Donny Ingraham Poet Personification

Fighting To Be Treated Fair

Fighting to be fair Being hit with whips Hung from a tree like fruit Being chased by people in sheets Being denied an education Drinking from separate water fountains Being forced to smile from the back of the bus Becoming a lab experiment for syphilis My blood spills Yet justice is overlooked Killing me without punishment Dying to vote Working for low wages Paying high interest rates Being denied credit Denied for loans My time here has been full of grief Yet nobody sees That hostory tells nothing of me

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Reason A. Poteet March 3, 2018 at 9:07 AM Any kind of discrimination is sheer ignorance of many facts which if investigated would prove otherwise. Just did a piece on slaves fight to be free long after the Civil War was done. Being a teacher I would add some punctuation, but maybe not, it speaks powerfully in punches.