Inspired by Resmaa Menakem's work and teachings ... and a recent podcast he was on
Your body was
not your own
it served at
the pleasure of
the kings and elites
their feasts and
festivities fueled by
the blood and
sweat and tears
of laborers and peasants
whose skin was
darkened by dirt
sun-baked in fields
you weren't allowed
to ever eat from
servitude and subordination
a birthright passed
down through your
bloodied European bodies
and only deemed white
once you were
able to turn
that generational rage
outward, to reclaim
a sovereignty of self
stolen from you
by stealing the
land, languages, lives
of pigmented people
on a new land
you would rape
and pillage the
same way your
predecessors were on
your own ancestral homelands
--
April PAD Day 7 prompt: villain
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