Please take the word white out
Please take the word white out
Why?
Do you want me to sugarcoat?
Do you want me to lie?
Just to make all the Europeans feel comfortable
As much as possible?
I don’t wanna do that….
Let’s start a controversy
Have a heavy discussion
After all, racism is in our face…
So no
I will write the word white
Cos that’s what Europeans classify as….
I mean, did they create whiteness?
I will take the word white in,
I don’t care how mad the readers get…
The real issue is,
Nobody likes the truth….
Nobody likes the facts…
It’s why people said take that word white out…
Especially when you’re writin somethin
Professional…
Or a book report
Or a poem at a school performance…
Yet what if white becomes a slur?
Yet Caucasians called themselves white…
Durin Jim Crow, they got signs
White only….
White turned into favoritism…
Everybody wants white..
Promixity to whiteness
And somehow you learned that
Whiteness is all fifth….
Whiteness is colonization….
Whiteness is an abuse
Whiteness is a dreamscape of superiority…
Whiteness is all bull shit….
Whiteness got black people hate themselves…
You can’t tell me take the word white out of
My poems when it comes to speakin up against
The system that envies our melanin…
I will not sugarcoat…
I will not make my white friends feel comfortable
They better learn today
Or leave….
I will not apologize…
It’s racist when you tell a black poet
Not to write black issues…
Cos it’s too black
It’s too angry….
It’s beyond racist when you tell a black poet
That he or she should love everybody else, too…
Like why can’t we be selfish?
Why can’t we only love our people?
That’s the thing I noticed,
What about the Asians, Latinos, native Americans?
Most of us said we do…
However
Can we just say we love black people
Without the “but”?
And leave the word white in cos
We will always talk about racism….
That’s why Europeans called themselves
White
So called “white supreme”
Ha
What’s so supreme about them?
💯✊🏿©️ Kai C. 11-3-26