Success Racism Poems

Suburban resident pretense, a bleak uniformity.
I grew up among the repetitious homes,
isolated alienated, I wandered the conformity,
the endless square yards, the dull feckless syndrome.

Repugnant yet...

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Ruby

Ruby Bridges was one of the first Black American pupils	
in a 'White' school 
after racial segregation was declared unconstitutional.

It was November 14th, 1960 when six...

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When we compare the numbers
and percentages of innocent,
trusting lives lost
in significant part because of Christian
militarized
capitalized
patriarchal 
monotheistic judging fundamentalism,
punishing Afghanistan
and other Islamic cultures
over the past four...

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Number 42 Retire
Brooklyn Dodgers Number 42
Hang up your jersey, honey
No one can follow you after Jackie Robinson

Major League Baseball was uplifted into the outer sphere
When...

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Let me teach you a thing or two
Passed down from elders’ past,
You won’t learn this from library books
Nor technology contrast.

About so-called Australia 
About the frontier...

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A fetching feminine
With magnificent melanin
A soft skin
With a shiny shin
A captivating cleavage
With syrupy sweat
A gorgeous girlfriend
With gleeful giggles
A warm woman
With humane heart
A mindful mother
With a...

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A cherished childhood spent cocooned in my inward-looking community,
Protected me from the indoctrination of a white-privileged history.
But when I stepped into a world where brown...

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I
You have seen them tell ... of things Indian
In dark South Africa, in the 1960s, BOMBAY ...
MADRAS, and CALCUTTA were destinations
As great as LONDON! We...

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S.A.T. test - remember your score
  The one you waited breathlessly for
It determined which schools you qualified for
  Ruled four years of your...

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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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Look at my skin,
And categorize me.
Put me in a column,
The society is sickening.

Not a day would pass without me getting called out.
What do I need...

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I am nameless in this world
My race I do not know
because I do not know
the one who created me foolish.
over my shoulder  are wise...

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I would love a life of death
I would like to slit my throat and kill myself
Take a razor and sharpen my neck
But I would not...

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The reason America is successful is not
 Because of its racial policies
 But because of its  Christian policies...

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It might be said of adolescence,
This is a stage demanding economic authority,
autonomous freedom to invest and disinvest,
without yet accepting concomitant political responsibilities,
to family
to community
to children
to...

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