Poet Aries Jordan on The Color of Law

The color of law 


by 


Aries jordan
Stand your ground when  you'er killing society's undesirables
It's rationalized to kill a little Black boy 
And have an international movement to arrest the killer
But when you declare you will not be used as a punching bag for your boyfriends rage
and stand your ground during his usual beat downs 
Which happen like clock work
You put under the jail
We where hoodies in solidarity 
Piss on the judicial system with clarity
Young folks chant at marches for there future children
Demanding just for all of our babies killed under the law
The Emmett Tills, Sean bells, Amadou Diallos the Oscar Grants 
The countless women who don't make  headlines
Sodomized and victimized as they watch 
Their family brutalized under the color of law
We have heard so many times public officials call conferences
To pledge there commitment to investigating these matters
And retraining there law enforcement
A line taken from the secret training manual  the Art of White Supremacy
We know the color of law in a "colorblind" society
Not a full spectrum of the rain bow but black and white
Depending where you at on the color scale determines your outcome
Brown, black and deep yellow you too bias or impartial for jury selection
They say justice is blind but it damn sure got a color
Red, White and Blue
When a white man shoots up a movie theater
His defense team goes straight for the insanity plea
Cause there is no way a White college student could do this
He must have feel through the cracks
had a break down
Because he is not from a line of people that would do that
Black, brown and deep Yellow its apart of your DNA 
Another story to make the evening news confirming your inferiority
Brown with straight black hair, 
Terrorist 
Suicide bomber
Death penalty
Life in prison
no top psychologist 
No debate on every channel of the news
Stand your ground but you better not cross that color line
you might be charged with assaulting an officer
resisting arrest
interfering in police matters.
The color of law
red for the blood shed by the people of the world who have resisted and rejected the  color scheme of law
 the blood of genocide, enslavement, Jim crow, segregation,
 imminent domain, prison industrial complex system and gentrification
White for white supremacy which has weaved its way into every corner of the world
Blue for the blues that has always been the soundtrack of this country
Blue for the water filled with tears of the innocent 
Tears and screams muffled, muted, maimed under the color of law

Peace, Aries Jordan

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Note by Marvin X: We were just informed today, August 3, 2012, that one of the street persons who stopped by Academy of da Corner often, was beaten to death by her boyfriend by Lake Merritt in Oakland. He remained at the scene of the crime to confess this murder of passion, but we know it was a case of persons suffering severe mental illness and drug addiction or the dual diagnosed. We remember both parties, young, in their thirties, she from Africa, he, a North American African. What does all this matter?