The Truth Of Colour
The colour of humanity
Is not white skin
Or black skin
Not brown skin
Or yellow skin
It is the red blood
Of a beating heart
A blue shield
Is not the colour of humanity
When it takes a life
And all the greys
of muddled opinions
cannot change the truth
that a man could not breathe
because his skin colour
was not the same
as the knee on his neck
Anything else
Is an untruth
BLM napowrimo2017 day 6 (67) opinon colour death george floyd protests truth untruth
I hope you don't mind, Ian, but I'd like to post a link to a poem I discovered tonight, which was written in 1945: 'Look within' by the Jamaican poet Claude McKay https://www.poetryexplorer.net/poem.php?id=10011713
thanks for the comments
on a line by line basis I would be interested to know which line(s) you feel are incorrect MC - bearing in my mind this is my truth from what I have seen in this incident and many others - directly - not just in the media. If you believe otherwise then that is your truth - and justice may or may not follow - depending on who owns it ?
We all saw the knee on the neck, MC. 'Cool and dispassionate assessment' in modern-day America, with Trump
at the helm? You'll be lucky.
How about leaving "the truth" to be established via proper enquiry in
the appropriate forum established for that purpose? Political
demagoguery and media demonisation have no place in enabling
the process of cool and dispassionate assessment to determine motive and/or guilt. Assumption is no basis for judgement.
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Ian Whiteley
Sun 7th Jun 2020 13:29
love the poem Greg - and there are still those who won't accept it's happening ?