{"id":685,"date":"2012-04-25T16:16:53","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T20:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/?p=685"},"modified":"2012-04-25T16:19:58","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T20:19:58","slug":"im-sorry-for-your-ignorance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/2012\/04\/25\/im-sorry-for-your-ignorance\/","title":{"rendered":"I’M SORRY FOR YOUR IGNORANCE"},"content":{"rendered":"
by ALYSSA<\/a><\/span><\/h5>\n

Verdammt Dich!
\nI’m sorry,
\nbut I’d rather not argue
\nwith some one half of my IQ.
\nThe way I fight,
\nyou’re guaranteed to lose.
\nIt’s a battle of wits,
\nbut you came unarmed.
\nWhen this conversation started,
\nno one meant you any harm.<\/p>\n

We came to talk about school,
\nbut then you came in,
\nbecause you thought you were cool;
\nGuess what:
\nyou’re not smart.
\nI’m sorry; ‘s that your ignorance showing?
\nDon’t even start.
\nYou’ve got stereotypes down to a fine art,
\nand on behalf
\nof all the people you claimed were represented,
\nI apologize for this daft,
\nrude,
\nlowlife who’s so crude.<\/p>\n

Verdammt Dich!
\nI’m sorry,
\nbut I’d rather not argue
\nwith some one half of my IQ.
\nThe way I fight,
\nyou’re guaranteed to lose.
\nIt’s a battle of wits,
\nbut you came unarmed.
\nWhen this conversation started,
\nno one meant you any harm.<\/p>\n

You thought you’d be impressing your friends
\nby \u201cintelligently\u201d addressing a trend
\nin my behavior<\/p>\n

\u201c…brown-nosing nerdy white bitch \u2013 no one cares about you…\u201d
\nah,
\nbut how untrue
\nThere’s a difference between brown-nosing and being polite
\nand a difference between bitching and knowing what’s right.
\nYou may say no one cares about me,
\nbut you’re just looking for a fight,
\nand besides,
\nI’ll always love me,
\nso I don’t care.
\nAs for being white,
\nlet make you wiser for wear.
\nYou may find specificity is key here:
\nI
\nam
\nMexican, Russian, German, Native American, and Irish.
\nHalf of this ‘white’ background of mine isn’t really Anglo,
\nand they share suffering and pain through history
\nas every other race,
\nbecause they all have a story:
\nMexican workers movement
\nSoviet Union
\nHitler’s Oppression,
\nTrail of tears,
\n\u201cBefore the Irish Became White\u201d,
\nanything ring a bell?!<\/p>\n

No?
\nOf course not I shouldn’t think so highly.
\nUgh!<\/p>\n

I guess my point is just
\nthat to me,
\nit’s still a mystery
\nwhy you use your ancestor’s history
\nas an excuse for your foolish strife,
\nas a reason to hold on to racism
\nwhen we just want to let it go.
\nNo,
\nI won’t fight you,
\nand further than this,
\nI won’t spite you.
\n(mostly because it’s a waste of breath)
\nI just want you to know that you’re hurting yourself,
\nnot resolving the conflict we came here for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by ALYSSA<\/a> <\/p>\n

Verdammt Dich!
I’m sorry,
but I’d rather not argue
with some one half of my IQ.
The way I fight,
you’re guaranteed to lose.
It’s a battle of wits,
but you came unarmed.
When this conversation started,
no one meant you any harm.<\/p>\n

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