Fixture

Written by C Hues

February 9, 2025

"Diversity" is the new "nigger."
"Equity" is old news.
"Inclusion" isn't in.
They tell us to go back.
Back where?
Back when?
When our backs were bruised, bloodied, beaten?
When Celia, Sally, and Recy were raped?
By white supremacists who were pure?
When we fought and died bravely abroad
And came home to exclusion?
You speak of "white genocide"---
And who is White?
The head of the NAACP?
Is it Italian? Jewish? Arab? Latin?
Is it fixed or a fixture?
So, why the admixture?