en-white-enment
I first heard the term "enwhitenment" (humorously enough) in a Sasquatch documentary. An older man was describing the new-age, "enlightened" & idealistic approach that entitled white men, specifically, seem to feed on. this moral detachment from the pain that their personal gains may cause.
As an angry, young person in society, seeing the OUTRAGEOUS conduct of some of our "most esteemed" individuals in politics is awe-striking. Writing is really my only way of both making sense of & expressing this festering irritation.
en-white-enment
subtitled: who the F*CK do you think you are?
You are stark-frozen opportunists flocking
To the barely-cold-body of
The American Dream,
With teeth that only seek
To pick fresh flesh
From a corpse that
Will only continue to decay
Under these conditions.
How do you justify
Such carnality?
How do you justify
Leaving behind
The very people whose vote
You prayed and cried for?
You charge children for the food they need
At the places you require them to be,
Treat them like the inmates you use
As cheap labor & a profit-holder
In a Ponzi scheme with bars and Orange jumpsuits.
You spout that “freedom for all” bullsh*t
But target the homeless like
They shoot innocent people dead
Without consequence. (Irony)
How do you justify
Using children as payouts for
Low-income group homes that
Strip away everything that felt like home?
How do you justify turning a blind eye
To that exact scenario while you
Purge yourself of shame
And let it jump into the bones
Of terrified pregnant women
Heading into the jaws of a new life?
How does the hypocrisy sit in your stomach?
Shaded and jaded by a blue and red reality
That you forget that the colors of human SKIN
Speak more clearly about the state of the world
Than a man in an ironed suit
Who has never gone without food, shelter, or
Watering for days.
Has never needed to FIND a roof to
Sleep under.
But you speak with my interest?
With hers?
With his?
I apologize if I sound inconvenienced,
I’m just a young, young person
In this terrifying world,
With questions that I’d love to spit
In a few faces.
But most of them sound like:
Why do you talk like a leader of humanity,
And then turn around and kill it all the same?