- Rising Sun All Stars
‘Tis the season, y’all—tree lightings, schmaltz, crass commercialism—but please excuse this program interruption. Please step lightly over the live bodies dying-in at your favorite retail outlet, protesting in the middle of your yuletide traditions, choking out big-box stores like the Darren Wilson–supporting Walmart. If you’re planning on tweeting ignorant racist bullshit, make sure to keep your profile public so the online masses can mobilize to get your homely ass fired from your hosting job at TGI Friday’s or whatever.
Would you give a fuck about tradition if you’d just watched your father asphyxiate on a sidewalk as the cops who choked the life from his frame stood around and stared at him—for seven minutes? Would you give a fuck about holiday cheer if your man, who you were just walking down the stairs with, suddenly caught a bullet in the chest from a nervous rookie? If your brother got shot down like a dog in a Walmart aisle for holding a toy gun—or in a park for playing with one by himself—wouldn’t you want to shut this whole motherfucking thing down? Especially if the grand-jury process failed you over and over and over in quick succession? Wouldn’t you put your body out in the street, out on the highway…