There is No Fairness in Virginia

151 years ago Virginia fought a war, killing hundreds of thousands to protect their ‘right’ of self-determination as a state. They did so with no regard for the effects this ‘self-determination’ had on millions of people deemed less than human(by law) and therefore legally owned property. They did so to protect the interests of a relatively small group of wealthy plantation owners who stood to lose everything if the institution of slavery was abolished. They convinced the common folks of Virginia that this war was about ‘self-determination’, fairness and Yankee imperialism, but the bottom line is that it was really about greed and the desire to maintain a lifestyle which required a great deal of wealth. Their thinking was deceptive and backwards then and little has changed in the ‘Commonwealth’ of Virginia as far as the ruling class is concerned. Today there are laws and regulations in Virginia which openly discriminate against certain categories of individuals. This is not an attack on the people of Virginia. The people of Virginia are some of the most gracious, kindest, ‘salt-of-the earth’ individuals you will find anywhere on earth. Fair minded, loyal individuals who place their trust in God and government. In fact it is the basic fairness and sense of loyalty of the people of Virginia that legislators used then to fight a war and use today in a battle that still continues.

There is no fairness in Virginia,
sitting in their Richmond offices
like a brood of vipers,
hiding behind their chivalry,
their heritage,
their mollified gentility;

basking in their
‘moral superiority’.

Pompous bureaucrats
playing politics,
making self-serving policies,
passing discriminatory laws,
destroying people and lives
in the process,
then throwing up their hands;

“it’s the law”,
(we have the right).

All the time
smiling in your face,
using long drawn out
gracious words
dripping with hypocrisy,
stating well-rehearsed,
practiced lines,
providing legal and
self-righteous justification,
a soulless people
trapped within their
own self-deception,
blinded by their ‘right’ to do so
no matter what the cost,
trampling afoot,
those helpless to fight back;

a conquered nation
seeking revenge.
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