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Exasperated
when we won’t conform,
but why comply with a norm
that’s been awry since the day I was born?
Maybe less so since the days
my people were torn
from the fabric of their very existence,
but your eyes – so blinded by scorn –
focus angrily and deny the persistence
of the legacy of that inhumane system!
Your resistance to change
is now indifference to the pain
old policies still inflict on your victims.
So we bleed from the thousand cuts
of sharp micro-aggressions jux-
taposed to your profane narrative:
(That) if we’d just act
the same as you we could live
just as good as you do,
as if that isn’t a slight.
Deny who we are
and behave more white,
and that’ll make everything all right!
Like, that’s even possible;
let alone desired.
What’s it called when you make yourself
the standard all should aspire to?
Privilege.
Now, I want you to get this:
Being like you is NOT in my best moral
interest.
- HymnAgen
