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Cognitive Dissonance

On the Complicity of Inaction

By David MuñozPublished 7 months ago 1 min read
Cognitive Dissonance
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“I’m the least racist President you’ve seen in a long time.”

*

He said that as he defended

amplifying that horrid video.

You know the one I mean.

*

Blamed it on an intern,

quick to throw an unnamed scapegoat

under the bus.

*

“I’m the least racist President you’ve seen in a long time.”

*

This from a man who walked down

his gilded staircase

and called Mexicans thugs and rapists,

*

giving the weak-minded

permission to speak their own

awful thoughts into existence.

*

“I’m the least racist President you’ve seen in a long time,”

*

said the man who has created

his own little sect of brownshirts,

hiding behind masks and badges,

*

while they terrorize peaceful communities,

stalk immigration hearing courts,

and disappear entire families into detention centers.

*

“I’m the least racist President you’ve seen in a long time.”

*

Is he, really? Do not racist actions

belie racist beliefs? Is the proof

not visible to your own eyes?

*

And if you turn away from it all

because it does not affect you –

then what does that make you?

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David Muñoz

I'm a recovering artist in Austin, Texas. Stoic student, mystic, writer, poet, guitarist, father, brother, son, friend. I am an eternal soul living a human experience. Part of that experience is working through my stuff by making art.

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    Written by David Muñoz