this is not a fluke at all

I am see­ing SO many peo­ple vouch for the death penal­ty for the cop who mur­dered George Floyd.

This is not some anom­aly. It’s not like cops are vi­o­lent and fucked up and we don’t know why be­cause the rest of the jus­tice sys­tem works hunky fuck­ing dory.

It’s not like cops tar­get black peo­ple and then the courts are like “this is bizarre, send them home!”

It’s not like cops ar­rest­ed the Cen­tral Park 5 and then the courts didn’t send all these in­no­cent young men to jail for years.

Mak­ing the courts as they ex­ist stronger, mak­ing the prison in­dus­tri­al com­plex as it ex­ists more valid, isn’t go­ing to do a fuck­ing thing about po­lice brutality!

Like, let’s look at rape for a second. 

Rape is con­sid­ered legal­ly and cul­tur­al­ly ab­hor­rent. The con­se­quences for sex­u­al vi­o­lence are se­vere: Of­ten you spend a life­time on a reg­istry, if not in prison. 

This has not less­ened sex­u­al vi­o­lence! This has made sex­u­al vi­o­lence SIG­NIF­I­CANT­LY HARD­ER TO PROVE. Be­cause the peo­ple who sur­vive sex­u­al vi­o­lence of­ten don’t cul­tur­al­ly mat­ter enough to risk throw­ing the book at an in­no­cent white guy. 

It’s naive to think it’s not go­ing to play out the ex­act same way try­ing to pros­e­cute police.

We have to ac­knowl­edge that the sys­tems Amer­i­ca is built on are func­tion­al­ly evil. 

It doesn’t mat­ter whether a spe­cif­ic mem­ber of the groups who up­hold these sys­tems are good or not. 

We need to get brave enough to piv­ot to new sys­tems. We need to get healed enough to let go of this idea that pass­ing on the suf­fer­ing is the same as re­solv­ing it. Name­ly, the peo­ple who are priv­i­leged enough to only get to think about this shit ab­stract­ly and ul­ti­mate­ly have at­tach­ments to every­thing as it ex­ists, RE­AL­LY need to heal enough to let that idea go. 

And we need to do it quickly.

 

—mel­ony ppenosyne

Flom­mist Mel­ony Ppenosyne is a writer and weird artist type. In the last year alone, she’s trav­eled to Vir­ginia as a com­pet­ing poet, co-writ­ten a play on men­tal ill­ness that is present­ly be­ing pro­duced, and craft­ed a pub­lished es­say check­ing the priv­i­lege and scope of art gal­leries. Copy­right © 2020 Mel­ony Ppenosyne.

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