Although you are free to interpret the work according to your lights - that's the nature of critique, and interpretation generally even when using the lens of critical race studies - what this work actually compares (or parallels) is attributing bad qualities of some members of a group to all members of the group, to attributing bad qualities of some members of another group to all members of that group. The parallel is exact, though the closing lines do contain the ethical assertion that refusing to accept that parallel, exact as it is, constitutes an injustice.
Sorry, I'm not quite convinced it is exact because of the specific groups you mention. Men of color (vs?) Police. Accepting that either group can contain members of both groups, I've already considered them as opposites, one color (blue? White?), vs. criminals. While youve addressed that both groups can have negative attributes (looters, arsonists vs racists, sadists) you're much more likely to have racist and sadist people of color than looting, fjrestarting police, maybe.
On second thought, racist and sadist seem like characteristics that can be attributed across any group of people fairly uniformly, while looting and rioting are more circumstantial, not limited to people of color, but not really attributed to police at all. And the title being justice for ALL while only comparing two groups, sets the two up even more as opposing. I think if you included a third group, maybe women, it would enhance the poem
Sorry, I'm not quite convinced it is exact because of the specific groups you mention. Men of color (vs?) Police. Accepting that either group can contain members of both groups, I've already considered them as opposites, one color (blue? White?), vs. criminals. While youve addressed that both groups can have negative attributes (looters, arsonists vs racists, sadists) you're much more likely to have racist and sadist people of color than looting, fjrestarting police, maybe.
On second thought, racist and sadist seem like characteristics that can be attributed across any group of people fairly uniformly, while looting and rioting are more circumstantial, not limited to people of color, but not really attributed to police at all. And the title being justice for ALL while only comparing two groups, sets the two up even more as opposing. I think if you included a third group, maybe women, it would enhance the poem
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