Ignorance is bliss and
They are blissful and blissfully aware
That their happiness is contingent
On being ignorant.
Because, that way,
They don’t have to support the good fight
Because, to them,
Racism, sexism and oppression is right
Because, doing so,
Does not upset their status quo.
They’d rather believe that
Poverty is an African state
And it’s a choice to live there, and
Skin colour and sexuality
Is a matter of purity
And it’s a choice and they deserve discrimination.
Because choice is evil,
Because choice is binary,
Because you’re either
Right and Right or Left and Wrong.
They’d rather believe that
Oppressing minorities while having a minority belief
Is absolutely justified and O.KKK.
Because ‘white is right’ even though
The country isn’t even rightfully theirs
But the urge to control and dominhate
And trounce and trump
Anything that isn’t in their image
because
Change is good when is good for them.
Because they think they’re god and
They think It’s their God-given right.
Because it’s less about injustice
And more about “it just is”.
Living a shallow live with
Dissociative Moral Crisis Disorder,
Not feeling guilt or shame,
Desperately finding someone else to blame
All while playing pick and choose
(Because pick and mix sounds
Like it will weaken the gene pool)
Feeding the homeless but white
So as to help build a
New World Order
And hold ticker-tape parades of
Red, White and Black,
Flagging themselves and raising awareness that
There are problems in the world
While being blissfully ignorant that
The problem is them.
Question from Veronica D. from Facebook
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