Up, Dead Child, Defend Yourself.

[sheshe2]

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https://www.facebook.com/MissREVOLutionaries/photos/a.367921429939084.89256.367732726624621/766843160046907/?type=1&theater

[napkinz]

1. K&R!

thank you for sharing that poem, sheshe

[sheshe2]

6. Yes...

I will say this again, though I have been ridiculed here for saying it. I am crying here, napkinz. I cry.

[napkinz]

8. I wasn't aware others had ridiculed you ... I'm so sorry

{{{sheshe}}}

[sheshe2]

11. Yup! Right here on DU.

As emotions clash here on so many issues...I guess it is not allowed on my OP. Ya. Silly me....

Here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025408826#post76

Powerful images napkinz, Thank you!

[mcar]

13. I saw that sheshe2

Shame on them. Shame.

How anyone keeps a dry eye during this, I do not know.

Thanks for continuing to remind us what's at stake here.

[sheshe2]

16. mcar...

I thank you...

It took me by surprise...then it did not. Michael does not matter to some. When you can take a dump on this President, nothing else matters. Not justice just more hate.

[mcar]

20. Too true

I don't post much out of sheer frustration. I keep hoping and pushing for change. I pray Michael's murder will bring that change in, is it outlook, attitude? It just seems to get worse. And yes, it is always the president's fault for whatever bizarre reason.


For that young man who died way too soon and his family. I have a 17 YO son. Michael's death breaks my heart and the hate spewed since breaks my spirit.

[sheshe2]

22. Me...

no children. Just nieces and nephews and the new ones the grand nieces et all that have come along. I love them all.

To you and yours stay safe and we will indeed fight this together.

[mcar]

29. And same to yours

I love your posts. Keep it up.

[sheshe2]

30. Thank you mcar...

Ya~ I intend too

Peace and hugs~

[napkinz]

14. from everything you've posted I would say ...

you have a HUGE heart!

(and the only thing "widdle" is the person who responded so callously to you)

[sheshe2]

18. Damn!

[tavalon]

31. I don't get that

An unarmed teen was murdered by a cop and were not supposed to feel anything?!? Fuck no. That is unacceptable to me.

[tea and oranges]

9. I weep, too, sheshe2

This is our country
These are our children
This is our species.

[sheshe2]

21. Thank you tea and oranges

for your compassion.

These are indeed our children. Our future, we need to stop killing them.

[calimary]

10. Hey sweetie -

Nobody is going to ridicule you while I'M around. Besides, there's FAR more to ridicule about me than there ever could be about you.

(Um... have you seen my stretch marks and my crepey neck? I better go hide, come Thanksgiving!!!)

[sheshe2]

15. Hey you...

calimary Thank you....

And stretch marks, crepey neck...ha we all can go on. Arthritis. Tinnitus...aging sometimes gracefully and sometimes not. However we...ya WE are fricking amazing. We are focused and animated and we women sure as hell know how to stick together. We are so incredibly awesome.

We are the mothers the teachers and such beautiful creatures. It is us and we will make the difference in this world. After all another woman wrote that poem and it is awesome.

We have each others backs and we damn well have the children's backs. To me, at his tender age Michael was still a child.

[calimary]

32. To me as well. Eighteen? Yes. Still a child! Mine are 22 and 24 - and yes I see each of them as my

child. The baby of the family will ALWAYS be my baby, even when I'm 80-something and he's 40-something.

More than anything else I would assert, as a woman, and on behalf of all women, while savoring and relishing all the good things we are, there's one thing we definitely and absolutely are NOT:

WE ARE NOT PROPERTY.

[sheshe2]

34. Property?

Hell no!

Damn I love you. It's late and I need some sleep before work. So I have to go.

I have your back and I always will, calimary.

[calimary]

35. I love you back sheshe2!

[HipChick]

33. To me he was still a child..

who knows what he would have become? He should not have been murdered the way he was..

[heaven05]

2. excellent

[alcibiades_mystery]

3. Will it break through their screen?

Will it even register?

Beautiful.

[sheshe2]

7. I hope that the words will sink in...

Thank you for your response, alcibiades_mystery.

[Cha]

4. ..

Michael Brown

[WinkyDink]

5. "Up, dead child." So very powerful, these words.

[mcar]

12. Oh my.

There's something in my eye.

[sheshe2]

23. Mine too~ ;(

[janlyn]

17. What sadness I have experienced lately,

that such should have to be written at all.
When I try to say as much to anyone, they just look at me as if I am overreacting!!! And that's disheartening, to think that his life, or the life of any child should mean so little!!

[Uncle Joe]

19. That's a powerful poem.

Peace and love to you, sheshe.

[sheshe2]

24. It is indeed powerful.

Thanks for your response UJ!

[Vattel]

25. I don't understand these lines:

Speak, so eyes be gouged
and ears be deafened,
if wish to deny your mattering.

Is there a typo in there or am I just lousy at interpreting poetry?

[sheshe2]

26. Vattel..

This is just my interpretation...

However Michael was shot in the eye, it was gouged and he was blinded. And those who refuse to believe or understand that this was death by cop then their ears are indeed deafened because they are indeed deaf , dumb and blind.

This!

if wish to deny your mattering.

Does Michael matter? Yes he does .

[Vattel]

28. Thanks.

[WillyT]

27. HUGE K & R !!! - Thank You !!!

[Cali_Democrat]

36. kick

[napkinz]

37. ...

https://www.facebook.com/ILIWIWUITMABOIP/photos/a.149730225061403.24294.125955227438903/832996053401480/?type=1&theater

[sheshe2]

38. Poignant graphic,napkinz.

[sheshe2]

39. Kick