I am a white man and I’m sorry
Cos everything is all my fault
The list of wrongs will never end
Must spend my life in recompense
Just being born a white man is assault

So even though I didn’t do them
I am the one who you should blame.
For any kind of injury
At any time in history
Even if in antiquity
The fault so clearly lies with me
I should be lynched, discredited and shamed

I ‘ve googled what I'm to blame for. And there is

Poverty, injustice, global warming, house prices
Rape gangs, homelessness, Communism, drug addiction
Terrorism, populism, chauvinism, fascism
Population growth and plastic in the ocean.
Bias in the media, religious fundamentalism
Knife crime, gun crime, corporate crime and hate crime

Obesity, inflation, bad traffic, unemployment
Floods, teen depression, income inequality
Anything bad that happens in Africa
Misogyny, tsunamis, slavery and ISIS
Covid 19, homophobia
Animal abuse, mosquito-born diseases

Famine, melting ice caps, lack of opportunity
Suicide, racism, teenage pregnancy
Erosion of the family, CO2 levels
Meteor strikes, mass movement of people
Corruption in the Third Word, looting and riots
The failures of socialism, wars, pedophilia

It’s hard to know what’s more offensive
My being male or being white
What’s more I went to public school
I’m over 50. That ain’t cool
We all know well that none of this is right

I am a privileged oppressor
If I’d known, I’d have not been born / If I had known I’d not be born
I should be fined, pay extra tax
Be mugged or looted and attacked
Have all my property ransacked
No platformed if I dare speak back
My just desert is to be left forlorn

I’m a white man and I’m sorry. For things like

The internet, the smartphone, modern medicine, motor cars
Steam engines, jet engines, petrol engines, railways
Refrigeration, television, running water, space travel
Radio, computers, the satellite, GPS
Nuclear fission, electricity
Photography, plastics, central heating, sewage systems

The toilet, the light bulb, eye glasses, anaesthesia
Aeroplanes, the printing press, piano, the bicycle
Video games, the telescope, the microscope,
The training shoe, guitars, lasar, microchips, nylon
Amplified sound, vaccination, the battery
The electric motor, antibiotics

He is a white man and he’s sorry
His role on earth is now complete
Like dodos, landlines or the fax
Cassettes, steam engines, betamax
And now the white man is obsolete