White Skin: White Guilt

I wrote this piece a while back and posted it on this message board I'm on and got mostly negative feedback (mostly from white people) saying that I hated my skin and that I hated my culture etc etc. i'm going to post it here and see if anyone has anything to say.

first, my lil preamble. I wrote this during a time when I first left the sect and started to see for the first time the effects of european colonialism on the rest of the world. I consider myself to be a well educated person. yet the things that I learned through interacting with people and doing some surplus reading shocked me because I had never heard of it in my school system. so basically, this was my feelings on suddenly catching a glimpse of what is really obvious. let me know what you think.


excuse me if i'm showing a little too much skin here tonight...
if my whiteness blinds you
if my white skin reminds you
of white power
white rage
white demons
if my white face conjures memories of
white crimes
no white magic could ever erase

in efforts to appease this
i play blonde haired blue eyed jesus
and hope that i
crucified
might seize this one chance to
exorcise these
white lies
which demonize
and oppress our nation
throught process of education.

these white washed stories
of white past glories
born in black blood sweat and tears
well here's a story for you
my white blooded father's
blue blooded brother
raped cold blooded mother
and my blood boils
and would reverse its flow
as head to toe i'm covered in this symbol of sin
this blood bathed
this blood bought
this un-fair white skin.