Name them All!
The answers
Are not only figured in the drift of stars,
But also in what we choose to do.
When do we learn,
To add behind a name,
A descriptor of race?
Why do we do it?
Bill, a black man was shot today,
While walking through a park.
Seth, a Jew, was a successful academic.
Billy Bob, a white man, shot his dog.
Why do we qualify thus?
Kim, slinking behind
The service counter,
In the Seven Eleven store, was an Asian.
Desai, an Indian was pumping gas.
Every nation, every people
Has their minorities.
The ones to heap blame, ridicule
Used to laugh at,
The truck on logs,
The dogs under the porch,
The cousin in the bedroom,
Habits and customs to laugh about.
Inbred rich, inbred poor,
While the banjos harmonize.
All the pickpockets,
The robbers, and thieves, Roma, Gypsies!
When big money goes missing, Jews.
Upper lips stiffened, women gone
Frigid, British.
All men imagining that they are killer lovers, French, Italians!
Mamma’s boys, any takers?
Loud mouthed brash, threatening to take
By violence what can’t be won by other means,
Think that Hitler is fun,
Americans, from the US?
Yes, but not only them, also Germans,
And others from countries around the world.
Neo Nazis and homage to Hitler.
Doesn’t make it right,
It gives offense to many people
Who recall, endured, suffered,
Because of Nazis.
He is in prison,
He has not been paroled
Young people followed him and did his bidding
They hacked and cut and killed,
They shot at a President.
He carved a Swastika on his forehead
Was it for religious purposes?
An ancient symbol from India
Used by Nazis, and people now think
It belongs to Nazis.
Hindus and Buddhists and Jains
Used in centuries before,
How should it not be used in America?
The reasons are many for the qualifiers and varied.
Names convey meanings and identities,
Mohammed, a white man, was guilty
Of beating his wife.
This is rarely heard.
Language has purposes, it conveys meanings,
Information, about context, events.
Rufus told John to move off his porch
And in the angry exchange that followed
The black man was shot in his own home.
And was it only in Jamaica that they shot the sheriff?
The Jews are to blame!
Say the fresh faced young,
In the new century.
And groomed by the old
Who should know better,
They demand the right to proclaim
This view, and to do so
In the halls of learning of the academy,
In public places.
Jews will not replace anyone
But themselves.
And this planet we live in, can bear
Many different types of people.
Diversity is good for it.
Who is afraid?
Is it time to be afraid?
Joe Swastika is in town with Jill and the dog.
Booo!