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struggle


My aunties said they are practicing culture, that they cannot leave the ways of our people that we are too young to understand why they put us through pain using blades and cutting a piece of us  dancing to our suffering  like it gladdens them to see us cry. They said there is a diversion  that the white have poisoned our minds and are turning us away from our practices, I reminded them these, about how those whites manipulated the minds of their fathers which made them give up on our uncles, because we call the number of homeless children with tarted cloths on the streets destiny,  they betrayed our trust and let us fall on our face like a 6 floor building crumbling. Our own people And now they call our pain cult
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