RACISM (part 1 of 2)

So relatable ... I wish to add to my reading list

It might be short, Firefox but, it was concise and
echoed the fucked-up condition that the mentality
of people is in today.
It really hasn't changed a whole lot since back
then.
Only today people like to scream discrimination
or racism to act-out of their own racist hearts.
Your pen was accurate.
Some people are just drawn-out and show how they
really feel when one speaks their mind. );-)-

where was i
nameless
when they hung you high
shameless
i never enslaved a black guy
blameless
all i can do is sigh
i hear you
blame me
its not true
shame on me
you have no clue
dont you see
you initiate
the racism in me
so now i hate
100 years you have been free
think bigger
you go nowhere at this rate
think nigger
in 20 where will you be
somewhere up state
in prison
behind a locked gate
my racist vision
our new hanging tree.

In Our time of day
Diversity is just " That Thing"

It's best when you know some other races
And not just your same

It's the ones before us that try and lure us
Into things That happened long ago

Things they can't let go
But how could they ? ....

Only certain's Got mistreated
While others always had a Good day

To not have to go anywhere
With the color of your skin on a sign

To do things they never had the chance to do
and sit at the back of the lines

One can only experience what they look like
So that that other side is un-real

Because They can't really feel something they never had to feel

Winner soon...promise!

Strider

Thanks for the great poetry...a tough one for sure!

Strider.

I did like the hard core nature of the others...

Congrats to Poetryman and thanks for runner up! DUP has been down for so long , I've forgotten which comps I entered --lol

Thank you Strider and congratulation to  Sterling7147 and MadameLavender for their excellent entries as well!
JJ

Here's a new poem I kinda wish I had written in time to enter this comp with, though it probably would not have won, so I think I chose the right one in the first place...


"How Far We Have Not Come"


Five months and fifty years I have breathed the air of freedom
Behind my shroud of white comfort and grade
With all our laws of equal rights and equal pay
And actions to affirm that we mean what we say
With Supreme Court decisions we can always make undone
Another man declared “just look how far that we have come”
What a joke the trembling words of ignorance!
When the lines become blurred between hatred and romance
Stay sick when you’re unwell, then die and go to Hell
And if you’re in the mood to buy I got a bridge I wanna sell
We need more cash to finish the fence along the porous south
While we cut out stamped assistance to feed your hungry mouths
Cut back money for public schools
To keep OUR growing minds more highly educated
We still have jobs for you that no one else will do
Found clever ways to pay you less than a minimum living wage
Taking kickbacks from plastic cards instead of cash or checks
That charge you if you spend and charge you more to save
We found more ways to make a profit from all the choices that we gave
‘Cos if we cannot own you, we’ll still work you like a slave
We’ll watch our hood for hoodlums out for an evening walk
And stand our ground against snacking hoodies that we stalk
Or stop and frisk everyone we profile as suspicious
But keep them at a distance in case their color is contagious
We’ll power up the House to defund head-start for underprivileged youth
Then we’ll pass eleven laws to make sure that you still lose
Just like the right to vote you were never supposed to use
‘Cos time has surely eliminated those who discriminated
So said most of the Supreme Pawns who were selected
Through haughty high strung puppets we elected
Who in hatred and in-justice were truly deaf and dumb
Yet clearly I can see how far we have not come



JJ