

Am I angry because I am aware, or am I aware because I am angry?
…ing for what they were never going to have. For the promises that were never going to be fulfilled. White men are the only people allowed to fully believe in the American dream and perhaps that is the cruelest thing to have ever been done to them and the world that has to suffer their anger as they refuse to let go of a fantasy that we were never allowed to imagine ourselves in.
But if you just don’t want to get it — if you want to question my life experiences and those of other people of color; if you want to bring up the “race card”; black-on-black crime; the fact that you too grew up poor; or the Irish were slaves — then I say fuck you! I’m not getting paid to get you to see things from a different perspective. I don’t get a dime to t…