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jnepal's review
5.0
“Reverse Racism,” is very good. And the last poem was smart. Liked how he did what he did.
His writing can be violent, but there's a reason: he's trying to elicit a response from the reader, and he's encouraging the reader to see, to understand, that this is how minorities experience a majority society, especially in a majority society where there is a long and brutal history of racial/ethnic oppression. It is provocative, but that's the point. To provoke thought.
He's saying, "This is what we feel, violence in our past, violence in our present, and we're afraid of violence in our future, so this is our anger, fleshed out, written in bloody violence. Do you really think we could feel this much anger for no reason? Wake up!"
His writing can be violent, but there's a reason: he's trying to elicit a response from the reader, and he's encouraging the reader to see, to understand, that this is how minorities experience a majority society, especially in a majority society where there is a long and brutal history of racial/ethnic oppression. It is provocative, but that's the point. To provoke thought.
He's saying, "This is what we feel, violence in our past, violence in our present, and we're afraid of violence in our future, so this is our anger, fleshed out, written in bloody violence. Do you really think we could feel this much anger for no reason? Wake up!"
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