ID Check

This is an ID check
Like a rope around your neck
Better know who you are
When death calls collect

 This is an ID check
Like the border patrol
But this is not for your country
This is for your soul

Here’s the whole poem.

Performed at the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education in Manhattan, New York in 2012.

BOLD is a podcast about race and justice in America, and a collaboration between Small Beans and Showing Up For Racial Justice, produced by White People 4 Black Lives. In this episode, writer, educator, and social justice advocate Paul Kivel, (also Ariel’s father), explains some of the history of white allyship, the relationship between racism and economic inequality, and much, much more.

The podcast starts with ID Check by Ariel Luckey.

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