Ally is the New Woke

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Caleb Calhoun

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Ally is the new woke
And the joke of it is we stole both
Those words from the black community
Words that were meant to evoke pride
Now hastily applied to white
Dread-headed hippies talking louder
Than the black folk

Ally is the new woke
That's what London told me
But she couldn't tell me her real name
2020 June, tensions inflamed to infinity
Her identity a liability - the blame
For the wounded egos
And white fragility laid squarely
On her dark-skinned 22 year old frame

Ally is the new woke
The irony is that we don't see it
That we don't believe that we could be "it"
We know some "other" people are racist but never realize
How precisely the shoe fits
Our equals don't need our pity, they need divestment
Community enrichment, tenacious budget assessment
We've offered them facebook posts after hundreds of years of slavery
And can't understand why there might be resentment

Ally is the new woke
While we continue to steal the culture unashamed
Blues festivals filled with white headliners
Red-liners Jim Crow gatekeepers
Living legends dying broke
But now we're changing names, playing games
Antebellum is taboo, we'll just push over Lady A
Speaking in so many voices it's a wonder we don't choke
We'll call it a tribute
We'll call our lawyers
We'll call it a day

Ally is the new woke
How else can I count the ways
The number of things that we stole
How long of a scroll would it take to invoke
The appropriation, the power consolidation
The times we pretended to care
And were just blowing smoke
How can we list them, grist them, raise our fist in spite of them
When all we're really being asked to do is listen
The history's grim though, listening
Is a burden we are unlikely to bear

Ally is the new woke
Ally is the
Understand
But, but, but
Understand, understand, under-STAND
Ally is the new woke
So insensitive we stole your protests
White kids antifa'd out
Taking photos with the riot line
Spraying BLM on the hotel walls
But damn we didn't steal your prison time
Black protestors consistently charged with heavier crimes
Paying heftier fines
While the white kids parents had them out of jail by 9
Six months later and we no longer have the time
The problem isn't always the words we can't find
But the way we get stuck trying to make them...

Forget about poetry for a minute 
And all of the lies that we like to tell in it 
And all of the lies that we like to tell over
And over and over until we believe them
And all of the lies that we add to the lies
To help us forget it was we who conceived them
Turning our ears now to difficult truth
Turning our hearts now to difficult silence
Christ sweating blood on the Mountain of Olives,
Gethsemane
While his allies calmly slept on
Ready to fight, ready to stand
But unwilling or unable to actually understand
To what they had truly been called

Ally is the new woke
And I imagine my black friends are getting tired
Tired of wondering which of the white "allies" is going 
To be awake with them come morning

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