Lest we (are so privileged to) forget

Please let us not fool ourselves into thinking that our government has only just recently...as in drones...begun to use military weapons of war against people on this land.

We must remember the military was called up less than 25 years after the constitution was signed, to continue and finish off the decimation of Native peoples. 

Black people were BOMBED from a police helicopter in Philadelphia in the 80's, murdering 11 people including 5 children. 

Tear gas, a chemical weapon of war, has been used against citizens of this country for almost 100 years.

Military grade weapons and 'toys' have been dumped onto local police departments since Clinton declared his tough on crime stance and since the military had/has a huge surplus of excess weapons of war. 

And escalated since fuckin home fuckin land fuckin security took over after 9/11. We've witnessed all kinds of tanks and ugly armored vehicles driving around our city streets, let alone drones flying overhead.

Some of us have been able to avoid seeing let alone feeling this white male domination of violence, this stealth (to some) police/military state that has characterized our country from the very beginning - similar to how my father, a white man - and all white people - knew what roads to navigate around Black neighborhoods so we never could see, never knew who we were sharing a city with.

Weeeeellllll now we know. Now there is no blind eye to turn, thank the goddesses for cell phone cameras and the internet.

See you in the streets!