My Homies Doing the Right Thing

"But my homies/ fought back/ against such disgrace,/ all up in ICE’s face,/ saying you can’t do this here . . ." by Ernie McCray

So proud of my old neighbors,
Golden Hill/South Park folks,
standing up to Trump’s
Immigration and Customs Enforcement goons
who, out of the blue,
in a style much like a military platoon,
descended on workers
at Buona Forchetta,
one of the hood’s
fine eating places,
bringing darkness
and gloom
to what was,
before they suddenly popped up,
a beautiful bright
Friday afternoon.
 
Oh, I could dropkick
all who had anything to do with that,
to the moon.
But my homies
fought back
against such disgrace,
all up in ICE’s face,
saying you can’t do this here,
just rolling up on people
and asking them to show their ID’s,
playing on their fears,
pushing them up against walls
and handcuffing and locking them up and all,
illustrating to other communities
in the nation
what it takes
to right wrongs,
especially at a time
when it seems
that everything that can go wrong
has gone wrong.
 
And there’s nothing than can be
more wrong for us
than allowing ourselves
to give into fascism,
a state of being we’re in
in these very moments in time.
It’s a struggle we have to win.
 
As for me,
I’m all in.

Ernie McCray is an activist for love and peace who acts and sings and writes both poetry and prose, a man who rises each day to do whatever he can, no matter how small or grand, to make the world better in some way.

Unapologetically.