Transcript:
They're real.
If you say their name, or even think it,
They'll come for you.
THE QUEERS! THE IMMIGRANTS! THE BLACKS!
Are your WORST NIGHTMARE.
If they happen to possess more than one of these qualities,
YOU ARE FUCKED.
There's no stopping them,
If a river made by God couldn't drown them, what's your wall gonna do?
Your silver bullets can take their bodies, but it won't kill their dreams.
There is nothing that can purge us,
We will not GET OUT.
Because it is 2017, and we are still vilified, and demonized, and made out to be monsters.
Lurking on street corners or hiding in a closet.
Are you more afraid of Black bodies or the ghosts you turn them into?
Isn't it funny, how since 1982, white people - almost exclusively white men - have committed
64% of mass shootings in America, but
EVERYONE ELSE IS STILL A SUSPECT.
It's not surprising that you see us as blood sucker,
How our hardworking hands must morph into fangs
That drain the white - I mean the LIFE - out of "your" America.
We must whitewash ourselves til we no longer have a reflection.
And still, you see us as a virus, an infection taking over,
As if you didn't come here hidden in the belly of a Trojan Horse,
Ready to conquer with your killing contagions.
As if the real American Horror Story hasn't always been America's history.
We are sold the American Dream and forced to live as nightmares.
Surrounded by those who wise we'd vanish. Those who don't see us as human.
Like Mike Pence or Jeff Sessions, who are the real American Psychos.
Like Stacey Dash and Ben Carson, who are the real Walking Dead.
Like Betsy DeVos, who keeps slashing at the school system.
Like Steve Bannon, who, (dun dun dun)
IS STEVE BANNON!
We have grown tired of trying to prove our humanity, so if you see us as monsters,
Then monsters we will be.
We will colonize your land, drag your people into our wars, watch their bloody bodies sacrificed
Then silence their voices.
We will strap down your children, burn their hands as they're forced to watch the sins of straight couples,
Til they blister and bleed the straight away.
We will storm white Wall Street, set buildings ablaze, noose white necks,
Watch them dangle in an ember-lit sunset.
Oh.
We're sorry.
Was that too far??
Too familiar??
Is it not FUNNY anymore??
The scariest thing is, there is not enough time to list all the horrors America has committed.
The scariest thing is,
We might be your nightmare,
But you are still
Our reality.