End the Violence, End the Hate!

END THE VIOLENCE, END THE HATE!
 
There are no roundups of
White supremacists when they kill
We’ve been told they always act alone
Just for the thrill
Consciously and deliberately
Targeting Jews, African-Americans and Latinos
Non-white immigrants…the “others”
Trophies for a pose
 
Raze a federal building with lives inside
Death blasts, killing children, women and men
Two get caught and that’s the end
The investigation stops, okay to do it again
Abortion doctors fear for their lives
Verbal insults transform into death acts
Not even a church or synagogue is sanctuary
Smiling denials approve of the attacks
 
There are no roundups of
White supremacists when they kill
The war on terrorism is suspended
When white right-wing racists fit the bill
How many more people must die
Before fanatics are held for their actions?
When will congressmen stop being apologists
And stop calling for retractions?
 
Abortion foes, minutemen, Nazis, skin-heads, Klan
Tactical proper nouns for racism, death and hate
Wrapped in a shield of red, white and blue
Cross in one hand, gun in the other, to intimidate
Are these the heroes of the status quo?
Are these the “silent-majority” of this land?
These demagogues of puritanism
Or are they a well armed minority, an outlaw band?
 
There are no roundups of
White supremacists when they kill
For fear of denying their
First Amendment rights to blood spill
But we remember when defenders
Of Democracy, equity and peace
As they mounted human and civil rights struggles
As courts deferred the constitution to racist police
 
Black civil rights marchers beaten and imprisoned
Japanese arrested, relocated and incarcerated
August 29th Chicano anti-war marchers
Attacked, clubbed, maced, and arrested,
FBI attacks at Wounded Knee
To prevent Native People’s from self determination
Muslims targeted because they are vulnerable
Scapegoats of the war for oil and regional destabilization
 
 
There are no roundups of
White supremacists when they kill
In a double standard of law
They do as they wish, do as they will?
No to the Klan and their racist brothers!
Stop the violence!  Stop the hate!
End terrorism wrapped in red, white and blue
End it now, before it’s too late!
 
--Joe Navarro
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