Part IV: Racial descrimination (TW)

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Teach me that

Black lives matter

and never say "n!gg@r"

Not if you're "white" at least

'Cause God knows

that those sticks and stones

run long in the tooth

and deep in the bones

For some

it's a term of endearment

For me it's form of taboo

But if words can be used

to include or negate

Who now, segregates who?

But yes, speak your mind

Free Americans

Now that America's White again

Feel free to state

your vitriol, your hate

Your Manifest Destiny

If all lives truly mattered to you

Why does Philando Castile still bleed?

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Note: (TW) Trigger warning: By no means does this poem wish to express that racial discrimination is something relative. The taboo of using a so-called derogatory term like "nigger" can hardly compare to the 500 years oppression Black brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, families and communities have had to endure throughout our shared history. Thank gods for comedic lights, the likes of Dave Chappelle, who sees all people as "niggers", who casts an honest light on the madness of a racially-divided America and who teaches the willing, the art of recovering our humanity through laughter.