“But it is not permissible that the authors of destruction should also be innocent. It is the innocence which constitutes the crime.” James Baldwin
Divide, divide, divide
Them and us
The worthy and the unworthy
In America this has always meant
White people
And black people, with white on top
Ever on top,
Better than
More deserving
Destined by God’s hand, by biology, by natural selection
to rule
Go back, go back, go back
To the shithole from whence
You came
That failed state, that crime-infested hood
So bellows the Racist-in-Chief,
Donald J. Trump
Whose DNA is racist
Who came from his mother’s womb racist
Who learned racism at his father’s knee
The racist loved by the Grand Old Party &
Beleaguered white men in red states
Who blame black and brown people for their sorry lot,
As if those people had the power to transform the US
Economy
Into an oligarch’s
paradise
The racist loved by evangelical Christians
Who line up to lay hands
On Trump’s twice-divorced
Porn star banging
Pussy grabbing
Lying
Cheating
Shoulders
The racist frightened-to-death of four
Women of color
Remember their names, for they are the face
Of
The America that is coming
Whether Trump and his followers like it or not:
Ilhan Omar
Rashida Tlaib
Ayanna Pressley
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Remember too that those who lead
The way against the status quo
Are always
Maligned
Attacked
Denounced
As unrealistic, strident, radical
Just as Martin Luther King Jr. was
And the suffragettes and the brave souls
Who agitated for an 8-hour workday
And an end to child labor
Time for all good people to stand up,
take a step forward
Not two steps back,
Because
We know where that road leads.
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