One more young unarmed black man, 20 year old Daunte Wright, fell victim to the bullet of a white policewoman just two days back in the same US city of Minneapolis where George Floyd breathed his last under the relentlessly pressing knee of a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, last year. We are simply bewildered to see their never-ending color prejudice even in this twenty-first century AD. The question arises: Are they (color-prejudice ridden white people) really civilized deep down at their heart or in their collective consciousness?  Or do they feel threatened somewhere in their subconscious when they see black people roaming as freely as them? While America is desperate to homogenize whole world with their way of life, they find dark human skin color beyond homogenization. Sometimes, the BBC flashes the news about some old Asian men or women being violently pushed or kicked in broad daylight on the roads. Is it their white over-smartness or cowardliness? Is it their own version of courage or revelation of fear? Is it not a serious psychological problem they are unknowingly suffering from and making the whole of America suffer from? What is this White-people dominated America up for, after all? Whatever may it be, it is disgusting.

All this and more prompted me to write the poem ‘O America!’ which was featured in the Gorkha Times a couple of days back and I’d shared the same on my FB Timeline and many readers read it some of whom have left their very encouraging words of appreciation. Nepali version of the same poem is likely to be published in Kantipur, a popular Daily from Kathmandu.