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Colour in disguise


Colour in disguise All u think of is how beautiful a leopard is But has forgotten it is a voracious creature For do not judge a book by its cover But guess that quote has been forgotten For I see how colour has determined who one is And I wonder how love will still continue to reign If these still goes on For we are all equal before the creator Forget about the junk science For it is just a way to shorten the lifes of those innocent beings The way you suffer illnesses is the same for them For the way you were created so they are They are counted as slaves cos of your greedy forefathers That held them captive in their own land And took away their lovely families from them For their own selfish interest Remember the dred Scott case About them not being and will never be a citizen But God proved the general controller And made a black the president of the state Their crops and people were stolen Treasures being hijacked as they could not be returned But still accept their fate And you still take their life's Still striving in the land of their so called enemies they regard to as friend But they are denied better accommodation For they see us as less human And beasts that were supposed not be created Many of us have tried to prove you wrong Likes of this great woman Oh!! Elizabeth keckley The woman that bought herself and child from slavery We cry in silence as we hope for better days ahead But still continue to shorten our lives What have we done wrong? Should we go to the supreme being and ask why we were created For you just want to make life a living misery for us But we still fight against that That love and forgiveness being watered Even as the hatred grows For we have not seek revengance of how we were being cheated And not seek justice of how we were being tortured But even with all of that your hatred hasn't subsidised For our lives are counted insignificant Colour doesn't define purity But from the heart And these forgiving heart I see Is the biggest I have ever seen For they are trying to make you understand How wrong you are for centuries back But you are just blinded with myths and hatred Of how worst our creation is Always regarded as a negative being As some of us still come out to be the best we can Still jealousy over rules For humans can never be satisfied Negroes are poor but we still have billionaires amongst us Sets of hungry immigrants But their home is blessed with so much resources That led to the full greed of thy forefathers Who betrayed and decieved us Deaths of many of us have not gotten full justice As we still ponder on how to stop these But guess you all heart is made of stone Like that of your selfish and heartless forefathers For we were taught to love and care And not the other way around That is why we didn't revenge based on wat you all did For our silence is enough for us I still hold on to Martin Luther King words For we shall not remember the words of our enemies But the silence of our friends For we are your friends
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Vidal oluwakemi
I would just love to pour out my mind this way concerning racism....... No other way than to do that with my talent because black lives really matters

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