speak 2 make it out

Here is something to remember, deep down in your bones:  Trump is not Hitler. Musk is not Hitler. There are no Nazis, even those who purport to be.   There used to be. Now there’s something else. ‘Hitler’ and ‘nazi’ are boogeyman words- concepts and theories that cut through any disaffected consciousness.  But instead of galvanizing us, it triggers us- reminds us of a time in history when things seemed to be inevitable, so atrocious as to never happen again, and expose every country to the cheating that happens with international relations. The truth is there has been some obvious reading and following the playbook of that regime.  On top of that, they know that the trigger of the nazi words and concepts can make us dysregulate and be distracted by a past fear instead of a present one. We are not in Germany in the 1940s.  We are not in Vietnam.  We are not in Guyana.  We are not in Russia. We have our own time and place, and we have the tool of fo...

  We are not the children of Atlas We will not carry Your weight Your world On our shoulders. We are not the children of Atlas We will not feel shame When we cannot bear Your weight Your world On our shoulders  We are not the children of Atlas  We will not stay silent  When you try to put Your weight Your world On our shoulders We are not the children of Atlas We refuse to listen  When you point fingers To blame anyone Other than you And say ‘Fear each other For it is them And not us who put Their weight Their world On your shoulders’ You are not the children of Atlas But you told us You would put  Our weight Our world On your shoulders. We are not the children of Atlas  But we believed in you Until that belief  Broke the bones Of our shoulders We looked up at your shoulders Unbroken And that’s when We knew We are not the children of Atlas.