Best Racial Profiling Poems

Racial Profiling

By Elton Camp

A black man walks in a suburban neighborhood
That the police will be called will be understood
A young black woman is dressed extremely...

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With my mind's eye, I can see...

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Many years ago 
There was a line;
Drawn for purposes of segregation.
A crow was responsible 
Since the beginning of time--
So as we rewind--
To tell of this...

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these days I think hate is part of the devil's plan
everything I see and the things they say to me
is crucial and un justifying coming...

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Turn on the TV, Its death and pain, All this negativity bombarding my brain, tring to kill my 
humanity... Seeing mankind living in vain...

 A...

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Governor Brewer From Arizona 
(song parody based on “Girl From Impanema”)

Short, tanned, governor of A-Z
Wagged finger at the commander-and-chief
That was so tasteless
And very racist
So odd!

Brewer...

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Besides the hallowed covenant of The Way
 There is only one other univocal tenet I obey
  The human spirit is insuperable and indomitable
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the State of Arizona has signed a very crazy law
that in the opinion of most Americans has some major flaws
it requires each and every person...

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They’ve found a body in my back yard. I
imagine what a dead house would look 
like. A stillborn Brownstone with its Jurassic 
sandstone hiccupping fossils...

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Freeze! Freeze! Cops here, put your hands in the air!
Get on your knees! Put your hands behind your head!
We had a report of a crime...

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I could not do what you are mandated to do
every day on society's justice bench,
weighing retributive justice 
against restorative healing.

I cannot look with any comfort
at...

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Even after all the 
misogyny,
  That crap with
Monica Lewinski.

 Homophobia and 
No abortion.
  Congress and 
Political extortion.

  Too much racism,
And white-supremacy.
 ...

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A gloomy song unfolds
Amid the chants for rights
Yet freedom wasn’t handed
Like centuries before .

Generations has emerged
And slavery has long been abolished
Left behind the scenes ?
Is...

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Dear Sarah Pullen,

If you are black or brown and male,
they do not discriminate against
you in the fields of the entertainment
industry nor in the realm of...

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Colour Schemers

Arab Traders excavated
Europe laid the foundation
The New World framed it perfectly
The rest of the races roofed it

This …
Inordinate economic concupiscence
Shadowy sham, animated by a...

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