By Kathleen Minor
The dude who refused to denounce white supremacy,
tried to nuke a hurricane and our democracy,
puts kids in cages and promotes segregation.
That dude? Rewrote the Declaration.
We hold these truths to be self-evident:
If you ain’t white, you must be irrelevant.
Listen.
There seems to be some confusion.
We’ve been called violent and angry and useless
and brainwashed, educated and clueless.
With RBG gone, we are Ruthless.
They want us defeated and silenced.
But we built this country to protest a tyrant.
We waged war, and wrote a Constitution
in order to form a more perfect union.
So God bless your trickle-down caste system, yo.
This is America.
The caste system votes.
Kathleen Minor graduated in May 2019 from Berry College with a B.A. in Creative Writing and now volunteers as an assistant coach for the Berry College speech and debate team and as a leader for the Democratic Party of Georgia. Her work has appeared in Ramifications Magazine, Riggwelter Press, and Terror House Magazine, and her poetry received the Academy of American Poets Award from Berry College. She currently lives in Dalton, Georgia. Follow her on Instagram: @thoughttrainderailed.
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