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Hate Fluently

By Peacock Secrets


When they do it vs. when we do it:


Don't be in the minority

because then, even

your own mother tongue

speaks against you.


Like when we do it, it's called Black nationalism,

But when they do it, it's White supremacy!

Hah! Y'all! I'm going to fix this:

Here it is: White inferiority complex.

You're welcome!


When it was us, they exclaimed:

"Muslim fundamentalist!

Islamists! Terrorists!"

When it was them, they

forgot about their religion

Saying: “January 6th rioters,”

“Insurrectionists,” 

“Protestors,” and “Patriots."


When it was us, they accused every Muslim of jihad

When it was them they embarked

On another personal "Crusade"

Crusade is the English Christian equivalent of jihad.

And I know my history.

So you go google the nine Crusades

and their violent bloodbaths

before you respond to me,

While I embark on this poetic (crusade) jihad, personally.


When the world protested for justice,

they whined, "It's these BLM riots”... 

Tiny print: "Mostly peaceful."

When sports fans did it,

their newscasters announced:

“Drunken revelry, excited fans,”...

Tiny print: "Some property damage."


When they sang it, they said

they liked heavy metal, hard rock,

gothic music, and murder ballads.

They said, “It's all art…

America's First Amendment…

Freedom of speech.”

Yada yada.

Yet when we rapped it, they ruled

rap lyrics admissible in court.

Only rap! No other genre, hunh?

I wonder why.


All around the world,

when it's our homes,

we supposedly live in villages.

When it's their homes,

they live in hamlets, towns,

suburbs and counties.


When it's not America:

"Oh my God! They enforce communism!"

"Oh my God! They enforce socialism!"

When it's them, they are

proud to announce

they are going to "bring democracy" to

Afghanis and Iraqis who didn't want their war

and didn't vote for them to come.

Don’t you see? Our greedy demagogues’ false democracy 

is just as unjust as communism and socialism in reality.


When it's others dying in a war started by the U.S.

there is no orphans' or widows' charity,

no “Go Fund Afghanistan, Iraq, and Yemen, please.”

But when it's them,

it's "Support our troops!"

And be sure to say "Thank you for your service."


They call other leaders

"The President of XYZ Country"

They call theirs"

The Leader of the Free World"

Which part of this world is free?

And, which part is unfree?

Why isn't the U.S. president leading the unfree world too?

Did either the free or the unfree

get to vote democratically

for this so-called leader of free humanity?

Is anyone who rejects the U.S. presidency deemed unfree mentally?


When it is us traveling, we are called,

Illegals, foreigners, aliens, migrants, job-steelers.

"They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime, they’re rapists."

When it is them, they call themselves

  “Explorers” and “expatriates” who are “spending a year abroad.

They are “backpacking through Asia,

but they are not beggars and bums!

In fact, even their fathers were previously deployed overseas.


When it's us, they say

"Islam was spread through the sword."

When it's them, they say

“You heathens needed missionaries,

–and conquistadors too–

to find the Fountain of Youth

and get the gold of El Dorado!

And America needed Manifest Destiny,

and Western imperialism, and colonialism,...”

Oh! And throwback to America’s Papa: "God Save The King!"


When it's us,

They didn't fathom any of our nations ever had

multitudes of monarchies, nor any nobles, nor royalty.

But British monarchs are still

"The" King and "The" Royals.

No need to mention which country.

All for an island nation

hell-bent on hegemony over humanity!


When they do it, it's ethnic cleansing.

When others do it, it's genocide.

Hmm! Guess whose dirt is on the inside!


When a few of us did it, we were called:

Gunmen, thugs, gangsters.

When they did it, it's called,

"Yesterday was a really bad day for him, and this is what he did."

It's called, let's stop by Burger King!

It's called, "Good people on both sides."


When it's us, they assume

Black and Hispanic men deserve this verbage:

Gangbangers, cartels, hoodlums!

But when it's them they forget about

The Mafia, and mob "bosses", and "Godfathers."

What twisted terminology!

Biases based on genealogy!


When it's us, they use an excuse:

Africans sold other Africans

into slavery too.

Then when it's them, they forget:

Rome enslaved White Gladiators, or isn't that true?


Then they talk Black on Black crime,

yet they completely forget

Europeans hurt Europeans too!

2 million Polish people, 6 million Jews!

3 million more Romanis!

Plus Soviets, and political dissenters! 


All of which began with the murders

of people with delays and disabilities.

All actively attacked and doomed 

by other Europeans for being true

to their God-given DNA,

or their nations, or views!


When it was us, they named

Harriet Tubman "Black Moses"

When it was them, they forgot

the stupidity of white actors portraying an African;

an Ancient Egyptian named Moses.

So superbly stupid!

Just like Euro-American enslavers in church

standing, singing a Negro Spiritual, accidentally:

"Let my people go!"


When we wear hijabs,

we somehow seem to be oppressed,

forced by our husbands!

When they wear habits,

they somehow seem to be pious nuns.

But if they are wives of Christ,

who was it, who beat them into their habits?


When they point upward or cross their chests anywhere, we don't care!

No matter the game, no matter the celebration.

Yet, when we prostrate

in the end zone after a touchdown,

They run and change the rules:

Kindly don't look like a Muslim in public!

Such a privilege is only for us Christians ya see!


When weed was sold on our blocks,

we got full-body-contact-ed by the cops.

When they sold the same weed crops,

they got quickly contacted by the IRS.

Meanwhile our bro’s rot in a box.

Arrested, imprisoned, distressed.


they called us Hispanic

and named only themselves after the entire continent

“This is America!”

Uhmm, haa!...So is Mexico!

North America to be exact

But no no! Only they get to be American.


When other nations do it

They're called oppressive regimes

When the KKK,

Oops I mean the USA,

does it's called democracy

Makes you forget

Women's sufferage,

blocking voter rights, gerrymandering,

..need I go on?


When it happened to them

I heard terms like

Holocaust, concentration camps, war crime...

Movies made year after year

I cry out, "Can we get some similar

Hollywood attention here?

On what happened to you and I”

Not enough movie stars to shine a light

On the Trans-Pacific slave trade,

Japanese internment camps,

Immigration detention centers,...

And colonial invasions that caused the genocide

and extinction of whole nations, empires and tribes.


And why?

Why is Christopher Columbus celebrated

By those who say they hate Hitler?


Speaking of concentration camps and detention centers,

Where are the movies on

U.S. Troops’ sexual assaults of inmates at Abu Ghraib prison?


We said: “White privilege”

Karen said: No, “White male privilege”



They got the opioid "crisis"

We got the crack "epidemic"



We got homemade

They got artisanal


We got your hair is coarse

They got your hair is silky,

And fine like wine

Excuse my coarse language:

But what the hell?!


We got urban.

They got heart of the city.

We got melanated person, and person of color

They got person,.... period!

Am I supposed to be melan-ated? like Colored?

As if God made mankind, then added color last!

Naw! This melanin was in the mix since the beginning

Adam's skin

Made of black sounding-clay

Give them de-melanin-ed.

Give them melanin poor.

People of Clear.

I'm not a POC

Because they are not called "People of Low Melanin"!

So don't you dare name me!

I am not the anomaly!

Name them!

They are POLM!


We got African American, Asian American,

Hispanic American, and Native American.


Now, did they get European American?

Nope! They got American,... period!


We got called Black, like black-balled.

They got White, like lilly-white.

Then they taught it to the kids!

Snow White, Goldilocks

Disney's White fantasies

Rapunzel, Frozen Aurora,...

And hey, don’t notice that

Jasmin is the only bare-bellied Princess,

yet somehow the “Muslim” Princess.

Yeesh!


I'm so tired of your

linguistic micro aggressions!

Lying! Subtle allegations!

Whitewashed brainwashed words!


So I'm blackmailing you back

With this blacklist!

Terms and words:

Black face, Yellow peril,

Redskins in this Nation's Capital!

We see you and the hate you speak!

Each bigoted term you tried to sneak

past me and my people.

Well guess what? We hear your hate,

.........Fluently!.....


By Peacock Secrets








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