new white lies old

we have seen this picture

       before.

 they lied,

 all men were not created

 equal.

from Fugitive Slave

        Clause

through to Fugitive Slave Act and

Dred Scott,

we have seen this picture

before. 

Chief Justice said,

          “no

black man has rights a white man

need respect.”

we have seen this picture

before.

from Radical Reconstruction

through

to Jim Crow, from "Strange Fruit" to KKK white sheets and

burning Crosses to blue-

uniformed murder,

we have seen this picture

before:

MAGA Trump new white lies

old,

we have

seen this picture before ...

"E pluribus unum"

("Out of many, one.")