White
White
White is discrimination
As an idea, is retardation
I have tried to be patient
But we live in a world, of fools
White is merely one color
An adjective, for anoth’or
No ONE, is inferior
Until that someONE is acting, the fool
Without all the facts to know someone new
How can you judge what someone will do
Or who they will be or where they come from
Let’s all get along, all people as one
So much has changed from the way that things were
The seats on the bus, the crosses that burned
The K.K.K., the Black Panthers, the blood
All this hatred, should be, nipped in the bud
It took a long time but we made it through
Not all have changed but, those wrong are of few
I hope for the best to now turn the page
To never forget, but KNOW how we’ve changed
A change for the better, then, three steps back
Eight years in office, a leftist attack
The past is now gone, so leave it ALONE
Again, we’ll move on, as HUMANS, so prone
All these words used in hate
The ignorance, that taints
A problem, not faint
Do you mean what you say, when you say it
As a word used before
To ‘retard’, let’s explore
If it’s used to deplore
Do you know whom you hurt, when you say it
May Martin Luther King, Rest In Peace
Contest: What Is White?
Sponsor: Debbie Guzzi
1/12/2018
Copyright © Jeffrey Spencer | Year Posted 2018
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