Unbecoming

Olaru Radian/Adobestock

POETRY FOR INCLUSION

This is who we are

Othering remains supreme

Regression ascends

A nation of denial

Our country's bumptious default

Dr Clark is an outpatient psychiatrist at Prisma Health-Upstate and clinical associate professor at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Greenville. He served on the American Psychiatric Association’s Task Force to Address Structural Racism Throughout Psychiatry, and he currently serves as the Diversity and Inclusion section editor and advisory board member for Psychiatric Times^TM.