So this is modern poetry?

forgot to link the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hA1_z_rqAg

The ignorance in the OP is mind blowing. This poem was beautiful and so powerful. Franny would never say that all white people are racist, but we can't deny the truth that some still are. There's still a race issue in this world today and we can't deny that. For all the people offended, I know that you just feel strongly and have your own opinions, which is fair, but just know that you can not play the victim card and get mad at minorities for speaking out about the injustices in their lives. If you are not racist then this poem isn't about you. All skin is beautiful, Fran just wants people to wake up and see that there's a problem here and a power struggle that comes from white privilege.

>>9433622
bullshit, first off all

1. it wasn't even that good of a poem

secondly, whiteness is such an ambigious term that when uses it, there is no clear, cut definition so its used as this "catch all" term


What happened to great poetry.... why don't we make masterpieces like Paradise Lost, or The Waste Land anymore

we make shit like this

>>9433629
If you are arguing for Whiteness, you are Whiteness. Try being a human being with empathy and the ability to consider other perspectives first. Racial identity is a trap for everyone. Free. Your. Mind.

>>9433639
Jesus is this ironic or sincere

>>9433608

Hi im a slut

>>9433646
I really like this poem. It makes me hate being white but I like it. This is the kind of thing that makes me glad I've spent 20+ years learning english.

I'm proud to be white

I'm proud to be a descendant of Western Civilization

Newton, Galileo, Shakespeare, Beethoven, Mozart they are my people, my brothers in blood

>>9433622

Franny rhymes with funny.

Marcus this is your mother. Get off the internet, Marcus. Log off.

>>9433666

thats deep...

>>9433608
>Button Poetry
too easy, man

>>9433666
how did you know my name?

>>9433607
it was bad. but, conveniently, one can turn it off. if they derive pleasure from clucking in anger that "whiteness" built, owns, and demolishes its own "bar", then far be it from me to suggest they stop, hypocrites though they are.

>>9433685
Isn't this just a longer way of saying "if you don't like something stop looking at it"? Why bother talking about anything you don't like 100% at that point?