It is not based on the private thought of an individual
Due to the failure of society in mind reading
The darkest thoughts are able to be denied
If racism is systemic, the brush is wide
With a collective guilt applied
Neither sort of racism is truly accurate
One aims where it cannot find a target
The other says we are all monolithic in our darkness
Neither definition should leave one comforted
While how you treat one another is never blind
Difference in look is not the same
As difference in due respect
So are you complicit?
By how you live every day of your life
Are you complicit by collective guilt
Even if you've tried to be good
Or have done all that is right?
For the record
I've been stupid over the course of time
My brain has been dirty, empty and ignorant
But in terms of understanding others
Please know that I've tried
