Contest Description
Below is how our government treated Native Americans & remember The Trail of Tears, Little Big Horn, the treatment of Native Americans in the military during & after WWII.
http://endgenocide.org/learn/past-genocides/native-americans/
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/were-american-indians-the-victims-of-genocide/
http://kunm.org/post/inhabited-desert-untold-story-trinity-test
Below is how our forefathers treated the slaves they brought to the continent. The recent revelation black soldiers were used to test mustard gas on in WWII. And, the number of folks of color in our prison system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_colonial_United_States
The map below shows the concentration camps within the US for Americans of Japanese origin.
What to Submit?
1 original, poem on the theme of .............the treatment of people of color in the USA past or present.
Any form is acceptable.
Prizes
First Prize, Glory
Second Prize, Glory
Third Prize, Glory
Twelve Honorable Mentions
Preparing Your Entry
Submit one copy of your poem online. Format your poem. Please make your entry easy to read — no illustrations or fancy fonts.
English Language
Poems should be in English. Poems translated from other languages are not eligible, unless you wrote both the original poem and the translation.
A Note to Poetry Contestants
You are welcome to enter this contest, whether or not you won a prize in one of my previous contests.