An Open Letter....To The President - United States Of America Poem by James B. Earley

What's so patently wrong.....
Is that....you see only...a song
Where a history of misery
....Clings stridently strong

Still finding....all kinds...of ways
Heaping hypocritical praise
.....On a mere...object...of cloth
Stitched together during days

.....Of sheer animosity
Slavery's atrocity
The Black Man simply kneeling
...Why...thus....your ferocity

When we all damn well know
...As history.....long shows
Colored Folks built this nation
....Yet...the Black Man's...the foe

It's all about an object of cloth
Stitched together during days
....Where there...was no honor
Where there was no praise

..Just....a history...of misery
Clinging stridently strong
....And what's...so insidiously wrong
Is that...you still.....see only...a song


Author's note:
Inspired by the following quote -
'It's crazy when you realize Black folks are protesting racial injustice, police brutality and the murder of innocent victims of color without retribution, while White folks are protesting the stance for a song.......any sensible human being should be able to see the problem in this scenario we are dealing with SMH................#TrueStory'
~Bo Olagbegi