What's
Racism?
I am me,
Your different.
Problem? I see it!
They want us to conform.
We are what we eat..
They feed us hate
Enflaming
The fire.
Woe.
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The word “they” leaves the poem hanging without a real point of view. Who is they ? And what are they specifically pushing?
It's a spirit. We are told we are what we are not.
People just need to get on.
Finger pointing breeds more hatred....
And - what is 'raceisinm'? Typo?! Spell-checker dunno what it is. lol.
It is what it is, I suppose.
I couldn't spell the word at first.
There's no 'e' in the middle of 'racism'. There is 'i' in the middle though. Do you know the old adage?: 'The middle letter of 'sin 'is 'I'.
You can have 'ratiocination' - methodical and logical reasoning. (Just looked that up. lol).
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as far as I know, or at least am aware, I have no isms
That's good..
The asms are better than the isms
All of a sudden I got THAT. fucking proud. Hanging out w you smart people is rubbing off at least a little.
Do you believe that people have a sense of morality without any teachings ?
For this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Yes.
Interesting
(forgive my lengthy rant below dear poet
just needed to get these words off of my chest
for a while now
thanks for inspiring me)
truth is
segregating a community
and insuring divisiveness thrives, is essential
in insuring, A select minority is capable
of herding, The downtrodden majority
and to do that, 'they' break us apart
into pigeonhole identity's
fuel us with hate and point out
our supposed enemies, for us
tribal warfare
a never ending plague of our species
since we first realised we weren't
alone on this planet
millennium after millennium
entire tribes/cultures, nationalities
forced to escape
from one aggressor to safe-heaven remote wilderness lands
and then, that same community fractures
and the same cyclical story begins again
one aggressor tribe, making a defeated
flee for their lives;
even now in modernity
it's a tool, indoctrinated from childhood
to identify a heritage consisting
of regressive binary identities
as slaver or a slave, when
in actuality, all of human history
is engraved with acts of cruelty:
Arab nations raiding the British islands
enslaving anyone that lived too near
to the coast
Cervantes, one of the most iconic writer's in history
a slave, whose freedom had to be purchased
India's tainted crimes against the Sikhs
African's selling and buying slaves
before the Portuguese ever arrived
hence
we have an African Shogun in Japan
an Indian warrior king that was once a slave
and on, and on
till, even this very day, millions of 'modern' slaves
are all being dehumanised
because of their supposed inferior race (weaker tribe)
by those profiteering from their free labour
but in the west, the narrative
is 'white' equals racist slaver descendant
when that very reductive identity of 'white'
can't even be qualified or quantified
are the Brit's, 'white' what percentage?
which 'white'?
that small island, enslaved
by three of Europe's conquerors
from Celtics, to Romans
to Vikings?
or the Americans, consisting
of those fleeing religious oppressions?
so yeah, Racism
is an ugly part of our society at all levels
and an act of perpetuated ignorance
that strives to imbue a generational hatred of each other, continuously
but assuming someone is racist by the pigment of their skin
is just as wrong, as assuming someone is inferior because they are a minority race in our community
let us, instead
judge each other by our actions, alone
not our pre-emptive assumptions
based on the prejudice
that's being thought to us
by those
who need us to stay divided
so they can wield their power
upon us
without fear of retribution..)
Amen.
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