Why isn’t there a law against lynching?Every time men with guns get triggered,The brute comes out, and he wants to get even,So he cheats, to teach the object of his hate a lesson.Could it be, his manhood’s in jeopardy,Because he … Continue reading Lynchpin
“A word out of your mouth may seem of no account, but it can accomplish nearly anything—or destroy it! It only takes a spark, remember, to set off a forest fire. A careless or wrongly placed word out of your … Continue reading Watch Your Rhetoric
Protests devolve into riots;Thunderstorms spawn tornadoes.Don’t be inciting the snowflakes,And don’t be chasing storm troopers! By: ElRoyPoet © 2020 “(Our founders) created a document that built a representative democracy. Because the idea is: that our elected officials represent us, they … Continue reading Protest Lesson Learned
You’d hope that history teaches,But often it merely preaches:To ears that it reaches,It simply beseeches—“Learn, lest we repeat its breaches.” By: ElRoyPoet © 2020 Listen to Electric Avenue Song by: Eddie Grant “The only thing that we learn from history … Continue reading History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, It Rhymes
“Hysteria is an audiovisual contagion. You have to see and hear someone exhibiting symptoms in order to find yourself replicating those symptoms. See it enough, and it becomes you. This is hysteria’s essential and most terrifying threat: Anyone is susceptible.” … Continue reading Why Peaceful Protesters Turn Into Agitators
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