American Hegemony

America… We’re the great melting pot We have every race, ethnicity, and type of person you could imagine And we accept them all…right? I’m not racist I don’t look down upon other races I don’t even see races I don’t separate people by their color I don’t see color We’re such an accepting society Because that’s what we are in America See people say those words and don’t grasp their meaning They say it and don’t know they are tearing others apart All they are doing is demeaning Demeaning a feeling, a heart Demeaning a person We have so much diversity But when did diverse come to mean anyone who’s not white? How is urban another word for black? Why does inner city mean Latino? That’s just a loaded, coded meaning for the minority Another way to say that you’re not part of the majority But I accept the minority I don’t discriminate I don’t hate Remember I don’t differentiate people I don’t see the colors I don’t see the colors I don’t see color so I can’t see you But then I admit you’re of color And is that defeating my purpose? My purpose to deny race, My attempt to equalize But all I do is categorize And I put people in groups and make groups of people that I think to be the same But they are people And people are individuals And they are not bound by their race We’re not bound by race So we need to see color in order to accept it We need to see the difference and respect it See America’s got it backwards Colorblindness just breaks people into groups It breaks us into groups that separate Groups that represent our fate This is our fate if we don’t break down barriers We are only setting ourselves up for division Let’s not divide Let’s just conquer Let us conquer the divisions we have created And realize that we are all related We all are people We are all Americans