Mom Racism Poems

Trying to get in the game  my whole life. 
Don't know what team I'm on. 
Which one wants me? 
Who will accept me? 
Been...

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..She felt so damn nervous making that call,
and when he picked up she just gushed it all,
he listened quietly, then she asked to meet,
she quickly...

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Indoctrinated racism is, and always has been, the greatest impediment to achieving true equality - it must stop!


“Can I go sit with Eli, Mom...he and...

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Abandoned as a child believed to be no more than five, the matron of the orphans home, was...other than my mom...
The first to have to...

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"The Children of Gaza" Lyrics: I

These lyrics were written by Michael R. Burch and were adapted in places to the music by Michael R. Burch...

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When I was a Big Brother
for Jason,
an African-American 10 year old male,
we went into his apartment
so he could look around
for a long overdue library book.

As...

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To Him, No One is a Rank Stranger 

No one is a rank stranger
	hiding behind dark threats.
No one is a rank stranger
	concealing their cruel epithets.

Recognizing...

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(strike while the iron's hot, else...
up prize cold hard steel Goldfinger
rewind: the following case in point).

Believe me you (stranger out there
along the information super highway),
perhaps...

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You smoke, you drink, you have no wife,
It's Putin making your bad life.
And when it's hot, and when it's cold,
It's all Vladimir Putin's fault.

When you're...

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I remember,
in the early 60s,
our thirty mile drive
from our historic family farm,
in all White rural Michigan,
not counting the Mexican migrant workers
which adults made a point...

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Screw my father
that I never knew.
If you take the blame
screw you, too.
Help my family
my Mom, Grandparents, and my Brother.
Let them live happily,
and get along with...

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I had a dozen of black bangles
Carried for tingles
Sign of a benign presage
Wore to envisage
Beauty; but not the ugly

Taking toll for a fight
Dad called me...

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I walk into the store 
She comes to greet me
Can I help you miss 
Is there anything you'd like to see?    
No,...

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Abe Lincoln As A democrat
© Ben Burton 8-25-2014

The evil of men being sold
Long past, since Mr. Lincoln's fight
Still, dark suspicion blooms and grows
And loots the...

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African-American and abusive, my late step-dad 
     was a reverse racist:
an army sergeant; a Vietnam vet; and, a backhand,
  ...

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