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Middle-Aged White Woman (Free verse) by Dovina

Maybe it’s time. You look at me and see a symbol of conservative acts that hurt you. My kind abused your kind. Now with your freedom, your authority, your power, it’s time for retribution. Go ahead, ignore me, don’t hire me belittle me in your verse skip over me at your readings. My ancestors did it to your ancestors. You have the right. It’s a new experience for me, that’s all. Maybe it’s time.

Dovina 24-Apr-05/3:41 AM
All this is true and applicable to the poem except the assumption of my naivity for writing a whining poem from the position of middle-aged american white woman who is far less oppressed than most people in the world. I recognize my privilaged position, but it does not prevent me from expressing an instance of racism against me. I thought it would come accrss as a case of what's called reverse dicrimination, but instead it aroused the old racially based passions. That's enlightening. It should be possible to write passionately about racial issues without causing everyone to think I live in a prejudiced box. It should be, but maybe it isn't.




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