Abhijit Naskar's Blog - Posts Tagged "uncle-sam"

Letter to the rest of the world –
for the first time in over 200 years,
US is proudly regressing to its primitive origins,
now is the time to take stock of your strengths within –

your domestic brains, your domestic backbones,
and wield, empower and apply them most vehemently –
now is the time you fly higher than ever, without sam,
because big brother has turned into a drunken uncle.

And to those living within these shores of liberty,
who still have their senility intact, I say –
you might not have had the honor to fight nazis,
but now is the time you resist with your life.

It’s not a free country, it’s a free jungle,
where predators roam free abusing the marginalized.
If you don’t stand up now on the right side of life,
not human, not alive, you are undead – uncivilized.

We cannot abolish systemic persecution
without dismantling systemic privilege.
You cannot wipe the slate clean, but you can
take the responsibility and stand to heal.

Colonizers are the second class citizens,
every land first belongs to the indigenous.
Landback is the mother of all movements,
it contains the plight of all First Humans.

Women are indigenous to their own body,
Palestinians are indigenous to palestine;
uncultured crowns and criminal uncles
have no jurisdiction over our Earthright.

Earth belongs to the Natives, settlers are
welcome, but as participant, not head of state.
Somos indígenas, somos indomables –
you can make us houseless, but never homeless.

Connected Texts:
White Man, Apex Predator of Earth (Sonnets 2399-2400) – Abhijit Naskar, When Calls The Kainat
Record of White Crimes Against Humanity (White Fragility Sonnets 1308-1310) - Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets