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Injustice


You say no you say i'm not good enough But I say I am You say look at him his skin his single mother his sister who survived living on the streets he is who we want but look at me my skin my parents who love each other my father who works endlessly endlessly to create a better life for me a better life for me and my sisters no. I'm not black, Asian, American Indian, Indian, Pacific Islander, Other I am white. My people have not suffered injustice injustice in the past but you say i haven't felt pain? you think because i have not been struck down that i am not good enough? does that mean I can't empathize with a fellow human being? The way to annihilate prejudice is to decide that everyone is equal the blacks, the Asians, the American Indians, the Pacific Islanders the whites. I am good, I am great and all you see is i am white I am smart, I am funny and all you see is he is black so you decide you don't want me you decide i am less than him and the cycle begins with a new race along the bottom along the grottoes and the ghettoes among those other whites who were too white to be accepted
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