Candace Owens

I listen…
It doesn’t seem she wrecks anyone.
All I hear are two people
Bickering at one another.

“Blacks were better under Jim Crow,”
Says Candace.

“Please don’t say ‘Black’”
And,
“I get paid less than a dollar for my work,”
Says the other.

Were blacks better under Jim Crow?
Does she get paid less than a dollar for work?

Obviously, Candace means the Black Community
Was better off without welfare.

Obviously she means that men and women are paid
Different salaries at work.

I watch this, and I say,
“Huh…”

It doesn’t seem like either have wrecked the other.
It seems like both are clinging to narrative lies.

Blacks were in dirt poverty prior to Jim Crow;
If one were to fly to Pakistan they’d find the same standard of life.
Blacks were lucky if they had a loin cloth;
Their children would run naked in the streets.

Women aren’t paid less for work than men, either.
They just, as it were, do less work---
They go on maternity leave, they choose social sciences as fields instead of stem,
They work less hours.

Frankly, I hear two people shouting at one another.
And neither has spoken a word of truth.