Neighborly Chat

Eve of Flag Day – 2020

“I don’t see color,” he said in the cool June evening:

- the subject of conversation – racism.

“I hope they don’t overplay their hand,” he continued.

Perched on the precipice of white privilege,

not seeing ‘color’ is the systemic DNA of the USA.

Blacks are 13% of the USA,

yet, 38% of that population is imprisoned,

yet, 30% are affected by COVID-19.

Innocent protesters pepper sprayed in DC by the FBI.

And we still don’t see color?

We remain unrepentant in a smug cliché.

The world is a technicolor globe with a myriad

of shades of skin.

Only when we see all the colors

will white folks be free.

Kenn Storck

June 14, 2020