Egyptian Soapbox

tansheer:

pretty light-skinned African man,
denying racism exists in the west

how horrific it was
to watch him 
delude

but what am i anyway?
just a pathetic little girl
who understands nothing 
of this world

i have seen nothing in my time;
fired for adorning scarves of attempted
piety, spat at on the sidewalks i owned
via mortgage because of booming 
smoking towers, othered and questioned
in institutes of supposed “higher learning”,
deemed a radical and an oppressed
anti-feminist who was obviously
circumcised before she was even 
named, lest she ALLAH FORBID
desire sex before the age of 20
months, i have obviously seen
nothing:
i have been judged.

so,
how dare i discuss 
discrimination?

he told me to be “open-minded”,
(to the bigotry
and the rampant ignorance)

he said they never tell you
what to do, think, or say—

but they sure as hell can
alienate the fuck out of you
because you live in a way 
they cannot wrap their blessed
heads around

they do not understand you,
so
they condemn you

but i exaggerate,
naturally,

oh,
how horrific it was 
to watch him 
deny

i watched him walk away,
i heard him think “she’s a
close-minded woman who
never learned how to be 
free,
like
the
west”

oh,
how horrific it was
to watch him
confuse