Second to None

Guns are racist weapons

Enforcing power over Blacks

Historically denied possession

The Second Amendment

Has misinformed flaws

Leading to violence and racism

White males interpret their gun rights

As a guaranteed privilege

To maintain a militia or police state

To keep Blacks in submission

With outdated Jim Crow laws

Countering fear of Blackness

If one believes in equality

The First Amendment is the priority

Nullifying the Second

Time to get over the myth of guns

Learn to be brave, not cowards

Don’t undermine our democracy.

7/9/21 By Ron Faust (On occasion of taking some cues from the book, The Second: Racism and Guns of a Fatally Unequal America, and working to liberate ourselves from autocratic control, by a moral law, not guns.)

Second to None

Guns are racist weapons
Enforcing power over Blacks
Historically denied possession

The Second Amendment
Has misinformed flaws
Leading to violence and racism

A Call to Live Nuclear Free

Ron Faust sees the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons as coming just in time "to create life and forestall death / To breathe in hope and breathe out a future / For our grandchildren and for all human races."

Add new threads to our national narratives

What we are taught about the founding of our country does not reflect experiences of indigenous people, and our lofty values of freedom and democracy fail to recognize the disenfranchisement of African Americans, women, and poor people in general.