America Never Learns
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This poem is not anti American, nor anti western, in our society we should have the right to speak up against what is wrong and fight for justice and humanity. Many have huge opinions for a topic they have little knowledge about. A small clue to understanding any situation, when you see one side completely de humanize another, and place collective punishment on all, you should be very wary of any thing said from that side.
Over 75 Universities in the USA now have protest encampments and starting in Canada.
I have found in life the younger the person, they may not always be right, but on issues of humanity they are almost never wrong. Compassion is an instinct, hate is taught.
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The powerful have bombs
the students have voices
enough is enough they say
University campuses unite
A map in the year of 1947
tells a story no one in the west
really wants to hear
thieves on stolen lands
America, professional bombers
Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan and so on
millions dead, and the comedy is this
Mandela was labelled a terrorist
The Warsaw Ghetto uprising
a horror then, being repeated now
the resistance is being heard
free Palestine
Charge the oppressors
with crimes against humanity
youth may not always know what is right
they surely know what is wrong
Copyright © Arthur Vaso | Year Posted 2024
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