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<\/em>Weighter<\/strong>
\nTruth be tolled<\/strong>
\nWhoever’s pain the bill<\/strong>
\nI’d like a reseat<\/strong>
\nAt the table<\/strong><\/p>\n

This poem addresses the truism that life is not fair.\u00a0 I have spent most of my life and part of most days working to address social injustices.\u00a0 Recently, with the advent of the Black Lives Matter movement, I have redoubled my efforts to examine my own privileges and disenfranchisements.\u00a0 In sum, I am a very privileged individual.\u00a0 I am fascinated by how our own sets of privileges and disenfranchisements play out in society, particularly social justice movements.\u00a0 Perhaps the most prevalent divide, present even within most households, is male and female.\u00a0 Patriarchy is nearly omnipresent.\u00a0 As in any privileged group, men must exert effort to not by default weaponize privilege against those disenfranchised, in this case, about half of the world’s population!\u00a0 I have seen how people of color and trans folks have worked hard to claim their rightful roles and places within the LGBT equality movement.\u00a0 In addition, socioeconomic class issues cut across virtually all social movements.\u00a0 As a U.S. citizen working predominantly alongside other U.S. citizens, the privilege of First-Worldism profoundly impacts our relevance and importance as planetary citizens, where the poorest majority of humanity bears the brunt of the rest of the world’s over-consumption of resources, abuses of power, and assorted and sundry cultural dominations.<\/p>\n

\"Activism<\/a>As for me, solidarity is a primary guiding principle for my social justice activism.\u00a0 Literally standing with people who are disenfranchised in one way or another strikes me as one of the most direct ways to step toward social justice.\u00a0 This is related to “putting skin in the game,” which serves as my primary measure for authentic commitment to other human beings and the creation we share.\u00a0 As Alice Walker so elegantly stated, “Activism is my rent for living on this planet.”\u00a0 This planet, so teeming with life, deserves our respect, appreciation, and honest efforts to make it the best home possible for millions of miles around.\u00a0 As I like to say: Life isn’t fair, it’s excellent!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Weighter Truth be tolled Whoever’s pain the bill I’d like a reseat At the table This poem addresses the truism that life is not fair.\u00a0 I have spent most of my life and part of most days working to address … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,9,15],"tags":[675,170,574,590,534,577,401,288,255,305,402,74,359,732,594,658,94,17,107,110,491,513,502,53,718,311,96,290,279,421,380],"class_list":["post-1884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-top-pun","category-poems","category-political-and-philosophical-musings","tag-citizens","tag-consumption","tag-creation","tag-disenfranchised","tag-domination","tag-economic","tag-equality","tag-female","tag-gratitude","tag-humanity","tag-justice","tag-lgbt","tag-life","tag-patriarchy","tag-play","tag-poems","tag-poetry","tag-political","tag-poor","tag-power","tag-present","tag-privilege","tag-respect","tag-short-poems","tag-skin-in-the-game","tag-social-justice","tag-social-movements","tag-society","tag-solidarity","tag-truth","tag-work"],"yoast_head":"\nPOEM: Unfare | About Top Pun, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings | Top Pun's Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! 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