Thursday, August 5, 2021

Summer of '21

 

do your own research doesn't mean
finding some group or self-styled expert
who convinces you they think like you do;
it means finding experts that not so much
agree with you as make sense and are backed
by the general understandings of the field
and other experts who can clearly explain
the principles and procedures involved, and
learning what you can about the subject matter
so you can have an informed opinion.
 
 
 
 
people who believe it important to be
not humans but some label we are
conditioned to love or hate use this myth
of race created by people who were horrified
by their own behaviors against others to give
an excuse. The myth has seemed useful since
to continue such divisive excusing of
horrendous behavior.
 
 
 
 
There seem to be too many people who
regard themselves as arbiters of the social
morality with no qualifications other than
their own boredom and self appointment.
 
 
 
Of the wrong dimensions
to fit into normative reality --
perhaps theirs ought to be
expanded.
 
 
 
You can’t legitimately call the wealth
yours when it was created by exploited
employees, mutated slavery.
 
 
 
It’s not about gay or straight or gender queer.
It’s about who attracts so you’re obsessed
with need to feel completely.
Labels distract from the real, distance from
our yearning for connection, subtract from
how happy we could be.
 
 
 
I am not as good as, better than, less than,
anyone, because I have no idea what the
criteria are.
 
 
 
AntiRacism by denying the evil myth called “race”
 
 
 
Calling people out for some angry “ist”
which encompasses a vast array of
possible behaviors?  Call people out for
their actual horrendous actions,
unacceptable from any.
 
 
 
I get it.  We each have our salient issues.
I respect that.
I have issues of my own.
 
 
 

8/1-4/21

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