Dome War

There are five stages of mourning they say; depression, bargaining, denial, anger and acceptance. On arriving home, Chuck was pacing up and down non-stop in disbelief of what had happened and would have if the bullet he shot wasn’t a blank; symptoms of denial. Lenny however had more pressing concerns. The security camera in the shop; whether Chuck’s ricochet had ruined it completely or it had been cushioned by Lenny’s lens and only a fraction of it had been shot off. Why did he think it was a good idea to see other worldly footage of a boringly normal café where college dropouts go to wait while regretting dropping out? Of course with the lens on the CCTV camera the only footage they could get from the camera would be the footage of the corresponding camera in Lenny’s world: an old man by himself behind a counter. If the lens was to be missing a part of itself where the fraction of the footage where Dmitri smacked the floor and Willard rolled under the counter was being recorded, the mixed up feed would show Chuck and Lenny firing a blank at the senile man and not show Willard and Dmitri, considering their part of the feed was covered by part of the lens that was bringing in the corresponding part of the corresponding footage from another world, coincidentally creating a dual video collage showing Chuck ‘kill’ the codger. If the planets were not looking down on him, tomorrow he would wake to a headline of Black police brutality paralysing and killing a White innocent man whose last words were, ‘I can’t move.’ Cannon fodder for racially levelling the playing field of being victims of a corrupt judicial system and the scoop of a century. White man dead; hassled by two Black policemen- how the tables would have turned. ‘I can’t move’, in contrast to ‘I can’t breathe’, would be a perfect war cry for rallying protesters. ‘The only reason we’re in this socio-political fix in the first place is because of you people’s neediness in convincing the world that there is only one Black experience in the world. Are you anything more than the kings and queens of hardships?’ Lenny said in a mocking tone, ’Living is so hard that my adversity’s my defining trait! The origin of my ancestors is so tragic and whining about it from one perspective incessantly definitely fills the racial empathy gap and does not reinforce thematic overwhelming reductive oppression at all!’ Chuck ignored Lenny’s insightful satire and they did not talk to each other, eat nor cross each other’s paths after that. They stayed up all night contemplating and thinking of how to make up for the transgression that had shed innocent blood; bargaining.

Now how would the world digest this atrocity? In the precipice of minority ethnicity revolutions there were always different types of White people. The ‘All Lives Matter’ revolutionaries, the ones that did nothing, the ones that tried silencing the revolutions, the government and the ones that stood with the minorities for the movement. The government which claims to now stand for justice and equality but could also not be bothered to waste their esteemed forensic facilities on so many unjust deaths of people that weren’t their own is in this situation compromised, by the dilemma of turning a blind, or rather tepid eye to their ‘real’ people and simultaneously this investigation in a frantic attempt to enforce the communistic, diversity propaganda they so desperately shove down the public’s throat to appease their re-election campaigns, or to continue antagonising the sensitive Black population by showing the government’s commitment to solving a similar, previously disregarded problem while adding the anticipated, inevitable nail to the coffin of the ’21st Century American dream’ with hypocrisy. The Black population however, cannot advocate for only their own cultural needs and choose to remain neutral to the kind of oppression they have dealt with ever since slave traders had the benevolence of finally regarding Black people worthy of the title ‘human’ just because this time it was not one of their own. Certainly such selfish mouths cannot be allowed to let statements like, ‘Legalize melanin’ escape their lips when another innocent Black man or woman is dripping meat out of a bullet hole because another White police officer ordained himself worthy of deciding which lives matter and which don’t when they themselves do not have the perspective to see that they are not always the victims. In contrast, a Black person cannot spur on the pursuit of the justice that they themselves were denied (definitely not once) upon a time without ‘betraying’ their tight-knit community. Onto the Caucasians; them clamouring for the quick deliberation from the impeccable judicial system, a quickness that never existed for the laymen cases that were even lucky enough to be on the FBI’s ‘minimum importance’ bucket list would spark quite the controversy with them being staked for cheerleading racial inequality. All it takes for evil to triumph is that good people do nothing they say, so the fence is morally not the best option for a Caucasian citizen in this matter. Moreover a White person rallying for the government to do nothing is commending its zero participation in investigating past and future racial controversies. In other words, it was a deadlock and anyone willing to rip a page from the United Nations’ Accord on Human Rights and express their opinion was in for massive backlash.