Rose-colored glasses
the rough ahead seems rosy
details blurred ignored
dreams blossom with optimism—
truth in blissful ignorance.
Ethnicity lenses—
now that's a great idea
AI scans your race
then changes faces you see
into this ethnicity
All is rosy hue
all painted with the same brush
from the honey pot—
with judgment blurred, truth concealed
all differences bled away
Where are you really from?
An all-too familiar question,
One which I quite detest.
Often looking for simple answer,
This I cannot give, too awkward to tell the truth,
I can only say, not quite English, not quite like you.
My skin is not quite white,
My eyes not quite blue or brown,
Turkish, Greek, Spanish…?
He’s from somewhere out of town.
I have an English accent,
I was brought up in the South, born close to London too,
However not quite English, not quite like you.
I simply avoid the answer,
And I’ve never known quite why,
Especially considering the millions who have died.
I just say I’m English, although not quite like you,
To avoid the awkward pause after I say I am a Jew.
Kermit the Frog went to get a loan for a van
And Jim Henson went along to give him a hand
But when filling out race
Kermit had both a trace
Of pistachio and cotton American
Humanity is the ultimate ethnicity
I don't care were you are from
I cry for the world
Who is to guide us
Truly all in one direction
I wonder to yonder
Which other way
Humans needs to go
If we forbid just a little
Kindnesses
Just a little kindness
can make a change
Just a little care
Can hear a soul
Just a little
Is not much
And we can start
To build a new world
For our soul benefit
Once again
My wheat ringlets
join my grandmother's thick dark hair
— incompatible
to those who throw stones
and call me "white Indian"
someone asked me to define the peace of ethnicity
I am just a Mahogany child
of Babylon
sitting in my tree
my grandfather planted this tree
I am sitting in my grandfather's tree
eating a strawberry
reminiscing
that is what peace looks like to me
I am ethnicity.
Ethnicity
When I came to England
I couldn`t get a job opened a café instead
in a district called Wavertree, Liverpool
Someone said Jews live there I didn`t see any
the people I befriended told me they were Jewish
that made no difference to me.
I never cared what ethnicity people, have never had.
But I`m highly critical of Israel which I regard as
racist country an apartheid state
that treat the Palestinians
the way the Nazi did to the Jews
and other minorities.
It is therefore offensive
to call the Jews an evil race
as they are victims
of the Zionists just like us.
Rapping has no Ethnicity be ye
Greek, Jew, Afro, White, Hispanic,
Chinese, Japanese, Other.
Yo man, go rap out the Soul.
Tell your story, cuss the enemy
In ways they can't understand.
These are the times when you
Get on the Move to Groove into
Real-time electronic technology!
Don't just go boom, boom, boom;
What the Hell is that?
Teach the Young dignity, respect
for others too.
Yacoo, Yacoo, a da da da, uh huh,
My child can't learn nothing from
That, so teach, preach, inform!
I like the beat, rhythm, mix turns
And twists;
But for heaven's sake let me learn
From your choice of words, how to
Live in this World of ours!
Certain diseases seem to be more prevalent in some races than others
So with no other issues in your family health care history
You still may have risk factors for several diseases
Just by belonging to a particular ethnic group
African Americans
Have an increased risk for diabetes
Insulin resistance
Have the highest heart-disease risk for high blood pressure
Asian American
Have an increase risk for osteoporosis (especially women)
Caucasians
Have an increase risk of osteoporosis (especially women)
Litinos
Have an increase risk for diabetes
Insulin resistance
Are over 6x more likely to develop kidney disease if diabetic
Native Americans
Have an increase risk for diabetes
Insulin resistance
6x more likely to develop kidney disease if diabetic
2022015
North American, South American and European,
Asian, African and Australian.
What do the ethnicities of all these continents share in common?
They are all *****sapiens, they are all human.
If we focused on that similarity and not the difference,
perhaps world peace would then truly begin.
Hmm, I wonder if there's an ethnicity known as Antarctican.
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