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Best Racial Discrimination Poems

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Premium Member Racial Discrimination
"Do you know such a work place
with racial discrimination?"
Asked some *****sapiens  friends
who aren't so tall but with fair complexion.

By the way, you can...

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© Len Gasun  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: racial discrimination, faith, funny, people, work,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member I Can'T Breathe
In memory of----

Solely in my room, I can't stomach the sound of my pulse
I sit here alone to forget the taste of air.
Overwhelm by the...

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Categories: racial discrimination, abuse, bullying, color, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Live For the Day - POTW - A Visual Video Poem
POTW 12th May 2019

Thank you for visiting my third Visual Video Poem, more or less a continuation of my previous poem – ‘The Dreamer’
(I invite...

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Categories: racial discrimination, hope, inspiration, motivation, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Can'T Breathe
In memory of---- all lives taken by unfair justice.

 Solely in my room, I can't stomach the sound of my pulse
 I sit here alone...

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Categories: racial discrimination, abuse, community, death, dedication,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Make America Great
When the colonists felt that with the king of Great Britain they could no longer reason,
Their leaders signed the Declaration of Independence, though they knew...

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Categories: racial discrimination, discrimination, history, patriotic, prejudice,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Black Perspective
A Turning Point In Life Is Equality
        Writings in a Black Perspective....  	

   The day...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: racial discrimination, black african american, freedom,
Form: Rubaiyat
Racism Persists
It has been a century and a half since emancipation. 
However, stubbornly persisting is racial discrimination. 
Despite many anti-discrimination laws today, 
people are still breaking...

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Categories: racial discrimination, discrimination, racism,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member And We Are Still Here
AND WE ARE STILL HERE…
While beating our drums—singing, dancing
and giving praises to the Most High
for family harvest, peace and love,
we blinked—became victims
of colonial rape—stolen from...

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Categories: racial discrimination, allegory, america, analogy, black
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Beloved Face, Translation of Bharathiyar's Poem Asai Mugam By T Wignesan
Translation of Mahakavi Bharathiyar’s poem: “Asai Mugam” or “Beloved Face”
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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: racial discrimination, religion, spiritual,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Freedom of the Press
ABOUT   THE   PRESS


The media, the press was established as an institution to fight for humanity and human right as well. To...

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Categories: racial discrimination, freedom, , western,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Brave Conquerors of Weakened Tribes
Brave Conquerors Of Weakened Tribes

They could never in any great haste
their false glory dare to forsake.
Why abandon that gleam in their eyes
for truth in those...

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Categories: racial discrimination, conflict, corruption, death, evil,
Form: Sonnet
It Cuts Deep
Captured like game. 
Branded like cattle. 
Herded like sheep
Treated Like cargo, and defects where thrown in the deep.
Certified merchandise 
"***** show me your teeth"
Murder guys who don't hold...

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Categories: racial discrimination, black african american, political,
Form: Rhyme
A Poem To My Country
Dear fatherland

the cradle of races
you lie among the many
with great sight of differences
in this mulatto of western languages

Oh great triangle!
you rise and fall
like ocean tides
in...

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Categories: racial discrimination, dedication
Form: Free verse
Americanisation
Manipulations, misrepresentations and government violations,
America has been terrorising for many generations.
Spying allegations, secret conversations,
US imperialism continues to destroy nations.
Cheers and celebrations for leader’s assassinations,
Activists disliked...

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© Wes Martin  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: racial discrimination, conflict, corruption, evil, sad,
Form: Rhyme
The Women
The Women



(for the countless women, names unknown, who bore the brunt of Apartheid, and who fought the racist system at great cost to themselves and...

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Categories: racial discrimination, courage, daughter, death, dedication,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Reflection on the Important Things