All White Men

by JC

Some men have a knack for locating the bullhorns

Some men have a knack for locating the podium steps

Some men with bullhorns or podiums have lots to say

Most men with lots to say have nothing to say

All white men at the front of marches for Black Life have lots to say

All white men with lots to say discover Black premature death is rampant and look for mics

All white men at the front of marches for Black Life are cops

All white men should never shout I can’t breathe

All white men should never shout Hands up / don’t shoot

All men who want to walk with cops are cops

All cops who want to march with people are pigs

All cops who take a knee are Derek Chauvin

All white men who want to walk with cops should be abolished, not given space

All white men who organize protests for Black Life and diss “anti-cop people” dream of slave ships and should be abolished

All white men with lots to say who try to organize should be quarantined

All white men should be abolished

Some men love bullhorns because they hate their fathers

They love mics but hate their mothers and love “the people”

Some men want to do everything for “the people” so they look around for bullhorns

Some men get tired of bullhorns and podium steps and look for elevators to the very top

Some men are traumatized and think the top is some kind of office

Some men are narcissistic and think the top is a platform with lots of followers

A platform is something you fall off (everyone we know who climbed high has fallen, or is falling)

Some men are scared and think the top is a pulpit

All white men who look for elevators to the top should be abolished

All white men who seek prominence at the front of any march should be quarantined and analyzed and abolished

All white men who look for alpha positions at the head of anything should be quarantined and analyzed and abolished

Some men think we don’t know what we know so they preach and are cops

Some men think their ideas are the best and are pigs

All white men who believe Christ is on their side are pigs

Some men think that because they lead a church they know something we don’t

All white men who coordinate with cops are members of lynch mobs

All white liberal men who publicly shame anarchists are cops

All white men are born cops, unless explicitly not

All men who show up at events just to make a long announcement are pigs

All homophobic preachers are cops

All white men with bullhorns at Black liberation protests are cops

All white men who open their mouths at Black liberation events should be abolished

All white men who perform lying facedown and dead on the street at Black liberation protests should be called in then called out then abolished

All white men nearby who don’t pick these white men up and send them to the back of the demo should be abolished

All whites are cops, unless explicitly not

All white men are never Black

All Guy Fawkes masks are white

All men who finesse their way to spokesperson roles are cops

All men who compete with other men in contexts of rebellion have a cop in their mouth

All activist men who jockey for photo ops are cops

All silent white Americans in June 2020 are cops

All white men love their own faces in pond surfaces unless they explicitly don’t

All men project their self-hatred unless they explicitly don’t

All men should be abolished unless they’ve added masculinity to their list of enemies

All white men should be abolished, unless they’ve explicitly divorced themselves from whiteness, maleness, cops, peacefulness, platforms, and bullhorns

All Guy Fawkes masks are white

All white Black Lives Matter demonstrators are white

All white men who are white are cops