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Slavery is not the end of atrocities 
Suffered by minority communities
The every day systematic sway
Of bricks piled against you like
A wall of pain
So many bricks
The millions murdered for simply being
Who they were born to be black brown red
But of these I speak of what I know firsthand 

The professional personal political assassination 
of the collective black character is so deep
It is astonishing ingrained and denied to be a thing
For instance because there was a black president
In this racist country people say there you have equality
Nope 
A system built on the back of blacks 
That promotes hate of anything black
Saving a few teachers pets
Does not save the souls of those
Still being oppressed stressed and put to death

Schools are the battleground as well
We are not even teaching the truth freely
Jim Crow is alive and well look it up
The systems of government are used and abused
To keep people from getting the American Dream
The poor displaced and disgraced
Taxed to the max
While the rich enjoy perks less tax relax

When I walk in a store I am sized up and categorized 
followed by security I may get service
But only if I look affluent enough and
Sometimes not even then
Depending on the store and area

When my brother walks down the street
Do you clutch your purse
No really
If he doesn’t style himself just so
Is he perceived as less than
When he goes to the bank for a loan
How often will he be denied
Or unfairly penalized 

It’s deeper than slavery
We are still here suffering despite being
Called American we are treated 
Not even as well as foreigners 
Who seek asylum 
Where is that for the brown red black people

It’s not being able to fairly compete for jobs
When corporate snobs want degrees and experience 
But how do you get one before the other
When you don’t qualify for loans
Or go in so much debt for college
That the dream is deferred

Or you get the job but the pay
Is poor because you can’t afford the degree
Never mind you are doing the job perfectly 
So you must get multiple jobs to eat

I’m so sick of saying that marginalized 
Systematic racism in America is more than what happened then it is what is happening today now
And by the looks of it what the future holds 
As the systems of old have not been replaced!
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