POETRY: They Want Free Empathy

I am not an ableist and I respect the journey of your families

Wander the globe searching for quintessence 

But were your ancestors blind, they could not hear? Were they dumb?

Maybe they did not see

They saw and pretended they did not

They approached a land of refuge treating people horribly 

And settled

They had to eat rat burgers, that's their cause 

Should we forgive their feigned ignorance?

Why must we be empathetic to your unique plight?

When, according to you, our families have been here, under constant incessant siege? 

You joined the siege, gleefully

You thought the grass was greener and it still is 

You just cry when it gets a little brown, at least it isn't on fire

And has not become black

The waves, skies, deserts and mountains you feared

You thought you would never have to fight the same fight as us

Now when there is no imminent death, just a flight home 

We must respond, as we always have, empathetically

You're not facing death. You are facing the flag in your social media profile 

On your helmet, on your jersey, you are facing thousands of eateries with your traditional foods

And millions more people that look exactly like you 

How diverse is your homeland? Do they even care about diversity?

You face the heritage you claim is your heart 

But your soil is barren your skies permanently dark

You hate your home so we must help you stay in ours?

When you refuse to address why your family thought

That you could never be judged 

As those that built your nest, your sanctuary 

You beg for us to accept you when you have a flag and national pride back home

You actually think you have an argument 

That we must feel sorry for your ignorance...

No! It was not ignorance it was a simple understanding, it was arrogance!

That you knew that your family was not like those enslaved here

Or hung from trees, or kept from bank loans and on one side of a city

We were put in prison for crimes that are open secrets in your community

You get to jack off the white John

Or sell the cocaine, we get to go to prison

And still you are not treated nearly the same and you compare

You compare yourself to us when you make choices

Your choices are the same as us being born, now

It wasn't the same before you got here but now it's the same

We should fight for your prejudice and at the very least your arrogance?

We should die for you, be your martyr? 

So you can enjoy the same life you only complain about, now 

You and your family thought this would never happen 

And if you knew, you wholeheartedly conceded to that possibility 

Your family claims asylum only for economy 

Not to help this country grow but to help your shithole glow

To guilt us into paying your salary and sustain your lifestyle

Donations for your job just because who you fuck or how you identify 

You deserve no empathy

Your family nor you had any foresight

You thought you had an army, that you hate, to always fight for you

Whenever you randomly attach yourselves to our plight you thought we would agree forever

It's your turn for oppression, it's your turn to see what it's like to never be wanted

And still you're not scarred, still there is no impending death

You are not scared of doom

And not of death, you're scared of home!

Not of death, you broke the law, and should be punished for it 

You took advantage of your recent concessions 

"This is a white supremacist land afterall" 

You lie and tell us that you did not know but you knew

You would rather die than go home 

Till your fields and build, you would rather be beaten and die that go back to the land 

That you are proud to be from or have some heritage

You waive your flag proudly unless it's in your homeland 

You nor your family deserve any cover

You believed in a land that you knew was treating people badly

Your family still came, you got rich, and when your riches challenged 

Not even got rich when your comfort irritated, slightly

We must fight for you

Get out of your bubble 

Lower the rainbow flag and speak to the world

You are not a victim

You are not oppressed 

The world is being balanced and your family made the wrong guess

You believe all they say and do 

They are your revolutionary doctrine 

They are your revolutionary spirit, the one that your homeland lacks 

You believe the words of hacks and liars, those dependent upon your compliance

And with you we should make an alliance? 

We are not as dumb as you, to fake like three plus three is two 

And that the clear sky is foggy and not blue

Emotions should rule the day, we should feel the pain of the murderer being deported

The molester being sent out of here, the baker, the carpenter

Just like we should respect your tears? 

Why are you defending criminality? 

Is that what your people come here to do? To commit crime?

To make it! You must deceive and cheat and lie and steal?

We should be taxed not only to pay for your uselessness but to suborn criminality!

They can commit crimes at leisure on our dime? 

We have to listen to your feelings? We have to care about them too? 

You only care about you! 

You only care about you! 

That's the point. You want people that have always fought, still fighting, to stop fighting for us 

To fight for you!

You give us nothing to fight for but your phony plight 

And we are supposed to be indignant just so we can keep paying taxes for you?

You are not even supposed to be here

Waive your flag in your homeland

No one cares about your food 

Americans make the greatest food, we perfected Neanderthal barbeque

For some reason we should care about these people, they hate our country 

They are mad at a land that supports their lifestyle and gives them so much rope to complain

From that same rope let's watch them hang!!

No, let's hang them!!!!!!

No, we watched as they tied to rope around their own necks 

They would agree, they gleefully hang themselves

They hate us and this country

They want a free army if this country is not their haven, their heaven 

They want war if they are treated much less than we were/are

They attach themselves to our history and in that is proof

They do not understand or they hate us even more 

They think they can equivocate and that their struggle is ours!

We must fight for their politics and their lives!!!

We should die for their right to come here and hate us and live their best life

We must protect the rights that their own governments would never give them

They knew the risks, they paid the coyotes and cartels 

They hid in those shipping containers to cross the Pacific

They paddled across the Atlantic on a banana leaf with a bamboo stick  

They swam the caribbean 

They saved up and thought that as long as they were not us

They were safe

Detection they avoided, they actually help to point us out

They emphatically state that we are not them or like them  

They have been discovered, now it's our moral duty to fight for an amoral people

For their ignorance for their ignobility
If we do not fight for them we are filthy

We are soiled but they are the cowards that left to brag about a place they fled

In a hurry 

They think we are as dumb as they were told we were 

They think we are much much much greater idiots

And we are

We fell for empathy, but not anymore 

You made a choice, we did not

If I were to consider you and your family pieces of human garbage
Interlopers hoping to take advantage of all of the guilt you hope to shame

Would I be a bad person? What if I travelled to your homeland with a hand out?

Begging for empathy, "Empathy, empathy please, can I please have it?!!!!!

Empathy where are you?" 

Is that where you attach yourself to the history of a people you hate?

A black history that has nothing to do with you

Actually what if a group of us got on a boat and sailed to your homeland?

For freedom, what if thousands, no, millions of black people crossed your border?

Looking for nothing but freedom!!

No, we were looking for acceptance. We're willing to be homeless in your land! 

What would happen?

No actually we are looking for economic absolution, we want to make more money 

You racist scum. Let me humor me...

You know you are a piece of garbage and your people are scum
Now that it is not black people, you are angry 
Now you care. Actually you cared when it was not because you would make sure 
To have a hand out so that people donate to the LGBTQP&*)y-8y or the homeless or Mexicans 
Or anyone that was not a black American 

When black Americans are killed 

The oppression coalition of weirdos and immigrants with their hands out first
Now you want help, when you and your ancestors understood your possible treatment
But for some reason knew it would never be you
And now you pretend it is, and we should care, we should be empathetic 
Science makes your children, our blood has been your families' absolution for generations
You still connect yourselves to the black plight despite your people's hate

Your dismissiveness, your false association
You duplicitousness scumbags finally getting what's coming to you 

And still nothing is happening to you! You are fighting against a plane ticket home
It isn't death again, it isn't death, it's a plane ticket home!
The fear of a plane ticket home is what we should fight against?
"Please don't allow them to give me a free plane ticket home!!!!
PLEASE!!! PLEASE DO NOT GIVE MY PEOPLE PLANE TICKETS BACK HOME! US BEING SENT BACK HOME IS THE SAME AS BLACK PEOPLE BEING KILLED FOR LIVING! Our oppression is the same! Why don't you see that, nigger?"

Empathy is not reserved for people like you

But if you want mine, pay me for it in your blood, sweat and tears, not for a dollar 

Pay in the blood for your flag, for your country's freedom

Then pay me more for empathy, at your funeral