{"id":4729,"date":"2020-08-10T15:10:17","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T14:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=4729"},"modified":"2020-08-10T15:10:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T14:10:17","slug":"price-of-a-life-in-the-land-of-the-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/price-of-a-life-in-the-land-of-the-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Price of a Life in the Land of the Free"},"content":{"rendered":"
As the world is up in arms over the death of George Floyd, let us reflect on the alleged crime he is deemed guilty of, passing a dud $20 bill. Yes, he had a history – drug abuse and violent crime – which he did his time for, serving his debt to society. It doesnt mean he had to die for such a crime, unproven, just alleged.<\/h6>\n
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US $20 United States twenty-dollar bill – Price of a life in America<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As protest, to show the price of a life in the Land of the Free, the following verse has been written:<\/p>\n

Life is not free in the Land of the Free
\nLife is cheap if you happen to be
\nNot white, but if you are white and a cop
\nYou get a call to anser a complaint of a shop
\nYou are free to press down on a mans neck till he dies
\nIgnore his pleas and his cries
\nIgnore his vitals subsided, get in medics way
\nYou are the law, and all do what you say…
\nLife is cheap if black you happen to be
\nIn the attentions of a cop in the Land of the Free.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the world is up in arms over the death of George Floyd, let us reflect on the alleged crime he is deemed guilty of, passing a dud $20 bill. Yes, he had a history – drug abuse and violent crime – which he did his time for, serving his debt to society. It doesnt mean he had to die for such a crime, unproven, just alleged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2967,4309,53],"tags":[4310,4311,4294],"class_list":["post-4729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-america","category-black-lives-matter","category-civil-rights","tag-black-limes-matter","tag-blm","tag-george-floyd","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-1eh","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4700,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/george-floyd-a-short-elegy\/","url_meta":{"origin":4729,"position":0},"title":"George Floyd – A Short Elegy","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"14th June 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"He served his time for the crimes he had done - Whether sentences given is enough or not, Is the victims right to question and call - But let it not be forgot Every saint has a past gone by... 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