Nothing that I say will hold enough weight
Equivalent to the systemic and engrained trauma and pain that is inflicted on certain people today.
Racism is alive and festers much on the minds of white colonizers who think their lives
are superior
Superior and everyone else is inferior
And which the lies they spew out like a flicker of a flame setting fire to a dry bush—spreading rapidly until everything—every living thing—becomes apart of the voices that fuel hate
it's a shame
That so many
are already prepared
to fuel the hate
and join the voices that invoke rage
But the thing is
the fire never left
It was only poured with water
Only simmering down—enough, that if you really tried—you would be unable to turn the other way just barely feeling the heat radiating against your cheek—yet not enough—that you can say you never felt it burning right under your feet
The fire stayed.
People just got used to looking the other way
So when people say
racism is a thing
Of the past
Know, the fire that has been burning
since immigrants and slaves came
still burns today
Caused by the inaction
of the socially and economically privileged
In the present and the past
BẠN ĐANG ĐỌC
Ode To Thoughts ✓
Thơ CaA book of thoughts. "We are the authors of our life. Although we can't always change what's happening around us, we'll always be able to change what we are in control of; where we are headed, who we become, and how we react to the circumstances tha...
