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White People on Twitter

from Post​-​Post​-​Race by Guante & Katrah-Quey

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White people on Twitter are angry
saying “why does it always have to be about race?”
they never owned slaves and they only say the n-word
when they’re drunk and never to anyone’s face
white people on Twitter are offended
by the fact that anyone anywhere’s offended
the outrage about the outrage when it’s about race is endless
white people on Twitter are defensive
playin’ devil’s advocate in your mentions
and they’ll probably check out before they empathize
‘cause white people on twitter “don’t like to be generalized”
that’s the greatest sin you can commit
groupin’ people together is at the source of all of this-
or so the white people on twitter say
just stop talkin’ about racism and it will go away, right?
“Love and light: it’s not complex”
like a Martin Luther King quote out of context
Yeah they got a lotta quotes
lined up like dominoes, arguing with Ta-Nehisi Coates
white people on twitter have feelings
white people on twitter have FEELINGS
so many FEELINGS, so it’s doubtless
that every conversation is in orbit around them
and I can hear ‘em sayin’ right now:
“whatever dude, you’re white too,” I’m like true
I ain’t full-blooded but I am a little bit
enough that white kids still listen to my shit
white people on twitter are my fanbase
white people on twitter self-deprecate
but this is bigger than saying the right things on the right platform
this is about how we transform
when police kill a black child,
white people on twitter stay quiet
funny how they got so much to say
soon as you mention a racial bias
soon as a protest turns to a riot
that’s when they’ll talk about violence
but not a peep for the blood in the street or the ave
when it’s drawn by a thug with a badge and I know
white people on Twitter aren’t evil
racism’s bigger than bigotry it’s a history
but white people on Twitter tell me all lives matter
the newspaper disagrees
the nightly news disagrees
the statistics disagree
the lived experience of millions of our neighbors disagrees
so who do you believe?

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from Post​-​Post​-​Race, released March 7, 2016

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