<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=436692" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>How Pitiful Can a Pitiful People Get</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">How pitiful can a pitiful people get? <br>Not only those subjected to media empathy.<br>Observed and followed by those in sympathetic guilt.<br>But also those who deny a people of human rights.<br>Then fight to come to their aid...<br>When cameras are in sight! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'And...<br>ACTION! <br>Don't distort the getting down with the boogey.<br>Tears people.<br>Put those tears in those eyes.<br>Comeon...<br>We don't have that kind of a budget.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Re-activites' rush to scenes to show their concerns, <br>For those who have been depicted as historically needy.<br>Yet...<br>Those who are and have been pro-active, <br>Are usually given bureaucratic distance...<br>From collective elitists who are thieves of democracy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Especially if it concerns people of color.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But to lay on their exotic beaches to tan is a priority! <br>Feeding their conservative 'standards' with a liberal dose of lotion.<br>On any island where they are treated as creatures of goodwill.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How pitiful can a pitiful people get? <br>Not only those subjected to media empathy.<br>Observed and followed by those in sympathetic guilt.<br>But also those who deny a people of human rights.<br>Then fight to come to their aid...<br>When cameras are in sight! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And then declare themselves righteous.<br>Be they Black, White, Mulatto or hues and blends...<br>From different Oriental shores! <br>With puffed up chests and resources they've hoarded! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Black folks who are colored, <br>Are 'religously' ignored.<br>Until...<br>There is a crisis to assist and depict, <br>One's sense of moral giving to those made dependent.<br>While those sanctimoniously incline split with theft riches! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">*How on Earth can you say that? <br>We are here as missionaries! *</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'And...<br>CUT! <br>Wonderful, wonderful.<br>That's a 'take'.<br>I even believed it! <br>Prepare for the next scene ladies and gentlemen.<br>And please, <br>We need more of a 'haggard' appearance for the upcoming visuals.<br>No need for fresh tan looks in the shoot! <br>Be ready in twenty minutes! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=436692" data-title="How Pitiful Can a Pitiful People Get de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="How pitiful can a pitiful people get? Not only those subjected to media empathy. Observed and followed by those in sympathetic guilt. But also those who deny a people of human rights. Then fight to come to their aid... When cameras are in sight! ..."></div> </div> </div>

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