THIS. BLOWS. MY. MIND. if there was only one thing i could say about racism, human dignity and solidarity, it would be this.
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“PLEASE RESIST ME” BY LUKA LESSON
Please resist me, colonise me, compromise me and conflict me
please don’t risk me
if you see me at the airport, please come and frisk me
Please resist me, colonise me, compromise me and conflict me
please don’t risk me
please call me stupid
because your resistance brings my evolution
Please resist me, call me a wog
It’s brought us so close together I could call me a squad
Please resist me, lock me in solitary confinement
I’ll close my eyes and admire the quality of the silence
I’ll write rhymes in my mind honestly and define them
solidly redefine and memorise them
until like a diamond when I come out I’ll be better than when I arrived in
Please resist me, keep me under the thumb
Keep me down trodden Keep me under the gun
Keep me working harder under thunder and sun
Son – haven’t you heard?
I’m becoming a gun
Please resist me, because resistance brings evolution
and you’ve resisted me consistently
I thank you for your contribution
I’m a happy man, your stupidity has made me strong
I’ve developed wings, a thick skin and this here opposable thumb
It holds my pen which loads my explodable tongue
So without loading a gun
I’m killing high quotas of unemotional … punks
Sorry, you also taught me to speak French
I learnt it when you kept keeping me at arms-length
And then I learnt Italian just to expand my head
And Greek to learn from where my ancestors had fled
And then I learnt some Yanyuwa to show the people of this land respect
You see it’s been your example that has led me to leave you for dead
So don’t trust me, I’m risky
Insurmountable unaccountable
I’m an undeniable unreliable maniacal liability
I fire soliloquies and my liturgies
literally leave a literary litany
You see when I was little
They told me I was Illegitimate, illiterate and limited
Little did they know that in a minute I’d be killing it
I’m vivid like in cinemas so my synonym is vividness
I stick it like I’m cinnamon and kill it like a militant
I live it like a citizen – you live a life like imprisonment
Besides Indigenous, immigrant might be the most legitimate of citizens
So it’s better to live a life like us. Isn’t it?