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The Caucasity Lyrics[Verse]
I speak
I have spoken
I have spoken across this so-called United States of America
I have shared stories
Ideas
Historical anecdotes
Social justice tales
Personal lore
And the like
This one time I was speaking, a young man interrupted me
Interrupted me with all the authority he could muster
And what I can only imagine was placed, or misplaced, in his Whiteness

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The caucasity

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He knew he could interrupt me because his parents likely told him that he could
But I’d be remiss if I didn't admit that I was intrigued
What could possibly be so important?
As he interrupted me as I told stories to these children
Stories they've never heard
Stories I was invited here to tell
His query "why do you spend so much time complaining and not putting your energy into actually helping your people?"
The shock
The offense

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When he asked his question, he nudged his friend next to him
Looking for an agreeable partner
An allegiance
A validation
A mob of two
Which is technically the smallest mob you can I have think
His friend physically moved away, shaking his head as though pleading "Please, don't pull me into this, please, please"
And the room rumbled as though providing a soundtrack to his friend's discomfort

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Perhaps instead of saying a thing that comes from a place of your ignorance, you should ask "Why am I here?"
Why have you never heard these stories?
Why has your poor education told you that the Whites are the heroes and the Blacks and Browns are the enemy?
In the way
Property
Less than
Savage
Godless
And you have the audacity, no, the caucasity, to perceive inconvenient truths to be complaining
In a learning institution
Why do you believe that an educated indigenous man is unable to teach, speak truth, and help his people all at the same time?
And why as a nineteen or twenty year old child do you think you know better?
Assured of your righteous place in the world
Why do you ask your question with that smug look on your face?
That same smug look carried by your ancestors that enslaved
And lynched
And murdered
And maimed
And plundered

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I get it
You're at a disadvantage
Information has been omitted
And you carry things that are systemically in place like "my people are special and magical" or something
And your love of Native Americas is rooted in the romance of our existence, Something to fantasize about
Unique
Exotic
Not human
In reality we are a people that were in the way of so-called progression
We were murdered and enslaved and your idea of us is sports mascots
Or the antagonists for a John Wayne or Kevin Costner film
We're D-list characters
Eliminateable characters
People that are frequently treated as foreigners in our own homelands
And we’ve gone so far in the colonial process that we barely exist to you
We aren’t something to be seen
Or respected
Or something that stands even as a cautionary tale on how to avoid dehumanization
And assimilation
And ignorance
And brutality
And imperialism
Or genocide
Because we are an inconvenient Indian
Something that challenges your own sense of superiority
Something you don’t have to think about because you don’t have to think about it
And look your privilege is showing
I hope you learn two things here
First, don’t do that
And second, why do you spend so much time complaining and not putting your energy into actually helping your people be better?
By not being this
Not this
Never this

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The caucasity