I am white. A skinny white dude to be more colorful. You are all inferior that are not of my color. Don’t hate me while my ancestral origins give me this privilege. Please forgive me, while I bathe in the glow of white supremacy. I have neither earned it nor desire it. I loathe the term. Yet I will bathe in the luxury it affords me.
I will march with you in protest. I will talk about injustice. I will say the things I think you need to hear. But I do not walk in your footsteps. I will only speak on your behalf and talk about injustice. I will not live that life of injustice. I will only pretend. I will lend you my ear and nod as if to understand. I will live my privileged life and feel good about myself, for I have stood with you. I have gained your confidence.
I am White America…
You have my intent but not my heart. You have my words but not my deeds. You have my promise…you have my promise of change.
We are cold and we calculate. We deceive and we prosper…
I wrote the above because that is how I feel right now. I've read and re-read looking for loop holes like a tax lawyer hell bent on earning his keep. This is my view of America right now. This is my world view.
If it's not happening here, it's happening over there...wherever there may be.
We are all servants right now. We are nothing but puppets serving the rich and lashing out at each other. Being played on fears and exploited at every turn. We talk and we learn and we listen. We congregate to try and follow through and it is demonized. It is quashed. And it is quashed by the very people you would think would support an uprising, your brothers and sisters in Southern states along with their puppet masters.
The death of a black teen did nothing when it was Trayvon Martin who was murdered. A man gets strangled to death because he is selling cigarettes. A young woman get's shot in the face when asking for help. And what becomes of it? NOTHING. A shiny object in a news cycle. People of color...but no worries. U.S.A...U.S.A...U.S.A...!!!
There is nothing glorious about America and the treatment of human beings. Never has been. This country was founded on the backs of the murdered and enslaved.
Brings me to tears sometimes thinking about "being human".
Anyone want to to talk about "well we wouldn't have this because of that" or "certain things are needed" because?"
I understand I was born in and live in America and should appreciate it. I was born here. I had no choice in that matter. It doesn't mean I have to sit here and look at what we do to others around the world and at home and not feel the disgust that I feel.
I am ashamed to call myself a human being and I am ashamed to call myself an American. If you cannot grasp what I'm trying to say then go go fuck yourself...you will be gratified and propagate and hear only what you want to hear...