Shades

1

Preaching
their professional prejudicial creed
from behind the well-designed guise
                     of 'anti-racist' crusaders
a righteous newfangled breed
of impeccably credentialed race-baiters

decried color-blindness
as something   that by its very nature
       was not only wholly unattainable
but was nothing but a song and dance
to cover for latent racism

       while intimating that on the basis
       of their hyper-enlightened stance
              their being appreciably racist
              was quite simply something
                     they simply couldn't be

       unlike we   the great unwashed
       who no matter what we'd done
              or said or thought or faced
       were innately racist   or not
                     based solely on our race

which — according to our lordly
              gloriously morally superior
thought-and-speech-policing/directing
the content of their character-rejecting
pigment-obsessed brightest and best —

we certainly were
              if we happened to be 'white'
as sure as we were either much less
or not in the slightest
if we happened to be anything else.


2

In spite of   what our expertly divisive
narrative handlers assume and assert
is something self-evidently true

I've never met a person
who was either black or white
— and I'd wager as much as you'd like
                     that neither have you —

       since despite the loads of tripe
       you've been fed your whole life
       it's undeniably  indisputably true
              that there are in fact
              no such black or white things

— only innumerable hues
in shades of brown and beige and pink
       on our magical wrap-around skins.