Anti-Racism
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There are inside some men the nerve to hate.
While some are born with nerve to tolerate.
When did we come to have such separate minds?
Everybody is equal
No one is differnent
Due to color or race
We treat people equal
Love is Love
We smile when we see it
We all love, it is a guarantee
But it is up to you to believe
What we see
What we hear
Wont be here in a thousand years
What we taste
What we touch
Someday there won't be as much
What we do
What we smell
Will all be gone if we don't treat Earth well
Born to love
Taught to hate
Stranded between
nature and nurture.
Your soul and your skin
furiously debate
until your skin
What's the point in being black if I have to hide it like a disease? If I wear my vocabulary like a fac
A ban on one
is a ban on all
for the blood that’s let
the oxygen inhaled
the emotion felt
the heart that beats
they are universally one
and adhere to
no borders or boundaries
by Ariel Douglas (31 May 2018)
God’s face is all around us
Walking down every street
His eyes
His nose
His cheeks
You may look at me,
But why do you stare?
Have I grown two heads,
Does this cause you despair?
Did some wings just sprout upon my back?
Do I look to be crazed, like I'm going to attack?
In the world of a cultural salad,
I am not American nor Guatemalan
I do not engage in my family's culture
I do not speak perfect Spanish yet I learned it first
I do not resemble that of my family
Dear Mr. White,
Do you remember the fear on the faces lit up by the tiki torches you carried, and the way that kid's mom begged you to
Please
not shoot her little girl's daddy, but you did because he was black?
Once upon a time,
in a tower- tall, far and kept away
lived Rapunzel,
a secret princess in her day
Her father, the King
made a mistake he could not take back
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Fair-skinned, beautiful, and kind
She sings, birds listen, and fly to her hand
The World fights against her, and she smiles still.
This is the Fairy-tale Princess,
You know......
It's f*cked up when you realize that every adjective that describes you has to be justified and equalized through a movement.
From women's rights, to civil rights, and gay rights,
In my skin they try to attack.
In my skin I'm proud to be black.
In my skin they hate that.
In my skin is my true habitat.
Ok let's get straight to the past and facts.
It's not easy being me, not easy being you.
They put us in oppression.
They drown us in depression.
It's nothing but discrimination.
They try to kill our brown brothers in immigration.
They try to burn us down because they have the heart of Satan.
Before, my skin and hair were plain
Yellow skin, long fair hair
Head to toe I would wear a splatter of colors
Red
Green
Blue
Yellow, always yellow
I tried to list out all the problems in society.
But there are so many in this country.
Racists and Rapists run rampant,
Some even run for office
And they get elected.
Colors must be
Important.
Why else
Would people
Paint with them
Or have a favorite
Or hate someone because
They say “make America great again”
Again? As if there was ever a time in which America was great
What were you doing the night of August 28, 1955?
How were you feeling on May 15, 1970?
Where were you on March 3, 1991?
What about on April 29, 1992?
October 9, 2005?
As blood gushes out of my wound and spills onto streets that someone in mine or yours were slaves on,
I do not think about #BlackLivesMatter or #AllLivesMatter.
It's funny because a couple years ago I thought racism was over
It's funny because when my mom told me segregation still exists
I didn't believe her.
fun fact: the daughters of the south asian diaspora have some of the highest suicide rates in the united states of america.
We are a "friendly city";
So proclaimed the big white sign.
Please stay as long as you would like,
I am crumpled.
I am tumbling
through a busy street-
not lifted by this wind
but dragged.
I am breathing.
I am lucky
the paper bag is about
God made us even,
He says we're all the same,
He tells us to love another,
Each and every passing day.
