Super Strength (Round 2)

Let's workshop a poem that worries about the black destruction blooming from the narrative of black people as helpless victims of white supremacy

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Super Strength 

The hobbling belittling narrative
of blacks as such helpless victims 
of an omnipresent white supremacy 
that their dignity can be realized 
only in performances of petulance,
in cries for special dispensations
(handouts and lowered standards;
shelter from anything “unsettling,”
such as from the “neurological trauma”
of hearing merely the soft-r n-word 
from white mouths merely quoting
or of hearing even just whatever
they insist “invalidates” their truth; 
even freedom to have their turn
to participate in inhumanities
on grounds that the only remedy
for discrimination is discrimination)—

for that narcotizing narrative,
for that money-grubbing lie, to be 
sold to the world as “Antiracist”  
(such that blacks who call it out
as the blight on black agency it is
are mocked as “Uncle Clarences
afflicted by ‘internalized whiteness’”)
is more ironic than “Nubian Pride”
as the name for a black beauty line
specializing in hair-straightening
and, of course, in skin-bleaching.

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This poem is unpublished