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Dad


Syria

His home

 

He comes to America

Education is the goal

Education is all he knows

 

He was told education will set him free

From the slummy neighborhood

He was raised

 

He comes to America

Factory work to raise money

For all know, money will get him to the next milestone

 

He goes to a community college

Then U of I Urbana-Champaign for Electrical Engineering

Finally IIT

The top of the top

 

However, Discrimination doesn't care about your achievements

 

Discrimination is arragonce

Discriminaton is a choice

Discrimination is imprinted as a facial expression

An Attitude

A disease infrindging on the basic rights of human beings

Something almost impossible to prove

 

He overcomes that -- for a couple of years

But no one told him

Discrimination always wins

 

Middle class city

Oppressed by White America

 

Change is a simple concept

But narrow-mindedness doesn't allow much to pass its ridgity walls

 

If I could change Discrimination

And in its place put opportunity

 

Then that's what I woud do

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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