How Much America??!!

Written by Tyrone A. Gaskins, ©2007

 

How much America will you take?

While your leaders lie to you and you lie to yourself?

In the name of national security?

Forsaking progressive and untried solutions

To America’s problems and to world peace?

 

America dies because its leaders lie

We are disillusioned and ill informed

Our civil liberties steadily dwindle

As anarchy is kindled within our borders

Within our homes and neighborhoods

Bred by a mass electronic saturation of the people

With the opiate mind numbing nonsense that is

Hyper violence, Hyper Sexuality, Hyper drive, Hyper speed

On laptops, Androids, smartphones, High Definition TV across the prairies

 

America dies because its leaders lie

We approach anarchy in the US of A

That is an unyielding state of arrogance and agitation

As daily drive-bys and shoot outs in cities across America

Kill scores and scores of black, Hispanic and even white youth

Maiming and killing innocent children and onlookers

As others in America arm themselves in the name of Christ, Armageddon and profit

At gun shows across the prairies

 

No shortage of teenagers committing mass murder

Or lack of serial killers

Sociopaths bred and raised by the dashed

Hopes and dreams of their parents

Bursting in air, under the rocket’s red glare

Of mediocrity and deteriorating quality of life

Parents controlled and fearful of their children

Illegal slave trades supporting child prostitution and other underground economies

And then there are the terrorists

I don’t know whose inhumanity and deceit to believe

Theirs or America’s?

 

Pharmaceuticals illegal for sale here at home

But infecting people around the world with HIV

A nickel bag of crack can mandate lengthy sentences for people of color

While congress continues to cover up cocaine in air force hangars

And drug distribution targeted for urban areas in coordination with the cartels

And the privileged sniff that powder without rebuke or penalty

And doctors prescribe mood altering drugs and hormonal cures

For how you feel and heal

And the medical industry blocks solutions in the last G7 nation

Not to  have real national health care

Because too many of our leaders don’t really care about how we feel and heal

 

How much America will you take?

While your leaders lie to you and you lie to yourselves?

In the name of a patriotic fellowship

Forsaking progressive and untried solutions

To America’s problems and to world peace?

 

America dies because it leaders lie.

Hypocrisy is kindled in our churches and houses of worship

Bred by preachers who put themselves ahead of their congregations

Bred by congregates who divide themselves in the name of Christ

Bred by a fear of damnation if I accept that another theology

Might also be a legitimate pathway to God!

Last time I checked

God’s omniscience and supreme authority

Was sovereign judge alone

 

But pastor says only “our” theology can get us into Heaven

Boy don’t you know only Christ can bring that blessin’

Truth be told, I more interested in learning to see God in self and others

More interested in helping my sisters and my brothers

More interested in evolving humanity’s thinking and feeling toward the TRUTH that is God!!

Than I will ever be in the conventional and prescribed theology, theocracy

And the intentional misrepresentations of history and HIStory!

 

America dies because its leaders lie

Under the guise of a democratic society

That divides and stereotypes at every opportunity

With a vehement racism toward folks who are black, brown, yellow and that Arab fellow

In the name of techno security he gettin’ us all grilled

 

But still the courts and pundits tell u

Racism is anesthetized

You know its subliminal, contextual , its clinical and incidental

Not an embedded historical precedence and human pathology

That Americans continue to hide from and deny

As everything off color is demonized, minimized and persecuted and considered traitorous

So my hopes and dreams for all our children become more fearful yo…

As ultra religious extremism, circumscribed civil liberties and xenophobia rise to sit beside it

IN the name of Jesus…

As if the four horsemen are drawing their swords

 

The Anglo Saxon moralistic minority

Have forgotten the history of Roman persecution

When Christianity was beginning its dominion

But they have remembered the Christian Crusades

And how religious war used to strip indigenous peoples

Of their culture, land and resources

And now we drop bomb on Saudi Arabia and Iraq in anti-Islamic fervor

To protect the oil rich interests of Haliburton and the Kochs

While successive generations of leadership in this country

Continue to hold us hostage to Hoover

In the name of a Judeo Christian ethic and the old red, white and blue

That masks a fear of anything other than itself

 

They forget the genocide of the Jews

Was for the sake of Anglo Saxon and Germanic fears

Of difference and intolerance

Medieval Europe or Adolph Hitler

Same shit, same and new demographics

 

We now justify the racism America and Israel promote in the Middle East

And subsidize the genocidal triage of other world countries

While encouraging slavery abroad and  a rabid xenophobia here at home

As we destabilize our constitution building gates around our borders

Ya’ll do know that Dubya  sanctioned illegal wiretaps on any and all Americans

And “O” certified detention without cause as a presidential perk

And the last Pope used 14th century rhetoric to promote 21st century religious war

And we have genocide in Dafar

After genocide in Rwanda

After genocide in Bosnia and Croatia

After the Khmer Rouge and genocide in Cambodia

DeFacto Genocide in Pupua New New Guinea, Sierra Leone, New Orleans and Puerto Rico

And these are just a few examples in my lifetime

 

My God America, how much will you take?

While your leaders lie to you and you lie to yourself!!

In the name of a techno fascist order

Promoting itself as democratic best practice

With a carnal and depraved need for an enemy

The American Asili has declared

War on natives and Africans, war on communism, war on poverty, war against hunger

War on crime, war against drugs, war against terrorism

You tell me what is the operative word?

 

 

See the capitalist order to which we’ve ascribed

Is dying on the inside

And our heroes are just too tired to try

Our children too preoccupied to fly

And our leadership don’t care if we die

 

So they manipulate our fears

Using the social collective, our national psyche, theology and technology

A psyche now intentionally mis-educated and schizophrenic and easy to control

Arrogant and unremorseful these men are

As they take up their armor

And program their disciples and unconscious operatives

Their long histories of coercive, illegal and regressive policies

These privileged infidels have honed their deceit and indolent practices

To stoke the fortunes and power

Of a few greedy warmongers

And a few greedy families for many successive generations now

These people are prepared to post traumatically stress your children and you

For the rest of your lives

While their charges promote drunkenness and debauchery at Ivy League colleges

And become presidents who reap the profits of war…