A riot is the language of the unheard. Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I. if a riot is the language of the unheard what is silence? the disease of the privileged the opioid of the wealthy or apathetic silence is only listening to the loudest mouth an agreement from the ignorant legislation of the partisan silence is authorship by the indifferent cries of the powerless & poor is silence the echo of contrition drone & dirge of the duped allegiance to the status quo s