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What Is White

There was a time When people were hurt And treated like dirt Because of the color of their skin Black They were sold And murdered And treated like criminals “They’re not human” Our society was told So we believed it We kept the mindset That blacks were dirty And should be treated as animals That blacks were evil And worth less than a penny So tell me If white’s claimed all these things About the blacks And if these were all the descriptions and accusations They charged on the blacks Then what is white? White’s obviously must be cruel Selfish, greedy, and inhumane To treat their own kind With such hateful and brutal actions For any person Who really thinks this way of blacks Must not be in their right mind Any person Who thinks badly of blacks Is one hundred times worse Then the evaluation they gave the blacks The color of a person’s skin Should not define them We all bleed the same red blood So don’t be the one person Who still has that old, cruel, WHITE mindset ~1/10/2018

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Date: 1/11/2018 4:33:00 AM
Blame it on the eyes, the ego of the heart, or the dividers who want to justify and rule...Nice poem...All the best Hannah
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