Sexy in Red

Wear the Damn Body Cam!

Wear the Damn Body Cam!

We still feel the sting suffered by Rodney King, we still see the cops doing their own thing and we still hear the angels sing!  We have attempted to discuss how trust is a bust yet they look to throw us under the bus and so we now have a sore that's full of pus.  Our children continue to be marred and scarred as they are put down hard as if to be feathered and tarred!

We do not rest because we stand in protest of each and every deadly arrest.  The badge shines brightly and more than slightly on the policeman's chest.  So it is that I ask the question as to why an officer would not want to wear a damn body cam when it would provide proof of his truth.  Why would you aim at our youth only to again fire your gun to only have a story about what was said and done?  You have something that would exonerate you and that would show us that you are not at odds with properly doing your job.  Doing so would give you the ability to walk away with us having little if anything to say but you seem to not want us to see such a day.  Know that we're not just going to sit down and pray!

It's not that we choose to believe what we perceive.  It has been captured in full view that thing you do and so we know not to be alone without a cell phone.  We know to have one wherever we go and I now have come to heave to believe that we too should swear to wear a damn body cam!  One way or another there is a truth that we are going to uncover and it is one that we have seen to be obscene as blood marks the spot of every crime scene where it is a young brother of color.

If overall the officers of today showed a willingness to wear a damn body cam then this would go a long way towards letting us know that they feel us and that they too have concerns about what kills us.  Another story we cannot trust is yet another one of us biting the dust just because it is perceived to be believed we commit crimes all of the time.  Do you not hear the chimes?  It is a bell that yells of how another tree was felled because a cop was chopping wood as hard as he could!  The explanation is that he was just following proper procedure with which to protect and serve and so another bullet has struck a nerve where the perpetrator got what he allegedly deserved!

So it is that we experience another news report where another grand jury has chosen to abort the court.  The views of the opposing side again have been denied and so another brother has died, another cop is not tried and so another mother has cried.  This is why we still feel the sting suffered by Rodney King.  This is why we do not want cops to keep on doing their own thing, this is why at another funeral we can hear the angels sing and this is why the police should wear the damn body cam!

Orrin K. Loftin, Explorer

Copyright?  When the cops loudly protest to request the damn body cam

December 29^th, 2014

 

 



Groundbreaking "Reflections"

Of this Earth

Of this Earth

There are many animals of this earth.  It is why we are so diverse.  It is what makes so wondrous this universe.  What is unfortunate is our need to feed.  What is unfortunate is that we kill for a meal and what is unfortunate is that many of us don't care about the error in our terror.

We tend to the flocks of meek sheep.  We lend sweat to the brow to raise a cow and we abominably overstuff our pigs so that we might eat all of the meat only to let fall to the floor that which we cannot consume anymore.  We don't even care about tossing scraps to the poor.

So what of that which we defeat to eat?  So what of the carrion that we dice to spice and garnish with rice and so what for we belch only to make more room to consume doom?  Most of us would be quiet as a mouse if we visited a slaughter house.

When the axe falls does nature call?  Are we sure we are so pure when we watch the buckskins cure?  Are we so malevolent that we cannot see the tragedy of lives cut short just so we can brandish our steely knives and short lived lives where we celebrate the history of stoking the rotisserie?  We act as though we'd be ashamed if we were caught to be fraught with the thought that for far too long we have been dead wrong.

There is no sense in tendering an apology when we now have the technology.  Indeed it is pathetic now that we have a clearer understanding of genetics.  This coupled with our understanding of nutrition demands the mission that we create that which we put on our plates.  We can fix the taste so as to remove that frown on your face and at the same time we could live longer and prove to be that much stronger.

What we could and should do is stop the slaughter of our wild kingdom just for the sake of a medium rare steak.  Yes this is hard because there is hypocrisy with regard to what you and I should do.  Our fellow brethren have no defense given that we've corralled most of them in a fence.  It's like we get a thrill out of roping and branding our next meal.  How would you feel if you were next to be killed?

There are many animals of this earth.  We treat them as if they are not of any worth.  We feel them to kill them over our need to feed and over our sense of greed.  We need to stop before the last weasel goes pop!  Our ambition should be to find another way to suffice our nutrition, otherwise the demise is written in their eyes.  Read it and heed it.

Orrin K. Loftin, Explorer

Copyright?  When even the lambs in Vietnam need to be saved from being damned.

April 6^th, 2015