Another Black Man Rittenhoused Haiku Poem by Chen-ou Liu

Another Black Man Rittenhoused Haiku



The Brave New World, XXXII

a shooting star...
another black man
Rittenhoused

FYI: FYI: Rittenhouse's TikTok bio: Bruh I'm just tryna be famous. For more, see Kyle Rittenhouse, American Vigilante: After he killed two people in Kenosha, opportunists turned his case into a polarizing spectacle. Paige Williams, 'The New Yorker, ' June 28,2021

According to a recent Harvard study, Black people are more than three times as likely as white people to be killed during a police encounter....

... Two men were fatally shot. A third was maimed. Everyone involved in the shootings was white. The astonishing fact that Rittenhouse was allowed to leave the scene underscored the racial double standard that activists had sought to further expose: the police almost certainly wouldn't have let a Black man pass...

Saturday, November 20, 2021
Topic(s) of this poem: gun,political,star,black african american,violence
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