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MY DEAR BLACK PEOPLE, I BECOME FRUSTRATED BY OUR OWN IGNORANCE AND OUR OWN BLINDNESS, NOT KNOWING THE POWER WE HAVE TO OVERCOME THISWAR! THE FIGHT FOR OUR FREEDOM WHICH WE CONTINUE TO RESIST.
FREDERICK DOUGLAS, MARTI
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and this is how it goes.
the daily race to see who's won.
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because in a world of black and white
her eyes are open wide.
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For centuries I’ve dealt with all your prejudices discrimination racism
For years I’ve been repressed oppressed suppressed
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Beautiful Mother,
So many who don’t realize your worth…
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This is an acrostic for DETERMINATION IS REAL.
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I am not an African.
My race may have the title AFRICAN proceed the American but I do not speak the Nilo- Saharan languages of the land.
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little man
running through
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A Tender Embrace
One Look at his Face
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A tender embrace
One look at his face
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Walls of blindness,
Cover my true self,
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It gets that vital organ pumping crimson, so when they stab you, you die in short.
So tell me? When is the violence gonna end?
Will there
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My olive skin is hard to look past,
I am a Mexican if you so please
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gaze deeply at
this flesh,
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You look at my skin
And you hate me.
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Mama T sat at the kitchen table with a circle of dough spread out in front of her. A headband pushed back her dark locks, ke
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i'm talking through my teeth but these lies haven't made my mouth hurt yet
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My Breakfast is Interracial It knows no race, Thats right
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We hold these truths to be self-evident ....
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If we were blind we'd surely find...
by DenimCat
32 lines, 3 comments,
on Feb 19 12:41 PM 2007. In society, race, racism, world, hope, contest, message, love, humanity
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Sometimes even the preparation for a championship gets cut off...
by Carole Dwinell
42 lines, 3 comments,
on Jan 21 4:02 PM 2007. In race, train, cold, accident, broken, bicycle, emergency, pain, sad, done
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A metaphor to today's racial issues.
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