Letter To America Poem by Anonymous India

Dear white America that appropriates just about anything,
You are just everywhere aren't you?
Prancing around Olvera Street in search of something "ethnic"
a bindi on your forehead,
crop top with ironic statements,
poetic justice braids,
you call it aesthetics
But that "exotic" shirt on your back sewn by my Mexican and Native brothers and sisters does not belong to you.
And you are so used taking things and claiming it yours.
Put a hashtag on everything, "Bring back OUR girls"
as if you haven't taken enough.
Society disses people of color but will want to look for our features in someone white.
You take our bodies, our hair, our style
on us it's ghetto, ugly, it makes others uncomfortable
But it's chic, it's trendy, it's new, on you.
And then when I call you out on it,
you'll call me a reverse racist and go on to blog about your day.
I just gave a lesson in biology, so here's one in privilege
Racism is based on a system of oppression.
You cannot oppress the oppressor.