“Even now, you deny us,”
Calls of duty roared from necks scared by boot marks
Lynched and torn from ancestral homes,
Ignored, dismissed after venturing forth in Liberty’s name
Pleading eternal for only what Washington provided their brothers in arms
Still, a modern refrain eclipses justice
“Eh, aren’t reparations unfair to me?”
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A/N:
Now, I'm not here to start any controversy.....................................................................................................JK I totally am. While not explicitly discriminatory, the debilitating constructs of the Jim Crowe era meant Black veterans were disproportionally denied the benefits of what could be described as the most impactful economic bill in American history. We're also not talking white powdered wig history here. When the bill expired, Elvis was smashing the charts, the NBC Peacock was Peacocking, and my personal hero Anthony Bourdain was born. These are wrongs that the clock to proper remediation is still ticking on, and awareness costs you nothing. In fact, there's legislation to do exactly that!
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Fantastic Matthew, one of my favorite entries and so on point. As far as I’m concerned, you keep ruffling those feathers
Outstanding Matthew! This is an important topic which needs to be brought to the forefront.
Great topic of discussion! Lawmakers should have never fell asleep on this one. Time's a ticking like you said. What are benefits when only the privileged are recognized to reap them? It's like seeing and apple on a tree and reaching for it but you're not quite tall enough.
This was so heartbreaking 🥺 Thank you for sharing this. Loved your Acrostic.
Thank you for advocating for this!!!
Thank You, Matthew. I believe that things currently right after the Emancipation Proclamation are too far back to provide reparations to currently today, but things such as the Tulsa Massacre, the bombing of Black Wallstreet, needs to be properly fixed and the families of those incidences, especially the ones that owned housing and businesses around that are need to receive reparations. If I recall history correctly, the bombing attacks were also done by a group of neo-nazis as well. We still have people that are alive today that witnessed those things occur. Like, even some WW2 veterans are still alive today, I think. Please correct me of I'm wrong.
Fantastic!!!💕❤️❤️