If they were us
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They would have clenched their fists in rage if they were us
If they were us, they would have squirmed with complaints
Because they are comfortable,
Our plights appears less bothering
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Categories:
ethnocentrism, abuse, africa,
Form: Free verse
Imperialism
...Someone tells people what they should be
And they nod without hesitation
Slaves of alien mentality
Like the crave for fad and fashion
The sphere of modern imperialism
Is far reaching to in...
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Categories:
ethnocentrism, slavery,
Form: Rhyme
Nationalism, Russia, Jingoism - Part 999
...I
If your national and ethnic loyalties cannot understand other views of YOU, how are u better than Putin & his supporters?
Study ethnoi, ethnicity, nationalism ... And European wars (numerous) e...
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Categories:
ethnocentrism, africa, america, confusion, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
The Big Tent Elephant
...Once upon eternal time,
all philosophers
and theologians
and ecologists,
published and unpublished,
credentialed and indigenous,
elders and children
and all ages in-between,
alive and dead
a...
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Categories:
ethnocentrism, health, humanity, humor, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
What If Thanksgiving Celebrated 365 Days a Year Part I
...an earlier draft of this barely satisfactory missive ex post facto, i chomped asper with upper dentures upon evincing a couple of typographical errors, in up rye or draft, and did not wanna dodge bei...
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Categories:
ethnocentrism, culture, food, house, joy,
Form: Epic
No
...No
I had a desire to be a martyr to my word
To quench my desire for justice with the
Peak of my poor pen
To quash intolerance, racism, tribalism, tyranny
And quell my cowardice and my people’s
...
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Categories:
ethnocentrism, abuse, community, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
Upset
...mr. buffet can’t believe that
so much “inequality exists
without people really getting upset” &
as he & some of his richest friends in the world
start to give up some of their moola
to cause that th...
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Categories:
ethnocentrism, life, people, time, people,
Form: Free verse
No For An Answer
...“no” for an answer
“no” to conspicuous consumption
“no” to religion
“no” to nationalism
‘no” to authoritarianism
“no” to fascism
“no” to unchanging tradition
“no” to elitism
“no” to sexism
“no” to r...
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Categories:
ethnocentrism, life,
Form: Free verse