Degradation
Try to imagine being owned:
purchased and sold as property.
Ravaged by dogs for amusement;
and denied all your human rights.
Before blaming racial protests:
try to imagine being owned.
And the added degradation
of rape and appalling beatings.
It's hard to forgive slavery:
when you feel that you're still enslaved.
Try to imagine being owned:
and your children sold at auction.
Black-Lives-Matter marchers tend to
be in your face: and demanding.
But before you admonish them:
try to imagine being owned.
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