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54 letters is all it should take to
make up your mind,
make up your mind,
And I know the way that you think,
these social justice warriors are threating your speech,
your freedom to screech,
but honey, these are Freudian slips.
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You have really fucked me up,
don’t pretend like you mean shit
Everytime you speak at loud,
all I hear is a bunch of blah blah blah
and the scene that you make about
all these tears and these broken lives
behind a sense of pompous properness,
it’s fucked up
I am so tired, this is fucked up.
Maybe I just wanna know
every time you made me do,
every time you made me do that.
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But more seriously, the track I am releasing is coming out some frustrations surrounding some student advocacy I've been involved with in supporting. The long story short of it is that BIPoC students at MacEwan University have been coming forward about experiences of systematic racism extending over to specific professors, broader curricula, and administrative issues.
And one of the major moves that has given these efforts some prominence are the 54 letters detailing instances of these problems dating from around 4 years until the present time. These letters were delivered to some administrators of the school at large and the Faculty of Fine Arts and Communications in specific.
But unfortunately, all these efforts by students navigating these issues through due process keep being referred back to a perpetual due process with not much of this affecting the university, as administrators hide behind the Ivory Tower of academia and insist on exploiting student labour.
I have developed a masterpost to inform people about these efforts and accounts (including my own personal account of such experiences) here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1HQsYvKJjX2IG06Klap_5PzqB3BOatVxdga7WdC6m8wY/edit?usp=sharing
Thank you for your time and be ready for some bratty frustrated music.