A Son of Liberty
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It was 45 years ago that I was in the screwl system, and I hated it then, for all the reasons this kid probably hated it and life as well.
The misandry, the choking conformity, the prison/Nurse Ratched mental institution atmosphere, has only gotten much worse.
But because this kid is the wrong color, wrong gender, wrong sexual orientation and from the wrong family, to get any protection or special treatment from the system, he's gonna burn and probably spend the rest of his life in prison.
They're gonna clean up your looks
With all the lies in the books
To make a citizen out of you
Because they sleep with a gun
And keep an eye on you, son
So they can watch all the things you do
Because the drugs never work
They're gonna give you a smirk
'Cause they got methods of keeping you clean
They're gonna rip up your heads,
Your aspirations to shreds
Another cog in the murder machine
They said all teenagers scare the living $#@! out of me
They could care less as long as someone'll bleed
So darken your clothes or strike a violent pose
Maybe they'll leave you alone, but not me
The boys and girls in the clique
The awful names that they stick
You're never gonna fit in much, kid
But if you're troubled and hurt
What you got under your shirt
Will make them pay for the things that they did
They said all teenagers scare the living $#@! out of me
They could care less as long as someone'll bleed
So darken your clothes or strike a violent pose
Maybe they'll leave you alone, but not me
Ohhh yeah!
They said all teenagers scare the living $#@! out of me
They could care less as long as someone'll bleed
So darken your clothes or strike a violent pose
Maybe they'll leave you alone, but not me
All together now!
Teenagers scare the living $#@! out of me
They could care less as long as someone'll bleed
So darken your clothes or strike a violent pose
Maybe they'll leave you alone, but not me
Without over-focusing on the perpetrator at the expense of the victims, this kid - this human being - probably got tossed into the tumbler before he could even get his bearings on life. He most likely was born into a hurricane, floating on a life boat, and everyone around him ended up wondering why he lashed out. It's not okay, what he did. But it's a big mistake to end his story in a small cell, dust our hands and imagine that we "solved another one". There are more kids out there like him... more kids who have been completely left behind to either drown or fight. And, by the way, that scale slides all the way from someone like him to the most well-adjusted, A+ student with a wholesome family to come home to every night.
This is why I HATE movements like BLM, that act like only people of a certain race struggle. I'd love for someone like Ibram Kendi to spend a week in the hills of eastern Kentucky, or southern West Virginia. He'd see the same damned rot that he sees in inner city Chicago, or New York. It's not about race. It's about despair.