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   Working Class History (workingclasshistory@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 05:24:47 JST Working Class History

   #OtD 25 Aug 2020 Anthony Huber, Joseph Rosenbaum and Gaige Grosskreutz were protesting a police shooting of an unarmed Black man in Kenosha, Wisconsin, when a teenager shot them with an illegal semiautomatic rifle. The killer was acquitted of all charges https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9719/kenosha-killings?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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     Shannon Skinner (she/her) (shansterable@c.im)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 05:24:47 JST Shannon Skinner (she/her)

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     @workingclasshistory
     On the day Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted, November 19, 2021, I wrote a poem:

     Decency on Trial

     Many mourn the outcome of the Rittenhouse trial 
     Say he should be sentenced 
     For murder or manslaughter
     Or SOMETHING 
     For sure, some men were slaughtered
     By a boy

     Our country took the stand along with boy Kyle 
     We sat slumped and soiled
     A putrid pile
     Of steaming failures
     Malodorous culture 
     Vigilante fashion

     Despair and inequity from a system so vile 
     Justice served from a pit toilet
     Is still justice
     Neck deep in status quo
     A toxic breakdown
     The death of our decency

     #USPol #USPolitics #KyleRittenhouse #Fascism #AmericanFascism #Justice