Cognitive Dissonance
On the Complicity of Inaction
“I’m the least racist President you’ve seen in a long time.”
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He said that as he defended
amplifying that horrid video.
You know the one I mean.
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Blamed it on an intern,
quick to throw an unnamed scapegoat
under the bus.
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“I’m the least racist President you’ve seen in a long time.”
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This from a man who walked down
his gilded staircase
and called Mexicans thugs and rapists,
*
giving the weak-minded
permission to speak their own
awful thoughts into existence.
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“I’m the least racist President you’ve seen in a long time,”
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said the man who has created
his own little sect of brownshirts,
hiding behind masks and badges,
*
while they terrorize peaceful communities,
stalk immigration hearing courts,
and disappear entire families into detention centers.
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“I’m the least racist President you’ve seen in a long time.”
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Is he, really? Do not racist actions
belie racist beliefs? Is the proof
not visible to your own eyes?
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And if you turn away from it all
because it does not affect you –
then what does that make you?
About the Creator
David Muñoz
I'm a recovering artist in Austin, Texas. Stoic student, mystic, writer, poet, guitarist, father, brother, son, friend. I am an eternal soul living a human experience. Part of that experience is working through my stuff by making art.
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