Not an Elegy for Mike Brown (This is Not the Poem, but I advise you to go look it up and read it)

The entire thing is heartbreaking, even more so for its thoroughgoing elegance and rage. This stanza in particular strikes at literary culture by linking it to the desecration of black life:

This first line speaks volumes for me, because the author saying that their tired of writing this poem, relates to blacks being tired of seeing our own shot dead in the streets.

The next stanza reflects to mourning period which we all go through when we see another one down, not because we know them but because it reminds us of our sons, brothers, cousins and friends but its over doing nothing usually.

So much work is done here. Racism is tied to militarism; both are put squarely in the craw of a Western tradition that bends the arch of culture always towards white lore and white triumph and white justification of violence. //

White lives are appreciated more, so when a white child dies theres more of an uproar in the media and just society in general than someone who's black or latino or even asian.

so when a white child dies theres more of an uproar in the media and just society in general

“A White girl was kidnapped and thats the Trojan war.” “Troy got shot and that was Tuesday. are we not worthy”

Shows how society will do anything to find out what happened to someone thats white over a minority

They will kill 100s of black men for one white child

“They will kill 100s of black men to make up for the death of someone thats white”

Dane Smith is giving the expression of Helen in troy and how they sacrificed so much for her, and for Troy when he got shot it was just like any other day