You sit in church and hide from a record search.
while you lie and criminalize the first.
I stand as an honorable first-class,
outcast trespassed from your religious mass,
waiting for Jesus Christ to save the innocent in the overpass.
I see the gun you hold in your hand,
while you glorify time in desert sand.
As you silence voices as they stand,
I see a man lacking courage to farm his land.
As your cow’s milk grows sour,
While in the darkness, you cower.
I watch you erode your power.
We must not make America great again.
We must not make America what it was then.
We must evolve as one from our original sin.
If you want to silence my voice stand proud with your choice,
because I will be when I drive away in your Rolls Royce.
If you don’t have the courage to stand after taking my meal,
it would be wise to return to your own fucking cornfield.
Ignorance and Hate discriminates,
while the unethical roam within prejudicial gates.
Ignorance and hate judges skin by its color
Our souls, blood, and sweat look the same in the eyes of a scholar.
As your cow’s milk grows sour,
While in the darkness, you cower.
I watch you erode your power.
We must not make America great again.
We must not make America what it was then.
We must evolve as one from our original sin.
We are one when we do not separate ourselves with the dollar.
When we talk and realize our differences are smaller.
When we stand as one on the battlefield and become taller.
We are one when we do not separate ourselves with the dollar.
When we talk and realize our differences are smaller.
When we stand as one on the battlefield and become taller.
We will live in a land that can rejoice,
when we make the choice to respect each other’s voice,
We must not make America great again.
We must not make America what it was then.
We must evolve as one from our original sin.
Why do we judge each other by the color of our faces? Before we understand their original places.
Brandon Talsma, Jasper County Supervisor, you and your colleagues Doug Cupples, Jasper County Supervisor, Jasper County, IA Sheriff John Halferty, and Jasper County, IA Attorney Nicholson produced evidence in Iowa Public Information Board case 22FC:0091 of silencing and blocking a voice on social media that does not sound like yours. How does the leadership of Jasper County, IA, treat those with skin that does not look like yours? Suppose the leadership of Jasper County, IA, produces evidence of executing inequality toward the amendments of our constitutions to manifest their political ideologies. Does this create a logical and reasonable question of whether Jasper County, IA’s leadership, executes inequality against the people these amendments to our constitutions protect? At the same time, they manifest their political ideologies.
If a citizen produces evidence of prejudice against a voice different from their own, will they have a prejudice against skin that is different from their own?
Discrimination, Prejudice, and actions that violate the rights of others are cancers that impact the soul of our nation. Jasper County, IA leadership has provided evidence revealing their soul. Likewise, the future careers of these politicians may reflect and provide evidence regarding the contents of the souls of the people of Jasper County, IA, that may re-elect them.
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Two men were relieved from a communications watch and got in the watch supervisor’s Honda Civic. The watch supervisor put a disc with the name Outkast in the cd player, and looked over at a quiet white dude from Iowa, and said. “Merritt, I’m going to blackmatize yo ayeiss”
We didn’t see black and white. We only saw red and green while troubleshooting communication circuits on an island in the Pacific.
Watch Supe: “Merritt, that light is red mother fucker.”
Comm Operator: “I’m colorblind mother fucker. Are we going to open the safe and fix this or continue playing guess the color of the light on the Christmas Tree? “
Comm Operator 2: “Oh Shit, The quiet kid got jokes.”
For me, Chonkyfire by Outkast was a merger of the sound of the Epiphone Explorer in my barracks room and the beats in my friend’s car that helped me see past the limited view provided by the neighborhood that raised me. At the same time, I began to better understand this world and all of God’s children living within it as I served in various locations across this Earth from 1997 – 2017.
“Do you know what it brings rats, mice, snakes up out of they hole
Artist: Outkast, Album: Aquemini, Track: Chonkyfire, 29 SEP 1998, LaFace – Arista
Chonkyfire, spliced with rock ‘n’ roll indubitably, piper pied”
We do not know the contents of our soul until someone that thinks, speaks, or looks different from us moves into the home next to ours. Yet, at the same time, we see, and others witness the actions we choose to execute while we hear the sound of a different voice or see a different skin color next to our own.
I spent my entire life under a ship’s metaphysical ship sail. I now hunt down the unethical’s paper trail. I will not fail.
“But, it’s like this though, I am tired of folks, you know what I’m saying. The Closed-minded folks, you know what I’m saying. It’s like we got a demo tape, but nobody wanna hear it, but it’s like. this the South got something to say. Thats all I got to say.”
-Andre 3000, 1995 Source Awards, Best New Artist Group Acceptance Speech
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
1st Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America
“No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.”
5th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
Section 1 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America
“Political power. All political power is inherent in the people. Government is instituted for the protection, security, and benefit of the people, and they have the right, at all times, to alter or reform the same, whenever the public good may require it.”
Section 2 of Article 1 of the Constitution of the State of Iowa
“Laws uniform. All laws of a general nature shall have a uniform operation; the general assembly shall not grant to any citizen, or class of citizens, privileges or immunities, which, upon the same terms shall not equally belong to all citizens.”
Section 6 of Article 1 of the Constitution of the State of Iowa
“Liberty of speech and press. Every person may speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right. No law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libel, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury, and if it appears* to the jury that the matter charged as libellous was true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted. *In the original text, the word is “appear”, see original Constitution, Art. I, §7″
Section 7 of Article 1 of the Constitution of the State of Iowa
“Right of trial by jury — due process of law. The right of trial by jury shall remain inviolate; but the general assembly may authorize trial by a jury of a less number than twelve men in inferior courts; but no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”
Section 9 of Article 1 of the Constiution of the State of Iowa
“Rights of persons accused. In all criminal prosecutions, and in cases involving the life, or liberty of an individual the accused shall have a right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury; to be informed of the accusation against him, to have a copy of the same when demanded; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for his witnesses; and, to have the assistance of counsel.”
Section 10 of Article 1 of the Constitution of the State of Iowa
Do not have an expectation that the duct tape placed on my mouth will stay.
If you lack the courage to arrest me for the words I have to say,
clear a path and get out of my mother fucking way.
“Don’t pull the thang out, unless you plan to bang
Artist: Outkast, Album: Stankonia, Track: B.O.B., 31 OCT 2000, LaFace – Arista
Bombs over Baghdad (yeah, yeah)
Don’t even bang unless you plan to hit something
Bombs over Baghdad (yeah, uh)
Don’t pull the thang out, unless you plan to bang
Bombs over Baghdad, yeah (ha, ha, ha)
Don’t even bang unless you plan to hit something
Bombs over Baghdad”
Legal Disclaimer: This creative writing work was created by a twenty-year honorably discharged veteran who has never violated our laws or been charged with a crime. A Veteran falsely accused of criminal acts by the malicious and unethical that evidence indicates were involved or failed to take action regarding the interstate concealment of the author’s children during his investigation in the States of California, Iowa, and Montana.
The shoe fits don’t it. While you sit there hiding your last bone nut behind your church donut.
