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Decolonization of the Imagination
Apr. 8th, 2006 | 02:18 pm
My sophomoric poem, always in the works...
Now falling out of wonderland. Book in hand.
Please note that (psycho-emotional) Turbulence may occur throughout the flight.
Ignorance is bliss.
SometimesI'd rather die
than live in this world I know is replete with suffering,
In this world where it's so hard to
express.... myself
(And have people listen),
(And understand).
I want to scream... to explain:
Think!!!!
Outside your box!!
Outisde your mainstream, your daily... way of life.
because it's not the only way of life.
"Realities" You thoughtlessly, subconsciously, unconscientiously accept
views that surrounded you since the day you struggled to leave the womb...
That you've weaved into the new (insulated)box that protects you in its place.
A box of weak planks of hypocrisy,
like layered toothpicks- they lie in strength,
create a shield of ignorance out of false rationalization
about others
the Others
so incomprehensively different from yourself.
Unconsciounsly boxed in your mind as less than
YourAmericanSelf.
Sometimes i am selfish
i thoughtlessly dawdle in the corner of my (insulated)box.
At it's border. At it's edges.Occasionally I wander
And end up far outside it...
But More often, i awake
and look outside
and cannot bear what I see,
(and hear),
(and feel)
So,
guiltily,
i creep back in
to MY box
wishing i could crawl further
(back into the womb).
Ignorance hides pain that too often it creates;
Ignorance. is...bliss.
(Click some links and perhaps you can attempt it too... to decolonize what lies between your eyes, that is)
In light of current attempted US legislation that would further criminalize and dehumanize humans who are undocumented immigrants, or permanent residents, and all those who provide any service to them and the ongoing genocide in Darfur...
I finally update an entry... A DC story that is truly a story with so many origins in DC the capital (vs. DC the city I live in), if unconventionally told through the voices of others and an attempt at expressing myself poetically
"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit."
W.S.Maugham
"I don't believe this is some kind of situation where powerful liars sit around and decide how best to kill people of color in the world. I believe that most of these folks are moneyed white people, and they inherited a worldview fom their parents and grandparents just like the rest of us. What, exactly, compels them to be racist fucks is open to conjecture, but there is no denying the fact that the moneyed class, which has such a huge influence on the worldview of everyone else in my country, are, indeed, racist fucks." ~Inga Muscio (Autobiography of a blue-eyed devil)
"Not since the early days of the civil rights movement has America been given an opportunity as great as the opportunity we have now. It's one things for us to avenge our pain, our anger, and our rage by targeting bin Laden and a handful of men who have wrought this villainy. But one should be wise enough to ask, What fueled all this? What continues to sustain the possibility that this will not go away? I think the answer is poverty.Dr. King once said that when we reach this kind of crisis, this kind of terror experience, that we should stop long enough to look at ourselves through the eys of our detractors and find what wisom we can glean from understanding how we have directly contributed to that tyranny. What have we done to humanity that brings us to this place of inhumanity? Terrorism is in many, many was the final utterance of voices unheard.Americans can longer afford to be as arrogant as we've been. we can no longer exmpt ourselves from the global family of concern. We can no longer exempt ourselves from conferences on racism like the conference in Durban that we walked out on, or concerns about trade, or global warming.So this is a great opportunity to take a good hard look at theese things. Because now we're more vulnerable that we've ever been. The only thing that can put that to rest forever is to abolish poverty. To eradicate precetable diseases. first and foremost to get rid of ignorance." ~Harry Belafonte
"In the 'free' market, free speech has become a commodity like everything else- justice, human rights, drinking water, clean air. It's available only to those who can afford it. And naturally, those who can afford it use free speech to manufacture the kind of product, public opinion, that best suits their purpose. ~Dr. Arundhati Roy