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elieve they matter more than all the other human beings on this planet.</p><p id="e502">Look, I’m white, and I’m old, which makes me an old white codger and supposedly set in my ways. Maybe I am, but my ways ain’t killing somebody because of the color of their skin.</p><p id="a01f">I’m not into preying on the less fortunate because I’m a police goon, armed and ready for a fight and my intended target de jour isn’t armed. Or brutalizing someone because of their sexual preferences, or their religious beliefs.</p><p id="2cf6">I don’t want us to return to a normal where these people are allowed to coexist with us and continue to spew hatred for POC. I don’t ever want us to return to a normal where members of Gestapo-like law enforcement agencies have full impunity to terrorize the poor and impoverished.</p><p id="03de">I will not tolerate a normal where police have the authority to shoot first and protect later as they deal out death to the POC citizens of this nation. Where a supposedly “respected” member of law enforcement can terrorize a race of people simply because the police person just happens to be white and have a gun strapped to their hip.</p><p id="f34c">I don’t want this supposed normal political state where from the top-down, leaders of this nation are nothing but liers and ass kissers of a totally moronic baboon, and they all seem willing to sacrifice the lives of the very people who voted them into office to save an economy shredded by a pandemic.</p><p id="dcf1">People are dying you morons.</p><p id="ca36">What’s normal about people being trampled on, or singled out because of the color of one’s skin, brutalized and shunned because of someone’s sexual state, or preference?</p><p id="251d">What the hell is normal about that?</p><p id="1371">What’s normal about entire communities being

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undermined by privileged white industrialists who care nothing for the good of the people, and are willing to shut a plant down effectively dismantling a town’s economic health with one single blow?</p><p id="67cd">Here’s the deal. There ain’t a damn thing normal about any of the shit I just mentioned. Unfortunately, it’s what a shit ton of people are itching to get back to.</p><p id="2011" type="7">We need to change people. This is our moment.</p><p id="a627">Before the bastards of privilege and tyranny have the chance to retake control. Before law enforcement as a whole can sweep the deaths of innocent POC under their blue rugs of secrecy. We need to change people. This is our moment. We have a chance to get this shit clean, off of our streets and out of the White House, and it’s not just by voting.</p><p id="f5c6" type="7">It’s by changing.</p><p id="91b7">Never again should we stand by and let people of color take the hit and because we’re white sit back and say or do nothing because we’re afraid of the backlash.</p><p id="628f">Try dying at the hands of the police on a city street because you were walking with your hands in your pockets, and a squad of goons decided to jack you up and then shoot your ass for “resisting arrest.”</p><p id="15d8" type="7">How’s that for backlash?</p><p id="7cda">Change people. Mentally and physically change. Don’t wait for normal to return because the way I see it, the normal we have now is pretty damned shitty. Change it now, so when we finally get a chance to roll it out, we will all have made a real damned difference.</p><h1 id="f052">Thank you so much for reading. You didn’t have to, but I’m certainly glad you did.</h1><p id="4abe">Let’s keep in touch: [email protected]</p><p id="63d8"><i>© P.G. Barnett, 2020. All Rights Reserved.</i></p></article></body>

Many Of Us Don’t Want To Go Back To Normal

Atrocities inflicted against other human beings isn’t very normal

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Dear Lord, how many times have I read it in an article or heard someone mention they can’t wait for things to settle down and get back to normal.

Really?

Not me. In fact, I’m terrified of things returning to a state they once were. Oh, don’t get me wrong, I would dearly love the day when there isn’t some card-carrying asymptomatic loon out there refusing to wear a mask strolling about doling out possible death to everyone they sneeze or cough or spit on.

This is Texas, where I take up residence, remember? Yeah, we have a shit ton of stupid folks walking around here people.

I would love to hold my newest grandbaby until she fills her diaper and then promptly give her back to her mom and dad. Nowadays, I only get to watch on Zoom as the parents twist their faces in disgust when Piper drops her toxic, and I do mean toxic, payload.

I would love to take walks in the park without being forced to dodge the runners and cyclists who get too close to my baby and me.

But that’s not the “normal” I don’t want to ever, ever see again. The normal I’m talking about, and the normal I don’t ever want to see again is these privileged white sons of bitches, and the bitches and bastards who spawned them who honestly believe they matter more than all the other human beings on this planet.

Look, I’m white, and I’m old, which makes me an old white codger and supposedly set in my ways. Maybe I am, but my ways ain’t killing somebody because of the color of their skin.

I’m not into preying on the less fortunate because I’m a police goon, armed and ready for a fight and my intended target de jour isn’t armed. Or brutalizing someone because of their sexual preferences, or their religious beliefs.

I don’t want us to return to a normal where these people are allowed to coexist with us and continue to spew hatred for POC. I don’t ever want us to return to a normal where members of Gestapo-like law enforcement agencies have full impunity to terrorize the poor and impoverished.

I will not tolerate a normal where police have the authority to shoot first and protect later as they deal out death to the POC citizens of this nation. Where a supposedly “respected” member of law enforcement can terrorize a race of people simply because the police person just happens to be white and have a gun strapped to their hip.

I don’t want this supposed normal political state where from the top-down, leaders of this nation are nothing but liers and ass kissers of a totally moronic baboon, and they all seem willing to sacrifice the lives of the very people who voted them into office to save an economy shredded by a pandemic.

People are dying you morons.

What’s normal about people being trampled on, or singled out because of the color of one’s skin, brutalized and shunned because of someone’s sexual state, or preference?

What the hell is normal about that?

What’s normal about entire communities being undermined by privileged white industrialists who care nothing for the good of the people, and are willing to shut a plant down effectively dismantling a town’s economic health with one single blow?

Here’s the deal. There ain’t a damn thing normal about any of the shit I just mentioned. Unfortunately, it’s what a shit ton of people are itching to get back to.

We need to change people. This is our moment.

Before the bastards of privilege and tyranny have the chance to retake control. Before law enforcement as a whole can sweep the deaths of innocent POC under their blue rugs of secrecy. We need to change people. This is our moment. We have a chance to get this shit clean, off of our streets and out of the White House, and it’s not just by voting.

It’s by changing.

Never again should we stand by and let people of color take the hit and because we’re white sit back and say or do nothing because we’re afraid of the backlash.

Try dying at the hands of the police on a city street because you were walking with your hands in your pockets, and a squad of goons decided to jack you up and then shoot your ass for “resisting arrest.”

How’s that for backlash?

Change people. Mentally and physically change. Don’t wait for normal to return because the way I see it, the normal we have now is pretty damned shitty. Change it now, so when we finally get a chance to roll it out, we will all have made a real damned difference.

Thank you so much for reading. You didn’t have to, but I’m certainly glad you did.

Let’s keep in touch: [email protected]

© P.G. Barnett, 2020. All Rights Reserved.

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