Tara Atluri is currently pursuing a doctorate in media and communications at Goldsmith College, London, England and continues to perform spoken word. She has recently become part of an Asian riot girl band.

Wanted dead or alive

Wanted dead or alive

When the right bodies bleed red

It’s red alert on brown skin

Funny head dresses and last names

didn’t have a problem tagging along on mehndi meditation bandwagon

But when more than overpriced incense is burnin

you want to know why the hell we came.

Men in turbans women in hijab

Beaten down

detained

Asked to

Spell out holy names

make you believe murder is an import

like dishes that are too spicy

you can just send it back from where it came

Well I have a news flash for

you

We can’t grieve for America as it used to be

As it once was

Safe from murder and mayhem

Before ill shit was imported

Illest murders on this soil are still celebrated in turkey dinners

Now replaced by Chinese food orders

america is a nation built on mass genocide

for which it has never apologised

unlimited justice for the nation

but just forget that little matter of slavery

repair every scabbed white knee

before there’s an ounce of reparation

eloquent speeches about the value of lives

but when it comes to freezing starving poor

When it came to rwanda then we’re not so sure

No one counts the casualities of every day war

that doesn’t make your globe or your star

no tribute cd

for the casualities of caucasian normalcy

Where is the headline saying

America attacks?

Attacks decency

Dignity

With every back cracked

Blood pact

Welfare cheque held back

Sacred forest hacked

It’s not that I don’t feel for

People who died

It’s not that I don’t feel for people’s fears

I just want y’all to remember that while two burning buildings brought

the lady liberty I know has been burning crosses for years.