This poem is my answer to the false White “Christian” ethnonationalists who have been the dark heart of anti-refugee and anti-immigrant efforts among US for many generations.
The U.S. Supreme Court issued two devastating opinions eviscerating the international human right to seek asylum as a refugee at a border, fortifying policies to “turn back” refugees; and secondly, virtually ending any right for refugees already in the U.S. under Temporary Protected Status, many who are long-term residents and have “mixed status” families (spouses, children who are U.S. citizens). For more details watch this Democracy Now news segment.
Mustering Up, The Least
“What you have done to the least of these, you have done to me.” –Unknown non-white, non-English-speaking foreigner who was unjustly threatened and then killed by a nation’s elite
In a relatively species argument
White “Christian” ethnonationalists wince agin
At a God of an other
Land
Blood
Homme
Spirit
Speaking in tongues
Knot their own
More and more
Inciting sentries passed
Mine verses yore
The nativists are wrest less
Frayed of their own
Shadow
More and more
A resurrection peep-hole
Un-Abel
Too due any thing
Abut raising Cain
Soully to raze
One’s family
Deaf to
There cries Jesus
What you halve
Done to me
“The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.” – Leviticus 19:34
