I leave this for you to peruse.
Mervyn Marcano
Yes, President Bill Clinton.
This movement unapologetically fights for drug dealers. Our brothers & sisters. Our mothers & fathers. Our cousins and friends. Us, too. Those you would cast off as murderous gangsters. The superpredators.
They were thrown away into prisons meant to strip them of their dignity as you pandered to the fears of white working-class voters. You told them they would be safer and a bit more free, distracting them from their own poverty. You even sold some of us that same story.
We lost a generation. If they came back, they came back broken. And we still haven't figured out how to make them whole when they come home. So they keep going back.
You, however, gained another term. Your friends got rich off the sweet chattel of prison labor and cell occupancy rate increases.
When the dust of your efforts began to settle, more white voters decided they wanted our neighborhoods. They wanted our homes. They followed you into the Harlems of our cities. And more of your banker friends got richer--- this time, by packaging our legacies as luxury condos and lofts. Our renaissance for your renewal.
Yes, Bill. We fight for our kin. Because we believe in the power of redemption and restoration. We have witnessed it with our own eyes, much to your chagrin. Because we know the ills of crushing poverty. Because we are the children of social programs that punish need, all the while masquerading as the laces of those ever-elusive boots we are to pull ourselves up with.
No saxophone in Harlem can erase this truth. Since Arkansas you have mastered the art of dismantling the social safety net with the blessing of those it serves. Kudos to you, Machiavelli would be proud, but let's not play pretend now.
Y'all see us now, so you belittle us from your podium. You talk down to us at your private fundraisers. We remember that rageful twinge in your eye from 2008, too. When you just didn't understand why the Blacks weren't listening.
We're listening now. In fact, all we've done is repeat what you and Hillary have said. #samegame #differentcampaign
I don't know what happens in November. But know this. We are your superpredators. And we haunt. #blacklivesmatter #blackghostshaunt
