My Homies Doing the Right Thing

By Ernie McCray / June 11, 2025

So proud of my old neighbors,

Golden Hill/South Park folks,

standing up to Trump’s

Immigration and Customs Enforcement goons

who, out of the blue,

in a style much like a military platoon,

descended on workers

at Buona Forchetta,

one of the hood’s

fine eating places,

bringing darkness

and gloom

to what was,

before they suddenly popped up,

a beautiful bright

Friday afternoon.

Oh, I could dropkick

all who had anything to do with that,

to the moon.

But my homies

fought back

against such disgrace,

all up in ICE’s face,

saying you can’t do this here,

just rolling up on people

and asking them to show their ID’s,

playing on their fears,

pushing them up against walls

and handcuffing and locking them up and all,

illustrating to other communities

in the nation

what it takes

to right wrongs,

especially at a time

when it seems

that everything that can go wrong

has gone wrong.

And there’s nothing than can be

more wrong for us

than allowing ourselves

to give into fascism,

a state of being we’re in

in these very moments in time.

It’s a struggle we have to win.

As for me,

I’m all in.