THE ATTICUS FINCH SYNDROME

 I love it when white folk succeed!

But I hate when they start spouting that ‘On the merits’, ‘Your own steam’ and ‘Character will out’ nonsense,

as if their promotion didn’t come from a tap on the shoulder or their loan approval was from their sky-high credit score and not their white face.

Or how it’s a cardinal sin if they and their opinions on race and everything else is not lauded as the most astute in the room.

Their white author suggestion for resolving all issues Black is a gem that they insist we do not ignore. Even the term ‘White Privilege’ is a euphemism for the white savagery that mauls our minds and our streets.

I call it the Atticus Finch syndrome; how they need to be deemed the moral center in a racist, immoral world, 

demanding that we co-sign on their delusion or face the thunder of their disgust! 

How many times do I have to hear how they voted in 2008 and 2012? And like trained seals, we’re supposed to clap again and again ‘Aargh! Aargh!’

Just put it on your tombstone ‘I voted for Obama - twice!’ and call it a day!

And their media will have us convinced that 45 conned a plethora of Black men to his side. Having to answer the idiocy of their thinking again and again.

It’s like how they got upset when a whole bunch of white Republican women didn’t defect because of the misogyny.

The thing that causes a massive migration of white people is race and race alone, whether it be the racial equity of political party stances or gentrification.

And here’s the kicker; if I say that not one of them will open up about how they need to repent, then one invariably will.

Just like when we say that we’ve NEVER seen a white CHILD adopted by a Black family, they’ll example one white kid and put them on the front page for folk like me with the headline:

TIMES...THEY ARE A ‘CHANGING!

Anything to avoid recompense for the HORRORS of the past and present.

If you change your actions because I twist your moral arm, then that’s coercion and you’re just a puppet resenting the pressure and the pressurizer.

But if you change your heart, then you’ll see worlds outside of the spectrum of what they say is ‘right and wrong’ and begin questioning why exactly are we still bombing those Brown people over there again?

It’s like there’s some sort of spell preventing folk from seeing the obvious evil. Either we break the spell or the spell breaks us.

Can’t wait ‘til we have our own media. Everything changes.