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Race

You call me black, brown or white

I don’t care, I will fight

I will fight for my right

Be I black, brown or white!


I will fight for the right to live

To live, to love, to share to give

To live in peace upon this earth

For that’s my right by my birth!


You call me black, brown or white

I don’t care, I will fight

I will fight for my right

Be I black, brown or white!


I was born free, no shackles no chains

Upon my heart no racist stains

I was born free, to live and breathe

Nature to feed my every need


You call me black, brown or white

I don’t care, I will fight

I will fight for my right

Be I black, brown or white!


The blood we bleed, the colour is red

Their colour is clear, the tears we shed

The sweat we wipe from off our brow

Shines the same, no matter where we go


You call me black, brown or white

I don’t care, I will fight

I will fight for my right

Be I black, brown or white


Beneath our skin, there is muscle and bone

Tissue and flesh beneath the gleaming tone

Of skin that might be black brown or white

Of humans that have the will to fight.


So, let’s look beyond race, the colour of skin

Let us look inside, at what’s within

Let us together our problem face

As one big body –the human race


So, it matters not, be it black brown or white

We don’t care, we will fight

We will fight for our place

As honest members of the human race!

Copyright © Alister Renaux | Year Posted 2020

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