I am not woke...

Written December 2020

I am not woke. I am simply tired. I am tired of people dying. I am tired of it being done in my name, paid for by my tax dollars and sanctioned by the government officials who claim to represent me.

This is not a new problem. This is the same problem with a hastily made disguise thinly veiling the state sanctioned white supremacy. In our names the government and their out of control police force are trampling our siblings. 

Your people were no longer enslaved? Then they will pipeline you directly from poverty to prison. Every disadvantage will be yours. Lack of resources, culturally accepted tropes of the hardened will of the down trodden, massive bias against you in everything from legal proceedings to housing, you will have it all.

I am not woke. But I am very, very tired. When you fight back, you are killed. I cannot even imagine how tired you must be.