“Third World” Refugee: Uprooting the “1st” World

I once heard:

It’s a crime to be from the” Third World”

Then I asked:

Where is the freedom in the “First?”

Dicen que vivimos en la democracia
Pero esto se llama burocracia

Through hierarchies, “us” and “them” mentalities

The status-quo is maintained, pushes and denies our realities

To feel alive: we believe, justify, and internalize the lies

Toxic bodies, militarized minds:  “freedom” is gained through the cost of life

Fascist Policed Nation: Why do you build walls to separate us?

Rip children from the arms of their loved ones?

Beat, rape, and humiliate to justify justice?

No podran ocultar como xenophobic and racist ideologies encage us

Silence from the left and ignorance from the right

Neo-liberal transnational, colonist policies

Imperialism and dominance

Cannot silence, manipulate or divide us

SOLIDadirty is an extraordinary action
how committed are you to the people around you?

Dear Milton Freemon,

We might not be adorned in material wealth and greed

Our depend on consumerism and capitalism to emotionally sustain our needs

I don’t care what you say or how you claim it

YOU are the biggest racist terrorist

Distancing ourselves from apathy

And western capitalistic, corporate ideologies

We rediscovered that self-reliance enables discipline

Knowledge is not gained through textbooks

But through life experiences

Our scholars are the seeds that sustain our peoples’ basic needs

Not  the violence and greed that are killing peoples’ dreams

Ancestors told us that we are here to narrate and simply radicalize this shit

Decolonization is a process
a different way of thinking, harmonizing and existing

 mentally liberated from misinformed, fragmented irrationalities 

Resilient, persistent and defiant

We uproot these toxic systems

 Through different learning and teaching mechanisms

We plant, cultivate, and nurture a new system

Never forget

We are seeds of resistance