What the fuck have we been doing?
Is it Christian to judge and condemn,
Let alone harbor racial hatred—
Let alone thinking yourselves God—
Is your imagination deluding you?
Are you envisioning a royal welcome?—
Masquerades end at the witching hour.
Believe!—it took only fifty-one years!
Only fifty-one, you motherfuckers—
Evil blocking the light entrance because
Negroes—as you slurred them—“don’t belong.”
© 2026 Tristan Robert Lange. All rights reserved.
First published on tristanrobertlange.com, October 4, 2026.
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- Comment from author about the poem: An acrostic Scorched Sunday poem. Part of my Scorched Strays collection. This poem draws inspiration from a history too easily softened by the passage of time. It considers what happens when Christian faith is used to guard exclusion rather than confront it, and when those once told they did not belong refuse to let hatred have the final word.
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Another powerful piece my friend that those that govern us would like to be left in the ashes of history
Thanks, Norman. History gets awfully comfortable when we stop disturbing it. 🔥⛓️⛪🙏
Most welcome
A powerful write of discrimination that still persists in many even a president that feels all Hispanics are Mexicans and of a lower class of human than whites. Nicely done my friend
Thank you, Soren. That’s exactly why I refuse to treat this as safely buried history. The language changes, but some of the same poison keeps finding its way through. 🔥⛓️⛪🙏
You are welcome Tristan it takes a long time for such waters to filter through the sands of time and take out the impurities of milenia.
Man, isn't that the truth. Painfully long.
Reminds me of 12 years a slave with the blatant misuse of Bible Passages to justify immoral treatment of slaves.
I thought of that same history while writing this, arqios. Faith becomes something monstrous when Scripture is turned into permission to dehumanize another person. 🔥⛓️⛪🙏
There's no discrimination at the witching hour ! every one is welcome at black sabbath !
😂 Hell yes, Lorenz! If we’re gathering at the witching hour, we might as well let Tony Iommi provide the soundtrack. “What is this that stands before me...” 🔥⛓️⛪🙏
History tells us, white man speak with a fork in his tongue, usually sponsored by others from the silver cutlery brigade.
Slavery built cities and no reparations will ever change that.
21st century, has the class system changed any.
Some might say the negro wears a suit now, but he would really need a million suits to catch up with his slavers.
Paul, that last thought hits hard. You can change laws and remove chains, but generations of stolen opportunity don’t suddenly balance themselves out. 🔥⛓️⛪🙏
Powerful and poignant. Great work.
Thank you, Thomas. I really appreciate that, my friend. 🔥⛓️⛪🙏
Wasn't it like that in some places in olden days - the priests were screened off; congregation couldn't see a thing. We know - they were secretly having a spinach party with Popeyeus & Co! lol.
😂 Orchi, THAT explains centuries of mysterious church architecture! Not reverence, not liturgy...a covert Popeyeus spinach operation behind the screen...and this also explains the taste of the wine. 🤮 🔥⛓️⛪🙏
Sadly the way of the World.
Indeed, Kevin. I just wish we were better at refusing to accept that as the final answer. 🔥⛓️⛪🙏
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