Parasitic Mimics & Lost Roots

 

You mirror the flavor and rhythm of those around you
because your forefathers sacrificed their souls for greed.

What are you without our music
Our conquered spices and cadence
Our purple and blue dyes?

You are not “white”, you’re Americans of European descent
The richness of your “chosen culture” is based upon
contributions, stolen or borrowed, from cultures you’ve been taught to revile
or those you were told to sacrifice
to the alter of homogenous “whiteness”.

Your own ancestors cry out
for you have forsaken their traditions, their rhythms, language
Soul eaters, your souls remain ravenous
because you’ve left your own table behind.

Embracing the notion of supremacy
a hole ridden blanket
a poor substitute for
the armor of self-knowledge and the
rich inheritance of culture of your people.

Many gape, unable to comprehend your willingness to cast aside your true history

while they've had theirs stolen from them. 

We are all victims,
marks for supremacy
by design.
While the oppressor 

romanticizes oppression and fetishizes victimhood
based on the lies they’ve fed all from infancy
We’ve been suckled at the teats of 

forgetfulness and hate.