Liberate to become human

 

Liberate to become human

 

Thousands of years of oppression

I will bear your violence in silence for thousands of years.

 

Thousands of years of your violent silence

My forefathers' forefathers' silence

My foremothers' foremothers' silence

I broke out

I broke out of their silence.

 

We are the lambs of your oppression.

We are Impalas of your vengeance.

We are the ants of your heinous crimes.

We are aware of your crimes against humanity.

 

We are untouchables by your purity.

We are Chandalas of your ideology.

We are the Chamars of your nation.

We are the Madigas of your feet.

 

We have been your footwear for thousands of years.

Thousands of generations of untouchability

Thousands of generations of casteism

Thousands of generations of racism

Thousands of generations of slavery

 

Tom Uncles in the billions

Billions of Aunt Chloes.

 

Tens of millions of Kotesus

Kanchikacherla Kotesus are millions.

Tens of millions of Koteshuss

We are your footwear.

 

Thousands of years of violence broke out.

Breaking free from my subhuman ancestors

I've broken free from my family's untouchable status.

Broken out of my chains of untouchability

 

You silenced us like lambs.

You silenced us like Impalas.

You silenced us like buffalo.

You silenced us like crows.

 

But we are raising it now.

Raising for freedom

Defending human dignity

Human rights advocacy

Open your eyes.

 

Liberate yourself from age-old ideologies.

Liberate yourself from your caste oppression.

Liberate yourself from your untouchability.

Liberate yourself from your purity and impurity.

"Liberate to become human."

 

Colonizers liberated themselves from slavery.

Colonizers liberated Tom's uncles and Aunt Chloes.

Colonizers liberated themselves from sadomasochistic ideology.

Tom's uncles are nowhere.

Aunt Chloe is nowhere.

But Kanchikacherla Kotesus are in the millions.

When will you liberate us from your genocidal persecution against millions of Kanchikacherla Kotesus?

"Liberate to become human."

 

Dr. Suryaraju Mattimalla, Why I Am Not Indian: The Untouchable Rejecting India's Citizenship