They used to call us black bastards

They used to call us black bastards

They used to call us black bastards
originally meaning dark skinned and matrimonially illegitimate
which might have had validity if British statistics represented wedded bliss instead of 75% divorces given happy marriages a miss

They used to call us monkeys
before planet of the apes exposed their nature as uncontrollably primitive
and the primate who handles things with any of five limbs is formidable
though the Jewish filmmakers still produced Tarzan
to imprint that we were from the jungle
the planets oesophagus
where everything you touch is generous with vitamins and nutrients and oxygen and phosphorus
who’s people are the most crucial ecological element to our continuation
on this planet
but what racist isn't flipping ignorant

They used to call us tar babies when attempting to belittle us was primary
and they could be impertinent
while intelligence was as relevant
as elegance to elephants

and still they call us immigrants like we were pepper grains poured on to sticky rice though there has been so much cross migration Including the imposition of Europeans on various native peoples in this their era that the concept is as ridiculous ass ccs uncle Ben’s claiming originality over 100% whole-grain
and they say ‘go back home‘ ignorant of their family trees when we were the first to concede that all we wanted to do was leave and be free of this unilateral freeze

They called us Sambo because usurping a kiddies caricature was enough to give them cheap thrills
taking playground name calling to overkill not even leaving stupid stones unturned
so they’d hurl out ‘chocolate drop’ when their women considered us finger licking delicious and they couldn’t do anything about a smudge of it

They said we were golliwogs when the law demanded the suppression stop and start afresh and they desperately didn’t want to face competitiveness
so they converted teddies into effigies
shaping their pathology
They were that effected

They called us mango munchers when it was so obvious that the
Caribbean foods were nutritious and so superior to chips it had them seething
So they said we came on banana boats to subvert the pure jealousy of our fruits and pedigree

We were rubber lips until botox made synthetic bits
like butt implants when they used to ridicule Sarah Bartman’s as ape hips

Now after all that and the savagery of history
for you to choose one word out of 220,000 in the English dictionary
The most contemptuous one from the 18th century on
to conclude that you are a nigger
you must be
a) masochistic or
b) American or
c) a fucking idiot