Charleston Dance Poem by Jan Oskar Hansen

Charleston Dance

In white America there is a fear of black people the slaves
that dared answer back it has its heart in the idea of
white supremacies. Sometimes I think to be black in USA
is like being Jewish in Nazi Germany, killings and arbitrary
arresting of people who look different.

A TV program: heavily armed police descend down a black
district, they look like an invading force it is easy stop people
and since most of them have marijuana in their pockets and
cars, the handcuffs come out and guns are drawn for what is
technically a misdemeanour.

And then the big insult, the police parking a posh car in a poor
district with keys in the ignition and open doors and since
the poor of America are mostly poor some uneducated idiots
are likely to try stealing the car. Of course they are caught and
more blacks fill what are mostly privatized jails. Something smells
bad and you need not be a Hamlet. This great country we know it
is an illusion in fact USA is a country where the gun rules, but such
is its propaganda by press and TV lords it gets its poor people to
fight its wars.