Juxtaposition
Riots again.
The current president
is calling for those who protest murder by the police
to be murdered by the police.
The previous president
is saying murder by police
should not be normal in America in 2020
Even though he went dining and dancing on Martha's Vineyard
on the night of the 2014 Ferguson riots--
doing absolutely nothing to change
what was absolutely normal
about police murdering black people in America.
A black woman dies in Toronto with police on the scene
and some people assume they killed her
and some other people say the police here are different
Canadian police aren't so racist--
And I remembered the Saskatoon Police
taking Indigenous men and dropping them off in the snow
to freeze to death twenty years ago
(although they admitted they'd been doing it for at least forty)
and no, it's not the same thing--
But a white supremacist cop
is a white supremacist cop
and it's not much of a juxtaposition
between theirs and ours.
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