SHADES OF ANGER Allow me to speak my Arab tongue before they occupy my language as well. Allow me to speak my mother tongue before they colonise her memory as well. I am an Arab woman of color. and we come in all shades of anger. All my grandfather ever wanted to do was wake up at dawn and watch my grandmather kneel and pray in a village hidden between Jaffa and Haifa my mother was born under an olive tree on a soil they say is no longer mine but I will cross their barriers, their check points their damn apartheid walls and return to my homeland I am an Arab woman of colour and we come in all shades of anger. And did you hear my sister screaming yesterday as she gave birth at a check point with Israeli soldiers looking between her legs for their next demographic threat called her baby girl “Janeen”. And did you hear Amni Mona screaming behind their prison bars as they teargassed her cell “We’re returning to Palestine!” I am an Arab woman of colour and we come in all shades of anger. But you tell me, this womb inside me will only bring you your next terrorist beard wearing, gun waving, towelhead, sand nigger You tell me, I send my children out to die but those are your copters, your F16′s in our sky And let’s talk about this terrorism business for a second Wasn’t it the CIA that killed Allende and Lumumba and who trained Osama in the first place My grandparents didn’t run around like clowns with the white capes and the white hoods on their heads lynching black people I am an Arab woman of colour and we come in all shades of anger. “So who is that brown woman screaming in the demonstration?” Sorry, should I not scream? I forgot to be your every orientalist dream Jinnee in a bottle, belly dancer, harem girl, soft spoken Arab woman Yes master, no master. Thank you for the peanut butter sandwiches raining down on us from your F16′s master Yes my liberators are here to kill my children and call them “collateral damage” I am an Arab woman of colour and we come in all shades of anger. So let me just tell you this womb inside me will only bring you your next rebel She will have a rock in one hand and a Palestinian flag in the other I am an Arab woman of color Beware! Beware my anger… (Rafeef Ziadah)
Posted on: Mon, 03 Jun 2013 19:45:08 +0000
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