UPDATE: Since this article, News Beat Media has re-released their "Radical Caucasian Extremism" episode! As an artist-in-residence at US News Beat, I was super interested in this topic. I honestly spent about 2 weeks researching Right Wing Radicalism. If you get a moment, please do listen to the episode and subscribe to News Beat!
It's Wednesday afternoon. Day 278ish of quarantine. You’ve had your tea, a vegan lunch and now you’ve decided to roll out that yoga mat for a little afternoon meditative movement. Then, out of nowhere... "Hark, what’s that I hear"? "Dixie Land"? Is that you at the door o’er yonder?
[Pause]
"Chickens Come Home to Roost"
definition:
One’s previous actions will eventually have consequences or cause problems for oneself.
In 1809, Robert Southey wrote, “Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost” ( The Curse of Kehama). Southey was figuratively describing what young chicks always do at the end of the day- they return home [to sleep]. However, the way that Malcolm used it in 1963 was to as to frankly describe karma and not a curse in that one day America will be "begetting" all the violence it had begotten.
That day wasn't yesterday, but it definitely looked like it:
I'm not here to repeat the sentiments of so many others:
"If they were black.." or "If that was BLM..."
Clearly, we live in 2 Americas, so there's that!
"What's the definition of sedition, again?"
"Where are the 'Blue Lives Matter' People, now?"
Clearly in the crowd (both sides- one unlocking the doors in their badges and one smashing them in dressed in plain clothes.)
if the day the chickens came home was a photo:
I am here to pose other questions instead:
How are you protecting yourself?
What worked and what failed?
How can we make our voices and our actions louder than this mob?
Think about it...
I love you all dearly.
CONFEDERACY 1 - 'MERICA 0
PS. Don't you not never in yearn life message me 'bout destroying no damn property again- yahearme, boi? ( I had to use double negatives and say it in "Dixie" for them to understand. lol)