Saturday, July 20, 2013

No Vietnamese has ever called me Nigger

In the words of Muhammad Ali
"No Vietnamese has ever called me nigger." 1966
In 2013 I'll add
No Arab has ever called me nigger
No Britt has ever called me nigger
No Asian has ever called me nigger
No Native American has ever called me nigger
No Mexican has ever called me a nigger
No Jew has ever called me nigger
No South American has called me nigger
No Cuban has called me nigger
No Indian has ever called me nigger;
No gay person has ever called me nigger
No lesbian has ever called me nigger
No transgendered person has called me nigger
No bi-sexual person has called me nigger;
Now, some black folk have called me nigger
And yes white America has called me nigger but not exclusively in that word:
When you say, my black friend, you call me nigger
When you say, oh it's just a black guy, you call me nigger
When you clutch your pocketbook next to me, you call me nigger
When you dumb down education, you call me nigger
When you re district voting lines you call me nigger
When you stop and frisk me with no probable cause you call me nigger
When you ask me for urine, when I ask you for government aid, you call me nigger
When you don't teach me about my contributions except in February, you call me nigger
When you show me in cuffs more than you show me professionally, you call me nigger
When you show me illiterate, in rage instead of cognizant and oratorically sophisticated, you call me nigger
When you criminalize me, demonize me, politically problematize me, you call me nigger
When you gun me down with no reason, you call me nigger
When you follow me block after block and call it suspicious, you call me nigger
When you don't give me my justice, and you don't give me peace, you call me nigger
When I have to fight for my humanity from the grave, you call me nigger
When I have to teach my son at the age of six how not to respond when you call him nigger, you call me nigger....
When you put me into the prison industrial complex, you call it, rehabilitation and expect me to believe it, you call me nigger.
Yet, America wants me, to fight wars , pay taxes and give you my son to do the same? No, America cannot and will not have my son, and I am not for sale.
So call me what you want, say what you want to say;
But no way,
No how
Will I be America's nigger...
Excuse me, but I feel the need for Gin.

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