Metaphor Racism Poems

We are not your Hams,
We’re Lambs of the Lord:
Our Liberator!
Your race-based biblical thoughts,
Are as snowballs sent to hell:-
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On my first day of kindergarten, Mrs. Miller takes roll.
She begins some sort of symphony, a rapid chorus,
Emma, Jake, and Katie sing, Here, Here, Here!
Then,...

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I know a place where imperialism is hated
      So much because majority people don't enjoy
     ...

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IN THE RAINBOW OF REINING JUSTICE 

Red is the flowing blood of liberation;
Black is the blood that flows from arteries
of those systematically murdered and
denied justice...

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Death is not a due destination deserved;
rather, it’s a God privilege that’s reserved.
Yet, you yellow-bellied bigots feel frightfully 
free to stalk and murder us—
Prey to...

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We are complexions of being,
gradations of actualization.
Our nature coming to be or passing away, 
Aristotle wrote. 

Mere complexions of being,
gradations of ontology.
In every American thing...

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Bowing to the East,
a sacred obligation,
comforting
and curious forehead down
to kiss this humble ground
of ego's straight supremacy

Including fat white men 
buttocks up
and yintegrity open to receive

To...

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Of some mad American empire 
were Angels rage in the suicidal age
Of TV stars and failed billionaires 
Upstart demagogues tyrannical 
Wanta-bes who rule with lies...

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What happens when rotten strange fruit…
	Hanging from trees of auction block wood
	Become stinking pieces of black flesh…
	Dried blood putrefying in murderous streets…?

	When crystallized tears of...

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For Langston Hughes

What sends them Harvard poets
I just couldn't do it, Sir: 
What sends them Harvard poets
I just couldn't do it, Sir:
They'll never give me...

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Principled or vile, honorable or depraved,
we all view the same stars,
suffer the same dread.
The richest minds among us were
all once bedwetters.

The puerile erect walls like...

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the sea and sky

          blend on the reach

        ...

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Dissenters dominate the streets,
	The public dominion of demonstrations.
This POTUS threatens military domination.
             Just...

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Our America is not a world stage,
And we the black oppressed
Are not mere players; rather, our story here
Is a bloody reality—a bloody reality of our...

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Death torturing knee…
Law and order prevailing;
Oppression speaking…

One knee on my neck,
The other kicking my butt;
How long will this last?

We both have our knees…
You bend yours...

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