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the struggle to overcome


the struggle it began the time we were born when we fought to grow and some of us to continue on with life as we knew it for a short period of time but that wasn't the only one years later it became the color of our skin we were treated like animals being beaten and forced into the cage called racism forced to work for our master under harsh circumstances but it was never enough and never stopped there the racism escaladed into our education,political system and public setting on a daily basis we were seperated from the whites,forced to take the back on the bus and never give our duty to justice but the day came that the struggle ended and we overcame we became individuals instead of being under someone else that wasn't god almighty himself we became leaders in the justice system judges,civil rights activists,even the president of the united states in those moments there no longer was a struggle but a new beginnning the labels came off the name calling stopped the mistreatment became equality and among them fairness became something experienced on a daily basis we overcame we fought we became something that seemed so impossible a free race to no longer be treated as mistakes
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