Samia Ali Salama Poet Rhyme

America, the New Race

It’s a past that America likes hiding 
for it’s ugly and dirty and true 
How they tried to enslave all the Natives
but from failure, the new slave trade grew
Then the colonists bought kidnapped Africans 
like you purchase a cow or a bull
They stocked-up in an auction for people 
til the slave master’s house became full

Then the new race was quickly created 
as the slave masters all had their way
For they raped countless African women
and created the race of today
Eyes of blue and of green staring at them 
they could never deny what they did
So they took great advantage at auction 
like a prize horse gets more at the bid

After years filled with struggle and violence 
Africans were all finally free
And gained rights once denied to their fathers 
who the colonists hung from the trees 
Now descendants are angry and bitter 
hating all that their ancestors made
So they’re rounding up all the Brown people
hoping that their existence will fade

But the blood has been mixing for centuries 
we could make 1619 the year
When the seeds of the colonists created
The new race their descendants now fear

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