Hush Money

 

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Race is a construct

made up

by the 

oppressor

 

A strategy 

to conquer

by erasure and by 

division.

 

First 

he takes the land

and the stories

that grow with it

 

Then incarcerates 

with wages

and walls

around the Common.

 

Whiteness, white people,

we must know as hush money

paid to us

by the elite

 

A transaction 

of privilege

for passivity

in the face of exploit.

 

Burn it

I say.

And remember

the seed within,

 

For indifference

is not worth the letting go

of who

we truly are.

 

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