Higher ed
Higher pledge
between the threads
you teach
you propel
you dispell
you dish out
how you were lead
how you were shaped to be
through warped ideas
of ideologies
of inferority
of exclusive dominance
as you continuously
chok… the… fuck
out of all the creativity
from me
out of learning
What’s your intent?
Where’s your nobility
in nuturing minds
in loving
in living
to the passion and desire of
shaping better people
for the greater good…
to create a better existence
yet what I feel, look, see, and touch
are hidden touch points
of bias viewpoints
of top down culture
focusing on subsets, subcultures, subprofit, subdominance
compartmentalizing
the differentiation
of all thoughts
aspirations
dreams
playfulness
curious tinkering
as a detour
to maintain
the supremacy of nineteen hundred year old thinking…
Higher ed,
Higher pledge
to what?
group thought
group walk
group thinking
silos of shame
who can I blame
and non ethical lenses
what are you running from higher ed?
what cards are being played?
while you’re marginalizing
who am
as a disable person
as a veteran
as an immigrant
as a woman
a black woman
a creative
a polymath
of new thinking
what happened to those 21st skills sets you wish to teach and bring forth
through experietial learning
What happened to that entrepreneurial mindset that you wish all your students to seek
as I am here
you exist in fear
So when I say who I am
you then tell me what I can’t be
Higher ed
Higher pledge
between the threads
the lines of the lies
marginalizing creative thought
creative thinking…..
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