“They are very interesting,” says Brother
To his Sister Mars, “they have only known
Privilege.” Sister challenges, “That’s a small thing
To say. The Whites are no more monolith
Than the Blacks, and not everyone with the
Snow white Shield has seen sunny days, to say
They are privilege is to ignore their truth.”
“But Sister, any white that isn’t privilege
Does not bear the Whites’ Shield, they carry
Instead the Shields of the Jews, the Irishmen,
The Eastern Europeans (Those old world
Shields of the Slavs and Bohemians, the
Bavarians, lost to preferred western Shields)
Or Ill Shields of Poor, Disabled, or Gay.”
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