Tacara Turner Poet Free verse

So Wait Slavery Was a Choice

So wait,  let me get this right now 
slavery was a choice. 

So my ancestors didn't get brought 
over here against theirs wills.

So my ancestors wasn't chained 
and bound to a ship 

So my ancestors wasn't brought 
and sold like cattle. 

Let me get this right now
slavery was a choice 

So wait, my ancestors didn't 
get beaten and murdered for 
trying to escape. 

And my female ancestors wasn't 
raped and my male ancestors 
didn't get beaten if they even 
looked at a white woman. 

Let me get this right now 
slavery was a choice. 

Slavery was never a choice, 
but it was something horrible 
that happened to my and your 
ancestors. 

So please don't say that slavery 
was a choice.

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