Chelsea+Guthrie+Poetry+Page

Chelsea Guthrie Poetry Page

**White Or Black **
 * Chelsea Guthrie **


 * People see that I am white **
 * Do people see the Irish in me **
 * The German? The Indian? **
 * I am white **


 * Should I be seen as only white? **
 * Should I appologize for it? **
 * Should I repay blacks for it? **
 * I am white **


 * I am no different than those **
 * Those who have other pigmentation **
 * But we are all catagorized by it **
 * Like eugenics coming through the seems **
 * I am white **


 * Why shouldn’t we embrace it? **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Rockwell','serif';">I should be proud as should you **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Rockwell','serif';">Society should accept one another **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Rockwell','serif';">No matter what sepperates us **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Rockwell','serif';">I am white **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Rockwell','serif';">Why don’t we all look **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Rockwell','serif';">See there are no Mongrals **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Rockwell','serif';">No separate genes **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Rockwell','serif';">We really are all the same **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Rockwell','serif';">I am white **

​ ** I am a degenerate **

<span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook','serif';">I am a degenerate because I am the potato eating Irish I am a degenerate because I am the Nazi German I am a degenerate because I am the savage Indian I am a degenerate because eugenics shows it I am a degenerate because of the caricatures in the magazines I am a degenerate because my ancestors were trash. What today calls for me to be the degenerate Today I am a degenerate because I don’t follow a trend Today I am a degenerate because I’m not a cheerleader Today I am a degenerate because I’m straightedge Degeneracy today helps us decide whether or not miscegenation should be in effect It gives us our own idea of the feudal system and let’s stereotypes bloom It controls our prejudices and our inner superiority I am a degenerate inherently because I am human

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 36pt;">Taught To Hate Are we taught to hate Ate those who are unlike us Those who’s skin and eyes are different We are taught to hate by birth If they don’t verbally express it The caricatures will fill in the blanks The history and the files will tell us who to like We learn who should breed We learn who’s simply not fit Whether we choose to follow Or we see the germ spread No matter what we cannot be hidden They tell us without knowing who’s the spic They don’t forget to show who’s a true American That image we should strive to be It is etched in out culture It is glued to our brain We are human and no one’s the same So we are taught to hate those differences