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An Open Letter to a Racists


An Open Letter to a Racists
 
You don't have to be white to be prejudice 
That exists everywhere today in everyone
Pick an orange from the fridge instead of a banana 
Because that's the one you prefer 
Just like when you pick a white person instead of people with color or vice versa
Well we're all humans and this isn't fruit ninja
You can't just let the fruit you like fall 
Then slice the rest 
It just boils your blood every time a color of ethnicity that you dislike pasts 
Making you want to kill a whole nation
Sweetheart this isn't the 50's 
I haven't stopped to report back to the 60's so this could be abolished all over again
But my bad right for being born into a color of your dislike 
For being tainted with a color so sinful I should be ashamed 
I can't help to think why every color wants to change 
People like you bring about change 
The wrong kind 
The kind that hangs you because you were born with a lil more pigment 
Or maybe less how would ik which side you root fo
I mean for 
How ignorant of me 
But I guess that's what you expect of the people of my color 
Never to looking past the silly hair and complexion
Not to the way I am or how I think
" her and her race are just a piece of shit ? "
Right. 
Right .! 
Wrong, let me prove you wrong show you how human I am before you judge off the base of looks 
How right it can be to look wrong 
How difficult it must be of me to be born of African && Caucasian decent 
That must be a headache for you now you hate me bc I was intermixed with you and them 
Yes I see your goal 
Or you hate them bc their so pale 
A lil vanilla in your coffee doesn't go a long way ?
Oh, You rather take it black like yourself 
Never to fool around nothing but your kinds
Kinds of negroes that'll take a white man to tears 
Just for the past 
Bc moving forward is a mistake we too seldom make
Like choosing our ethnicity 
Okay I get 
It's all our faults we all get a chance in how we think 
We're all sinners here cool it's my fault I was born this way 
Too bad we're all racists and could never accept everyone in their own fruit
 
Sincerely, 
The girl who was never just a color 
 
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