WHITE SUPREMACY IS THE AIR WE BREATHE

WHITE SUPREMACY IS THE AIR WE BREATHE
WHITE SUPREMACY IS THE AIR WE BREATHE
WHITE SUPREMACY IS THE AIR WE BREATHE
WHITE SUPREMACY IS THE AIR WE BREATHE
WHITE SUPREMACY IS THE AIR WE BREATHE
WHITE SUPREMACY IS THE AIR WE BREATHE
WHITE SUPREMACY IS THE AIR WE BREATHE
WHITE SUPREMACY IS THE AIR WE BREATHE
WHITE SUPREMACY IS THE AIR WE BREATHE
WHITE SUPREMACY IS THE AIR WE BREATHE
WHITE SUPREMACY IS THE AIR WE BREATHE

and until I
see
that
believe
that
accept
that
I cannot
change

that.

In response to and solidarity with Mykele Deville
and his statement about The Hideout, Chicago IL
In response to my
and white people's complicity in performative anti racism
in the arts and
Pervasive in our venues, "institutions"
Corporations
Existing without question
accountability
nor willingness to actually change
To see
To do the work
And belaboring BIPOC folx
to "fix" solve organize while
They (said White
folx, artists, institutions, spaces)
receive gratuity and
appearances

of Revolution.

And me
and you white
artists
did I

Ask

Always
Who pulls the strings
and creep
Deeper past
the curtain Peel
back the layers
Residue.
Calcification
of white salt.
Scratch
at it with my nails bleed deep it's
In my eyes.
Bloody sockets I pulled
out
Out
Out
spotlight.
I surrender its glare.

"And this one goes out to The Hideout ...!"
Remember?
"BLACK LIVES MATTER!!!!!!"
"BLACK LIVES MATTER!!!!!!"
"BLACK LIVES MATTER!!!!!!"
"BLACK LIVES MATTER!!!!!!"
"BLACK LIVES MATTER!!!!!!"
I shake it out with a fist spray
paint it on the wall just like that epithet until
I realize

my hands are red.