<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=445999" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Whether Conscious or Not</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As long as others, <br>Were subjects of their poked jokes...<br>These agitating folks were satisfied to live, <br>Unapologetically.<br>Free of guilt! <br>And accountability! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nor did they think deeply, <br>About the affects of wearing sheets with peepholes.<br>And whose state of mind these acts would upset.<br>They were mobs much like a cancerous glob.<br>Yearning to hang or burn...<br>Human beings they deemed, <br>From them had lessons to learn! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And today this same mindset, <br>Has not through time been addressed.<br>That same ignorance defends insecurities.<br>With absurdities blatant.<br>And masked to distract...<br>An attraction for mentioned bigotries! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Although their states are 'mapped'...<br>And appear united.<br>These folks are divided by their racist remarks! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Most of them say, <br>This is not their way today! <br>But a debating of their policies believed.<br>Those implemented, <br>And meant to stay! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But those of color know, <br>Too well their lives of limitation.<br>And who amongst them sit imprisoned.<br>By laws that intend, <br>To keep them suppressed.<br>With wings to obtain in an 'afterlife'...<br>So in 'this' life, <br>An obedience from them is expected! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And then there are those skilled to speak, <br>From both sides of their mouths.<br>And 'this' from their institutions, <br>They are more than glad to teach! <br>Even from pulpits... <br>Their philosophies are outreached.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While delivering observations, <br>Uncommitted from atop high fences.<br>They are convinced verses spewed...<br>Are remembered sacred scriptures, <br>That should depict them as chosen victors!</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=445999" data-title="Whether Conscious or Not de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="As long as others, Were subjects of their poked jokes... These agitating folks were satisfied to live, Unapologetically. Free of guilt! And accountability! Nor did they think deeply, About the affects of wearing sheets with peepholes. And wh..."></div> </div> </div>

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