Tea Party

Be like Gandhi and King 

We can't condone violence! 

Protest peacefully, young Americans,  

and it will all be okay. 

 

Except, peaceful protests usually 

require martyrs 

like  

Gandhi 

and  

King. 

 

But, in 2014,  

there was 

Anderson  

and 

Baker  

and  

Bennett 

and 

Berghardt 

and  

Brisbon  

and 

Brown 

and 

Cochran 

and 

Crawford 

and 

Curnell 

and 

Cusseaux  

and 

Ford 

and 

Garner 

and 

Gurley 

and 

Hamilton 

and 

Harrison 

and 

Hunt 

and 

Jones 

and 

Lake  

and 

Parker 

and 

Powell 

and 

Rice 

and 

Satterwhite 

and 

Smith 

and 

Tillman 

and 

White 

and 

Woodard. 

I think that there have been 

enough 

Martyrs. 

 

Well, what about Parks? 

She didn't tear up the bus? 

 

No. 

But she broke the fucking law. 

 

And, like  her,
and those old white men,  

who appropriated Native garb, 

and had a party in Boston

 

I think it's time to throw some fucking 

Tea 

into the fucking 

Water.

 

heidi
written 4/29/15


I wonder if this will get any reaction? My more political stuff rarely does. (And yes, that was a triple dog dare. And, I'll delete anything that is racist, trolling, nasty, or stupid.) Names used here are taken from Uptown's article 20+ Unarmed Black People Killed By Police in 2014.