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Please bear with me for a moment. In April 2021 In Minneapolis. Daunte Wright was killed by the police. In the ensuing social media melee, someone on Facebook provided the comment that appears as the title. I was stunned and saddened that a so-called human being could actually write this, let alone believe it. I guess I shouldn't be, but it just is amazing that someone would actually write this reprehensible statement. As a result, I've come up the two “verses” as a response. Albeit a tepid response.
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It really makes me sick
All the social media clicks
From the moralistic hicks
With a so-called easy fix
As long as they're not white it's all right
How life has been devalued
By such a callous attitude
With a lot of anonymous latitude
And nauseous sense of rectitude
As long as they're not white it's all right
I feel like just regurgitating
It's pointless to keep debating
A human you're impersonating
We know you like exterminating
As long as they're not white it's all right
You have no sense of empathy
Yet you wallow in some religiosity
But it's just a sadistic sophistry
That leads to an increasing animosity 
As long as they're not white it's all right 
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I bow to you in humble inferiority because you are obviously a paragon of moral virtue and rectitude. I can only guess that your parental skills are beyond reproach. I have to believe that when you are not espousing parables of truth and virtue, you are constantly re-reading the Bible to reinforce your faith in your religion and the Golden Rule. That your faith in you fellow man has nothing to do with skin color, heritage or sexuality.

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