American Lies

I grew up with the Aryan Nations just north of town,

With a frown, they held their parade downtown,

A little blond girl sat upon her hateful father’s shoulder,

What were they teaching her?

I understood that this was wrong,

but it was a loud beat of a drum, one as loud of a gong,

It wasn’t the truth hidden behind the veneer,

Racism was systemically here.

I was taught about the Holocaust, but not the cause,

Eugenics was born here in America, wait, just press pause,

Yes racism, white nationalism, the belief those of less melanin superior,

The idea that darker was inferior.

Not to mention the hatred of the other,

The hatred of one another,

“Go back to where you came from,” they yell,

Completely forgetting their own ancestors’ tale.

Unless you are a member of the First peoples who remain,

Your ancestors came from a completely different domain,

You forget that some American’s ancestors were forcefully brought here,

Yet you see them as some devil to fear.

You yell out about those who do not fit in your square hole,

Caring too much about what flag flies up that pole,

Who cares if it is a rainbow?

Who cares if it is not as white as snow?

In the dark of night,

Some of us want to fight,

We are tired of this sight,

When hatred walks freely in the light.

You judge those who do not hold your puritan ideals like they’re real,

Your double standards do not care how we feel,

A woman is either a prude or a sexual commodity,

While you decry modesty.

You feel threatened but you can’t explain by what,

That your doors of privilege will be shut,

That you will be the one pulled over and shot?

That your racism has been caught?

“The Jews will not replace us,” they cry would while carrying torches,

Others just stand and stare from their porches,

They hold their crosses to their chests and agree,

But the hypocrisy they cannot see.

Jesus was a Middle Eastern Jew,

He was a member of the persecuted few,

Not a blond-haired, blue-eyed Aryan depicted in European paintings,

Now you are clutching your pearls and nearly fainting.

How can something so full of love be tainted with hate,

You stand there and want to debate,

I fear that you will see your fate,

It is time to close that gate.

American Equality lies,

If it was true, then you wouldn’t care about the slant of someone’s eyes,

You wouldn’t make up stereotypes to hold them apart,

Are you really afraid if they unite?

How about you turn the other cheek,

Instead of expecting the rest of us to be meek.

You dare fly a flag of traitors in our capitol,

The flag that stands that never stood in its hall.

The fear that if we unite then you have nothing left,

No more pitting poor whites against the rest,

As you sit upon your pile of gold,

As if you were a dragon to behold.

You make money off of guns on our streets,

No matter how many progun tweets,

The only person who can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with one,

However, that is another lie, hon.

Good guys shoot unarmed citizens all the time,

Yet, even when they pull the wrong one, it's not a crime,

We have malpractice for doctors,

Why not the same for malpractice bad actors.

Perhaps its time to disarm them, instead of militarizing them.

Hold them accountable when they are supposed to protect in serve,

It is not anything more than a murder deserves,

Time to carry just a bobby club and a taser.

America as many things full of dreams,

It has many unfulfilled themes,

The people are supposed to have control,

Except those with power continue to patrol.