Posted by TheBlackList on March 23, 2009 at 10:10am
Dr. Rodney Coates:
When was the last time that you cried for the abused?
Was it then, that you saw that their plight was your concern?
Or did their plight become your problem to discern
Manipulate, transform, or perform some statistical,
Analytical, non-practical deliberations upon -
When was the last time that you decried the crimes?
Insanity, then masking as repetitious diatribes against
The sanity of those trapped in the studies that lost
All connection with the people whose problems were
The problematic of your descriptors of their situation -
When was the last time that you denied the reality of their reality?
That fostered their problematical problematic of the disingenuousness
That belied the necessity to understand that their situation was created
By a social consciousness which problematized their problems as
Something intrinsic to their inner selves, cultural selves, or their racialized identities.
When was the last time that you realized that another possibility was possible?
That your commission was tied to the omission of their destiny
Those other's obfuscated in a sequence designed to obliterate their actualities
Avocations dictated by the necessity to lend truth to these lives
That the fire this time was in your hands.
Rodneyc//09
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