Black Lives Matter: Ferguson the Consequence of America’s Oxymoronic Justice System
If we reflect on our history
The Michael Brown verdict is no mystery.
The decision was clearly a forgone conclusion
And the product of blatant collusion.
So let us review the place
In America’s history of race
For the wealth of the nation in both SOUTH and NORTH
Depended on the value of the slave’s labor and worth.
Indeed the myth on which the country was founded
Professor Horne has recently confounded
In “The Counter-Revolution of 1776” he argues with precision
Our revolt against the Brits was actually against their stand on abolition.
And the controlling whites have always feared
The potential power of the potent black man
Who was kept uneducated and under attack
As the nation’s wealth was created on his strong back
And during the cointelpro era it must be said
Many charismatic black leaders ended up dead
With federal surveillance targeting dissent
To dramatically limit their influence
And with The New Jim Crow* we see
The modern version of our slavery
Where the per-diem rates of the prison industrial state
Keep the white man in his dominant place.
Mass incarceration is fueled by the fraudulent war on drugs
As we recall how the government’s proxy thugs
Facilitated by our own CIA
Brought the crack cocaine epidemic into LA
And the worst Supreme court in fact
Has gutted the voting rights act
Predictably instantaneously allowing state after state
To erect barriers to the franchise based on hate
And perhaps this underlying fear explains the statement fantastic
Of fully armed officer Wilson bombastic
That “he felt like a five year old boy” –not a man
Being attacked by a daemonic Hulk Hogan.
And prosecutor McCulloch’s character assassination campaign
Glorified the officer and guaranteed justice would not be attained
His trial in effect convicted Michael Brown in absentia
In a cynical perversion of grand-jury justice.
And as in Iraq the Oil Ministry was guarded
While priceless historical artifacts were allowed to be looted
So in Ferguson we see that white interests were protected in turn
While the black section of town was allowed to be plundered and burn.
But tragically as with the Watts riot we saw irrational mobs
Extracting their vengeance on the system in unity
By torching and looting their own community
In acts that can only be seen as insanity
But non-violence is the only way to proceed
For violence is what opponents hope to see
As the police are equipped as we can see
With the all the trappings of the military
So with groups like CodePink teaching non-violence
And authorities predicting violence in advance
Who would be willing to take the chance?
Of confirming the predictions of those in power?
And why would we expect to be able the attorney general to applaud?
Who could not manage to indict even a single banker for egregious fraud?
Despite blacks being predominately the victims of banker villainy
In targeting and decimating the wealth of the black community.
We all want justice to prevail
But the system is rigged and often fails
To make all of us equal under the law
Clearly our justice system has a serious flaw
Then there is the infernal Patriot ACT
Where things are truly Kafkaesque
With secret charges kept from the defense
With the aim of stifling dissent
But out of Fergusson a movement appears to arise
As from coast to coast we hear the cries
Of hands up don’t shoot
And black lives matter and that’s the truth
And just the other day
We glimpse the perfidy of the CIA
And how the orders came from on high
Which the architects persistently deny
But focus on torture may distract
From the Bush administrations
Illegal and aggressive war against America’s soul
And representing The Accumulated Evil of the Whole
A crime of barbarous dimensions
The destruction of the cradle of civilization
With millions killed or cruelly displaced
The destruction of a country that cannot be replaced
For it appears to me ironic
That American justice is oxymoronic
For clearly we have here a failed and seriously flawed system
And Michael Brown is only its latest victim
Howard P. Charman, MD 11-30-2014
Natalie Alexander: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness.