Legacy

It's not a coincidence that police officers are among the last in America to account for centuries of bigotry. The most repulsive pride is accompanied by legacies of authoritarian incompetence paraded as heroism and abhorrent violence. Men without manhood, women who spare themselves true conscience: Producing generation upon generation of prodgies feasting on the gruel of a merciless god without peer. How they treasure their badges and uniforms. How neatly they suck down their cowardly smiles and reassign the hate within to strange minorities they only pretend don't exist. Their children grow fat and depressed, dull-eyed in a world of growth and energy and discovery. Erectily-deficient and terribly easily provoked, they claim inalienable rights for weaponry with vague inscriptions that very few could or would produce. They pledge allegiance and cry honor while madmen slaughter innocents and children in the name of a hopeless, causeless wrath. They claim complexity where there is only bloodshed and despair. It's not a coincidence that police officers are among the last in America to judge their most deplorable peers, nor is it that decency is whispered out of nothingness into all worlds that would suffer for its absence. 





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