth fighting
for.
An tribute to the dream the stars and stripes represents,
eloquent in the Declaration.
And a resolve to not settle for any sham or pretense that
our people want or believe in anything less.
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