Accountability When Mass Race Killings Occur? Poem by Terence George Craddock

if you are recognized as the most
powerful man in your country
the most powerful man in the land
the most powerful man in the world
and you calmly posed sit on your hands
do nothing allow racist killings to occur
let racist killers go free with immunity
impose no death sentence no prison sentence

for the killings of one or hundreds or millions
then is your official indifference lack of action
a crime committed against all of humanity
if we continue to ignore the rights of one or a few
justified due to ingrained extreme racism greed
will we not corrupted later ignore rights of many?

2016 USA President Barack was silent
did nothing while white police officers
wore their immunity police uniforms
executed innocent black lives victims
point blank with multiple gun shots
police officers then rewarded with paid
leave while the incident was investigated
until murders killers in police uniforms

are exonerated excused of race hate murders
killers in police uniforms walk away scot-free
also notice that white victims of terrorist bombs
or shootings are honoured with bridges buildings
lit up with lights at night; even rainbow colours
for pulse victims but if not from hype white west

or European countries if Istanbul bomb victims
or 340 dead Iraqi victims from Bagdad then no
buildings are lit with light; this teaches us that
colour nationality counts in death all are not equal
some victims people are executed with immunity
did not the holocaust death of six million Jews
half a million gypsies not already teach us this?
the same monsters with different uniforms faces

are still persecuting murdering
the innocent unless we protest
physically intervene plea voice mass
protest stop racists they will continue
we cannot offer racists murderers
killers an immunity of indifference


Terence George Craddock (Afterglows Echoes Of Starlight)
Copyright © Terence George Craddock