Multilayered - the Cause Is Civil Rights

MULTILAYERED: THE CAUSE IS CIVIL RIGHTS! How time has changed. I am a colored woman by DNA living in a country of diversity. I can remember my first day of school when my teacher asked me to self-identify. “I am Native American”, I said. In truth, my great-grandmother was Native American and I felt it was alright to claim her as my racial identity. Nevertheless, an N was written on my cumulative record. Later I found this meant *****. The third Monday of each January Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. birthday is celebrated. This poem is in commemoration of his cause. *** I have the right to express myself in the United States of America. I have the right to self-identify the best way for me. I am mixed-blood from all borders of this part of the universe. I have the right to be heard and to seek a meaningful life that is vested in a liberated mind. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is there to eradicate. This has not been done as to this day. I have the right to Civil Rights. Therefore, I shall not be moved when the movement did not breakthrough. *** The tribulations came from slavery time. History of the white man crimes Equality, equity, and identity deprived. Crusaders depicted the cause. Assembled for their voice to be heard. Unity was formed. Sources with civilian purposes Equality is only the foundation that has been scaffold. Cause I am endowed with inalienable rights In a nation of diversity and pride, Vigorously I dramatize Issues of my civil rights Legally being denied. Right to a fair trial I represent self, Government and justice are on my side. Human rights are in all minds’ eye. To this country, I bring forth my freedoms... Preamble. Statue of law exemplifies in that I have "the right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness because all humankind are created equally". Issues today are in a manifold Sequestered by the lack of applicable law. _________________________________________________| Penned January 18, 2015! Revised July 1, 2015!