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Transgressions Against the Father


​Julian Porter, November 2025

Clearly, you've no decency. You keep your hands off that white boy, keep him unmarked by this culture. This ain't something transferred by touch or sight. It ain't nothing inherited through time, because time will never beat the predetermined destiny in a race. This is something we need to preserve, as it's being killed off by Uncle Sam and the affiliates. We must commit. Commit against the founding father.

Revolt and pursue acts of treason within the befooled communities packed in tall brick gates and marble stone. Reflect on our fragile and weak bars of copper built around 18 acres of gang violence and black music. Proper noun: Parkway Gardens, nicknamed O'Block. The ghetto; a poor urban area occupied primarily by a minority group or groups. People just trying to live. People only influenced by censorship curated by the absence of their needs.

"I don't know what y'all do at y'all's house, but we go to church at 8 AM sharp on Sundays. So yeah, you can sleepover, I don't care. Just know, it's up at 6 and out the house by 7." And in the streets, ice cold and laid out by 9 because the detectives didn't care to touch the sacred until they saw their brother in arms crying about it. Not because it was another 33.2/100,000, but because there was no more vulnerability. No more ER- contemptuous term for a Black or dark-skinned person- blackie to bully.

Evil thrives when good stays quiet. See, 33.2/100,000 is the make America great again, the golden age for this culture. It is the 2nd amendment upheld by the red, white, and blue, and amplified three times fold in comparison to our counterparts. Ever since 2006, my people have been dying behind back lines out of fear that we'll be forgotten back there. Black babies coated in red 23 times more than normal, more than white.


You don't expect much from us. You don't perk your eyelids up high when you hear we did something extraordinary, because to you "it was set up by your superiors" anyway. Let me tell you something deep. You brought us here, we will be the ones to take you out. We will cake the canvas you sought to destroy because you were jealous. You were jealous that you can't paint with white, but you damn sure can make an outline out of black.

Julian Porter

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      • I Refuse To Cry
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      • The Painful Wonders of Space
      • Ante Meridiem
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      • 흑인들이 보낸 것입니다 (This Came From Black People)
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      • Guitar Object Study
      • Thunder
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      • God Bless America
      • Eviscerated
      • Masked
      • Those Girls
      • Why I Follow Jesus
      • The Subjectivity of Creativity: How Wrongful Interpretation is Dangerous
      • Stolen Whispers
      • Blood
      • Class of 2013