Douglass Poems - Poems about Douglass

...Black History Month began as "***** History Week" Our holiday was adopted at a time when the country was bleak Created in 1926 by noted African American Historian, Carter G. Woodson Today, we cele......

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...ONGOING ELEGY The words you’re about to read are part of an ongoing elegy that began in 1999 after 12 students and one teacher were killed in the halls of Columbine. We immediately looked to o......

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...The noble house rom the Scottish Lowlands with the green, white, and blue bands. The green for the salamander resting on a bed of amber. Although, factually, our monuments are ruins, The kil......

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...He understood what I now know But did not at first For I had not seen broken children before Now that I have I understand They can be tainted and tortured into submission before they reach sch......

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...I was a picked on, bullied, browbeaten, buffaloed boy from Buffalo New York. I grew up on Buffalo’s lower east side, the ghetto by another name. The Frederick Douglass towers. Formerly the Tal......

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...It was 20 years ago…the year was 1999 and we thought the world would change….after Columbine We hoped something would be done after children were gunned down with their books We thought the wor......

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...Americans, Algerians, Australian aborigines, Corrupt leaders of the world involved in illegal activities. Bloodthirsty bullies brazenly bombing bystanders, Militaries full of corrupt army commande......

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...Theatre of the Absurd Like an actor in a theatre of the absurd, there stepped onto the stage a horrid clown, an ego-maniac who makes his own staff clap for him and who fast is bringing a nation......

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...I was Douglass A good person Better than the day that gifts a friendly sun A humble fellow Humbler than the trees that regard the regal ride of the wind. Oh, wealth You all I desired, then Wh......

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...Black! a word that always tend to stir From ages hath caused a birr after decades of raging war they still shir!! Black exist in all, a part be it the color of eyes, skin or heart......

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...What an honorable man. Dependable. Dedicated. Up Right in his stand. A beautiful man who is the gate keeper for us all. He has provided the love. Support. Also wisdom to his young prince. H......

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...Over 200 years of oppression Now days are we paying for our transgressions Doing slavery we used our bravery Breaking the chains doing the inhumane suffering and pain While being disrespected by ......

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...THEY WERE AN INSPIRATION TO US ALL THEY WERE MIGHTY AND THEY WERE STRONG. THEY FOUGHT FOR EQUALITY AND FOR JUSTICE THEY PUT GOD FIRST IN EVERYTHING. THEY DO. THEY STOOD UP FOR WHAT THEY BELIEV......

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...Empowerment Inticement Power Promotion Selfishness Greed for more Michael Douglass in tow Control Warhol Acid Mitigation Solitude Alone Shady Pilgrims on the highway out of control ......

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...We have come a long way we have been fighting for centuries and decades to get where we are. Jim Crow and the Segregated south couldn't keep us down. We fought to be equal by marching the str......

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