Best Jim Crow Poems

Teachers are supposed to be polishing gems.
but instead, are cracking the gloaming of innocents. 
Judging children by their race
when all they want to do is to play.
Jim crow is cawing for souls once again....

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Fifty years ago...the age of self-reflection

Hollow crumbs, shadows of proud vestiges
As minneapolis' jim crow vanished slowly,
Painfully, no longer admired at country club
Cocktail parties celebrating ribbon-cuttings

My family was inside and unaware of history 
Working class achievement,
 First deli in marble edifice
To corporate greed,
 Connecting the longest...

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Soul's laugh soul's cry
Soul's live soul's die
But what of the soul's of trees
Sipping soil in which we bleed

Nature uses our body to feed
Colorful tears shed are leaves
Falling like a ballet in breeze
Whimsical dramatic blue melody

Trees that stand as nations fall
Despite wars in lands they stand...

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Slavery is not the end of atrocities 
Suffered by minority communities
The every day systematic sway
Of bricks piled against you like
A wall of pain
So many bricks
The millions murdered for simply being
Who they were born to be black brown red
But of these I speak of what I...

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