Justice.
von Jacques Pinard Brown (Copyright)
A small white boy and a small black boy walk down the street and see a piece of discarded gum, soiled but unchewed, more or less simultaneously.
The small black boy picks it up and prepares to place it in his mouth but the small white boy is very annoyed at this. An argument ensues. The small white boy slaps the small black boy around a bit and takes the piece of gum from him. The small black boy starts putting up a performance as the small white boy prepares to chew the gum.
A big white boy walks past and sees the performance. He asks the small black boy why he is crying so loudly. “He ‘it me an took m’ gum.” He explained. The big white boy takes the gum from the little white boy and wags his finger at him. “We shouldn’t bully our little friends, should we?” He says and hands the gum back to the disenfranchised boy. The big boy walks away leaving the little black boy happily munching while the other starts pondering this injustice.
The big white boy walks a little further down the street and sees a little brown boy with a big moustache and belief-system he doesn’t like, sitting on a wall. Unbeknownst to him the little brown boy doesn’t like him either. “Your pa-pa” says the small brown boy. “Your pa-pa!” replies the big white boy. “No, your pa-pa.” Says the small brown boy
The big white boy drags the little brown boy off the fence and beats the living daylights out of him. The little white boy who had lost the chewing-gum battle walks past and sees the fiasco. He taps the big white boy on the shoulder, who is pre-occupied with the beating he’s dishing out, and asks “What the hell are you doing, I thought you said we mustn’t bully up our little friends?”
The big white boy replies: “Mind yo’ own goddamn bizznuss.”