My Magnum Opus & Eeyore Essay 3.03

 

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First published on Medium.

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Felons are the menace…
But whites lock up Black Americans at almost four times the rate of whites because whites are merely colorblind to disparate impact and tone deaf to injustice.

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I was cautious at one time…
But recently, I threw my caution towel in to the wind.

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What do we really know?
And when will we ever care to really know it?

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You should wear a mask to save others and yourself…
Unless you’re all messed up like Texas.

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Minnesota felons cannot vote because they are disproportionately Black Americans and American Indian.
Voting is best done by those able to disproportionately lock up the most people they want disenfranchised.

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COVID-19 has killed so many people…
Not even Republicans can fathom it.

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I broke the heart of the banking system.
So now it wants to be home alone.

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Experts are needed…
Unless it is something like climate change or COVID-19, then pundits and politicians can figure it out, and handle it.

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The economy is best handled in an economic way…
Therefore, climate change cannot be considered as part of our economic policy, which makes it a hoax, socialism, and the anti-christ.

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Almost four times more Blacks are in prison than whites for three very powerful and privileged reasons:
Whites have the economic power, racist white culture influences the police/legal system power, and whites own the political power.

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If we just could go back to a time when…
Our bullshit, white lies were believed by an American majority of racist descent.

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America’s past can provide many answers…
The problem is our contrived memory of no regrets.

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Why is Sky blue?
Mother Nature did tell Sky there would be days like this. But why would Sky be so down with this hue, dude?

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The U.S. is made up of makers and takers, and the rest of us…
The wealthy takers took more, and the makers made 9.4 times that.
The rest of us got a whopping 0.12 times since 1978…

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Things happen for a reason…
But I have hardly ever been convinced that the reasons are any good.

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Everyone is an expert at something…
Then Republicans prove that cannot be true.

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Freedom’s just another word for any science I want to ignore…
Like COVID-19 making a fashion accessory mandatory. The horror!

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So many people make the most childish comments.
I cannot agree with you more, so there!

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The climate is in crisis…
Luckily we have a penchant for calling such conclusively, voluminously, and persistently stubborn science alarmist.

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Police are not the problem until they are…
Racist activities are a white culture thing, not specifically a police thing. That said, everyone must be held accountable for their overreactions to racist stimuli, and racial bias, even police, barrel rotten or lone wolf losers.

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By Richard The Chwalek.

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