Privilege
A poem.

A poem.
Go anywhere
Do anything, dine any place
Receiving unearned respect
While climbing on the backs and dead bodies of others
Privilege fills corporate ladders, makes weak pillars,
And makes brothers enemies
Privilege takes from mines
Give to theirs
Walking the streets freely
Acting as though it cannot see me
Privilege approves and endorses
Revokes and destroys
Lies and steals
Protects its own
Even when its wrong
This privilege gives you the power to
Criticize and legitimatize
Allow and forbid
Create and destroy
Help or look away
Privilege, you control all things
Good and bad
Whether you own it or not
Your privilege is a birthright
Your birthright makes everything right
Especially at night, when the cops come a knockin
This privilege is granted upon birth
And maintained until death
This unearned privilege passes down the wealth
And bad health
To us poor wretches born without it
Privilege has stolen from me
Its immunity is not new to me
While ole privilege makes them free
Their privilege is my prison
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