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The Killing
By: Ken W. Simpson
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Widowed skies with empty eyes
indecently occupied
by tabloid cultures of corruption
engulfed by tyranny
where the future doesn’t beckon
and the day is gone.
America only pretends to be a democracy. The people are not free and equal. They are stratified. At the top – the elite live in gated communities and enclaves. – separated and isolated from the rest of America.
At the bottom is the huge prison population – composed mainly of illiterate substance abusers and petty criminals – and around a million homeless.
In most big cities there are ghettos – where the poor and underprivileged live – or exist.
Above them are the middle class – who own – or rent – homes or apartments.
Somewhere in between are the military bases – where children are trafficked for sex.
They all exist as separate entities – with only their nationality – and the English language – in common.
There has always been a powerful white suprmacist minority that have ruled – and continue to rule America – not only from Washington – but from the many American cities and towns by mayors and sheriffs – to protect their values and their communities to varying degrees.
In the big cities there are ghettos – with associated crime – which the police are expected to control.
All police forces attract recruits who may have characters with a tendency towards bullying or violence – and police forces in America already have a culture of violence towards ghetto dwellers – to which recruits are expected to adapt – by treating blacks and Hipanics as their enemy. So the enmity is perpetuated.
The killing of George Floyd was by all accounts a brutal and unnecessary action – because Floyd was not resisting arrest and was already handcuffed.
Many similar actions – the deliberate persecution of ghetto dwellers – takes place every day in America- with only tragedies like Floyd – being reported in the mainstream media.
Since we know the media in America collaborates with the government to publish lies – disinformation and propaganda – the death of George Floyd appears to be just the tip of the iceberg.