seeing red - dead pioneers lyrics
a woman said to me
your words are nice and all, but they seem really angry”
wherein i stated that truth is sometimes hard to hear
that anger is a perception more than a thing that inherently is
and those words are positive when you consider
i get to say them openly
without having my hair cut against my will
or punched in the face
or my scalp forcibly removed from my head
these words don’t sound angry
these words aren’t just words
they are proclamations of hope
an inflection of righteousness
because there is such a thing as righteous anger
you ask if i’m angry because i use words like
injustice” and “inequality”
they ask me if i’m angry because i say words like
genocide” or “racial superiority” and “colonialism”
are these words of anger?
aren’t these words from your colonial language
that time i met someone and within 28 seconds of meeting him
not looking me in the eye
an ocular dismissiveness
speaking to me as though speaking to the wind
are you an indian, he said
yes
so i guess you get a check from the government then?
to which i corrected him
saying that if we did get a check it would be soiled with the blood of my people who paved your roads with their bones for your so*called civilization
he snapped back
aggressively telling me i’m militant
militant?
a militant?!
the assumption that i’m angry because they know we should be mad
they know our resistance is a protest to their policies
the policies that would take everything from us
not just our lives
but our resources
our culture
language
tradition
stories
legacy then death
but militant
militant denotes invasion
who invaded who?!
who brought violence
and death
but angry?
am i angry?
am i angry?
am i angry?
my only sin here is being indigenous in the 21st century
my emotion is a house you built
and my anger is a lot safer than your mass shootings
your genocide
your lynchings
your secret police
your cop k!llers
am i angry?
am i angry?
am i angry?
am i angry?
am i angry?
am i angry?
am i angry?
am i angry?
am i angry?
am
i
angry?
am i angry?
am i angry?
am i angry?
am i angry?
to which i say: yes i am
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