They said, taking down statues
Was burying the past
That it wasn’t about the baggage
It was about heritage
And they saluted a flag that relished
Chains and whips
Bitter bondage and
Money for an aristocracy
They claimed this flag was just about
Legacy, the hard fought history
Of their forebears
And newly empowered by a generation
That is low-key self centered and jaded
Hiding under a slim majority
That still believes in fairness
Millennials are largely full of shit
They don’t know racism,
But they know a set of friends in the workplace
And a different set they get drunk with
And never the twain shall meet
It just reinforces that aristocratic thinking
That they are made for boardrooms
And the darkies are good with their hands
Its a deadly strain of racism
Cultivated in the neo-moderate 90s
When democrats called darkies super predators
Anyway,
Newly empowered, those same people
Who bemoaned removing symbols of
White Supremacy from the casual existence
Of the people in the south
Are now content with removing the history
Of everyone who isn’t white
They say woke so much it means nothing
And then use that to justify
Erasing the complex journeys of natives
Immigrants and slaves from history
Because it makes America look bad, they say
But when we wanted to remove those
Symbols of hatred and aristocracy
Because America is a Democracy
Where citizen counts equally
You said that we should stop being so
Sensitive about the bad stuff
Get over it, it happened
Because we can’t erase history
So why is history being erased?
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