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• HATE OF BLACK (a Blitz)

  Breathing while black Breathing fresh air polluted by hate Hate is suffocating Hate of non-white skin Skin is only skin deep Skin should not determine…

• TODDLER BODY SEARCHES (for the women, children and families of the Reunification Rides)

  Children are the “collateral damage” when their mothers are incarcerated. Grandparents are often left to manage Little people to whom they’re related The separation anxiety,…

• PASSIVE MICRO-AGGRESSION, IMPLICIT BIAS & KARMA (a short true “_______ while being black” story)

  A woman puts her laptop and coat on the next table, looks right past me, and asks the white woman on the other side of…

• MANDATED MARGINALIZATION (a sonnet on the collateral damages of mass incarceration)

  Once arrested, arraigned, tried, convicted And incarcerated, to “pay their debt.” Though their time’s been served, they’re still restricted. They’ve walked out of prison- but…