Post by Maolsheachlann on Jan 22, 2019 14:10:45 GMT
What's in a Hat: A Poetic Response to the Trump Presidency
"Make America Great Again"?
We all know you mean
Make America White Again
Make America Straight Again
Make America Hate Again!
Make America Irate Again
Make America Lactate Again
Make the marginalized prostrate again!
Your red baseball cap
Is red with the blood
Of all the oppressed
in your great Amerika.
While your phallic Trump Towers
Look over a wasteland
Of racist, sexist, homophobic, misogynistic, transphobic, Islampobhobic deplorables.
And you say
To decency, civility, tolerance, love,
"You're fired!"
It's funny how a group of grown ups can bully school children by shouting at them to go back to Europe and banging drums in their faces. O wait , it's native Americans being insulted by white pro life catholics wearing MAGA caps. And one of them actually smirked.
His school threatened to expel him. His Bishop denounced him. The aptly named sisters of Mercy condemned a teenage boy waiting for his bus for remaining silent in the face of provocation from an egotist banging a drum in his face. I wonder did any of them have the decency to apologise when the full facts emerged?
Two points occur to me. It's pathetic when adults behave like children and bully real children on film and no one sees this as bizarre and outrageous.
Equally pathetic are the right on powerful Catholic SJW lobby who are prepared to vilify a white school boy publically. Where is the MERCY we hear so much about nowadays ?I hope his parents sue the pants off the so called leaders of the Covington church.
Love the poem. Maybe it could be chanted?
I saw Fr. James Martin apologise on Twitter. Sadly, he couldn't help qualifying it with a lot of follow-up tweets I didn't read, once I saw the drift.
The young man behaved with quite astonishing grace, presence of mind and composure.