The persistence of slavery,
Jim Crow, and voter suppression
is not a reflection.
It is a reverberation,
the persistence of dehumanization,
after it has been stopped by legislation.
It bounces in a steady beat
from the surface of sexist, racists in defeat
within the closed surface of a court
reflecting the beliefs of the sort
of persons who know better but insist
that white male supremacy must persist.
This is not a new phenomenon.
It is the echo of a time long gone.
And yet its power is amplified
within the power structure which has denied
the rights of people to be free
of such discriminatory ignominy.
We cannot dance to this tune of hate.
Such evil we must abate
by refusing to allow the many incidents
of courts refusing to follow precedent,
which bend the arc of justice so low
we begin to ask them all to go
back to the rock they crawled out from under
before they tear the nation asunder.
annarino writes 