Mar 16
Were you born in America?
Did you go through our joke of an education system?
Did you complete American high school
have that experience?
If not,
whatever education you did receive
doesn’t mean anything to anyone.
Probably not even yourself.
Why is this reality?
The entire world wants our Hollywood.
The entire universe dances to our music,
bleeds for our fashion,
our trends, our desires for technology.
It’s our approval that they all crave,
you all help us to create.
That’s why these aren’t tens of thousands of dollar industries
they are billion dollar global industries.
Thank you, China, for sacrificing YOUR children
so I can NOT buy one of your slightly "better" iPhones.
Thank you, Mexico, for without your $0.75 an hour,
our whole economy would collapse.
You were never born to be cool or to "get it."
And if you didn’t have THIS.
OUR upbringing, not yours
if you didn’t have this opportunity,
you will always, always be an outsider looking in !
You will never FULLY or truly understand
almost ANYTHING of relevance or importance.
That’s only part of the reason we don’t want to share anything with you.
yeesh.
Regardless of how many movies you think you ‘get,’
or the off chance that you may actually read anything
or have picked up a book
not very likely unless you’ve been incarcerated.
Oh, don’t worry, though
we are building a prison for YOU.
After all, we incarcerate more people than the rest of the world combined.
Please stop your ****** jibber jabber and get back in line.
Did you go through our joke of an education system?
Did you complete American high school
have that experience?
If not,
whatever education you did receive
doesn’t mean anything to anyone.
Probably not even yourself.
Why is this reality?
The entire world wants our Hollywood.
The entire universe dances to our music,
bleeds for our fashion,
our trends, our desires for technology.
It’s our approval that they all crave,
you all help us to create.
That’s why these aren’t tens of thousands of dollar industries
they are billion dollar global industries.
Thank you, China, for sacrificing YOUR children
so I can NOT buy one of your slightly "better" iPhones.
Thank you, Mexico, for without your $0.75 an hour,
our whole economy would collapse.
You were never born to be cool or to "get it."
And if you didn’t have THIS.
OUR upbringing, not yours
if you didn’t have this opportunity,
you will always, always be an outsider looking in !
You will never FULLY or truly understand
almost ANYTHING of relevance or importance.
That’s only part of the reason we don’t want to share anything with you.
yeesh.
Regardless of how many movies you think you ‘get,’
or the off chance that you may actually read anything
or have picked up a book
not very likely unless you’ve been incarcerated.
Oh, don’t worry, though
we are building a prison for YOU.
After all, we incarcerate more people than the rest of the world combined.
Please stop your ****** jibber jabber and get back in line.
.. ".people like to talk about integration and unity, but in practice, 99% stick to their own. The neighborhoods, the bars, the churches, even the social circles all still divided along cultural and ethnic lines, no matter how much people pretend otherwise.
It’s not just history, either. Even now, people naturally cluster where they feel comfortable, where they don’t have to explain themselves or fit into something ' unnatural '. The whole "melting ***" idea has always been a lie it's more of a sales pitch than a reality. It’s more like a compartmentalized *** everyone keeping to their own unless there’s a specific reason not to....it’s not just about understanding; it’s about belonging. Just because people admire or consume American culture doesn’t mean they’re welcome in it. There’s a line between appreciating something and thinking you have a right to it... " From Kamala Harris , to Tim Walz upon considering him as a running mate.
It’s not just history, either. Even now, people naturally cluster where they feel comfortable, where they don’t have to explain themselves or fit into something ' unnatural '. The whole "melting ***" idea has always been a lie it's more of a sales pitch than a reality. It’s more like a compartmentalized *** everyone keeping to their own unless there’s a specific reason not to....it’s not just about understanding; it’s about belonging. Just because people admire or consume American culture doesn’t mean they’re welcome in it. There’s a line between appreciating something and thinking you have a right to it... " From Kamala Harris , to Tim Walz upon considering him as a running mate.
