Rev. Gerald Dillenbeck Poet Political Verse

Talking Racism

Why is racism
so difficult to own
and heal
for fragile western
and northern white people?

Why is patriarchalism
so difficult to own
and inclusively heal
for fragile ecofeminists
against narcissistic straight white males?

Why is nonbinary heterodoxuality
so difficult to orthodoxically own
and multiculturally heal
for fragile binary
authoritative
normative
straight monoculturalists
against LGBTQ unwhite
unpatriarchal rainbows
celebrating spectral color?

Why is win/win compassion
so difficult to own
and polypathically mend
for fragile win/lose humanity
EitherWin/OrLose dominating left-brain
ego-centered survivalists,
anxious about transparent differences
vulnerable changes
right-brain multicultural interdependent experience
hope
passion
ecstasy?

Why is Elitism
so difficult to own
and heal
for fragile NonElite life=love 
breathing=joy 
positive-egomind = healthwealth-ecobodied 
systems,
intersecting networks,
polyphonic paradigms,
ecological theo-meta-phors,
trans-capitalistic wealth flow-values,
trajectories
health-trends?

Why is monoculturing ego-privilege
so difficult to own
and heal
for fragile western
and northern white privileged people?

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Silent One November 18, 2019 at 1:43 PM White privilege? They hide the past, so people do not know the crimes.... apartheid, slavery, native indians, aboriginal, the raaj in India... I could go on.. Rev. Gerald Dillenbeck November 18, 2019 at 2:44 PM Good point. White privilege extends to who writes and publishes and edits history and who controls major media corporations. Specifically mentioned in WHite Fragility, by Robin Diangelo, which I just finished reading.