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Skin Covered Souls

The concept of being is inside the mind It has no color nor shape or form Perceptions of a skin-colored soul will find Hate spewed words and thoughts are taught to conform To preach to those who can't be preached to where understanding is beyond reason and an argument is religious in its belief where they alone hold the keys to Heaven This covering of white is of itself...nothing earned or bought, rather happenstance...yet which colored skin has betrayed its own species more whether through conquest or deception? which colored skin has brought about two world wars or the holocaust? caused more disease, more poverty history is written by the bloody hands of one race they print the books, they record the events whether true or not they hang the man, for being a different color of all the covered souls white is the most confused as they have marched through history with grapes in one hand swords in the other, crying out for the helpless while causing the very existence of the helpless as they spread disease and poverty as a weapon to control and in some cases wipe them from the face of the Earth they worship a God, born of another color...yet change this color to white then see all other races as unfit for this white God that they believe created all life and is perfect in every way except in the creation of other colors covering the souls but... for the rebels that seek the truth that all are created equal even in the eyes of their creator whom they've turned white to appease some inner demon to ask why...to dwell in the minds of those who judge who worship a God that tells them not to judge and find a reason for their argument with their own God how self-righteous can a white covered soul be? 1/11/18 contest What is White

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Date: 1/22/2018 5:10:00 PM
A lot of truth be told here Frederick, I wrote something similar, called the colour of my heart, enjoyed very much this thought provoking epic write!
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Date: 1/18/2018 12:41:00 AM
... black and white will eventually just be shades of "gray", and racism will die its own ugly death. The sad thing is that we'll find plenty of other things to hate one-another for, and we'll go right on destroying ourselves. But maybe, just MAYBE, we'll survive long enough to reach an age of enlightenment, where we realize that hate serves NO ONE, and give it its last due burial. We can hope, can't we? Wonderful write, my brother! :-)
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Date: 1/18/2018 12:38:00 AM
Very powerful and intellectually-motivated, Frederic ... it gets the wheels turning in a very introspective and integral way, and that's ALWAYS a good thing. I hope we can get beyond the whole "color" thing, by way of common sense and cognitive attrition of sorts, but my gut tells me it won't happen until we are so mixed-race, that no one can tell anymore. I see that happening some and it is SO good for humanity! They'll be so many mixed families that no one will care anymore about skin tone ...
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Date: 1/12/2018 7:22:00 AM
Powerful poem. The title alone is mind blowing. Superbly done, Frederic.
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Date: 1/11/2018 3:41:00 PM
Thought provoking... so many questions.. An eoic write
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Date: 1/11/2018 1:50:00 PM
A deep well written , thought provoking poem Frederic :)
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