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Racial Discrimination


As I fight, as I try to only be me, to be better than my common brother, to be free.

You discriminate against me, you see I have color, you see just another but in reality I am the key.

I'm stronger than an elephant, harder than a rock. I stand alone among many but I will never stop.

Never to fold never to drop, until I reach the top. I am a king can't you see, just take a second to gaze upon the beauty in me. They see I'm fly they see I'm a guy, but what they don't know is I'm the best and I touch the sky.

Light as a feather I float around so high that my feet don't really touch the ground. But you still hate,you put up a gate between me and you as fellow men.

Why, why must we hate, instead we should dissipate this invisible gate. So we may work together as one, reach as high as the sun, as if all for fun.

To jump out harder to not jump the gun, we must have people like me to end this meaningless shun.  My ancestors have fought, with one single thought, to be equal so why mustn't we be. The

tears they shed, the people they led. All for nothing, if you continue to be, as single minded as a tree.

Calm your nerves, stop these hateful words, and become the people you could be. See the light and do not fright, a new day is coming through the spite.

So love your brother and love your sister because you never know it might change, mister.

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