Class Warfare,2011 Poem by Eric Cockrell
Class Warfare,2011
class warfare?
you've hidden this one
well for years!
black and white,
red and brown,
northern, southern,
immigrants, prisoners....
male and female,
Baptist or Muslim,
old and young....
all human!
all hearts beating!
all have red blood.
there are only two
classes of people!
the 10 per cent
that own everything,
that own us...
and the 90 per cent
of us that are in bondage.
guess what! we've opened
our eyes! we're gonna
quit fighting each other!
now we're gonna turn our
anger on you!
every human being,
every single one,
should have equal rights
to work and eat and take
care of his/her family.
there shouldnt be hungry
children in the 21st century!
we shouldnt have to settle
for handouts and homeless shelters.
there is no reason to invade
other countries, to bomb them
and 'liberate' them at gunpoint!
war is a lie, and we're not
buying it anymore.
it is time for the human family
to be a family.... we wont accept less!
share the wealth, share responsibility!
NOW!
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4/24/2024 8:06:33 PM # 1.0.0.1119
American post World War 2 class history, is the cultural capital of the rich, changing laws to exploit every cent they can steal, from the under privileged dis-empowered; races minorities, less educated good people, broken on calculations of capital manipulation. Under Bush his rich friends were tax exempt, sickening, the poor paying taxes for the rich. An elite self indulgent princess hates Martin Luther King, calls this civil rights leader, a terrible man. Labels him a “terrible” “tricky” “phony. Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. “terrible, ” “tricky” and “a phony”? Privilege will lie to you, cheat you, steal from you; but not respect or share wealth with you, even if you are an honourable man serving God. If a civil rights leader, a Baptist preacher of nobility, is slandered like this, what chance do you have? The elite will plot, slander you, lie about you and destroy you, if you dare demand civil rights, equality. As the prophet Michael Jackson said 'They don't really care about us'. He spoke for you 'In Earth Song' and 'Feed the World'; believed in you, struggled for you; and you let them lie and destroy his image, his child like human goodness and decency. Why? Thank God for the poor who will not take it, with a thank you for your stale bread crumbs Sir, any more. Time for the sincere poor, to take back their civil rights, in an Arab spring, European spring, finally an American spring. The Empire of Rome hated Christians because Jesus said the master is equal to the slave in God's eyes. The master must treat the slave as he would be treated, even wash their feet; all are equal. All men women children are equal; all races are equal. Will you let them keep stealing your civil rights, human rights, with oiled wars, Wars on Terror'? With 'Home and Security' justified to steal what little you managed to work for? It is said a nation gets the government they deserve? People of the world, what do you deserve?