Post-racial, non-discriminatory, tolerant, diverse
Accepting of all -- credos of a nation that proclaims itself great.
Meanwhile one out of every eight black men and boys go missing.
They disappear -- into jails, into morgues
And we shrug and wonder what happened.
What to do next
But we don't act; we simply wait for someone else to pick up the slack
After all, it's not me pointing the gun
Not me lowering the gavel.
Somehow, though, it is.
Silence is the true offender.
Silence keeps the myth of the American Dream alive.
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