{Originally posted to the FirstOne Through website}
Roughly 2,500 years ago where the patriarchy reigned,
Jewish history was made in a failed coup, bloodstained.
Far from the destroyed Temple, in the Persian vicinity
A ruffian named Haman was imbued with toxic masculinity.
He used his privileged status to easily befriend the king,
And set in motion a plan to set the palace right wing.
Haman targeted the snowflakes and anything intersectional
And demanded that every Jew position themselves genuflectional.
Yet the Jew Mordechai would not bow or quake
And later mansplained to his niece Esther the actions to take.
But Esther was already woke to Haman’s weaponized speech
And with Mordechai hatched a plan to have Haman impeached.
She asked the Jews in the kingdom to start fasting in the morning
In the first biblical example of a community trigger warning.
She burst into the king’s party, uninvited and quite disheveled
‘Attempted mass murder!’ through clenched teeth, at Haman she leveled.
The king was appalled that Haman targeted his queen’s people
And suggested hanging Haman from a nearby tree or a steeple.
Haman screamed in anguish one more curse filled with misogyny
But soon hanged from a tree with all of his male progeny.
The tables had turned and the streets were turned red
As the Jews attacked their enemies with 75,000 dead.
The Jews were not vanquished on Purim, aligned with the elites
Capped with handing the poor money and giving each other treats.
Today’s alt-left progressives might find this ending bittersweet
And reject the story’s conclusion or find religion obsolete.
But antisemitism’s continuing roar from the extreme right and the left
Shouldn’t leave our whole community with a sickening cleft.
Hand your blue friends some red treats, and the conservative something blue.
Be joyous and celebrate wholeheartedly with each and every Jew.
