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White Christmas In My Hometown

from UNLEARNING WHITE AMERICA by Justin Blackburn

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lyrics, vocals- Justin Blackburn
music - Patrick Doyle

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Merry White Christmas,
you've become your parents!
Open your presents,
it’s the rest of your life!
Your dreams were calling
but you stuck to the system!
Now you have no purpose
in being alive!

Ho, ho, ho!
It’s White Christmas
in my upper middle class cracker town.
No more snow on the ground
but still covered
in white people a plenty.
Guess Santa forgot
to send the memo
down the chimney
on each child
receiving an equal opportunity.
Our system is still isolated
by class so the poor children
go to the schools that are in poverty
so that means their not educated properly
so when they say 'hire me'
you reply 'sorry, you're not scholarly.'
but what you really mean is you don't look like me
cause you're not from my higher class society,
how can you not see
that's robbery?

Happy Holidays,
you’re still a racist!
You're white privilege
eroded your mind.
Did as your told,
now you're feeling old,
you'll need a better savior
than Jesus H Christ!

"Man them kids should pull their own boots up
so It don’t bother me."
says Charlie over here,
the rich white man
drinking the same beer
at the same bar
for the last 30 years.
‘I work, White Privilege don’t put gas in my tank.’

I know it’s hard for your mind
but I ask you to critically think!
Your trust fund money
came from a different time
from the motel your grandpa owned,
to open it, he got a loan from the bank
while black people got redlined.

‘no, its cause he had collateral.’
which was the land
his grandpa gave him
where his grandpa ran
his slave plantation
so all the money you spending
was made by racism.

‘whatever snowflake
I don’t even care,
it don’t effect me’
actually it does, cause
the same way you live unaware
of the endless atrocities
in our society
without empathy
for what it is putting
people through,
that’s how you treat you.

Merry White Christmas,
you've become your parents!
Open your presents,
it’s the rest of your life!
Your dreams were calling
but you stuck to the system!
Now you have no purpose
in being alive!

just as you never challenged
your lineage or privilege
you never questioned your life
just did as White daddy
said without thinking, 'is this what I want?
Is this even what I like?'
Receiving his validation meant more to you
than you creating your own life.

'do as say, get good grades, don't be gay'
i love you daddy, ok.
'don't have emotions and if someone makes you feel beat them up.'
ok daddy if i do that will you love me?
'you know I don't have love!'

In that moment
you stopped growing,
time took off into flight,
you woke up 30 years later
in the same mind
that’s learned nothing new,
you haven't had an original thought since middle school.

Until you realize you’re the fool
you’re holding our whole country back!
Life is change
we're not born to stay the same
but you must feel beyond your reptilian brain to know that
but that’s the problem
you don’t feel at all
your emotions can’t make it through the wall
you built to protect yourself
from daddy's illusions and your true potential!
You’re so afraid to step outside of your white privilege
to your own soul, you're a fucking criminal.

When the heartattack comes
you might think it is unexpected
but nah, it is from ignoring your own heart
and living in deep daddy silent self rejection!

Happy Holidays,
you’re still racist!
your white privilege
eroded your mind.
Did as your told,
now you’re feeling old.
You'll need a better savior
than Jesus H Christ


lyrics, vocals- Justin Blackburn
music - Patrick Doyle

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from UNLEARNING WHITE AMERICA, released September 18, 2020

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Justin Blackburn Asheville, North Carolina

Hi, my name is Justin Blackburn. I am a poet, comedian, life coach, and author of The Bisexual Christian Suburban Failure Enlightening Bipolar Blues. My intention is to move you, to make you look deeper within, and love yourself more. A lot of us have been brainwashed and it is time to take the power back within ourselves. Learn more about at www.justinblackburnwrites.com ... more

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