The Parallel Journey

  {The Parallel Journey}

An American portrait: The harsh reality of stop and frisk, confiscate, and book; for being racially profiled, to keep you

In your place. The student is on the road to college life, for higher education. 

You’re on the road to state prison. To be educated in a system of confinement. 

While there, I met with a professor, administrator, counselor, and an intern. A new beginning:

Emasculated. Dumbing down, fingerprinting, prison uniforms, a mate, or overpopulating animals in a cage

Jail cell. Classroom size your equals, liberty, and justice us all for a better life.

Caught in the system, probation officers, court docket, anchor monitor, and juvenile detention.

Bench warrant, correction facility: visitor with minimal touching; phone call collects.

With no correction, only criminals with stories of crimes, doing hard times. Outcome!

As if justice was blind: now incurring debt for higher education, with student loans,

sororities, fraternities pledged an initiation: social network, circle of opportunities’ 

an awaiting open market.

   Being trained to survive, just day by day: inmates doing hard time on cold concrete floors.

Walls caged, iron bars to intimidate.

Frat house parties, liberation, fun time for celebration of our time in between studies.

Even though the cost of tuition has risen; to make it less affordable.

The scales of justice found a way to incarcerate in 2010 for one inmate was $31.307 per year.

Expeditiously, for the minority African American and the Latino community.

Compared to Caucasians, denying their offensives to the point of a second chance;

When the Peace officers arrive on the scene: it’s protecting and severing their college campus,

and their fellow Americans with deliberate consideration, only to give verbal warning and a pat on the back;

advice and then let them go because they identify.

Then they arrive in the minority district with full aggression and intent to police

State in military combat tactic. Adrenaline rush; Bias assumptions:

To detain, restrain, and erase Black Lives Matter! Without a trace. 

  Keeping their pipelines money-making system coffers filled through a surplus Magistrate: revolving court doors:

Thereby distributing and enhancing the suburb.

An American well-kept secret, only for those who choose to see it.

Which parallel journey are you on? Since there’s only so many that can travel that path.