in my veins
Sep. 8th, 2016 09:40 amin my veins horton was a white supremacist grandma told me that he was kkk so i’ve put together a composite of him hooded in white throwing rocks at Paul Robeson and Pete Seeger my great-grandfather was before my time my father only remembers something about beer refills about magic and his blood runs in my veins just as easily and smoothly as my puerto rican grandmother’s through the grapevine i’ve heard nothing good of horton only bad only anger only violence and race warfare i am not proud of this heritage but i claim it because just as my lineage seems to whiten through the generations we become more accepting more human grandma was raised in his house she was an only child she learned that they all look alike and that she was better that they didn’t belong but years later she learned to love Jessica she learned that sweetness and kindness can come in black and my father married my mother he dated a black woman and married a muslim and i stand with Black Lives Matter i preach equality i am pretty sure that i can hear horton rolling in his grave angry and dead an era to leave behind
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