I was watching the morning news when the reporter stopped a
college student and asked her about Trump halting Obama’s refugee policy and
the woman said something blah blah blah patriotic…like she ate the placard on
the statue of liberty….then she said something I found very interesting “everybody
has the right to feel safe” she said it with such conviction that I had to
pause for a minute to think about that statement.
Now before you get to calling me all kinds of racists and
bigots….think about what I’m saying here when I say “safe” is a word created
from the WHITE male perspective to protect privilege….and any person of color
is delusional if they believe that word is used to incorporate them. Not saying
we don’t have a right to safety but is it really safety when it’s not
controlled by you (let that sink in). You have to obtain some sort of pass in
order to be safe.
Were the Natives (indigenous) safe? Colonizers took their
land and are still taking it. Colonizers introduced diseases that are still
proliferating today because health care is a right that is now being
controlled. Africans were forcibly brought to these shores as a source of labor.
Families were torn apart for profit and gain. Lives were taken for all sorts of
subjective offenses. Diseases were introduced. Rape was a way of life for the
women… Move slightly ahead in history we weren’t allowed to share the same
facilities but it was most likely that a grandfather and a son were weaned on a
Black breast because a White woman was considered too delicate to feed her own child but we couldn’t drink from
the same fountain.
East Indian, Pakistani, Mexican, Filipino, Syrian, Iraqi,
African, Jew, Muslim, woman and LBGTQ (my apologies if I’ve forgotten to list
any of the modern day oppressed…but believe me this is a list I wish I didn’t
have to keep) do you now or have you ever felt completely safe in this country?
Now, from my perspective I have to ask this question – how does it feel to be
the new millennium nigger? It was all a matter of time until the “powers” got
around to including you - will you continue to deny it’s happening
and enjoy your few crumbs of privilege or will you now grow a pair and fight
for that little line we overlook…you know “liberty and justice for all”
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